Word: fraud
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Walsh, who is currently under federal indictment on 59 counts of bank fraud, countered that the Tenant's Union's lawsuit late last spring against a lawyer of Walsh's firm was in actual fact a conspiracy against the councillor and essentially "harassment...
Then there was the realization that women do not necessarily inhabit a loftier moral plane than the men they intend to dislodge. Illinois' Carol Moseley Braun got hit with Medicaid-fraud charges for failing to report a windfall that might have helped pay her mother's nursing-home bill. Yeakel was revealed to have paid $17,000 in back taxes on the eve of announcing her candidacy. Congresswoman Barbara Boxer had 143 bounced checks to account for. In the nastiest race of all, two New York feminists, Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman, went down biting and clawing -- to make...
...obvious mechanism for establishing collective security, should our leaders make the effort, is the United Nations. Unfortunately, after years of neglect the U.N. has degenerated into a body whose inefficiency and waste makes Congress look parsimonious. Fraud and abuse seem to grow on whatever the U.N. touches...
Drumm said he couldn't believe anyone would expect to get away with fraud of this nature and scope...
...really surprised that the fraud happened because, unfortunately, a lot of people would go to a lot of extremes to get in here," he added...