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...commission must decide who is the Real Reform Nominee. It won't be easy. The FEC has never faced anything like this. Its first task: determine who followed the party's own nominating rules. That remains in dispute--naturally--since Hagelin forces have accused Buchanan of massive vote fraud. Hagelin supporters sent the FEC a six-page complaint, compiled an inch-thick sheaf of alleged evidence and were barely able to break for meals and their twice-daily TM rituals. "There has been a destructive process in the Reform Party for the past six months," Hagelin told TIME. Whoever gets...
...P2Ps (person-to-person payment services), like PayPal and eMoneyMail, are becoming the standard method of settlement on Web-auction sites. Buyers deposit money in an online account that transfers funds to the seller when a transaction is completed. Unlike credit cards, though, most P2Ps have not been offering fraud protection. That's changing in light of scams in which customers thought they were buying things like hard drives and digital cameras but got stiffed. Varying levels of protection are now available...
...Perot loyalists have already filed an FEC complaint, claiming fraud and hoping to discredit Buchanan, get the dough, and save the party by somehow rallying 5 percent of the vote with it. Buchanan, however, seems to have the inside track. Good thing Hagelin, a nuclear physicist who advocates transcendental meditation, has a fall-back...
Furlow pleaded guilty last month to three counts of mail fraud--part of an agreement with federal prosecutors who had indicted her in April on 20 counts. The charges followed a yearlong FBI investigation in which Furlow was found to have collected approximately $215,000 in fees from unwitting couples, according to the indictment. (Furlow did not respond to TIME's requests for an interview.) Her attorney, Hugh Clark, offered this speculation to a Philadelphia TV station: "I think she started off with the idea that she wanted to place prospective parents with their adoptive children. Obviously at some point...
...Department in its humbling of Microsoft, are leading a syndicate of seasoned plaintiffs' lawyers that is suing seven of the nation's largest HMOs. The lawsuits, which were recently combined before a single federal judge in Miami, allege that the HMOs engage in what Scruggs calls "garden-variety consumer fraud." He argues that HMOs routinely recruit customers by touting their concern for patient health but run their businesses in ways that put cost cutting ahead of optimal care. "What's personally most offensive to me is that the HMOs are creating a fundamental conflict of interest for doctors between their...