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Carmen Benson, who has been a caseworker at the Davis Square DTA for 14 years, says she suspects that along with strongly ingrained lifestyle habits, welfare fraud-such as when recipients don't tell the DTA that their living partner gets income-may be partly to blame for the lack of response to these programs...
Kennedy also discredits the notion of prevalent welfare fraud...
...says Salt Lake councilwoman Deeda Seed, "we'll be handed a tax bill we can't afford." Already, US West has pointedly asked the Salt Lake committee if there will be more "surprises." The answer may be a long time coming; the Justice Department investigation into wire and tax fraud could take up to a year...
...course, any punishment the Mitchell commission or the IOC hands down would be very small potatoes compared to federal penalties. The Justice Department is now looking into possible extortion and tax and wire fraud by Salt Lake City Olympic Committee officials. Making a federal case out of the scandal will mean showing that organizers broke the law by using tax-exempt money to buy the gifts or to finance scholarships for relatives of IOC members...
CONVICTED. DARLENE GILLESPIE, 57, former Mouseketeer; of securities fraud; in Los Angeles. Gillespie was accused of writing bad checks in a scheme to help a boyfriend buy $827,000 worth of stock. She faces up to 90 years in prison...