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...motorists had damaged in collisions. The company agreed to pay a fine of $6.9 million and to make full restitution to some 100,000 victims, who overpaid at least $13.7 million from 1978 through mid-1985. According to the Government's probe, which was first disclosed in January, Hertz paid wholesale prices for auto repairs but charged customers full retail price without advising them of the markup. In other cases, Hertz prepared phony repair appraisals and charged customers for work that was never done. Hertz says it has fired 20 employees who carried out the scam, including the company...
...Panshis allegedly launched their scheme by buying three clinics that were authorized to conduct tests for Medicaid patients. They then established a network of blood collectors who combed poor neighborhoods for people willing to sell their blood for about $10 for 20 vials. The Panshi ring allegedly paid their collectors a lucrative $25 a vial, to which the suspects attached the forged signature of a physician who was supposedly requesting a test on the blood, along with the name of a legitimate Medicaid recipient. The Panshi labs would perform tests on the blood to generate legitimate-looking data...
...single mothers, he advocates the same agenda of four programs, combined with a strictly-enforced system of child assistance that would provide security for poor children and more choices for their mothers. Ellwood cites damning numbers about that lack of child support currently paid in the U.S. and suggests that absent fathers be forced to accept some responsibility--by paying around 30 percent of their income for child support--for their families...
...this man who fought for the rights of the unprotected, who himself had known poverty as a young Jewish boy growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, does matter. Just as the $20,000 fee he accepted from well-known stock manipulator Louis Wolfson or the $15,000 he was paid for a "seminar" he led at American University, all while serving on the Court, mattered to the Senate when Lyndon Baines Johnson nominated him to replace Earl Warren as chief justice...
...substantial effort had been made to exclude systematic error, including observer bias. Reported Maddox and his team: "We believe the laboratory has fostered and then cherished a delusion about the interpretation of its data." The report expressed dismay that the salaries of two of Benveniste's colleagues had been paid by a French supplier of homeopathic medicines. The Nature investigators admitted, however, that the same firm had paid their hotel bill...