Word: frauded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard had suspended the two students involved before they received their diplomas. And College administrators said that, except for cases of academic fraud, they were not aware of any cases in which Harvard had rescinded a diploma after graduation...
...past, courts have upheld diploma revocations, but Burke said he believed those precedents apply only to instances of fraud...
...Those cases are essentially on some measure of academic fraud," he said. "That certainly hasn't been the case here...
...second act has been a deluge of litigation. Following his ouster, Drabinsky was sued in Canada by Livent's new managers, including Furman and Hollywood honcho Michael Ovitz, who had taken control of the company in June. Then came a criminal indictment in U.S. federal court and fraud charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that Drabinsky fiddled with the books to disguise Livent's precarious financial condition. He's been accused of hiding expenses, of misleading auditors and devising a kickback scheme that funneled more than $5 million to him and his longtime partner Myron Gottlieb...
Exit the Tennesseans. Soon came the embezzlers, and in 1991, the company was forced to file for bankruptcy protection. Four years later, UPI bigwigs received federal fraud and conspiracy indictments, accused of falsifying books and lease transactions. Soon the Saudi's plunked down $3.6 million and made the UPI headache their own. And along the way, the Teletype machines, the excitement, the reporters, and the copy were discarded in what seems like a vain effort to hold together the crumbling shells of an empty...