Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparently done in by Hunt's so-called paradox philosophy, readymade situation ethics that exempted them from common precepts of right and wrong. Last August attorneys for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed suit, charging Hunt and two others with commodityexchange violations and fraud. The suit said the group had bilked 80 outside investors out of $1.6 million, often through schemes that used new investors' money to pay "dividends" to older clients...
...Lynch, the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement chief: "The internationalization of the markets is a huge potential problem unless regulators are prepared to cooperate." Since May, the SEC and U.S. commodity-exchange regulators have signed memorandums of understanding with Japan and Britain, agreeing to share information in trading-fraud cases...
Hampers claims she took the whole department from "a total shambles" to a viable agency. She said she authorized "the first tax fraud prosecutions in the history of the Commonwealth...
Crane says Hampers "did everything to stymie" the investigation of fraud by Atty. Gen. Francis X. Bellotti, and got along badly with...
Gilbert admitted that science, as an effort made by people, is subject to human failings, but "a more serious problem in the notion of fraud," he said, is that many scientists are not always aware of whether their colleagues are truthful in their research...