Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into place; put six-year term limits on committee chairmen; ban members from voting by proxy at committee sessions they do not attend; require committees to open their meetings to the public; require a three-fifths majority to approve tax increases; hire an outside auditor to hunt out waste, fraud and abuse; and pass a bill requiring Congress to live under the laws that it passes for the rest of the country, like occupational health-and-safety and antidiscrimination statutes...
...legislative aide was last month named the successor to William H. Walsh on the Cambridge City Council, following Walsh's removal in November following federal sentencing on charges of bank fraud and conspiracy...
Walsh, a convicted felon who was removed from office in November following his federal sentencing on 41 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy, will be tried January 31 in the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex County...
...Fraud, it seems, was his fav'rite sport...
...special recount took place on Friday, following Walsh's sentencing last month on 41 charges of bank fraud and conspiracy and his removal from office as mandated by Massachusetts...