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...caller from Lowell House reported an incidence of possible mail fraud...
Unfortunately, viaticals have attracted con artists the way blood does leeches, and regulators are contemplating halting, or at least restricting, the practice. The problem is with folks like Davis, indicted on fraud and other charges by a Dallas County grand jury last summer. He persuaded scores of unsuspecting Texans to shell out millions on supposedly low-risk, guaranteed investments in viaticals offered by his Dallas-based company, First American Fidelity Corp. But authorities say the policies were fraudulently obtained for the express purpose of reselling them, an increasingly common practice dubbed cleansheeting. Davis allegedly solicited HIV-positive...
...should have," says Valerie Cooper, executive director of the NVA, who claims scam artists don't represent the bulk of law-abiding viatical providers, like Page & Associates and the Ardan Group. Gloria Wolk, chief consumer advocate for viaticals www.viatical-expert.net) is worried that money for legitimate viatical settlements could disappear: "Fraud can destroy this industry and leave patients high...
Gary M. Pavela, director of judicial programs and student ethical development at the University of Maryland at College Park, noted that colleges usually revoke diplomas for cases involving academic fraud. In his opinion, MIT's actions are not that different from past cases...
Meinert has a history of deception going back to his years as an undergraduate student at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C. According to court documents, Meinert pled guilty to two felony counts of theft and fraud in October relating to money he illegally obtained from the United States Senate Federal Credit Union...