Word: fraud
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Faced with the gathering storm, the leadership of the N.R.A. is trying to shift the spotlight back to the larger problem of crime. "The whole debate over gun control is a public fraud in terms of doing anything in the world that affects violent criminals," says N.R.A. executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. "What's missing from this whole debate is what we all know works: confronting violent criminals and taking them off the street. That's what politicians don't have the will to do, but that's what the American public is demanding...
Corruption: A sting uncovers fraud at the space agency...
...expected to uncover dishonesty that widespread, it is another sign that NASA has become infected with the same corrupting virus that struck the Pentagon. Two months ago, the space agency's inspector general told a congressional subcommittee that he had launched more than 400 investigations into waste, fraud and abuse. NASA's books were in such disarray, he said, that it could not account for assets worth roughly $12 billion...
...space. The challenge facing Endeavour's seven-member crew was not just to fix the hobbled Hubble Telescope and thus ensure the future of space science. The larger goal was to repair NASA's reputation, battered in recent years by accusations of incompetence, mismanagement -- and, just last week, major fraud as well...
...York judge last week dismissed all criminal charges against Clark Clifford, the Washington eminence grise charged with fraud and bribery in connection with the B.C.C.I. scandal. The judge pointedly cited the 86-year- old's ill health, not "the interests of justice," as the reason for his decision. Clifford, however, claimed to have been vindicated...