Word: fraud
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Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 and several other Cambridge politicians are listed as possible defense witnesses for City Councillor William H. Walsh, who is on trial in federal court for multiple counts of bank fraud...
Forty-three names appear on a witness list released by Walsh's attorneys. Walsh is facing 59 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy for his alleged leadership in a scheme to defraud the Dime Savings Bank of New York of approximately $8 million. The money was reportedly used to finance condominium developments in Massachusetts...
...addition to the instance when one person signed 300 different names on a petition--a case of fraud which rent control opponents admit to--the petition drive saw several other alleged infractions, Cavellini said...
Jillson admitted in an interview this week that some fraud was committed during the petition drive. But she said violations were inevitable in a process with so many signatures...
City Councillor William H. Walsh, who was re-elected to the council last year by antirent control voters despite being under federal indictment for bank fraud, said he, too, agrees that rent control should be decided at the state level...