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...outright fraud, the process of drafting a federal budget has become an exercise in creative writing. The one passed by Congress last year projected a 1985 deficit of $181.1 billion and heading down. When the books close on fiscal 1985 this October, the deficit will be more than $200 billion and rising. It has become a standard, and dangerous, practice in Washington to proclaim budget reductions that in fact are the product of phony numbers that never translate into reality...
...opposition candidates demanded that the elections be invalidated and new ones scheduled, but it was unlikely that the government would accommodate them. P.R.I. leaders, who see their party as the guardian of Mexico's political stability, were indifferent to charges of fraud. Maximiliano Esparza, a P.R.I. functionary sent to Sonora from Mexico City to oversee the voting, called the election "a democratic fiesta. It was a clean process. The people won." Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid was even more offhand. Said he: "I'm not concerned about the confused opinions of the minorities...
...ended an eleven-month trial in which Heidemann claimed that he had been misled by Kujau, a dealer in Nazi memorabilia. The court believed but had no concrete evidence to show that Heidemann had kept almost half the money. The journalist drew a prison term of 56 months for fraud. Kujau was sentenced to 54 months for fraud and forgery. Both were freed pending an appeal. The judge criticized Stern for the "bunker mentality" that encouraged editors to print their "scoop" without first establishing the diaries' authenticity...
...Hutton, the fifth-largest U.S. brokerage firm, cannot escape an ongoing scandal. In fact, the company seems to become enmeshed ever deeper in suspicions and allegations. In May, Hutton was fined $2 million plus legal costs after pleading guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud involving an elaborate check-kiting operation. That admission, though, seems to have been just the beginning of the firm's problems. Last week Hutton divulged that it had failed to submit 18 documents subpoenaed by the Justice Department during a three-year investigation of its practices. Former Hutton President George L. Ball...
Dershowitz said he believes that while there was “real insurance fraud going on,” his client had no knowledge...