Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day, ARENA was doing its utmost to confuse the outcome of what had been an orderly and largely fraud-free election. D'Aubuisson called a press conference to charge that the U.S. was meddling in the election, and that a U.S. embassy official had served improperly as a consultant to the country's Central Election Commission. ARENA'S official scrutineer was finally ejected by the election commission for repeatedly interrupting the vote-counting process. D'Aubuisson also claimed, without offering proof, that the U.S. had "fixed" the election, and declared that "we are not going...
...voting procedure. The change would have scrapped the country's computerized voting lists, a central feature of the oversophisticated, U.S.-designed balloting system that may have kept as many as 200,000 Salvadorans from voting in March but that also served as a guarantee against deliberate fraud. Another encouraging sign for Duarte came when the country's 30,000-member armed forces issued a declaration last week that they plan to "uphold the will of the people" in the runoff election, meaning that the military will steer clear of any interference with the voting result...
...even closer scrutiny in Detroit, where he once worked as general manager of General Motors' Chevrolet division. A federal bankruptcy judge ruled against his claim to $975,000 in assets from his insolvent De Lorean Motor Co. A federal grand jury there is reportedly investigating allegations of criminal fraud. The charges against De Lorean stem from the creditors' claims of more than $120 million against the car company. A major charge: that the ex-automaker siphoned off $8.5 million of company money through a Swiss bank into his personal account in the U.S. De Lorean will...
Though newspaper reporters at present cannot be prosecuted as insiders, the Journal's Winans, according to the paper, could be charged under statutes covering fraud and theft. -By John Greenwald...
...maintains that people who buy the diplomas are often partners in fraud. Over a decade, one diploma mill, Southeastern University in Greenville, S.C., graduated 620 students, including 171 county, state and federal employees...