Word: frauds
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...Leach ran a tight race with his Republican opponent, Jimmy Wilson, 47, in most of the Fourth Congressional District, he piled up pluralities as high as 13 to 1 in Vernon Parish, enabling him to edge to victory by 266 votes out of 130,900 cast. Pledging to file fraud charges with both the Administration Committee of the House and the Federal Election Commission, Wilson contends that some 4,000 votes were bought, more than enough to cost him the election...
...people in public service jobs, will cost an estimated $11 billion in fiscal 1979. But the program is beset by inefficiency and corruption; CETA officials often hand out jobs on a patronage basis. This month Labor Secretary Marshall set up a new investigative unit to try to root out fraud in the program...
Porterfield went back to Anchorage in early November in response to a subpoena requiring him to turn over notes and phone records on a series of stories published starting in March 1977. Porterfield's discovery of a complex financial fraud that the stories recounted led to the indictment of three people, two of whom have since pleaded guilty...
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Charles Diggs, for 24 years a Congressman from Detroit, and a founder of the House's black caucus, was convicted last month on 29 counts of mail fraud and misappropriation of Government funds. Though eleven of the twelve jurors who convicted him were black, Diggs implied to his constituents that he was being persecuted by white justice. Last week he was re-elected with 80% of the vote...