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...Texas taxpayers for smoking related Medicaid claims since 1980. The suit, filed in a Texarkana federal court, also aims to curb tobacco advertisements that the state claims are targeted at children. The lawsuit is the first government action to claim the tobacco industry has violated federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as well as racketeering and conspiracy laws. Eight tobacco firms are named in the suit, including industry leaders R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, along with public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, the Council For Tobacco Research - USA. and the Tobacco Institute. Philip Morris issued a statement saying it believes...
...victim. You're anything but a victim." The judge also gave Hale three years probation and fined him $10,000. As a result of information Hale has provided to the government, both the McDougals and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker are on trial for conspiracy and fraud. Hale is a key prosecution witness in the trial, but defense attorneys are seeking to undermine his credibility by telling the jury that he is a convicted felon and "a fraud from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet." President Clinton has called Hale's claims "a bunch...
Whitewater now seems destined to dog the Clintons throughout this election year. In Little Rock last week, Jim and Susan McDougal, along with Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, began to stand trial on felony charges brought by independent counsel Kenneth Starr; they are accused of fraud, conspiracy and making or causing to be made false statements to a financial institution. When Hillary Clinton testified before a grand jury last January, she made history: never before had a First Lady been summoned to do that. A memo that had been subpoenaed two years ago by independent counsel Robert Fiske was discovered...
...cohort to suspend their attacks. The political leaders were apparently worried that Arafat would begin shutting down the many institutions of Hamas--schools, clinics, mosques, charities--that anchor it deeply in the Palestinian community. In a leaflet, the military wing purportedly acceded. Ghazi, however, insists the document was a fraud. "I tell you frankly and clearly, there is no truce," he says. "We will continue...
...evaded any regulatory oversight. Last May scandal erupted when Asch and two other UCI doctors were accused of stealing eggs and embryos from as many as 100 patients for research or implantation in others. Asch, who has fled to Mexico City, is currently under federal investigation for mail fraud, tax evasion and fertility-drug smuggling, as well as the thefts. Professing his innocence, he told TIME, "I think there were people in charge of setting me up who falsified documents and forged consent forms." Yet his former chief biologist, Teri Ord, testified recently that Asch not only knew...