Word: fraud
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...week on a crime syndicate that uses stolen airline tickets to smuggle illegal aliens into the country. He has been investigating this story on and off since November 1996, when he heard about a series of travel-agency burglaries. As he dug deeper, he says, the story "shifted from fraud to a real public concern." Monroe also reports in this issue on the recent hate crime in Sylacauga...
...process in their investigations" and said they "do their dirty work without serious accountability." He charged inspectors general with having created a culture in which "anonymous denunciations thrive." His unsupported criticisms reflect a lack of knowledge and do a grave disservice to inspectors general. Inspectors general root out waste, fraud and abuse and investigate misconduct. They do not have any independent power to prosecute but instead work with federal prosecutors on cases that are suitable for action. And they deal with anonymous denunciations the way any professional investigative agency does: they pursue allegations that have merit and reject those that...
...Faculty did not consider the more severe punishment of expulsion, which would mandate that Douglas could not ever petition to return to Harvard. In recent decades, expulsion has only been used as punishment for admissions fraud...
Like the players he coaches, Wilson splits time on the court with time in the library. For the past several years, he has been working towards completing his Ph.D. in history at Brandeis University. He is scheduled to complete his dissertation on the emergence of scientific fraud as a conceptual category in the 17th and 18th centuries sometime during the summer...
DARLENE GILLESPIE: Convicted on 12 counts of securities fraud...