Word: scammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each sting, 12 to 15 department agents were planted on a bus. Cameras then photographed the "jump ons," who boarded after the accident, filled out injury forms and called for ambulances. Many claimants were lured into the scam by "runners," working for doctors and lawyers. Some claimants never even bothered to enter the bus. They simply filed claims later...
...knew Harvard was going to pull that scam," Johnson said of the report. "And now Harvard's going to try to do their best to get [the guards] fired. I feel so bad for the guards right now."Crimson File PhotoAt the center of controversy: STEPHEN G. McCOMBE...
...chairman decided he'd better get a fighter," explains a Rostenkowski friend. "Bennett is a tough trial lawyer who's not going to make a deal." Rostenkowski -- a major force in reshaping President Clinton's budget -- could be indicted on charges far exceeding the 29-penny- ante stamp scam, including misuse of campaign funds. After days of stonewalling, the chairman called a press conference to deny the allegations, to put the government on notice that Bennett would not let his client simply twist in the wind and to show that Rostenkowski was going to fight...
Linked to stamps-for-cash scam by convicted House postmaster...
...Cosby is driven by his civil rights zeal. If an ambition to be America's most prominent black big shot is zeal for civil rights, then sure. But Cosby's moralist impulses are often a crank's misguided preachiness. In 1988 he joined the race-baiting Tawana Brawley scam. His NBC, according to associates, would have no place for a bad-attitude show such as The Simpsons...