Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apparently Chen was a victim of the dreaded"code fraud," said John Houser, MCI's Washington,D.C. spokesman. He said that someone probablygained access to his wallet or otherwisediscovered Chen's MCI number, a problem prevalenton college campuses...
...posture toward Marcos. Even before U.S. officials had a chance to debrief Presidential Envoy Philip Habib, who was flying home from the Philippines, the White House issued its strongest expression yet of anti- Marcos sentiment. Although the statement stopped short of endorsing the rebellion, it denounced Marcos for electoral fraud "so extreme as to impair the capacity of government in the Philippines...
...surprise revolt, it was not clear precisely what Habib had accomplished during his hectic meetings with Marcos, Aquino and church leaders. From the outset, however, his mission had been hampered by a presidential gaffe that had aroused suspicion on both sides. Though nearly all election-day reports of vote fraud involved Marcos supporters, Reagan offhandedly told a news conference on Feb. 11 that abuse might have occurred on both sides. A few days later the White House reversed itself, issuing a statement that blamed Marcos for the irregularities...
Congress was in no mood for such admonitions. By a vote of 85 to 9, the Senate approved a nonbinding resolution declaring that the Philippine elections were "marked by such widespread fraud that they cannot be considered a fair reflection of the will of the people." The next day, the House Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee voted 9 to 0 in favor of a temporary cutoff of military and economic aid to the Philippines. Under the legislation, most military aid would go into a trust fund and would be released only after the President certified, and Congress agreed, that...
Henry Hill's specialties included arson, auto theft, bookmaking, bribery, drug dealing, horse-race fixing, credit-card fraud, extortion and freight hijacking. He organized the much publicized 1978-79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scheme and helped plan the $6 million Lufthansa holdup at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...