Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government agency. Though it is difficult to prove conspiracy, siphoning off arms-sales profits that may have belonged to the U.S. Treasury, selling weapons under incorrect procedures, and the jumble of other deceptions could qualify. North was named, but not indicted, as a co-conspirator in a tax fraud involving improper deductions claimed for contributions used to purchase contra arms...
...only 2.2 million people, neither the opposition nor the government is unified. One government rift became apparent last week, when Vice President Roderick Esquivel called upon President Eric Arturo Delvalle to form a commission to look into allegations that have implicated Noriega in murder, drug trafficking and election fraud. Esquivel's maneuver was a rebuke to the civilian President, who a few days earlier had publicly told his Attorney General to investigate the charges. Opposition forces objected that the Attorney General was under Noriega's influence. By siding with the opposition, Esquivel publicized a split within the governing ranks wide...
Richard Kusserow is a new kind of gumshoe. He is the master datatective of the Reagan Administration. Soon after becoming inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services in 1981, Kusserow decided to crack down on fraud. The new boss directed that the agency's mammoth IBM computer system be used to compare a list of everyone on the Social Security rolls with a compilation of every Medicare recipient known to have died. The project uncovered 8,000 dead people to whom Social Security checks were still being mailed, like clockwork, once a month. In some cases...
Kusserow's search -- one of thousands of computer matching projects conducted by the Administration -- points up the power and the perils of computer data banks. Removing the deceased from the Social Security rolls has saved taxpayers about $50 million and led to more than 500 convictions for fraud. But to ferret out the cheats, the computer had to open and examine, however briefly, the records of more than 30 million presumably innocent Americans. That, say civil libertarians on both sides of the political spectrum, is an invasion of privacy and comes perilously close to violating the Constitution, particularly the Fourth...
...International Brotherhood of Teamsters has long been accused of ties to organized crime, but seldom has the linkage been confirmed as baldly as it was last week by former Teamsters President Roy L. Williams, 72. Serving a ten- year sentence on a 1982 bribery and fraud conviction, Williams testified on videotape at the Manhattan trial of twelve reputed Mafia members and associates for alleged racketeering. He described how emissaries of the late Kansas City, Mo., Mafia boss Nick Civella brought him a message: If he did not become Civella's "boy," he could anticipate the deaths of his two children...