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...During the campaign Lee described Chee as a cheat, liar and fraud backed by "foreign manipulators." But it was Chee who was threatened with a lawsuit, after he alleged on Oct. 28 that Goh and Lee had secretly lent $10.6 billion to former Indonesian President Suharto. That charge implied that the Prime Minister and Senior Minister were "dishonest and unfit for office," lawyers representing Goh and Lee said, according to local newspapers. Chee backed down almost immediately and issued two statements of apology, which were deemed "insincere" and "half-hearted" by senior ruling party officials. A third apology read...
...Crimson editorial from Feb. 1999 expressed the outrage a portion of the student body felt. “Expulsion and dismissal are both rare events at the College, with expulsion used mostly for admissions fraud cases and dismissal having been approved only 12 times in the last 40 years. Students who commit rape, a violent crime, should be included in those rare incidences of expulsion. If not this, what does it take to get kicked out of here?” The Crimson wrote...
...Sept. 12, folks ranging from Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, to Nancy Anthony, executive director of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation, urged all agencies participating in the relief effort to coordinate their work using a simple computer database. Spitzer said the database would help eliminate fraud; Anthony, who oversaw the Oklahoma City bombing relief effort, noted that "a database deals with the potential fraud issue, but it also allows someone to go in and say, 'Who hasn't been served yet?' People are very different in their responses to tragedy. Some reach out immediately for assistance, others...
...Cincinnati, Ohio, defense attorney Martin Pinales says he's going slow on a fraud case because, in these anthrax days, the postal-inspector witnesses against his client may have extra credibility. The halo effect may even reach to cases in which police are defendants. Robert Jorg is on trial in Cincinnati for the choke-hold death of a 29-year-old black man. The case is proceeding as planned, but prosecutor Mike Allen is worried his chances of winning may have declined. "It's always hard to win a conviction against a police officer," he says. "It's going...
...Vision Thing: "Every device will be connected to the Internet for servicing, for delivering inventories to vending machines, for control of fraud and for home control. This will be a huge business...