Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fraud in student elections is so common it is hardly even a story anymore. The Business School Finance Club, the Undergraduate Council, the Harvard Republican Club and the Asian American Association all have had election scandals. In some cases, students simply admitted to rigging the elections...
...agreement with Abu Dhabi's ruler, a principal backer of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, has given new life to the global fraud investigation of the rogue bank. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan has agreed to allow B.C.C.I.'s No. 2 man, Swaleh Naqvi, to be extradited to the U.S. for trial on fraud charges, and to give prosecutors access to other former officers and to bank records. In turn, the U.S. has promised the sheik that he will not face criminal or civil charges in the U.S. and that a $1.5 billion lawsuit against him will...
Casey refused, suspecting the offer was not serious. Hale, who had been indicted for fraud in a separate case, wanted Casey to give him a plea bargain; Casey offered instead a reduction in sentence if he pleaded guilty and cooperated with the government on other matters. But Hale refused the deal and will stand trial next month. Casey eventually recused herself from both the Hale and Madison cases, but most belatedly, last November. She would have trouble claiming impartiality; she had been a law student of Bill Clinton's and a volunteer in all his campaigns. Her husband works...
...time by David Hale, a Clinton-appointed judge. Capital also made a large loan to Tucker. But the purpose of Capital was to make loans to "socially or economically disadvantaged persons," hardly the way one might characterize McDougal or Tucker or Clinton. Hale was indicted in September for fraud and has accused Clinton of pressuring him to make the McDougal loan. The Clintons deny exerting any pressure or knowing about the diversion of funds into Whitewater...
McDougal, acquitted on bank-fraud charges, is under investigation again. Hale will stand trial sometime this year. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, have called for hearings on the Madison collapse as a prerequisite for considering Clinton's bank reforms. In Whitewater only six homes have been constructed. As for the house that Hillary built, its current owner, John Lauramoore, half expects tourists to start lining up outside. "Maybe I can cut up the carpet and sell pieces and say that Bill Clinton walked on it," he says. "Even though he didn't, they wouldn't know...