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...University has contracted with the security firm Kroll Inc. to offer identity protection services, including credit reports and setting up fraud alerts...
There are also questions about whether Spitzer could be prosecuted for tax fraud if he "structured" his payments to the Emperors Club VIP through shell companies. "What it's really going to depend on is how the money was paid," Burstein told TIME, adding, "If his name was not Eliot Spitzer, it's virtually inconceivable that there would be any question of prosecution." Still, he put the odds...
...report says that many parliamentarians have claimed expenses for family members or transferred funds to firms that seemed to have no purpose beyond receiving them. Although the report does not say how much of the 150 million-euro ($230 million) annual staff fund is abused, the allegations of fraud appear to extend to parliamentarians across the political spectrum and from all 27 E.U. member states...
...page report was only made public when maverick Dutch Green Party MEP Paul van Buitenen broke the rules to put a summary on his website. Van Buitenen, whose whistle-blowing in 1999 helped bring down the entire European Commission, says the Parliament's top brass knew about the fraud for years but decided not to take any action to tighten the rules. "But so far, the Parliament has not been prepared to come forward with concrete proposals to improve the current system," he says. "The Parliament cannot claim to be the conscience of Europe while this is happening...
...anti-fraud unit, OLAF, has already launched an investigation into the allegations. But since the Parliament's own guidelines on hiring staff are vague, and do not even require receipts for expense claims, MEPs can claim they have not broken any rules...