Word: frauds
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...converts to casino culture are just beginning to compute the social costs of compulsive gambling, which, studies show, leads to lost productivity, bankruptcies, divorce, suicide, child abuse and crimes such as robbery, fraud and embezzlement (with consequent police, prosecution and imprisonment costs). Nevada, where gambling is the dominant industry, has a suicide rate more than double the national average, and led the nation in child-abuse fatalities in the period when casinos were still limited to Nevada and Atlantic City. Within two years of Deadwood's casino influx, child-abuse reports rose 43% and domestic violence...
AILING. TAMMY FAYE MESSNER, 54, former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker; with colon cancer. Her current husband, Roe Messner, sentenced to prison last week for bankruptcy fraud, has prostate cancer...
...media and militia members. FBI agents surrounded the compound March 25, when two Freemen leaders were arrested. Since then, three others have been taken into custody. One member of the group, Richard E. Clark, surrendered to federal authorities on Saturday and will be arraigned Monday on charges of fraud, conspiracy and armed robbery...
...Texas taxpayers for smoking related Medicaid claims since 1980. The suit, filed in a Texarkana federal court, also aims to curb tobacco advertisements that the state claims are targeted at children. The lawsuit is the first government action to claim the tobacco industry has violated federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as well as racketeering and conspiracy laws. Eight tobacco firms are named in the suit, including industry leaders R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, along with public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, the Council For Tobacco Research - USA. and the Tobacco Institute. Philip Morris issued a statement saying it believes...
...victim. You're anything but a victim." The judge also gave Hale three years probation and fined him $10,000. As a result of information Hale has provided to the government, both the McDougals and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker are on trial for conspiracy and fraud. Hale is a key prosecution witness in the trial, but defense attorneys are seeking to undermine his credibility by telling the jury that he is a convicted felon and "a fraud from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet." President Clinton has called Hale's claims "a bunch...