Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council conducted the referendum, but it was marred by charges of misconduct and fraud--including council members allegedly intimidating voters and leaving ballots unsecured in the council office...
...with knowledge of the government's case against Rostenkowski: "It's not a head shot." This means that regardless of what the feds think they can prove the Congressman or his employees did, the prosecutors lack overwhelming evidence to prove it was done with intent to perpetrate a major fraud. The prosecutors believe, moreover, that juries in the District of Columbia tend to favor the defendant. A Rostenkowski confidant says that if the two sides are to reach any kind of accommodation, it will probably be later this week...
...mayor, in fact, testified on the city councillor's behalf in March, when Walsh was convicted on 41 counts of bank fraud in connection with a scheme to swindle the Dime Savings Bank of New York of $2.9 million...
...recent weeks, however, Dime borrowers andlegal experts have suggested that federalinvestigators were wrong to target Walsh. Theysaid employees of the bank may have perpetratedthe fraud, and that Walsh was used as a scapegoat...
...addition, borrowers note that in a recentcompanion case to the prosecution of Walsh, 102counts of bank fraud against attorney Alan H.Segal were dismissed. The difference in that casewas that Judge Edward F. Harrington allowedtestimony about Dime, while Walsh's judge, Mark L.Wolf, ruled such lines of inquiry out of order...