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...British tabloid News of the World is no stranger to sleaze. It regularly publishes articles accusing the country's leading figures of affairs, fraud and other wrongdoing. Now, in what could be read as karmic retribution, the tabloid finds itself on the other side of scandal, with claims that News of the World's publisher, News International, Rupert Murdoch's British subsidiary, paid $1.6 million to settle court cases that exposed that its journalists had used criminal methods to secure stories...
...date and place of birth. Back then, identity theft - not to mention modern technology like the personal computer - were "unthinkable." But the technological boom of recent decades, coupled with the SSN's popularity as an authentication device, has enabled an "architecture of vulnerability" that exposes millions of Americans to fraud and exploitation, the report argues...
Monahan said that Hillel has "not been forced to curtail programs or services as a result of this fraud," and that there are no plans to do so at this point in time "due to the fraud or due to the economic crisis...
Pierre said that the Attorney General's Office was notified of the fraud by Hillel in Oct. 2008 and began its investigation that month. According to the press release, investigators uncovered a second fraud scheme in which O'Brien allegedly wrote and deposited checks from the organization into another account he had created, money that he then used for personal expenses such as tickets for trips and sporting events...
...alleged Hillel fraud is not the first time that money has been embezzled at Harvard in recent years. Between 2000 and 2001, two undergraduate officers at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals stole almost $100,000 from the organization, and between 1988 and 1994, a financial officer at Harvard Magazine, the University's alumni publication, embezzled...