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...clear that his "white lies" were a breach of science's code of honor. Physicians were aghast, government officials were embarrassed, and breast-cancer victims were fretting about whether they had received the best treatment. Coming in the wake of a whole series of highly publicized allegations of fraud in the scientific world -- some unjustified -- the clear-cut case against Poisson dealt a new blow to the reputation of the research community. Said a federal scientist involved with the investigation: "This was not sloppiness. It was real cunning fabrication...
Equally disturbing was the way some scientists knowledgeable about the case -- and some government officials -- kept quiet about Poisson's misdeeds for years. The fraud was detected in 1990, Poisson admitted at least some culpability in 1991, and yet most patients and doctors didn't learn of the problem until the Tribune publicized it in 1994. To many, the affair smacked of a scientific cover...
...American Honda Co. was rocked by the indictment of five of its top executives for fraud, racketeering, and conspiracy following a yearlong federal investigation of charges that Honda dealerships were awarded on the basis of bribes...
Walsh now spends most of his day in the third-floor cafeteria of the U.S. District Courthouse, drinking coffee, smoking a pipe and contemplating the 59 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy he faces...
There is little these days to draw spectators. After the court comes to order, the judge confers in private with Walsh, Kontos, Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter J. Mullin and Pamela Merchant, a member of the New England Bank Fraud Task Force...