Word: frauds
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...would have the same effect." And in a column in the Toronto Star, Henry Gordon, a local skeptic, likened that relief to the placebo effect, which, he wrote, "makes TT no different from the laying on of hands." Dr. William Jarvis, president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, in Loma Linda, California, agrees: "I see therapeutic touch as a form of faith healing that has captured the imagination of a few nurses who happen to be in pretty powerful positions of influence within the nursing profession...
...settlement of a massive case, Justice Department officials announced today. American Express Bank International will give up $33 million seized by U.S. Customs agents in 1992 and $7 million made in money-laundering transactions on behalf of a Mexican drug organization. (Two bank officials were convicted on laundering and fraud charges earlier this year.) TIME assistant editor Bernard Baumohl, who covers business, says the troubles are part of a domino effect in law enforcement following the world's largest international banking scandal -- the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). "The Justice Department has been aggressively trying to find...
Nearly eight months after his March conviction on 41 counts of bank fraud, conspiracy and making false statements, Walsh was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison and two years' probation...
Walsh was indicted on 59 counts of bank fraud and making false statements to the Dime Savings Bank in October of 1992, and was convicted on 41 counts this past March...
...flame someone online can the online service be held responsible? That's the issue being decided in New York's State Supreme Court. A Long Island financial firm, Stratton Oakmont, sued Prodigy -- one of theonline world's Big Three-- claiming that it was unfairly accused of fraud on a Prodigy bulletin board. Prodigy, like other online service providers have always said they're simply a communications conduit -- much like a phone company -- and have claimed that they're not responsible for what their customers post. "Liability," says Kent Stuckey, general counsel of Compuserve, "could present a chilling effect...