Word: fraude
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...evaluation for the long-planned operation, Clint Hallam passed himself off as an Australian businessman who had lost his right hand and forearm in a logging accident. Turns out he really lost it using a power saw in a New Zealand jail, where he had been locked up for fraud. Hallam finally came clean two days before the operation, which was performed late last month in a French hospital. A Perth newspaper later reported that he has a court date in Australia in January on seven more fraud charges...
...that the new limb felt just like his old one. Hallam lost his hand in 1984, in what he told French doctors was a logging accident. The accident was later revealed to have occurred in a New Zealand prison, where Hallam had been serving a two-year sentence for fraud. "Embarrassed as they might have been, the surgeons had no grounds for canceling the operation," says TIME correspondent Michael D. Lemonick. "A criminal past is no reason to deny someone medical treatment -- even a treatment that is purely experimental." Hallam will get to raise his new hand in an Australian...
While some declined to explain their decision, at least one student feared absentee ballots could lead to voter fraud...
...problem with President Clinton is not that he's shown he is human; it is the fact that he is a fraud and a hypocrite." ED CUNION Johannesburg...
...Birmingham in 1995, Muhammad said: "You got something going special here. Not too many of them [Jews] here. They're in the woodwork, moving behind the scenes, controlling behind the scenes." Elsewhere he called Jews "hooked-nose, bagel-eating, lox-eating, perpetrating-a-fraud" people who had "just crawled out of the ghettoes of Europe...