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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...VIRGINIA Citing mental pain and anguish, Paula Johnson has hit the University of Virginia hospital with a $31 million lawsuit. Johnson, the mother of a baby switched at birth, accuses hospital staff of negligence and fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winner & Loser | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...prospective buyers gauge the honesty of a seller before sending off a fat check in the mail. However, a small group of parasites, including a Florida eBay user who was recently ordered to pay $23,000 in restitution, continue to plague this electronic marketplace. Two-thirds of all Internet fraud complaints last year were directed at auction sites, according to the National Consumers' League. And antique dealers, who quickly adapted to e-auctions, find themselves dealing with amateurs who wouldn't know Caravaggio from formaggio. Peter Woolman, a British antiques dealer in Delray Beach, Fla., is one such frustrated buyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's One Big Market | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

MAILSAFE Under new postal regulations intended to stamp out mail fraud, anonymity will disappear for anyone who rents a private mailbox from a store like Mailboxes Etc. A photo ID will be required to set up a private mailbox, and a special identifier, called a PMB number, must be part of the address. The U.S. Postal Service is hoping that consumers will be more alert to rip-offs by phony charities or fly-by-night operators that don't have a real street address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Apr. 12, 1999 | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...Investigative reporting: The Miami Herald, for exposing voter fraud in the Miami mayoral election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulitzer Prize Roundup | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...recent years Harvard has reserved its harshest punishment, expulsion--complete severance from the University--for cases of admissions fraud. Over the last few months some have criticized this precedent, saying convicted rapists should never be allowed to call themselves Harvard students...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty to Vote on Dismissing Elster Next Week | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

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