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...expected to uncover dishonesty that widespread, it is another sign that NASA has become infected with the same corrupting virus that struck the Pentagon. Two months ago, the space agency's inspector general told a congressional subcommittee that he had launched more than 400 investigations into waste, fraud and abuse. NASA's books were in such disarray, he said, that it could not account for assets worth roughly $12 billion...
...space. The challenge facing Endeavour's seven-member crew was not just to fix the hobbled Hubble Telescope and thus ensure the future of space science. The larger goal was to repair NASA's reputation, battered in recent years by accusations of incompetence, mismanagement -- and, just last week, major fraud as well...
...backlash has already begun. In Texas this summer, a woman patient won a settlement from two therapists and a psychiatric hospital after suing them for therapeutic negligence and fraud. She claimed that four years of recovered false memories had made her a "walking zombie." It was the first of what some reputable therapists fear will be many such rulings that will ultimately give their profession a black...
Justice Department Fraud...
According to a federal appeals court, the Justice Department committed fraud and "acted with reckless disregard for the truth" when it withheld evidence that could have prevented the 1986 deportation of Cleveland autoworker John Demjanjuk. The evidence would have shown that someone else may have been Ivan the Terrible, the Nazi death-camp guard Demjanjuk was accused of being...