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Corruption and fraud in the construction industry have plagued New York City for decades. Public projects, especially the $4.3 billion building program for schools, have been marred by crumbling plaster and leaky roofs -- often the work of firms tied to organized crime. Now a state agency seeks to disqualify unscrupulous contractors before they can even bid on city projects. The School Construction Authority, created in 1989, has identified 52 contracting firms linked to crime or shaky financing. "Some agencies review companies with suspicious records, but we demand disclosure of potential bidders," says Thomas D. Thacher, the SCA's inspector general...
...Moscow's Marx- Engels-Lenin Institute. When he returned, the brash youngster started organizing workers and getting in trouble. In the Little Steel Strike in Warren, Ohio, authorities charged him with using explosives, and in Minneapolis they arrested him for inciting a riot. In 1940 he was convicted of fraud and forgery in an election scandal and spent 90 days in jail...
...coup's failure may have been due mainly to the leaders' lack of belief in the future of a party they, probably better than anybody else, knew was an empty fraud. In the months preceding the coup and collapse there were signs that top party bosses, sensing the end was near, had begun looting the treasury. The newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported a series of shady real estate deals involving top party officials and attempts to convert soft ruble accounts into hard currency. Just before the party lost control of the Moscow City Council, for example, the Communist chairman, Valeri Saikin...
...Nobel laureate David Baltimore's stubborn refusal to concede that data reported by a former M.I.T. colleague in an immunology paper Baltimore had co- signed was fraudulent, and the shoddy treatment of the whistle blower who spotted the fraud aroused public suspicion about scientific integrity. Worse, from the viewpoint of scientists, it brought about an investigation by Michigan Democrat John Dingell's House subcommittee and fears of more federal supervision of science. By the time Baltimore finally apologized for his role in the affair, the damage to science's image had been done...
...scientists too must shoulder their share of the blame. Cases of outright fraud and waste, sloppy research, dubious claims and public bickering have made science an easy target for its critics. Says Marcel LaFollette, a professor of international science policy at George Washington University: "One of the threads that run through all this is a refusal by the science community to acknowledge that there is a problem. They continue with the attitude that scientists are part of the elite and they deserve special political treatment and handling...