Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate Banking Committee also voted to launch its own investigation into HUD operations during the Reagan Administration, joining two House panels already scrutinizing allegations of mismanagement, fraud and influence-peddling at the multibillion-dollar agency...
...distributed our statement to voters outside Room 304 of the Science Center, where balloting took place June 29 between 12 and 4 p.m. Throughout the afternoon I was bullied and harassed by union staff and organizers. I was called at various times a coward, a traitor and a fraud. Our statement, taped to the walls, was torn down and efforts were made to intimidate me into leaving the area. I was told I am not a proper, loyal HUCTW member and I am no longer wanted in the union. Every possible pressure short of physical violence was brought to bean...
Just when corporate raider Paul Bilzerian seems to have hit rock bottom, his fall from grace goes even farther. Last month Bilzerian, 39, was convicted by a Manhattan jury on nine counts of securities fraud, which carry a potential 45-year prison sentence and $2.25 million in fines. Then last week the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit accusing him of illegal stock transactions involving seven companies, including his 1988 takeover of Singer. The charges range from lying to the SEC about how he financed his raids to trying to hide the number of shares he owned...
...billion he borrowed to acquire the company, Bilzerian sold eight of the company's twelve divisions. A group of 9,000 retirees has filed a $235 million lawsuit against the company, accusing Bilzerian of plundering Singer's pension plan. The U.S. Government is suing the company for defense-contract fraud, seeking $231 million in damages...
...fact, some of Ms. Bhutto's close friends, for example, the Galbraiths, recall that she was, during her Radcliffe days, a vigorous proponent of the policies of the military government of Pakistan.) Secondly, while in power as Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Bhutto himself engaged in massive electoral fraud and political repression in the mid-70s, the accounts of which are widely known. In claiming to uphold Harvard's motto "Veritas", the Latin for truth, Ms. Bhutto has an obligation not to distort history. Shah M. Ashquzzaman