Word: fraud
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...Governor and two former Pentagon officials had reason to celebrate last week as juries declined to convict them of white-collar crimes. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards declared himself a winner after a New Orleans jury deadlocked on racketeering and fraud charges related to a hospital investment scheme that netted Edwards $1.9 million between terms as Governor. A mistrial was declared ^ after seven days of deliberation because two jurors held out for conviction on most of the 50 counts. In New York, Thomas Reed, a former Air Force Secretary and Reagan assistant, was acquitted of profiting in the stock market through...
...polls had not yet closed last week in Guyana when familiar cries of "fraud" rang out. As in every election in the South American country since it was granted independence from Britain in 1966, opposition politicians and others charged that the polling and the vote count were rigged to favor the ruling People's National Congress. Indeed, the margin of victory was improbably large, with the P.N.C. taking 76% of the vote and six opposition parties dividing the rest. The win gives the P.N.C. 42 of the 53 seats in the national legislature and allows President Hugh Desmond Hoyte...
...show a motive for the alleged fraud, Volz detailed the Governor's addiction to dice. Edwards was as unrepentant about his gambling habits as he had been about the money he made opening doors. "I don't collect coins," Edwards said. "I don't race horses. I like to gamble." Volz contended that Edwards lost $2 million in Nevada between 1981 and 1984; Edwards insisted that he had not squandered anything near that amount. "If I wasn't under oath," he said, "I'd tell...
...seven-count, 33-page indictment states that between January 1978 and August 1981, while General Dynamics was working on a $41 million program to build the prototype, it made false statements to the Government and was guilty of fraud. The company is accused of having illegally charged its expenses to other Government accounts. Funds were allegedly used in part to develop computer software and purchase up to $500,000 worth of ammunition. Along with Beggs, who was then a company director, the indictment names lower-level ! officials: Ralph Hawes, division general manager, David McPherson, program director, and James Hansen, assistant...
...system provides ample opportunity for fraud, a charge that has traditionally attended Philippine elections. Opposition leaders are bracing for an unfair contest on Feb. 7. "We believe Marcos will do his worst," says Laurel. Addressing such doubts, the President has announced that foreign officials will be permitted to monitor the balloting. The opposition is also pressing for accreditation of the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections, a watchdog group created to help police the 1984 parliamentary elections, in which opposition candidates won a record 59 seats. COMELEC has not yet approved the opposition outfit's application to watch the polls...