Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said: "The best guarantee of efficiency is a long line at the factory gate"? At his trial for stock fraud, what brought tears to several jurors' eyes...
...December 1973, one-sixth of the country's 3 million voters cast ballots for the Progress Party, which has been very critical of the way the welfare state has functioned. Its leader, Mogens Glistrup, 48, an iconoclastic Copenhagen millionaire lawyer, who is now under indictment for tax fraud, promised to "fire one bureaucrat every ten minutes for the next three or four years." With 28 of the Folketing's 179 seats, the Progressives became the second largest faction in that body, after the Social Democrats' 46 seats and ahead of the Liberals' 22 seats. Current polls...
...prospect of lifetime payments. Though Egan could leave his home-to visit a doctor, for example-he insisted that he was unable to work. When Egan and his lawyer could not get the company to continue to pay accident benefits, they sued, seeking compensatory damages and claiming "malice, fraud or oppression" on the part of the company and two claims adjusters. To the jury, the case was apparently a classic instance of the little guy v. a big corporation. To a lawyer for Mutual, which has filed a motion to throw out the award, it was a "runaway verdict" that...
...mayor of Chicago. In May, Daley, 72, suffered a stroke that required an operation and more than three months' convalescence. Then three Pooh-Bahs of the Daley machine-including Hizzoner's right-hand man. Alderman Thomas Keane-were convicted in federal court of charges ranging from mail fraud to income tax evasion, bringing to a total of ten the number of powerful machine men who have been convicted. In a recent series of articles, the Chicago Tribune, in conjunction with the Better Government Association, documented shocking waste in the city government. With mayoralty elections due next spring...
...September did the state go into federal court seeking to evict the Indians, basing its case on the fact that the Mohawks had been pro-British belligerents during the Revolutionary War and had later signed away their lands. The Indians reject that claim. "The Mohawk land was lost by fraud, and its possession by New York State and the State of Vermont constituted] illegal usurpation," charges the Ganienkeh Manifesto...