Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...procurement procedures two years ago. It is also a system, said the commission, that is "fundamentally ill" in the way it awards 15 million contracts annually. Just how wrong things have gone at the Pentagon became apparent last week. Operation Ill Wind, an extensive two-year investigation of fraud and bribery in the handling of major purchases, blew into the open, rattling Washington and the nation's military-industrial complex...
UNLIKE, Howard Beach, when it was all too apparent a crime had been committed, the Brawley case is very likely a fraud...
...assets that the thrift operators gambled away on risky loans are mostly long gone, leaving the FSLIC to pick up the tab. The Government is suing the managers of both thrifts for more than $100 million, charging them with fraud and negligence. But most of the $1.35 billion payout will come from the FSLIC's reserve fund, which is largely composed of premiums collected from...
Randi is philosophical about these and other diehards, recognizing that their need to believe in the supernatural overwhelms their common sense. No matter what evidence of deception or fraud is presented, he concludes, "there will always be people who really don't want to know that there is no tooth fairy...
...Lynch, who is expanding his staff from twelve to 35: "If I had known as a reporter what I learned my first three days here, I could have won five Pulitzer Prizes." Louisiana residents are encouraged to use a complaint hot line to phone in tips about waste or fraud in government -- and so far, hundreds have called...