Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone can get into the fraud game. Doctors and lawyers often work in tandem to alter medical records, fake injury reports and file claims for services never rendered. At hospitals, billing clerks discreetly boost the prices of low-ticket items, charging, say, $4.15 for an aspirin that costs 11 cents. "A lot of the billing frauds seem insignificant," says Ed Lueckenhoff, chief of the FBI's health-care-fraud unit. "But if you multiply that times thousands, it adds up to a lot of money. And this is a systematic scheme that is taking place with thousands of patients...
...National Republican Convention leaned the same degree to the right. He handpicked their presidential candidates. But when Moshood Abiola, the millionaire industrialist candidate of the Social Democrats, won the election and insisted that he be sworn in as President on Aug. 27, Babangida voided the vote, claiming widespread fraud and vote tampering...
...notoriety that it might be impossible for her to remain silent. After all, she worked hard to reach her eminence. A high school dropout, she was 19 when she met big spender Bernie Cornfeld, the financial impresario who in the 1970s was accused and then acquitted of fraud when his $2 billion mutual-fund empire collapsed. Bernie and Heidi were just good friends, so to speak, living it up, jetting around Europe. After they split, Heidi met Nagy, who introduced her to Hollywood brothel-keeper Elizabeth ("Madam Alex") Adams. Heidi said she was merely Madam Alex's assistant; Madam Alex...
Walsh, who has been indicted in connection with alleged bank fraud, met with the group but did not formally request an endorsement, O'Connell said
...promotion quickly turned into a nightmare. Disgruntled "winners" banded together in protest groups, fanning anti-Pepsi flames at frequent demonstrations and marches. More than 22,000 people holding the 349 number filed 689 civil suits seeking damages, as well as 5,200 criminal complaints alleging fraud and deception...