Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...care for those who cannot afford to pay, has been a blessing to millions of Americans. But because of widespread cheating and skyrocketing costs, the system is fast becoming a national scandal. This week the Senate Subcommittee on Long-Term Medical Care is holding hearings in Washington on Medicaid fraud in clinical laboratories. Says Subcommittee Member Pete Domenici, a Republican from New Mexico: "The system is ripe for plucking. Medicaid ranks as one of the highest ripped-off federal programs...
...sample of the fraud is evident in Illinois, where the subcommittee staff estimates that one dollar out of every six spent by the Public Aid Department on health care is illegally siphoned off. Working with investigators from Chicago's Better Government Association, a citizens' watchdog agency, the subcommittee last December set up a clinic near ghetto areas on the city's North Side. To all appearances, the operation was indistinguishable from other "Medicaid mills" that have been hastily assembled to provide treatment for Chicago's poor and to collect payments from the federal and state governments...
...ground, the TV show was canceled and he left Gallery. His helicopter company was slow to lift off (it only recently began to make money), and an airport he bought near his home was on its way to losing $200,000. Most serious, he was charged with fraud in two of his outside enterprises. One case was soon dropped, but the other charge nearly dropped Bailey...
Mary E. Preusser, 1974-5 chairperson of the committee, said yesterday that Burns candidacy would not be hurt by allegations of voting fraud in the recent City Council election, and that few voters had even heard of the charges...
...Brahmins groaned at his political record (elected four times as mayor of Boston, four times as a Congressman, once as Governor of Massachusetts) and at his jail record (two months behind bars in 1904 for taking a civil service examination for an illiterate friend, and five months for mail fraud in 1947 during his fourth term as mayor...