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...booth was her second; the form she had signed to remove the trash was actually an absentee ballot. She was not alone. While state and federal investigators dropped their probes last month into charges of suppression of black voters in New Jersey's gubernatorial race, a voting-fraud scandal roared to life in Pennsylvania. Republicans claim that in a special election last fall to fill a vacancy in the state senate, hundreds of voters in the mostly blue-collar second district of Pennsylvania were tricked into casting absentee ballots that cost the Republicans not only the seat but control...
...allegations of widespread fraud caught the attention of such prominent Republicans as Newt Gingrich and Specter, who asked the Justice Department to investigate. The Republican National Committee put its lawyers on the case. In late November the Justice Department launched its investigation, joining the criminal probe already under way by the Pennsylvania attorney general's office...
...Fraud in student elections is so common it is hardly even a story anymore. The Business School Finance Club, the Undergraduate Council, the Harvard Republican Club and the Asian American Association all have had election scandals. In some cases, students simply admitted to rigging the elections...
...agreement with Abu Dhabi's ruler, a principal backer of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, has given new life to the global fraud investigation of the rogue bank. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan has agreed to allow B.C.C.I.'s No. 2 man, Swaleh Naqvi, to be extradited to the U.S. for trial on fraud charges, and to give prosecutors access to other former officers and to bank records. In turn, the U.S. has promised the sheik that he will not face criminal or civil charges in the U.S. and that a $1.5 billion lawsuit against him will...
Casey refused, suspecting the offer was not serious. Hale, who had been indicted for fraud in a separate case, wanted Casey to give him a plea bargain; Casey offered instead a reduction in sentence if he pleaded guilty and cooperated with the government on other matters. But Hale refused the deal and will stand trial next month. Casey eventually recused herself from both the Hale and Madison cases, but most belatedly, last November. She would have trouble claiming impartiality; she had been a law student of Bill Clinton's and a volunteer in all his campaigns. Her husband works...