Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Justice Greenfield and Lord Cross [May 12], the message is unfortunately quite clear: "Rapists and frauds fear not. It may be legal to rape and perpetrate fraud (if you do it our way)." Someone ought to inform Lord Cross and Justice Greenfield that women are people...
...crimes against the weak are not confined to New York. Authorities in Illinois are investigating not only suspected fraud but also the deaths of seven patients in a home in Rockford. California officials have turned up even more disturbing evidence. Los Angeles County investigators reported that a paralyzed woman at the Torrance Medical Convalescent Center, a 212-bed nursing home in Torrance, Calif., died after a nurse tried to feed her orally rather than through a stomach tube, then dismissed her gasping and flailing as an attempt to burn off "excess energy." The victim was not the only patient...
...Florida, where land scandals date back to the 1920s, state officials have uncovered what could be the biggest and most Byzantine fraud of them all. As many as 80,000 investors and buyers of lots may have been bilked of $1 billion by development companies and mortgage brokers in Southern Florida. According to investigators, the Ponzi-like scheme worked this way: the developers bought nearly worthless tracts of land, subdivided them and sold homesites at inflated prices; they used the proceeds to pay high interest on bogus notes sold to investors under a false claim that the notes were secured...
...Outright Fraud. Getting into the U.S.-and staying there-is relatively easy. Only 1,700 border agents police the nation's lengthy northern and southern perimeters, and the INS has a mere 900 investigators working in the nation's cities. Concedes Chapman: "Some 80% to 90% of the illegal aliens in this country are virtually beyond our reach." At least 300,000 persons arriving last year in the U.S. as tourists or students simply failed to leave. Tens of thousands more are spirited in by professional smugglers, who command as much as $1,500 for their services. Others...
...whole concept of the post-industrial society is a fraud," Chomsky said. "Power is right where it always was--with ownership...