Word: fraude
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...enduring as Claude Pepper, as annoying as an overzealous lobbyist, the unelected American cockroach is surely the most resilient resident of Capitol Hill. From the Rotunda to the farthest hearing room, congressional buildings are overrun with the scurrying pests, which seem harder to stamp out than waste, fraud and abuse. Efforts to exterminate them have failed miserably, so Congressman Silvio Conte has declared a war against what he says is a "1 trillion-strong" invasion of the hallowed halls. The irrepressible Massachusetts Republican has launched a "Conte Crush-a- Cockroach Campaign," the slogan of which seems to be the rather...
...unexpected measure of support for Duarte from the 46,000-member Salvadoran armed forces. As ballot boxes began to arrive at election headquarters in the capital of San Salvador, right- wingers led by D'Aubuisson charged that the military had conspired with the Christian Democrats to perpetrate an electoral fraud. The protest stalled official vote counting pending a ruling by the Central Election Council, a three-man body dominated by conservatives. Fears arose that the election might be invalidated...
...ships, is determined to retain its share of the defense budget. The Fairfield, Conn.- based company, which in addition to the suspension faces a fine of more than $1 million if found guilty on all 108 counts of the indictment, denies there was any criminal wrongdoing. The alleged fraud occurred between January 1980 and April 1983 while the company was refurbishing Minuteman warheads. One of the contracts on the $47 million project included a "fixed price incentive"--that is, costs above a certain price were to be absorbed by the company. According to the indictment, when labor costs on that...
...avoided waste at the Defense Department in each of the past three years. If he is correct, such vigilance will eventually do more than simply save money. More important, it will restore the public support for a stronger defense that has been squandered by repeated revelations of the waste, fraud and abuse that Ronald Reagan pledged to conquer...
...decade, critics have charged that the actions of General Dynamics exemplify the greed and mismanagement they think pervades the defense industry. A federal grand jury first started investigating the company's cost overruns on submarines in 1979, but dropped the probe in 1981 for lack of enough evidence of fraud. Now the Justice Department has reopened the case in light of new information from P. Takis Veliotis, who in 1977 became head of Electric Boat, the company's sub-building division in Groton, Conn. His word is hardly unimpeachable. In 1983 he fled to his native Greece to avoid being...