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...same meeting, however, the A.B.A. balked at adopting a companion proposal that would have allowed disclosure of client secrets when the risk of harm is only financial. Under the rejected rule, a lawyer would have been able, for example, to rat on a client who was committing fraud. The measure's critics argued that it would make the loophole too large and would too often put lawyers at odds with their clients. It could also, they warned, harm a client's legal representation by leading the client to hide significant facts from his attorney...
That incident, along with complaints by Levang and other residents' families, prompted Minnesota attorney general Mike Hatch to sue Alterra for consumer fraud. The suit was settled, with Alterra agreeing to pay for an outside monitor. The center hired more staff, including a housekeeper, and modified its brochure, replacing the phrase "professionally trained" staff with "trained" staff. But for many of its other Minnesota facilities, Alterra insists having staff provide "holistic" care is effective...
...Investors and have DOPI look into the methods and motivations of those who eagerly plunked down their savings for the likes of VA Linux and iVillage. I'm confident that the inquiry would produce damning evidence of investors' blatant greed, deceit, blind lust for wealth, sorry ethics and outright fraud. In other words, they were no better behaved than the analysts and bankers...
...successful political life, lived in the moment, in the arena, demands a certain amount of fraud, or to put it kindly, demands political artifice - adrenaline, ego, smiles, bared canines, plumage display. Franklin Roosevelt was one of the great presidential artificers. Clinton...
...Shanmugavela, who died last year in a traffic accident, many of his neighbors on the estate say he was a fraud who faked the trances he fell into. "People here avoided him," says 63-year-old Thenavai, grimacing through teeth stained black by years of chewing betel nut. "We all knew about his character. But outsiders believed he could cure them and give them winning four-digit numbers...