Word: william
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...telemarketing nightmare, perhaps. But if a recent federal court decision is any guide, that kind of invasion of privacy could become policy, at least according to an outraged William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Last week the FCC noisily announced that it would appeal a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, handed down in Denver, two weeks ago, that it claims gives telephone companies the right to peddle data on customers to a third party without their permission. "We tried to give consumers a meaningful cloak of privacy," said Kennard. "But what we have today is nothing more...
...With reporting by William Dowell and Julie Rawe/New York, Greg Fulton/Atlanta, Michael Krantz/Auburn, Janice Maloney/San Francisco, Elaine Marshall/Lake Tahoe, Timothy Roche/Chicago and Richard Woodbury/Jackson Hole
...verdict is in, literally. Rotund City Councillor William Walsh was convicted this week on 41 counts of fraud, which is extraordinary for Cambridge in the sense that convictions of city officials are rare; however, the careless nature of Walsh's perpetrations are nothing out of the ordinary in the annals of Cambridge government...
...possible that Harvard students could openindividual accounts and find this happening tothem," said William J. Ouchark, acting director ofthe Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services...
Cambridge City Councillor WILLIAM H. WALSH (right) became the first elected Cambridge official to be convicted of a crime since 1941. The controversial politician was found guilty in U.S. District Court last week on 41 counts of bank fraud and making false statements, but still refuses to resign his council seat. Walsh headed a scheme that defrauded the Dime Savings Bank of New York out of $2.9 million...