Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senators, David Durenberger (R., Minn.) and Dennis DeConcini (D., Ariz.), separately announced they would not run for re-election next year. Both have been tainted by scandal: Durenberger faces trial in January on fraud charges, and DeConcini was rebuked by the Senate ethics committee in 1991 for accepting campaign contributions from savings and loan huckster Charles Keating. They join three other Senators and 12 House members who will not run for re- election...
...incest. Say you have heart disease.' " Lowey admits such advice is "lousy public policy" (and claims she was being ironic when she offered it), but other pro-choice advocates insist that a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do. Appalled that anyone would "counsel fraud by saying women should lie," Hyde says he'll fight to tighten the "loose language...
Moreover, incumbent William H. Walsh's trial on bank fraud charges is scheduled for October, adding another ingredient of uncertainty...
...TAPE In a misguided effort to head off waste, fraud and abuse, Congress and the Executive Branch enmesh operating personnel in endless spider webs of rules. Line-item budgets allow no flexibility in shifting money from one use to another. Two areas of one military base boasted well-maintained sidewalks, while in another area, personnel walked in mud because the base commander's budget contained money only for repairing sidewalks, not for building any. Government employees who need to travel must get approvals from many superiors and superiors' superiors, and then often have to deal with a single airline under...
...offers of Florida real estate and other telescams bilk households out of as much as $40 billion a year. Both houses of Congress passed bills to enable regulators to crack down harder on such abuses after FBI agents raided 95 telemarketing offices and arrested 210 people on suspicion of fraud earlier this year. The measures will now go to a House-Senate conference committee, with a final version expected to reach President Clinton's desk this fall...