Word: fraud
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Gone were the nutritious, high-policy debate-club encounters of recent weeks: Wednesday night's match was petty and bitter, as Bradley all but called Gore a liar and Gore all but called Bradley a whiner and a fraud, while both insisted none of this constituted a "negative attack." Of the two, Bradley was playing for higher stakes: he was the one with the most ground to make up after Iowa, and he was the one who risked looking just like any other desperate politician. Except that he doesn't have the halo of the greatest economy ever shimmering above...
Lauersen is being charged with insurance fraud. Prosecutors say he gave couples infertility treatments, like in vitro fertilization, generally not covered by health insurance, and submitted claim forms saying he was treating insured conditions like ovarian cysts. His case is attracting widespread attention both because it is highly unusual for such a prominent doctor to be charged with fraud and because of the impact a conviction could have on the medical profession...
...medical establishment may wink at false claims, but the insurance industry is less amused: it says about 10% of all money spent on health care last year, or $100 billion, was lost to fraud. The cost gets passed on to other consumers, the industry says, in higher premiums. The end result of the false claims submitted by some financially strapped people, says Kathleen Fyffe of the Health Insurance Association of America, is that other financially strapped people cannot afford insurance...
...ballots of more than a dozen upstate districts that left him off. At the same time Steve Forbes, who placed second in Iowa, has sued the Bush campaign in an attempt to get it kicked off the ballot in six congressional districts in New York city by alleging fraud and manipulation of the system...
CHARGED. YUN SOO OH PARK, 50, a.k.a. "Tokyo Joe," with fraud; by the Securities and Exchange Commission; in New York City. Park charged online subscribers for stock advice, then traded ahead of his picks, making "substantial profits," said...