Word: fraud
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...trillion in TARP and other Treasury aid. A spokesperson for the Treasury Department quickly called the numbers flawed, making this the latest in the back and forth between Barofsky's oversight office - which currently has 35 ongoing criminal and civil investigations of suspected accounting, securities and mortgage fraud - and the Treasury Department over the handling of TARP disbursements. (Read a skimmer of Barofsky's "Initial Report to Congress...
...practice until taking a pay cut and joining the U.S. District Attorney's office (Southern District of New York) in 2000 where he prosecuted some of the world's most notorious drug traffickers, including some 50 ranking members of FARC, the Colombian guerrilla group. Eventually he headed the mortgage-fraud group that investigated everything from retail mortgage fraud to securities fraud...
...maintaining unity," he said. "For the protection of the state and our values, we have to seek to maintain our unity for future generations." This would be possible if the will of the people is respected, he said, but he made no mention of allegations of electoral fraud. Indeed, his call for unity in the face of outside threats even played into the government's narrative that the postelection unrest was not an expression of popular will but the result of foreign agitation...
...election itself was a fiasco. The Sandinistas were accused of vote-rigging, and days of violence followed the closing of the polls in Managua. Instead of finding atonement in politics, Arguello found controversy and ridicule. He was accused of winning by fraud and lampooned as a bumbling fool. The media dubbed him the "mayor appointed by the Supreme Electoral Council," and insinuated that his office was incompetent and corrupt - charges that would have felt like a low blow to a man who had prided himself on his transparency and ability to get things done...
...British tabloid News of the World is no stranger to sleaze. It regularly publishes articles accusing the country's leading figures of affairs, fraud and other wrongdoing. Now, in what could be read as karmic retribution, the tabloid finds itself on the other side of scandal, with claims that News of the World's publisher, News International, Rupert Murdoch's British subsidiary, paid $1.6 million to settle court cases that exposed that its journalists had used criminal methods to secure stories...