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...fancied entrants in this year's Tour de France find themselves kicking their heels on the roadside after a doping row. Meanwhile the sport of kings - the polite name for British horse [an error occurred while processing this directive] racing - has been cast into turmoil by an alleged betting fraud and the arrest of Kieren Fallon, one of its most accomplished jockeys. And to what prosecutors and investigating committees maintain is systemic corruption can be added an outsize helping of low-level deceit that tends to be marked down as "gamesmanship." One British newspaper was so amused by the underhanded...
...presidential election too close to call. Aggrieved voters in the streets. Partisans exchanging accusations of fraud and demanding manual recounts. Lawyers drooling in expectation of weeks of court fights...
DIED. Kenneth Lay, 64, founder and ex-CEO of Enron, who was convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy in the spectacular 2001 collapse of the mammoth energy company; while free on a $5 million bond as he awaited his October sentencing; of heart disease; in Aspen, Colo. Born to a poor family in rural Missouri, Lay became a friend to Presidents (George W. Bush famously nicknamed him "Kenny Boy") and a Wall Street darling whose renown grew in step with Enron's soaring stock price. But the emergence in 2001 of the truth about Enron and its scandalous business...
Former Enron CEO Ken Lay maintained throughout his fraud and conspiracy trial that he was an innocent man - a man who never should have been charged, never should have been indicted, and certainly never should have been convicted. After his death from a heart attack early Wednesday, it's almost as if he wasn't. Legally, his case died with...
...many in the L?pez Obrador camp, the delay brings back the specter of the 1988 presidential election, when the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was declared the winner over the PRD candidate after a suspicious ?breakdown? of vote-tallying computers. Most Mexicans today believe a massive fraud was committed that year, and documents recently revealed largely bear that out. So, because L?pez Obrador's campaign challenged powerful economic interests - and because Calder?n's campaign painted L?pez Obrador as the like of the hemisphere's left-wing bogeyman, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - PRD loyalists may cry fraud...