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...American swindler Robert Vesco successfully evaded the U.S. justice system for more than 25 years. Perhaps most infamous for allegedly scamming investors out of more than $200 million during the 1970s, Vesco fled the U.S. in 1972, on the run from charges ranging from looting to drug trafficking. His fraud finally caught up with him when a Cuban court sentenced him to prison for more than a decade for marketing a bogus pill to cure cancer and AIDS. A recently discovered burial record confirmed his death in November...
...Olmert's prospects were not helped by the fact that his longtime office manager, Shula Zakin, has been interrogated four times in the past two weeks by Israel's fraud squad, and that his personal attorney and the keeper of his secrets, Uri Messer, was spotted wandering despondently along the center divider of the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, according to Israeli media reports. (Messer claims he was simply lost.) Police investigators say that Messer, Zakin and businessman Talansky are all giving evidence in the criminal probe against Olmert. (Messer is being questioned for his role in managing Olmert...
...document” like an original birth certificate or a passport. This restriction unfairly affects certain demographics who are not in the position to acquire a state ID, like the poor, the elderly, and the disabled. Furthermore, the evidence that the Court cites to justify its fear about voter fraud is weak at best. The Court’s citation of alleged voter fraud in New York City’s 1868 election is absurd. The only specific evidence of in-person voter fraud that the majority opinion cites is an incident in 2004 in Washington involving a single person...
...site. Overworked volunteers have been swamped by large turnouts.Requiring voters to get registered at least a week earlier would mean caucus leaders can have one less thing to do at the caucus. It would also provide them a list showing who is eligible to participate, reducing the possibility of fraud. Also, the parties need to consider uniform caucus tabulation systems and appeals and criminal penalties for falsifying caucus results, just as it is a crime to falsify primary election results.And states and parties should consider putting caucuses under the control of local election officials, just as voting is on primary...
...characters are so complicated and troubled that they border on self-destructive. This isn’t to say the show lacks big issues; over three seasons of ”Battlestar,” the writers have introduced topics ranging from an Iraq-like occupation to electoral fraud to the ethics of a preemptive strike. None of these issues, however, come about without the decisions of complex characters. And that’s what sets “Battlestar” apart from other series. As people, we consume entertainment not just out of boredom or a need...