Word: fraud
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Extension School student who tricked several campus organizations into believing he was an undergraduate will be sentenced next Tuesday for his role in a check fraud scheme in Washington, D.C., a court official said...
...Gwyneth Paltrow reads my column. You laugh. You mock. But I [k]now she sends one of her 15,000 lackeys to pick up a copy of Crimson Arts every Friday. A few weeks ago, if you recall, I proclaimed that Gwyneth Paltrow is a fraud--an entire waste of space on our magazine racks. So Gwyneth, having read my words and realizing the trendiness of Gwyneth-bashing, gave the following speech at a Women in Hollywood awards luncheon this past week: "I mean is anybody else sick of fucking Gwyneth Paltrow? Everywhere you look...
However, instances of Type II crimes, like drug violations or fraud, rose for the most part by small increments...
Unfortunately, viaticals have attracted con artists the way blood does leeches, and regulators are contemplating halting, or at least restricting, the practice. The problem is with folks like Davis, indicted on fraud and other charges by a Dallas County grand jury last summer. He persuaded scores of unsuspecting Texans to shell out millions on supposedly low-risk, guaranteed investments in viaticals offered by his Dallas-based company, First American Fidelity Corp. But authorities say the policies were fraudulently obtained for the express purpose of reselling them, an increasingly common practice dubbed cleansheeting. Davis allegedly solicited HIV-positive...
...should have," says Valerie Cooper, executive director of the NVA, who claims scam artists don't represent the bulk of law-abiding viatical providers, like Page & Associates and the Ardan Group. Gloria Wolk, chief consumer advocate for viaticals www.viatical-expert.net) is worried that money for legitimate viatical settlements could disappear: "Fraud can destroy this industry and leave patients high...