Charges Of Fraud Research Articles

Malingering Pain in the Medicolegal Context

Malingering--the willful, deliberate, and fraudulent feigning or exaggeration of illness--was originally described as a means of avoiding military service. In present-day clinical practice, malingering may occur in circumstances where the person wishes to avoid legal responsibility or in situations where compensation or some other benefit might be obtained. In law, the term malingering is used in relation to persons to whom military regulations apply; in other situations, malingering is regarded as fraud and may lead to charges of perjury or criminal fraud. Assertions that an individual is malingering are particularly common in clinical settings where the complaint is of a subjective nature and is not accompanied by objectively demonstrable organic abnormalities. This may occur in relation to complaints of pain in situations where the person is entitled to receive pain-contingent compensation or is suing for damages. In this article, we will review the literature on pain and malingering and discuss attempts that have been made to develop methods and guidelines for the detection of malingered pain. There are, however, no valid clinical methods of assessment of possible malingering of pain. In our view, the ultimate issue of the veracity of the plaintiff is for the Court to decide, and epithets such as "malingerer" have no place in reports prepared for legal purposes by health care professionals.

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

The present administration of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) was elected in November 2001. The governor took office in January 2002. Between 2002 and July 2003, a great many things happened: there were three attorneys general, several members of the legislature were implicated in legal violations, and two senators were convicted on numerous charges of wire fraud. In addition, the Bank of Saipan went into receivership and four individuals were convicted of fraud involving the bank's funds. The telecommunication system of the commonwealth, presently owned and operated by Verizon, was for sale for over a year. The possibility of casino gambling to deal with a failing economy was raised again. On the other hand, diversified tourism received a boost with some imaginative innovations, including a new visitor center at the American Memorial Park, and a revitalization project for Garapan, the commonwealth's primary tourist attraction.

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Surgery 2002;132:521.

International intelligence results in computer fraud charges

International intelligence results in computer fraud charges

Allied Irish Bank — Lessons to Be Learned

AIB Group released the following statement on 5 June in response to the announcement by the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland that John Rusnak be indicted on charges of bank fraud and false entry in bank records. “AIB Group and Allfirst welcome the Grand Jury’s decision to indict former employee John Rusnak on charges of bank fraud and false entry in bank records. AIB stated at the outset that it believed it was the victim of a complex and sophisticated fraud and these charges endorse that conclusion.”

Defining and Understanding Fraud: A South African Case Study

Abstract:The detrimental impact of fraud on organisations, the economy, and society makes the fight against it imperative. The objective of this article is to show that a proper understanding of the phenomenon of fraud is required in order to be able to undermine it. Such an understanding required firstly a sufficient definition of fraud that can distinguish it clearly from the related phenomenon of corruption. Secondly, a theoretical framework for understanding and explaining fraud is needed. After providing both such a definition and a theoretical framework, the latter is then used in the analysis of interviews conducted with persons who were convicted on charges of fraud in South Africa. The findings of this analysis are thenused to suggest various avenues for fighting fraud. Among these suggestions are proposals indicating the role that ethical values can play in undermining fraud.

Kerner: the conflict of intangible rights

This first biography of Otto traces the heritage of a major figure in Illinois politics and explains his precipitous descent from public hero to public enemy. As a Cook County judge, reformed Illinois adoption procedure; as a two-term Democratic governor he promoted economic development, education, mental health services, and equal access to jobs and housing; as a federal appeals court judge he bucked the law-and-order tide and defended the rights of the accused. achieved national fame as chair of the National Commission of Civil Disorders (the Commission), which remains a milestone in America's struggle for racial harmony.An eloquent prophet of the grave consequences of racism in America's cities, articulated the commission's principal finding that 'our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white - separate and unequal'. Kerner's achievements, however, were eclipsed by his conviction on federal charges of mail fraud, bribery, perjury, and income tax evasion tied to his dealings in stock of an Illinois racetrack operator.Arguing that Kerner's incarceration related less to his misdeeds than to the zeal of federal investigators in attacking corruption in Illinois, Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman reveal how the prosecution of the popular ex-governor deepened the penetration of the federal government into state and local politics and coarsened public attitudes toward public service. This broad-based study sets Kerner's life against a background of pivotal events and issues in American politics over six decades. An absorbing biography of a prominent and arguably tragic public figure, Kerner presents a cautionary tale on the strengths and weaknesses of the American political character and the capriciousness of political acclaim and denigration.

Political Competition and Electoral Fraud: A Latin American Case Study

Legal petitions to nullify electoral results comprise a rich source for studying electoral fraud. During a fifty-year period in Costa Rica, parties submitted 120 petitions to Congress, containing more than 1,200 charges of fraud. The petitions reveal that between 1901 and 1938, more than half of such accusations took place in the country's peripheral provinces, where roughly 20 percent of voters lived. They also show that institutional changes helped to shape the nature, frequency, and magnitude of fraud. By the 1940s, the polarization of political competition was accompanied by a geographical redistribution of fraud to the central provinces of the republic, where most of the electorate resided.

Simon "Le Magicien": Actes 8,5-25 et l'accusation de magie contre les prophetes thaumaturges dans l'antiquite

Simon Le Magicien.- Actes 8,5-25 et l'accusation de magie contre les prophetes thaumaturges dans l'antiquite, by Florent Heintz. CARB 39. Paris: Gabalda, 1997. Pp. vi + 179. F 225.00 (paper). In discussing the encounter between Simon and Philip, Peter, and John recorded in Acts Morton Smith once wrote, This is a piece of Christian propaganda ... [whose] primary object is to show that the cult of Simon is inferior to that of Jesus (The Account of Simon Magus in Acts 8, in Harry Austryn Wolfson Jubilee Volume [Jerusalem: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1965] 2.735). More than thirty years later, Florent Heintz has set out to describe the nature and extent of the propaganda. Heintz presents us with a close reading of the Simon narrative (Acts 8:5-25), informed by comparisons to accusations of magic and sorcery which were well known in the Greek and Roman worlds. His analysis leads to two major conclusions. First, the author of Acts presents Simon as a magician, drawing on rhetorical conventions used by ancient writers to defame miracle workers. Second, by recognizing how this passage has been constructed, we can separate history from invention and thereby acquire valuable information concerning Simon and the early Christian mission. Heintz divides his study into five sections. In the first section, he reviews the portrayals of Simon found in early Christian writings and among modem exegetes. Heintz criticizes scholars who interpret the story of Simon through the lens of later patristic and apocryphal traditions, and rejects those interpretations which seek to understand the passage in light of Gnosticism (E. Haenchen), as depicting the defeat of satanic powers (S. Garrett), or as an apologetic strategy to deflect the charge of magic made against Christians (H. Conzelmann, S. Spencer). The second section reviews how ancient texts constructed the charge of particularly against miracle workers commonly referred to by modem scholars as divine men (theioi andres) and by Heintz as thaumaturgical. prophets. Heintz follows the lead of Alan Segal, John Gager, and others who argue that the imputation of magic, far from identifying an objective set of beliefs and actions, reflects the author's attempt to defame individuals because of doctrinal differences, personal enmity, and religious rivalries, and to justify their own negative judgments against the religion of another individual or group. His detailed study (the book's index lists more than fifty Greek and Latin authors ranging chronologically from Hippocrates and Plato to Marcus Aurelius and Plotinus) illustrates the widespread use of such accusations and isolates the rhetorical traits that characterized these charges. In the hands of a skillful writer such as Lucian of Samosata, the accusation of magic becomes an anti-aretalogy; instead of exalting the prophet known for his or her piety and power, a contrary portrait attacks the prophet's character with charges of fraud, seduction, auto-deification, and cupidity. In section 3, the longest of the book, Heintz submits his methodological approach to two test cases: Diodorus Siculus's depiction of Eunus of Apamea, leader of the second-century BCE Sicilian slave revolt, and Josephus's account of the Egyptian prophet. He shows how both writers composed their version of events using a combination of accurate information and malicious rhetoric. Employing pejorative terms (e.g., magos or terateia) and characteristics taken from the standard repertoire of invective, these accounts were meant to deny divine associations to the words and actions of a thaumaturgical prophet. In the fourth section, Heintz returns to Acts in order to demonstrate how the author has painted Simon with a brush filled with the terms and attributes commonly associated with magicians. The narrator refers to Simon as someone who has been practicing magic and has attracted a large and ignorant crowd, deceiving them into thinking that he possesses divine powers. …

Hacker trial postponed

A judge postponed for three months convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick's trial on federal fraud and theft charges. US District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer delayed the start of Mitnick's trial to 20 April from 19 January at the request of his lawyers, who said that they needed more time to prepare. Mitnick is accused in 25 criminal counts of stealing proprietary information from Motorola, Nokia, Novell, Sun Microsystems and other companies by hacking into their computers. The charges against him include 14 counts of wire fraud, eight counts of illegal possession of computer files and passwords, and one count each of unauthorized access to a federal computer, damaging a computer and unlawfully intercepting electronic communications.

Nancy, Sean and Birdie Jo: Contested convictions of gender

In the first two months of 1996, three people were convicted in criminal courts in the United States. Two of the cases concerned charges of sexual abuse of children and young people and the third case invoked charges of fraud. All three cases involved defendants who were transgendered, transsexual, or otherwise gender‐different’. What was interesting about these cases was the way in which the gender identities of these people were openly contested, not just within the courtroom, but also within the media coverage. This article explores the intersections between contemporary meanings of ‘gender’ and constructions of ‘deviance’ with reference to these cases. It is suggested that the reaction of the media to these cases is a reaction to multiple transgressions or contestations of gender norms. Not only is there transgression between the identity categories ‘male I masculine’ and female/feminine’, but there is transgression between the identity categories ‘adolescent’ and ‘adult’. In fact, the gender matrix is incomplete if the categories child/youth/adult are disregarded or excluded.

SUICIDE IN CUSTODY

Remanded in custody on charges of fraud and failure to answer to bail, Martin Lynch, 29 years old, was placed in a very bare cell at Kentish Town Police Station just before one o'clock on 23 March 1990. The doctor called by the police, who knew that he was a suicide risk and had consequently removed his belt, thought him quite sane. At 1.57 p.m. the police checked his well-being, but on the next visit only eight minutes later he was found irremediably unconscious: he had hanged himself by threading his shirt through the hatch in the door and the much smaller spy-hole above it. This was possible only because the glass lens was missing from the spy-hole and the flap of the hatch had been left open, contrary to standing orders.

Empirical Equivalence and Approximative Methods in the New Astronomy: A Defence of Kepler against the Charge of Fraud

L'erreur de calcul relative a la distance de la planete Mars au soleil etablie par Kepler est en fait due a des methodes de calculs approximatives dans lesquelles Kepler n'a pas tenu compte de la forme elliptique de la planete

The Importance of Appropriate Admission and Recertification of Patients to Hospice

Hospice programs are under increased scrutiny by external regulatory enforcers today. Questions surrounding appropriate admission and recertification of patients to the Hospice Medicare Benefit have raised major concerns regarding patient care delivery, payment of services, and charges of fraud and abuse. To remain viable, hospices must have a thorough knowledge of current legislation, state and federal hospice eligibility and coverage criteria, and internal utilization patterns. Operation Restore Trust and Kennedy-Kassebaum legislation are two products of health care reform that hospices must understand to realize the repercussion of inappropriate admission and recertification of patients to a hospice benefit. The hospice teams' knowledge of eligibility and coverage requirements, National Hospice Organization (NHO) Guidelines for Determining Prognosis in Selected Non- Cancer Diseases, and the correlation between documentation and denial are critical for a successful hospice program today.

What to do about fraud charges in science; or, will the Burt affair ever end?

Shortly after the death, in 1971, of Cyril Burt, a prominent British psychologist, the authenticity of his accounts of intelligence test results from the largest report sample of MZA's (monozygotic twins reared apart) was challenged. Charges of fraud by Burt's critics and countercharges by his supporters started an acrimonious battle of words in journals, books, and the mass media that seesawed over the decades. It is still not resolved. The problematic ways in which the scientific community and its major organizations and journal editors have dealt or failed to deal with the problem are discussed.

University ‘failed to acknowledge exoneration’

[MUNICH]A former professor of developmental biology at the University of Geneva, exonerated of earlier fraud charges, has complained that the university refuses to acknowledge his exoneration.

Federal court orders NLRB to investigate charges of election fraud

Federal court orders NLRB to investigate charges of election fraud

German university withdraws doctorate after fraud charge

German university withdraws doctorate after fraud charge

Cultural Change in Ethical Redemption: A Corporate Case Study

Imbedded within a larger culture of defense contracting and an organizationalculture that rewarded the blurring of ethical boundaries, Sundstrand Corporation found itself in a crisis situation: facing federal charges of fraud, fallingcompany stock prices, a lawsuit initiated by stockholders, and a serious threatof debarment. This study describes the transformation that occurred at Sundstrand which moved it from a culture of crisis to an organizational culture moreethical, more communicative, more financially healthy, and with a"rehabilitated" image.

NATIONAL MEDICAL AGREES TO SETTLEMENT OF FRAUD CHARGES TOTALING $380 MILLION

"National Medical Enterprises, Inc detailed a broad settlement of fraud charges with the United States and 28 states involving payments of a record $380 million and federal guilty pleas on eight criminal counts by two of its units." "The settlement total is more than three times the previous largest health-care-fraud payment, $111.4 million by National Health Laboratories, Inc in 1992. It is higher even than the nearly $300 million the government has recovered from ten defense contractors in its Ill Wind probe, the huge Pentagon fraud investigation that ended early this year."