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Relatives of the deceased are not amused. Charging fraud, some 300 outraged customers are each seeking $3 million in damages from Harbor Lawn. Its chief supplier of corpses, the Neptune Society, a sea-burial service, is also named in the suits, along with more than ten local mortuaries that contracted out to Harbor Lawn...
...juvenile in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the story was proved to contain other factual errors. Daly acknowledged that he had changed details in a number of other columns, but contended, in classic "New Journalism" fashion, that altering the facts had not impaired his rendition of the truth. The rash of fraud infected the New York Times seven months later, when its Sunday magazine published a report from Cambodia by Freelancer Christopher Jones. In fact, Jones had written the story while at his home in Spain and for part of it had plagiarized a 1930 novel, André Malraux...
Reporting the plight of Milwaukee's mentally ill. Bernstein uncovered numerous cases of Medicaid fraud by psychotherapists and social works who were billing the government the services never performed. These accounts let its viveral prosocutions, and the formulicat of a point State City Mudioldd prosecutorial unit. This R. porting carned Bernsloin a second-place in the 1982 Pulitzer Prize category for local news over...
...Wall Street firms are accused of a huge tax-shelter fraud...
Last week a federal grand jury in New York City charged managers of the two small Wall Street companies, Sentinel Government Securities and Sentinel Financial Instruments, with perpetrating the largest criminal tax fraud in U.S. history. The defendants were alleged to have supplied investors with more than $130 million in bogus income tax deductions for the years 1979 and 1980. The previous record case: last September's indictment of Oil Trader Marc Rich and two of his associates for concealing more than $100 million in taxable income...