Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support; Carter's will be to hold on to his. The Georgian will attack Ford for "indecisiveness," claiming that he would be not only a better manager but a more aggressive one. When a Senate committee charged last week that the Medicaid program was beset by multibillion-dollar fraud and inefficiency, Carter wondered where the President had been while the mess was brewing: "Sitting in the White House, perhaps,timid, fearful, afraid to lead, afraid to manage...
Nader dismisses the Sanford book as "a consumer fraud." Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abe Ribicoff, whose subcommittee hearings on auto safety first thrust Nader into prominence, offers a more eloquent rebuttal. "I read that people are kicking Ralph Nader around," Ribicoff told TIME. "He's still a man of great influence. He's got integrity. He takes on causes that very few people want to take on. They are all controversial. He's right some of the time. He's wrong some. But he's willing to take them...
Carter has been relying on Kirbo ever since they first met. In 1962 the politician from Plains lost his first primary election-for the Georgia state senate -by only 139 votes. Suspecting fraud in one county, he searched for a lawyer to fight his case and was directed to Kirbo, who had by then moved from Bainbridge to a top law firm in Atlanta. Kirbo had the suspicious ballot box impounded and opened. There, sitting on top of the otherwise orderly pile, was a wad of 111 ballots that had been clumsily stuffed into the box. "I could have fainted...
...operations. The Labor Department conceivably could order removal of some or all of the fund's 16 trustees -eight union men, eight representatives of management-if it finds investments that were imprudent or entailed conflicts of the trustees' interests. The Justice Department could start criminal prosecutions for fraud...
During one recent hour-long meeting, he mapped out a course in management fraud for Yale Law School (his alma mater) while rewriting some SEC legislation and fielding half a dozen phone calls. Sporkin has also been known to lean back in a meeting with high-powered business executives for ten minutes of closed-eye contemplation that uncannily resembles sleep-and then deliver a machine-gun burst of pointed questions...