Word: fraud
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...Given the difficulty of reconstructing events up to decades old, only 38 shooters have been identified. Although hundreds of thousands of East Germans spied on friends and neighbors and millions were complicit in some part of the government, only about 500 people are under investigation, many for schemes involving fraud for personal gain rather than diligence to duty. For some, the trials are part of a national healing process, especially for East Germans, who lived under some form of dictatorship for a half- century. Professor Michael Wolffsohn, who specializes in German-Israeli relations at the University of the Armed Forces...
...fair, moreover, to punish soldiers even the trial judge acknowledged were "at the end of a long chain of responsibility," while there is scant sign their superiors will be called to account? Only two senior East German officials have gone on trial, both for fraud, and none has gone to jail. The country's former leader, Erich Honecker, fled to Moscow to evade trial, and is living there under diplomatic protection at the Chilean embassy -- while suing the new government to restore his retirement pay. A letter from a West German retiree to one of Heinrich's co-defendants, border...
...federal grand jury subpoenaed documents earlier this week in the investigation of three-term City Councillor William H. Walsh for bank fraud, The Boston Globe reported yesterday...
Federal officials are investigating Walsh for two counts of fraud, according to The Globe. They suspect that Walsh illegally transferred ownership of dozens of condominiums in Weymouth, Mass. without making down payments, and that he loaned buyers the money to make down payments on his own properties...
...yesterday Walsh once again denied theallegations of bank fraud that The Globe reportedin December...