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...there's another side to Null--a side that was first seen 20 years ago, when he was a contributing writer for Penthouse. One of Null's earliest stories was a blistering investigative piece called "The Great Cancer Fraud," in which he and a co-author accused the medical community of suppressing alternative cancer treatments in order to generate income for itself and the drug industry. Null's language was incendiary--condemning "the medical establishment's solid-gold cancer train"--but the magazine nonetheless ran the piece...
CHARGED. GARY DALE HOKE, 25, employee of PairGain Technologies; with securities fraud; in Raleigh, N.C. Hoke is accused of creating a fake Bloomberg news-service report on the Internet that claimed that PairGain would be acquired for twice its price. The notice briefly caused the firm's stock to increase...
...VIRGINIA Citing mental pain and anguish, Paula Johnson has hit the University of Virginia hospital with a $31 million lawsuit. Johnson, the mother of a baby switched at birth, accuses hospital staff of negligence and fraud...
MAILSAFE Under new postal regulations intended to stamp out mail fraud, anonymity will disappear for anyone who rents a private mailbox from a store like Mailboxes Etc. A photo ID will be required to set up a private mailbox, and a special identifier, called a PMB number, must be part of the address. The U.S. Postal Service is hoping that consumers will be more alert to rip-offs by phony charities or fly-by-night operators that don't have a real street address...
...Investigative reporting: The Miami Herald, for exposing voter fraud in the Miami mayoral election...