Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another shot at Ned Warren--he was indicted last week on 20 counts of fraud dealing with shady land deals. The news stories note that he is presently appealing his 12-year prison sentence stemming from extortion charges in Seattle last year. It also notes that he was indicted in 1974 on perjury charges. They were dropped. It also notes that he was indicted later in 1974 on charges of attempting to exert influence upon a public official. They were dropped because county prosecutor Moise Berger, a bumbler who has since been removed, held off-the-record conversations with...
...last week to counter widespread speculation that the affair hinges on a cover-up of bribes and other dubious financial dealings by his company. As for his absconding employee, Dassault benignly welcomed him home as a "prodigal son." French justice may not be so kind: if found guilty of fraud, he could be sentenced to two years in prison and fined 36,000 francs...
...that at the peak last year 15% to 20% of jobless-benefit payouts in the state were going to people who had no crying need of assistance. But that would include housewives who worked for a while, then quit and legally collected full unemployment benefits. Most estimates of outright fraud now range nationally from 2% to 5%. The Federal Government's latest figures show that less than 1% of claims are made illegitimately-but that counts only the minority of cases in which fraud has been proved...
...State's unemployment insurance program, ran into one such case by sheer accident: while munching a corned beef on rye at an Albany delicatessen, he overheard a waitress complaining to a friend that another waitress was being paid off the books. Such freakish breaks aside, says Kasper, the fraud is extremely hard to combat: "The guy who pays someone off the books, how in hell do you control that...
Doubled Penalty. Armed with computers, state officials are doing what they can to curb fraud. Washington is helping by increasing funds for probes of suspected frauds, though most state compensation offices are woefully short of investigators. Mary Ellen Gornick heads an auditing team in Illinois to cut down on abuses. Says she: "We were so preoccupied with strengthening the system so legitimate claims would get paid. Only recently have we been able to focus on some of the abuses...