Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sentence was by far the stiffest jail term in a five-year federal crackdown on securities fraud that has so far netted a dozen major convictions. The big fish included Wall Street speculator Ivan Boesky, who was fined $100 million for insider trading in 1986 and sentenced to three years in prison (he served two). As a condition of his plea bargain, Boesky helped prosecutors pursue Milken...
...stood in stark contrast to the respectful reception usually accorded a President in Mexico. When Salinas claimed that a new electoral code had been endorsed across the political spectrum and that a reliable voters' registration list was being drawn up, the opposition erupted in chants of "We repudiate electoral fraud...
...struggle was not over. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the son of a venerated former President, broke with the P.R.I. and ran a populist campaign that drew unexpectedly strong support. Partisans insisted that Cardenas won and that the 50.3% of the vote credited to Salinas was the result of massive fraud. Though election chicanery is commonplace in Mexico, Salinas is the first President to have the legitimacy of his mandate widely questioned...
...politician who has lost touch with the folks back home. But Kerry's efforts on behalf of Massachusetts are notable, and he is one of just three senators to refuse to take money from political action committees. He has led the fight in the Senate against savings and loan fraud, and has endorsed tax equity--sharing the tax burden more fairly--as a way to extricate this country from its fiscal mess...
...results came in, Bhutto charged fraud. "I am angry and shocked," she said, "at the way the elections have been rigged." But those allegations have received little endorsement so far from two international poll-watching teams. Said interim Prime Minister and Islamic Democratic Alliance leader Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi: "We cannot depend on the whims and fantasies of a young lady, attractive though she may be for the media at home and abroad. The country has given its verdict...