Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's misstatements cover a wide range. Some examples: > Reagan claimed: "The General Accounting Office listed 41 separate items of waste and fraud in Government totaling $11 billion. That's $11 billion that could be eliminated right away." Reagan's figures apparently come not from a GAO report but from a study by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which estimated $7 billion of waste and fraud in HEW, most of which consisted of unnecessary health care. > Reagan claimed: "It costs HEW $3 in overhead to deliver $1 to a needy person in this country...
Sindona guilty of bank fraud...
...cram course for the jury in accounting and the subtleties of foreign exchange trading. "This trial," complained a reporter from Milan, "it is arithmetical, not passionate." Still it did have its moments. The star witnesses against Sindona were Carlo Bordoni and Peter Shaddick, who had already been convicted of fraud in the case. Sindona's attorney tried to show that Bordoni was prejudiced against his client and got him to claim that Sindona had tried to rape his wife. Having provoked the charge, the defense denied that Sindona had committed...
Last week the jury found Sindona guilty on 65 counts of conspiracy, fraud and perjury. Even if his appeals fail, however, Sindona is unlikely to get more than five years in jail. This will leave plenty of time for authorities in Italy, where statutes of limitations are up to 15 years, to continue trying to extradite him for trial on charges of fraudulent bankruptcy, which could carry a 15-year penalty...
...first round of voting ended in bitter wrangling. The I.R.P. was accused of cheating by practically all its principal opponents. Minister of State Dariush Forouhar, leader of the Iran Nation Party, resigned his Cabinet post to protest "widespread, shameless fraud." Said he: "I have fought for the principle of fair play all my life. I won't stomach this circus." Last week the ruling Revolutionary Council set up a seven-member commission to look into the allegations of fraud. If the charges prove to be true, said Banisadr, new elections will be held in some constituencies...