Word: frauds
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...specific Hutton employees had been singled out for blame back in May, when the company pleaded guilty to 2,000 counts of wire and mail fraud. The Justice Department's failure to charge any of Hutton's executives raised howls of criticism that cast further harsh light on the company's operations. But, as expected, Bell's report did single out offenders and called for changes in the way Hutton does business. "I think we got the facts," declared Bell, whose team of 14 lawyers interviewed more than 370 current and former Hutton employees. Says James Hanbury, who studies Hutton...
...Harvard, but declined to accept his $5000 honorarium. Four months later his son received a scholarship at the Kennedy School for approximately $5000. This seemingly obscure data caused a major furor in Sweden this summer as members of the Swedish news media charged the Prime Minister had committed tax fraud by backhandedly trying to secure the scholarship for his son. Opponents of Palme charged that by refusing a highly taxable fee for the speech, he intended to defer the money for a tax-free study grant for his son. Both Palme and Kennedy School officials denied the allegations and said...
...engaging in a complex check-kiting scheme, many critics complained that Attorney General Edwin Meese had not applied to executive-suite crime the standard that the Reagan Administration invokes for less well-heeled violators. Even though Hutton pleaded guilty to 2,000 separate charges of mail and wire fraud, the Government did not charge any individuals with wrongdoing. Former Attorney General Griffin Bell, who was hired by Hutton to conduct an independent, internal investigation of the case, is expected to set the record straight when he releases his formal report this week...
Convicted on more than 50 counts of fraud and racketeering, Cook County Circuit Judge Richard F. LeFevour, 54, faced a possible 300 years in prison and fines of $103,000 when he appeared last week, gaunt and obviously unwell, for sentencing by U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle. "The man is dying," Defense Lawyer Patrick Tuite asserted, and Norgle announced that because the defendant suffers from a rare liver disease, he was setting the penalty at only twelve years in prison. LeFevour had been charged with taking some $400,000 in bribes to fix drunken-driving cases and parking tickets...
Meese further outraged the civil rights establishment with indictments in Alabama against eight political activists for voter fraud in primary elections last fall, charging that the accused used the names of incapacitated and illiterate nursing- home patients on absentee ballots. Although three of the defendants have already been acquitted, the black mayor of Union, Ala., went on trial last week in Birmingham. The anger in Alabama's black belt is palpable. Randall Williams, a director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, contends that whites who commit voter fraud go unprosecuted. Says he: "This is clearly a one-sided...