Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear that his "white lies" were a breach of science's code of honor. Physicians were aghast, government officials were embarrassed, and breast-cancer victims were fretting about whether they had received the best treatment. Coming in the wake of a whole series of highly publicized allegations of fraud in the scientific world -- some unjustified -- the clear-cut case against Poisson dealt a new blow to the reputation of the research community. Said a federal scientist involved with the investigation: "This was not sloppiness. It was real cunning fabrication...
Walsh now spends most of his day in the third-floor cafeteria of the U.S. District Courthouse, drinking coffee, smoking a pipe and contemplating the 59 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy he faces...
There is little these days to draw spectators. After the court comes to order, the judge confers in private with Walsh, Kontos, Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter J. Mullin and Pamela Merchant, a member of the New England Bank Fraud Task Force...
Walsh is charged with 59 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy for attempting to illegally procure nearly $8 million in real estate loans from Dime Savings Bank, New York savings loan...
Senate ethics committee criticizes D'Amato for letting his brother (later convicted of fraud) use his office and his official stationery to lobby for a defense contractor...