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...longer the middle of nowhere--it's the bridge from Lake Powell to Las Vegas. The jealousies and rivalries that have always boiled through polygamous communities now have ways of commanding attention. Secrets are getting out. And those alleged secrets--which range from child abuse and welfare fraud to tax evasion--have become too numerous to overlook any longer. It's hard to find a place anymore where the law will ignore you while you blatantly ignore...
...mosquitoes that need eradicating, while another portrays Lugo as the Antichrist with devil's horns and a pitchfork. Lugo's campaign has accused the Colorados of tampering with ballots - and campaign manager Lopez says he fully expects Lugo to lose "between 70,000 and 100,000 votes" to fraud. Newspapers, for example, have published the names of long-dead Paraguayans who are still registered to vote, and international observers have warned of a "tense electoral climate...
...blends firsthand accounts, multiple documents, and personal observation to reveal that Hogue is not your average identity thief. While Hogue is a man who is deeply disturbed, compelled to lie and steal from anyone he could possibly rip off, Samuels carefully peels back the superficial labels of liar and fraud to discover a complicated individual. While in custody after being arrested at Princeton University, Hogue reveals his rationale for such extraordinary lies, a desire anyone can relate to: “I wanted to start all over again, without the burdens of my past...
...Will Smith’s 2006 dysorthographic blockbuster “The Pursuit of Happyness”—‘inspired’ as it was by the “true story” of homeless man turned stockbroker Christopher Gardner—was a fraud? To all the many who walked out of the theater heartened by the triumph of hard work and perseverance, please become uninspired. You’ve been deceived...
...British government, a dressing down from the judiciary can hardly come much rougher. The High Court in London, in a damning rebuke of ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's administration, ruled Thursday that the government's own Serious Fraud Office (SFO) broke the law in 2006 when it scrapped a corruption probe into arms deals between BAE Systems, Britain's biggest defense firm, and Saudi Arabia...