Word: frauds
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...Philippine leader came to power on a wing and a prayer, toppling one of the world's most durable dictators as well as a whole volume of political assumptions. Her platform in a snap election was little more than faith, hope and charity. But after widespread voting fraud, the army revolted, and the masses went into the streets to back her in a demonstration of People Power. Once she was in office, the neophyte yet again confounded expectations with unanticipated toughness and political skill. In the process of both the revolution and her first year in office, she has restored...
Then, suddenly, the implausible began to happen. Thousands of volunteer poll watchers, singing hymns and burning candles, formed a human barricade against the armed goons and carried their ballot boxes through the streets to counting stations. Thirty of the government's vote tabulators walked out in protest against the fraud. The country's Catholic bishops publicly condemned the election, and the U.S. Senate echoed the protest...
...limits. The Met star was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest with violence, and battery on a police officer. The FBI is investigating the possibility that Gooden's civil rights may have been violated. Meanwhile, in a Detroit courtroom De Lorean was acquitted on 15 counts of fraud and racketeering, which could have resulted in a prison sentence as long as 20 years. Upon hearing the verdict, De Lorean declared, "Praise God!" Newton was also in a thankful mood after a federal jury in Las Vegas found NBC guilty of defaming him on news programs and awarded...
Describing the Southwest Conference, the Dallas Morning News headlined LEAGUE OF ILL REPUTE. It was no small scold in a year when athletic chicanery in other college athletic associations has prompted court cases involving charges of fraud, illegal firing and point shaving. But the Southwest Conference, where four of nine universities are on probation or are being investigated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, has a special claim to dubious distinction: Southern Methodist University in Dallas, whose six N.C.A.A. probations in the past 28 years make it the reputed all-time leader among penalized schools. In mid-November, while under...
Cambridge recently decided to retain the contract of the its largest car towing company even though the owners face charges of fraud in an insurance scandal related to another company...