Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greed is good" goes the line from the film Wall Street. For Charles Keating Jr., the former head of the failed Lincoln Savings & Loan, greed could be good for over 500 years in jail and $250 million in penalties. Keating was found guilty of racketeering and fraud by a federal jury. Meanwhile, imprisoned junk-bond king Michael Milken was released to a halfway house...
Carter patterned most of his speech after his latest book, Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age. The book describes his 1962 campaign for the Georgia Senate, in which he fought vote fraud and anoutdated electoral system that originally declaredhim the loser...
...President emerged the apparent winner in his first electoral encounter in 14 years. Running against seven challengers, he squeaked by with 38% of the popular vote, though half of his Cabinet ministers went down to defeat. Moi's victory may ultimately prove to be Pyrrhic: widespread reports of fraud, vote rigging, bribery and government intimidation prompted opposition leaders, at last in unison, to reject election results and demand a new vote...
...dictator Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines in shame. Only massive vote fraud had saved him from a crushing defeat in an presidential contest against a novice. Corazon Aquino's ability to use yellow as a political weapon without invoking Tony Orlando was her only asset. Nowadays people regard Marcos with amused indifference and remember him primarily for wife Imelda's footwear...
CLINTON'S AIDES ALSO TRIED DISPUTING THE PROposal's claim that unspecified "administrative savings" can yield $22 billion over four years. They were cut short. Clinton is unimpressed by his predecessors' failed attempts to swipe at waste, fraud and abuse. "I told my people I'd force those savings simply by cutting agency budgets by 3% a year," Clinton says. "I did the same kind of thing in Arkansas. There's a lot of flab, believe...