Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent my life trying to help women have children," said Jacobson, a prominent infertility specialist who introduced amniocentesis in the U.S. to diagnose defects in unborn babies. "It's a shock to be found guilty of trying to help people." Convicted on 52 counts of fraud and perjury, the doctor faces up to 280 years in prison and $500,000 in fines when he is sentenced...
...with hearings resuming in Manhattan this week before U.S. Judge Milton Pollack, all sides have incentives to reach agreement. A settlement could strengthen Milken's plea for reduction of his 10-year sentence for securities fraud; he has already served a year. And the FDIC, which represents savings and loans that failed after loading up on junk bonds, stands to receive at least $500 million. The rest of the settlement would go to defrauded investors who participated in the suits...
Others appearing on the Democratic ballot will be former Irvine, Calif. Mayor Larry Agran, consumer advocate Ralph Nader, nostalgia candidate Eugene J. McCarthy and Lyndon H. Larouche Jr, who is currently serving time in prison for fraud...
...down over Laos in 1971. So much so that his relatives, like those of many of the 2,273 U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action, dared to believe that their loved one was still alive in Southeast Asia. But the Carr family was the victim of a cruel fraud...
Marita Juse, 48, of Burbank, Calif., will be sentenced later this month for embezzling more than $1 million from Pinkerton's, the oldest and second largest U.S. security firm. A fugitive on tax-fraud charges, Juse used an alias when Pinkerton's accounting division hired her. Obtaining computer codes, she made wire transfers of cash from the company's bank account. Juse faces up to 30 years in prison. Meanwhile, Pinkerton's, the company that once stalked Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is pitching a job- applicant screening service to its clients, which include half the Fortune...