Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Issue of Fraud. The three reported to Rhine, who confronted Levy. He confessed and resigned, later telling friends that he had been under great pressure to produce positive results and had been overburdened by administrative duties. He insisted that this was the only time he had falsified data; after failing to reproduce earlier positive tests, he had felt a need to force the data to reflect the results he expected. Following the disclosure, Rhine set other staff members to work, checking the more important of Levy's earlier findings, and cautioned other psychic researchers not to rely on these...
There are other possible criminal charges, including subornation of perjury, tax fraud, misprision of a felony, misuse of Government funds for his private home, violating the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg and his former psychiatrist, Lewis Fielding. It is not impossible that still further charges will emerge; 12,500 cu. ft. of tapes, records and other Nixon documents remain in the White House. They would normally belong to a former President, but because they may contain evidence of crimes, there will probably be some effort to comb through them before they are handed over to Nixon...
...Congress discovered its sense of responsibility, and the courts maintained their independence. It was an attempt to cripple the political processes of our democracy and of our party system, but these recovered and proved themselves resilient and tenacious. It was an attempt to deceive the people through secrecy and fraud, but in the end Lincoln's aphorism about fooling all the people all the time was vindicated...
...ever made" and the money should have been reported as personal income. The evidence shows that IRS investigators felt that without sworn testimony from the people who worked on Nixon's taxes about the numerous discrepancies in their statements to the IRS, there was insufficient proof that fraud had been committed. The IRS recommended to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski that a grand jury look into the matter. That investigation is now under...
Kistiakowsky, a physicist who worked at Los Alamos, N.M., in the 1940s, developing the atomic bomb, called the recent Moscow summit talks a "complete and total fraud...