Posts Tagged ‘frauds and swindling’
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
The Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office dropped plans to retry nearly 50 juveniles whose cases were originally heard by a judge charged in a corruption scandal.
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National Briefing | Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania: Cases Dropped
Tags: africa, cases-were, district-attorney, frauds and swindling, holding-the-trial, howard, judge-charged, luzerne, luzerne-county, mohammed, khalid shaikh, originally-heard
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Employee fraud involving gift cards appears to be growing as retailers struggle to contain overall theft.
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Shoplifters? Studies Say Keep an Eye on Workers
Tags: daughter, fraud-involving, frauds and swindling, gift cards, her-daughter, her-former, robberies and thefts, same-sex-union, shoplifting, vermont
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Senate Democrats and Republicans said they had broken an impasse over the seemingly simple question of how and when to vote on the first amendments to a sweeping health care bill.
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Senate Breaks Health Stalemate; First Votes Today
Tags: changed-enough, conditions-had, consent-decree, debating, frauds and swindling, impasse-over, minorities, seemingly, senate-democrats, voting and voters
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
A judge ruled that the Republicans failed to show that conditions had changed enough to justify changing a consent decree on “ballot security” programs.
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U.S. Judge Opposes Republicans on Elections
Tags: ballot-security, changed-enough, conditions-had, consent-decree, frauds and swindling, judge-ruled, minorities, voting and voters
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Scott Rothstein is accused of conspiracy to commit money laundering in a scheme that involved selling legal settlements.
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Florida Lawyer Is Charged in Fraud Case
Tags: baltimore (md), commit-money, conviction-on-tuesday, embezzlement, frauds and swindling, involved-selling, may-force, mayor-sheila, rothstein, scott, scott-rothstein, tuesday
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
The government filed court papers seeking luxurious possessions of a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., lawyer accused of running a $1 billion Ponzi scheme.
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U.S. Moves to Confiscate a Fortune in Ponzi Case
Tags: court-papers, fort lauderdale (fla), frauds and swindling, government-filed, lauderdale, lawyer-accused, ponzi, ponzi schemes, rothstein, scott, seeking-luxurious
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
President Obama returned from Asia facing two polls showing an approval rating below 50 percent for the first time.
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On Politics: An Unsurprising Slide for Obama
Tags: approval-rating, court-papers, facing-two, fort lauderdale (fla), frauds and swindling, government-filed, obama, obama, barack, polls and public opinion, ponzi, president-obama, rothstein, scott
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
A report released by Republicans in Congress said that a school chancellor in Washington intervened on behalf of her fiancé, who was under investigation by AmeriCorps.
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G.O.P. Report Connects Official to Fiancé’s Case
Tags: americorps, ethics, fianc, frauds and swindling, illinois, politics and government, senate, senator, under-investigation
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
A compromise measure that would expand a popular $8,000 tax credit for homebuyers may pass Wednesday.
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Congress Poised to Keep Homebuyers’ Tax Credit
Tags: frauds and swindling, homebuyers-may, house of representatives, housing and real estate, senate, tax credits, unemployment insurance, united states economy
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Investigators are reporting that the Medicare program largely failed to give antifraud contractors much of the information they needed to do their work.
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Report Criticizes Medicare Role in Fraud Investigations
Tags: decisions and verdicts, drug abuse and traffic, drugs (pharmaceuticals), frauds and swindling, give-antifraud, medicaid, smuggler-over, smuggling, suspected-marijuana, the-information, united-states
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