Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clandestine radio station, identifying itself as Radio Solidarity, called on Poles to stay home on May Day. "Smiles of pity from the windows," it said, should serve to chastise the government and its supporters. But nobody knew if the message was really from Solidarity or was a government-inspired fraud...
...reading. Written in school exercise books, they contained such sensational Mussolini observations as "Hitler is mad! Our ideas are diametrically opposed." Before anyone bought the diaries, however, Italian police raided the Panvini home, found and seized all except four of them, and charged the two women with forgery and fraud. Rosa admitted that she had spent years perfecting her imitation of Mussolini's handwriting and used her skill to produce the diaries. Both women were given suspended sentences...
...added that although there is no written rule, the management company will take into account what he called "ethical" considerations in some cases if the company has been convicted of fraud, antitrust, or of illegally polluting the environment. He said that he used his discretion and would not invest in "a brothel or one that sold illegal drugs...
...same frustrations seemed to motivate the questions fired at Falwell, both from the audience and the forum's two respondents, Wellesley College professor Steven Marini and Divinity School assistant professor Sharon Welch. Trying to expose the well-heeled evangelist as a pseudo-patriotic fraud and hypocritical apologist for genocide, questioners demanded that Falwell answer for just about very injustice in U.S. history, Welch charged Southern evangelists--and by implication their present-day followers like Falwell--with responsibility for slavery, and insisted that Falwell come up with a plan to prevent nuclear war, as if he personally had initiated the arms...
...weeks began to subside. A black newspaper, the Chicago Defender, had run a front-page warning the day before the vote that police were planning to make mass arrests of Washington supporters on the day of the election. But the balloting was remarkably free of chicanery, proceeding without significant fraud or intimidation. "Be cool, be cool, don't blow it," black radio stations urged their listeners as the results came...