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That chapter, “Arming America and Academic Fraud,” takes up the case of Michael Bellesiles, an Emory University professor who stepped down from his post after colleagues raised serious doubts about the validity of the research behind his award-winning 2000 book on gun ownership in antebellum America...
...9/11, they say, their marching orders have been very clear: disrupt first, prosecute later. That may mean potentially sacrificing a legal victory by gathering evidence in unorthodox or inadmissible ways, or resorting to the Al Capone strategy of using lesser charges--like immigration violations, minor perjury or food-stamp fraud--to keep a suspect off the street. That can make for rough justice. Says an official: "The American people want it all ways. They want the disruption, and they want it to look pretty...
...nabbed Olatunji Oluwatosin, 41, at a Copymat shop in Hollywood, he had five cell phones and three credit cards on him, each under different names. He has pleaded no contest to identity theft, but authorities say others must be involved, since the stolen data have been used in 750 fraud attempts...
...Hilton's not alone. Some 400 T-Mobile customers were hacked, the company admitted. Just days before Hilton's exposure came to light, Nicholas Jacobsen, 22, pleaded guilty to computer fraud for hacking T-Mobile. He was nabbed in a government investigation of the Internet underworld. Jennifer Granick, executive director of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, says the ChoicePoint scam and T-Mobile hack "show that companies don't take seriously the need to keep our information safe." The solution? Don't store any truly sensitive information on a wireless device and, when possible, disable wireless features...
Detroit Sleeper Cell Sept. 17, 2001 Arrested with airport-security passes and fake IDs, charged with ID fraud and providing material support to terrorists The two accused men were found guilty in 2003, but the judge dismissed the convictions after discovering that prosecutors had kept some evidence from the defense...