Word: frauded
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...subjects they were pursuing, but one target, former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, was fuming at the end of a long legal journey in which he was cleared. "Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?" he famously said when he was acquitted of other larceny and fraud charges that had forced him out of office. Another Reagan Administration official investigated (and eventually cleared) in a separate probe, Assistant Attorney General Theodore Olson, battled the law's constitutionality all the way to the Supreme Court, where he lost...
When charities start hitting you up for money over the holidays, don't be too quick to write a check. That may sound like advice from Scrooge, but it comes from the American Association of Retired Persons. Last week its report on charity fraud showed that fewer than half of donors were confident that the organizations they supported were legitimate. Phony charities take in $1 billion a year, so before you give, check a group's credentials with your state attorney general...
Starr also announced that for the third time he obtained an indictment against former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, this time on 15 felony counts of fraud and perjury. At least at the outset it looked like serial killing of the same victim. For years Starr has been putting the squeeze on Hubbell in the hope of getting him to give up something about either the President or Hillary Clinton, who was Hubbell's law partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., in the 1980s. Hubbell has already served 18 months in prison after pleading guilty four...
INDICTED. WEBSTER HUBBELL, 50, much pursued friend of President Clinton's; on 15 felony counts, including fraud and lying to Whitewater investigators; by a federal grand jury; in Washington...
...California, Republican BOB DORNAN (4) ran against Representative Loretta Sanchez, claiming his antiabortion views made him the "only Latino in the race" and calling himself "Mr. Immigrant Man." Might have worked better if he hadn't wrongly blamed his 1996 loss on voter fraud by illegal aliens...