Word: frauds
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...14TH CENTURY SKEPTIC One of the first universally accepted documentations of what we now know as the Shroud of Turin happens to be a letter declaring it a fraud. In 1389 Pierre d'Arcis, then Bishop of Troyes, described a "twofold image of one man, that is to say, the back and the front...thus impressed together with the wounds which he bore." The linen cloth had occupied a place of honor in a church in the tiny French town of Lirey since the 1350s; D'Arcis, who was writing to his Pope, complained that "although it is not publicly...
...Clintons in Whitewater. Testimony by Hale helped convict McDougal, her ex-husband James and former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, Starr's biggest prizes to date. All the same, Hale is not the ideal keystone for a case against the President. Not when Hale has pleaded guilty to fraud. And not when he started implicating Clinton only after federal investigators were closing in on him for fraudulent loan schemes. In February, after serving 20 months in prison, Hale got a reduction in sentence--for cooperation with Starr...
...which Starr had sought for two years, turned up in the White House residence; they showed that Hillary had billed at least 30 hours of work on Castle Grande. Her lawyer said that she had known the project by another name and that she was not involved in any fraud...
...South African-made stun weapons have turned up in Angola and Egypt. Mexico is becoming a production and transshipment site for American and Asian stun devices. It has also begun attacking its own people with the weapons. Last September police turned fire hoses on 400 people protesting election fraud in Campeche. Members of the Cobras security force then waded in, jabbing protesters with 3-ft.-long shock sticks. "I fell to the ground, but they carried on giving me the shocks--on my breasts, vagina, stomach, legs, all over my body," says Layda Silva Sosa...
...face of Russian reform has a new blemish -- a pustule, in fact. The country's third-largest city, Nizhni Novgorod, yesterday elected as its mayor Andrei Klimentyev -- a multimillionaire known in the underworld as "The Pustule.? Klimentyev has done two jail terms for fraud, and currently faces a number of other criminal charges...