Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often happens, the gifts one chooses for oneself can be too costly. Incensed taxpayers fired off 20,000 letters of protest, calling the tax break a backdoor pay raise on members' salaries of $60,662.50. Agreed Congressman Lawrence DeNardis of Connecticut: "It was outright legislative fraud and deceit...
Charges of fraud raise new doubts as a power struggle looms...
...charges of election fraud were made by Professor Thomas Sheehan of Chicago's Loyola University, who claimed that the total number of votes cast in the election had been vastly inflated, "with at least the knowledge of the United States Government." Sheehan's conclusions were based on calculations of the number of available ballot boxes, the hours polling booths remained open and the estimated time it would take each voter to cast a ballot. Sheehan suggested that the official tally of 1,485,185 votes could be more than double the number actually cast. He did not, however...
...senior diplomat in Washington quickly dismissed the study as "garbage." Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We reject the charge that the U.S. was party to any fraud. Nor did any of those countless observers on the site of the elections suggest there was fraud." Romberg cited as a "key error" the claim that it took voters 2½ to three minutes each to cast their ballots. A more likely estimate, he said, ranged between 30 seconds and one minute...
...claim that the various parties had participated in a "pact" with the American embassy to go along with the inflated tally. But some conceded that election day had indeed been marred by irregularities. Said Luis Nelson Segovia, a deputy from the center-right Democratic Action Party: "The possibility [of fraud] has merit. There were so many variants and shortcomings on election day. But there is no proof." Christian Democratic Party Spokesman Guillermo Antonio Guevara Lacayo agreed that there had been fraud, but said that the total number of votes in question was probably around 50,000, rather than...