Word: frauds
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...loser's obligation at 25 percent of the winner's legal costs, and another proposal to award attorney fees to the defendant only in cases ruled to be "frivolous." Two additional legal reform bills that would limit damage payments and make it harder for plaintiffs to win securities fraud cases remain on the House agenda for this week...
...crime in Silicon Valley for a couple of decades. But the focus and nature of the crimes have changed dramatically. When the Department of Justice set up a computer-crimes unit in September 1991, it was intended to cope primarily with threats to computer security posed by hackers, toll-fraud artists and electronic intruders. But the new crimes, says Jim Thomas, a criminology professor at Northern Illinois University, ``aren't simply the esoteric type they were five years ago.'' They are ``computer crimes,'' he adds, ``only in the sense that a bank robbery with a getaway car is an `automobile...
...Copyright Act, which covers software as well as tangible commodities like books, records, tapes and film, did not specifically criminalize LaMacchia's alleged conduct because he did not benefit from the venture. Instead, the feds chose to indict him on a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. That was not a particularly good fit either, but government officials felt they had to charge him with something. ``If the government did not respond when someone gave away a million dollars in software,'' says Scott Charney, who heads the U.S. Justice Department's computer-crimes unit, ``we'd essentially be saying...
...back public confidence only by losing a few important elections. Many party reformers quickly resigned themselves to the victory--by more than 15 percentage points--by the center-right National Action Party (P.A.N.) over their candidate for Jalisco governor; at least there could be no suspicion of fraud...
...matter how extensive it is, the fraud in the A.N.C. probably falls short of what was accepted under the whites-only government of the National Party. The difference, of course, is that the old regime was an oppressive, racist state that wasn't expected to behave morally. For the new South Africa, expectations are higher...