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Melissa Monahan, a spokeswoman contracted by Hillel to handle press inquiries about the fraud, confirmed that the organization cited in the Attorney General's release referred to Harvard Hillel. She said that there was "no delay in [Hillel's] taking the appropriate course of action" upon discovery of the irregularities, and that Hillel immediately hired legal counsel to explore possible responses. Lawyers had advised Hillel not to make the discoveries known to the public until now in order to avoid compromising the Attorney General's investigation, she said...
Pierre said that the Attorney General's Office was notified of the fraud by Hillel in Oct. 2008 and began its investigation that month. According to the press release, investigators uncovered a second fraud scheme in which O'Brien allegedly wrote and deposited checks from the organization into another account he had created, money that he then used for personal expenses such as tickets for trips and sporting events...
...tried to rehabilitate his reputation, as a do-gooder striving to save the globe's poorer nations as head of the World Bank. But Robert McNamara, who died early Monday morning in his sleep at home at the age of 93 (his wife Diana told the Associated Press he had been in failing health for some time), will always be best known for his role as the architect of Washington's failed Vietnam policy in the 1960s...
...Kozhevnikova, the spike in hate crimes toward black people living in Russia at the end of last year - including one incident in December in the southern province of Volgograd where a black student from Rhode Island survived a brutal stabbing - was related to the attention that the Russian press was giving Obama's election race. But Kozhevnikova adds that since Obama took office in January, racially motivated crimes against black people in Russia have dipped to pre-election levels. "Racism in Russia has always been widespread and will always be a problem," she says. "But I don't think...
Chinese authorities announced today that some 140 people were killed and more than 800 wounded in protests that roiled Urumqi, the capital of China's far western Xinjiang province, on July 5. According to the official news agency Xinhua, Urumqi police chief Liu Yaohua told a press conference that the number of dead was still rising and that there had been extensive damage to property...