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Committee Against Health Fraud...
...Chicago, 92 charged with mail fraud and giving false statements to welfare officials have bilked the public out of nearly $1 million. On the average, they were said to be on the take for more than three years. The purported record holder was a man who had illegally been on welfare for a decade. The Government claims one individual swindled $17,500 during a two-year period, but the mean grab for the 92 was put at $210 a month, or slightly more than $2,500 a year...
...Cars. The legal incomes of those charged with fraud in New York and Chicago vary. In the Big Apple, the range was from $7,000 to $12,000 a year; in Chicago, the average salary of the indicted came to $11,978-and a dozen made more than $15,000. One man drove two cars-a 1977 Monte Carlo and a 1976 Charger. Another had a master's degree, earned $15,000 a year and had stashed $20,000 in a bank. Many of those indicted held charge cards from some of the city's best stores; some...
...work? Most of those indicted at one time had no jobs and legitimately received welfare payments. But after they were hired by federal, state or local government agencies, they left themselves on the welfare rolls. Since welfare recipients are regularly asked to fill out personal-status forms, the specific fraud usually entailed falsifying employment information...
...Fraud . .. deception ... playing with religious tradition." These harsh words, aimed at a new movement of Jewish-born Christians, spill forth from Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, normally one of Judaism's most temperate envoys to Christianity. His target: the so-called Messianic Jews, who insist that they can adopt a belief in Jesus as the Messiah and yet remain as Jewish as ever...