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...city's most vocal defender of rent control mounted attacks against the most vocal opponent of rent control when he was indicted for bank fraud...
Walsh, however, countered the charges by maintaining his innocence. The fourth-term councillor--who has also said he is innocent of 59 federal counts of bank fraud--calls the council investigation of his dealings "a conspiracy...
Walsh, who is currently under federal indictment on 59 counts of bank fraud, countered that the Tenant's Union's lawsuit late last spring against a lawyer of Walsh's firm was in actual fact a conspiracy against the councillor and essentially "harassment...
Then there was the realization that women do not necessarily inhabit a loftier moral plane than the men they intend to dislodge. Illinois' Carol Moseley Braun got hit with Medicaid-fraud charges for failing to report a windfall that might have helped pay her mother's nursing-home bill. Yeakel was revealed to have paid $17,000 in back taxes on the eve of announcing her candidacy. Congresswoman Barbara Boxer had 143 bounced checks to account for. In the nastiest race of all, two New York feminists, Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman, went down biting and clawing -- to make...
...obvious mechanism for establishing collective security, should our leaders make the effort, is the United Nations. Unfortunately, after years of neglect the U.N. has degenerated into a body whose inefficiency and waste makes Congress look parsimonious. Fraud and abuse seem to grow on whatever the U.N. touches...