Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York lawyer is suing Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62 and Harvard Law School for breach of contract, fraud, slander and interference with contract...
Passions run high over possible fraud in a state senate election...
...booth was her second; the form she had signed to remove the trash was actually an absentee ballot. She was not alone. While state and federal investigators dropped their probes last month into charges of suppression of black voters in New Jersey's gubernatorial race, a voting-fraud scandal roared to life in Pennsylvania. Republicans claim that in a special election last fall to fill a vacancy in the state senate, hundreds of voters in the mostly blue-collar second district of Pennsylvania were tricked into casting absentee ballots that cost the Republicans not only the seat but control...
...allegations of widespread fraud caught the attention of such prominent Republicans as Newt Gingrich and Specter, who asked the Justice Department to investigate. The Republican National Committee put its lawyers on the case. In late November the Justice Department launched its investigation, joining the criminal probe already under way by the Pennsylvania attorney general's office...
Marks, who dismisses five ballot infractions in his own camp as a misunderstanding, charges Stinson with massive election fraud. Furthermore, Marks says an ensuing "whitewash" involved the state's entire Democratic establishment. "Sadly, Philadelphia has a history of political corruption on the part of the Democrats," says Marks. Stinson denies that he stole the election, and the Democrats have returned fire. "This is bwhen Marks criticizes the courts for good, honest decisions," declares senate majority leader Bill Lincoln...