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...published From Time Immemorial, which claimed that Palestine was virtually empty on the eve of Zionist colonization, and that Palestinians are in fact foreigners who surreptitiously entered Palestine after the Zionists “made the desert bloom.” The book is now widely recognized as a fraud. Baruch Kimmerling (of the Hebrew University) and Joel S. Migdal, in their authoritative study, Palestinians: The Making of a People, published by Harvard University Press, observe that Peters’s book is “based on materials out of context, and on distorted evidence...
...Finkelstein apologized for leveling false and disproved charges of “plagiarism,” “fraud,” “hoax,” “hucksterism,” “slipshod scholarship,” “blackmail,” and “profiteering” against some of the world’s most distinguished professors and writers, including Stuart Eizenstadt, Burt Neuborne, Gerald Feldman, Sir Martin Gilbert, Richard Overy, Abba Eban, Yehuda Bauer, Daniel Goldhagen and others. (Goldhagen demonstrated that Finkelstein “fabricated?...
...heart of the Spitzer probe are two practices that, by some estimates, collectively bilk fund investors out of as much as $4 billion a year. One is late trading, which is illegal. Spitzer brought grand-larceny and securities-fraud charges against Theodore Sihpol III, a former broker at Bank of America, alleging that Sihpol helped Canary Partners, a hedge fund, place orders to buy and sell Nations Funds shares as late as 6:30 p.m. at the funds' 4 p.m. (closing) price. The scheme allowed Canary, which has settled its case with Spitzer for $40 million, to profit from intervening...
Some of the sharpest criticism yet of the Bush Administration's policy in Iraq came last week from a familiar adversary, Ted Kennedy. In an interview with the AP, the Massachusetts Senator called the war a "fraud" that was "made up in Texas" to give the President a political boost. Even more provocatively, Kennedy raised questions about where the money being spent on Iraq is actually going. He cited a Congressional Budget Office report showing that only $2.5 billion of the $4 billion being spent each month on the war can be accounted for, and said the rest...
...charged, is a suspect in the Sept. 10 stabbing death of Anna Lindh, Sweden's popular Foreign Minister, in the upscale NK department store in central Stockholm. Swedish newspapers said Svensson, 35, was a high school dropout and had been convicted of more than 40 past crimes, including gross fraud, violence, physical abuse, theft and threats with a knife. Police used closed-circuit television pictures in the store to identify Svensson. The lead investigator on the case, Leif Jennekvist, said Svensson is "not unlike the man in the NK pictures." DNA tests were conducted on a cap recovered near...