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...compete with private bonds now that all dividends are taxed at only 15%. That will be expensive, and it will certainly drain money from schools, crime and a host of other urban problems. And that is not all: Bush's Internal Revenue Service has decided to focus on fraud among recipients of the earned-income tax credit (EITC), another stipend given to working families with low incomes. The EITC was a terrific Republican idea, expanded by Bill Clinton. Fraud no doubt exists, and fraud is bad. But the money to be gained here is minuscule compared with, say, the estimated...
...Zhou Zhengyi 2002's 11th richest mainlander, according to Forbes magazine, Zhou was the first in Shanghai to own a Ferrari. He and wife Mao Yuping stand accused of loan and stock fraud and tax evasion...
...Yang Bin Flower-seed king, reportedly worth $900 million, was set to head a North Korean free-trade zone until Beijing accused him of invest-ment scams, fraud and bribery. Shares of his company have since fallen...
...still has some big legal woes in California to worry about. First, there's a high-profile suit brought by the California Department of Insurance against him and French bank Crédit Lyonnais, alleging that Pinault in the early 1990s made just over $1 billion from an alleged fraud by Crédit Lyonnais involving a failing insurer, Executive Life, and then conspired to hide the true details. Pinault vigorously denies the charges. Second, there's a federal grand jury that's considering whether to indict him for the same fraud. "He has got very significant legal problems here...
Just as loudly, others have denounced her as a fraud, and one scholarly critic has called her work “social science at sea without an anchor...