Word: frauds
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...chicken to hammer a nail into a board. Perdue's point is simple: the law is absurd. Current rules permit poultry frozen hard as a bowling ball to be thawed at market and sold as "fresh" to an unsuspecting public. From the producer's perspective, the rationale for this fraud is easily understood. Freezing increases shelf life, and chickens labeled "fresh" command as much as $2 a pound more than birds marketed as frozen. At current consumption levels, this rip-off costs Americans nearly $1 billion annually...
...even if the USDA finally fixes this fraud by adopting a 26 degree rule, it could be undermined in three ways...
...center of the collapse of Britain's oldest investment bank, is begging to be tried in London rather than be "thrown to the wolves" at a "show trial" in Singapore, where he allegedly made hundreds of millions in bad trades that bankrupted Baring Bros. Unfortunately for him, the Serious Fraud Office in London said it had no evidence that would justify Leeson's extradition to the United Kingdom. Leeson's wife read his plea, written in the German jail where he now awaits a decision, at a news conference today. Singapore, which is noted for its harsh legal system...
Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, one of President Clinton's closest friends and the highest-ranking official to have been toppled by the Whitewater investigation, was sentenced to 21 months in prison. He had pleaded guilty last December to mail-fraud and tax-evasion charges for having bilked his former law firm and clients by submitting inflated expenses and fees...
...bottom, the committee will necessarily be asking whether a Harvard Medial School Professor ought to be lending his credibility to stories of space alien abductions. It is extremely unusual for great universities to second-guess the research or publications of their tenured faculty, except for allegations of fraud, plagiarism or violations of patients' or students' rights. For example, New York City College has never formally investigated in "research" and claims of Professor Leonard Jeffries that "melanin" has an influence on racial characteristics and makes blacks better than whites, or of a white professor who has argued that blacks have lower...