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...operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part. And then I go talk to the family and they say, 'Thank you, doctor, for saving my husband.' You feel a little bit like a fraud. One thing that has struck me is that we are building medicine as a series of pieces. It's like building a car without understanding it's a system. We concentrate on getting the very best people and the best technologies, in the same way you might put a car together by saying...
...book, The Journalist and the Murderer, Malcolm describes the real case of journalist Joe McGinniss, who spent years interviewing and buttering up a convicted murderer—only to publish a biography of the man arguing that he was a psychopathic killer. The convict sued him for fraud; he had thought the journalist was his friend. The case ended in a hung jury, but the jurors had tended to favor the murderer...
Hopes that an election would put an end to Romania's political stalemate were dashed when center-right incumbent Traian Basescu won the Dec. 7 vote by less than 1%, leading his opponent, Mircea Geoana, to accuse him of "massive fraud" and push for a second vote. The E.U.'s second poorest member has struggled to maintain stability since its government collapsed amid political infighting in October...
...when they're targeted, but they can also end up in jail on trumped-up charges brought by corrupt law enforcement officials and prosecutors. Russian businessman Alexei Kozlov, who claims he was the victim of a raid aimed at seizing his synthetic leather factory in Moscow, was convicted of fraud in May and sentenced to eight years in prison. In a telephone interview from prison, Kozlov said that Butyrka is teeming with entrepreneurs locked up on phony charges brought against them in raider attacks. "Before I landed behind bars, I thought only criminals were in jail," Kozlov said...
...Interior Ministry has denied any ulterior motives in Magnitsky's detention, saying he was being held solely because of the tax evasion charges. (Browder says those charges were without merit.) In April, a Moscow court convicted a sawmill foreman, Viktor Markelov, of fraud in connection with the raider scam, sentencing him to five years in prison. The verdict mentions only "unidentified persons" as Markelov's co-conspirators and does not include any reference to the Hermitage subsidiaries being stolen. But the company says Markelov was likely just a bit player and notes the $230 million has yet to be returned...