Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system is meant to reduce the fraud associated with manually produced identification cards and thereby maintain the integrity of Costa Rica's elections...
...Only through education can we ward off the almost obvious potential for an increase in fraud in the marketplace," he said. "Giving people the ability to select investment options will provide the unscrupulous with new opportunities to deceive and distort...
...Whatever the eventual outcome, the SEC will continue to aggressively combat fraud, promote investor education and diligently work to ensure that our markets remain the most resilient, innovative and transparent in the world," he said...
...evaluation for the long-planned operation, Clint Hallam passed himself off as an Australian businessman who had lost his right hand and forearm in a logging accident. Turns out he really lost it using a power saw in a New Zealand jail, where he had been locked up for fraud. Hallam finally came clean two days before the operation, which was performed late last month in a French hospital. A Perth newspaper later reported that he has a court date in Australia in January on seven more fraud charges...
...that the new limb felt just like his old one. Hallam lost his hand in 1984, in what he told French doctors was a logging accident. The accident was later revealed to have occurred in a New Zealand prison, where Hallam had been serving a two-year sentence for fraud. "Embarrassed as they might have been, the surgeons had no grounds for canceling the operation," says TIME correspondent Michael D. Lemonick. "A criminal past is no reason to deny someone medical treatment -- even a treatment that is purely experimental." Hallam will get to raise his new hand in an Australian...