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Bennett, who said he donated the money to alleviate the tuition debt of Medical School students, said he has considered suing to remove Harvard as the recipient of the trust on charges of “fraud and misrepresentation,” although the bar for such claims is very high...
...There is also a more nefarious possibility: label fraud, something the industry's umbrella group, Cashmere & Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, takes very seriously. Karl Spilhaus, the group's president, approaches the task of uncovering ersatz cashmere as soberly as an old-master specialist does in debunking fake Rembrandts. He has brought suit against stores for selling products labeled "100% cashmere" that he claims are in fact mere blends...
...smile may not last long. The charges against Stewart of federal securities fraud and obstructing a government investigation relating to her December 2001 sale of 4,000 shares in ImClone Systems could bring her 30 years in jail if she is convicted. But experts are scoring Round 1 in the legal battle to the defense...
...about some of its findings thus far. A commission staff report issued last week said that at least two--and possibly six more--of the 9/11 hijackers carried passports that had been "manipulated in a fraudulent manner." The commission declined to elaborate, but senior counterterrorism officials tell TIME the fraud was an example of al-Qaeda's clever tradecraft and attention to detail. The Saudi passports the hijackers carried were genuine, and so were the visas to the U.S. But investigators believe the hijackers obtained fresh passports after telling Saudi authorities they had "lost" their old ones, presumably to cover...
...they signed up for should apply to all. Among their complaints: two major Asian financial centers, Singapore and Hong Kong, aren't even part of the talks. The Swiss from the beginning refused to have any part in the entire havens initiative; while they cooperate on cases of tax fraud, they don't recognize tax evasion by non-Swiss as an offense. Tax havens, says Richard Hay, a lawyer at Stikeman Elliott in London who represents tax havens and some investor groups, "don't want to commit commercial suicide by moving ahead of international standards." He adds...