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Senior citizens looking to prop up their pension a bit should keep a close eye on their medical bills. That's because, starting Jan. 1, Medicare beneficiaries can collect up to $1,000 for helping root out instances of the fraud and overbilling that cost the government billions of dollars each year. To blow the whistle on crooked oxygen suppliers or home-health-care providers, just call...
...denominations, admitted Monday to an "improper relationship" with a coworker -- and he too wants forgiveness. But like Clinton, he's not out of the doghouse quite yet. The board of the National Baptist Convention says it is willing to forgive Lyons his extramarital affair, but his pending indictments for fraud, money laundering and tax evasion are another matter -- especially if they lead to a conviction...
...elaborate, but in reference to the missing former dancer, he made a point of law. "You do not need a body to charge someone with murder." No, but you do need forensic evidence, argues Sante Kimes' lawyer Jose Muniz, "and there is nothing." Still, charges of credit-card fraud were added to the Kimeses' resume on Friday, and Safir predicts additional charges this Thursday...
...small shareholders devastated. Recent examples include the staggering 84% decline at small-appliance maker Sunbeam and a 66% drop at franchise operator Cendant, where just last week chairman Walter Forbes resigned under pressure. Both are widely held stocks, and, predictably, both now face scores of lawsuits that allege accounting fraud. Ultimately, the cases against both will become class-action affairs and so serve all who owned the stocks before their meltdown. But even if the suits succeed, the overwhelming odds--and this is true in any suit over a stock gone bad--are that no money will change hands...
That will take three to four years. And a 1995 law, intended to cut down on frivolous class-action suits, stacks the deck against you. But in cases in which there's serious evidence of fraud--not just bad luck or bad investing--there are some things to consider. Don't hang on to the losing stock unless you believe it will rebound. Your loss is calculated from the date when any alleged shenanigans become known...