Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawsuit was filed last week in U.S. District Court aimed at disallowing companies from distributing term papers online. In the suit--believed to be the first of its type in the nation--Boston University alleges that online term paper distributors violate federal law by engaging in mail and wire fraud, and violate a state law prohibiting the sale of term papers and other research materials. A representative of one of the companies named in the suit, speaking to The Crimson on grounds of anonymity, claims in its defense that B.U. is attempting to abridge its First Amendment rights by censoring...
...Chicago last week a 73-count indictment was returned against a hospice operator charged with bilking Medicare and others of $28 million for services to the terminally ill that were never delivered. In Detroit a nursing home that was part of a chain whose owner was convicted of Medicaid fraud 17 years ago was cited again last year for bad hygiene, inattention to frail residents and incompetent staff. In Texas attorney general Dan Morales has filed 50 lawsuits against nursing homes this year for neglect and failure to medicate...
...university claims that these companies are violating statues on mail and wire fraud by selling and distributing fraudulent term papers via these methods...
Even if Dornan's investigation into voter fraud fails to give him his congressional seat back, Dornan is not willing to disappear from politics anytime soon...
...Experts subsequently brought in to examine the typewritten documents, moreover, concluded that they could not have been written during the period claimed. (The typewriters had self-correcting tape, for example, which wasn't available until the 1970s.) Confronted on camera by ABC anchor Peter Jennings with evidence of the fraud, Cusack stammered that the papers might have been later copies of originals, while denying that he forged them. Reached by TIME later, Cusack, a paid consultant on the documentary, said he was "surprised and disappointed" at being sandbagged on the air by his employer. "We have some information that refutes...