Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thirties and forties, could continue forever. Debt is economic cocaine; it is very hard to stop borrowing once you started. Please understand, I would have been voted out of office if I would have raised taxes or cut spending, so I borrowed your future earnings. It was the perfect fraud...
...credit card. Like the man who knew seven languages but had nothing to say in any of them, it is all show. The Economist magazine equated this action to leaving your generation a whole bunch of I.O.U.'s to pay off. So there you have it: cheating, lying and fraud...
...With indictments for alleged gambling fraud looming, DeBartolo resigned Tuesday as head of Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. and its subsidiaries, one of which is the San Francisco 49ers football team he has stewarded to five Super Bowl titles. At issue is DeBartolo's role in the financing of a Louisiana casino with former governor Edwin Edwards, who has received word of his own indictments, though the colorful politician says: "I still don't know what...
...your article regarding fraud at Tulane University Medical Center titled "Dead Wrong?" [NATION, Nov. 3], you accused the late Dr. Michael Gerber, former chairman of pathology and laboratory medicine at the center, of embezzlement and other financial wrongdoings and implied that his (and his wife's) death in an automobile accident was staged. The story is based largely on allegations by a disgruntled former employee, Dr. Aizenhawar Marrogi, who is currently in litigation with the medical center. These allegations are wholly without basis...
...taking several preventive measures to reduce the possibility of election fraud...