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A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries gave examples of policy definitions. In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention[al] negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist", and in Sweden as "intention[al] distortion of the ...
Grant, along with his sons, invested $200,000 of capital to the firm (Grant & Ward), and the financial operations were left entirely to Ward. After a number of bad investments erased the Grants' initial stake, Ward hid the loss by falsifying the firm's ledgers, and turned to a Ponzi scheme to attract new money and heighten the firm's reputation.
Theft or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds (sometimes referred to as program fraud or program bribery) is a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 666. The purpose of this statute is protect the integrity of the vast sums of money distributed through federal programs. The section is designed to facilitate the prosecution of persons ...
Oct. 16—Former state Sen. Andy Sanborn, the owner of Concord Casino, was arrested Wednesday and charged with misrepresenting the gross receipts of the business to receive nearly $189,000 in ...
Gerson stated, "The two-thirds figure applies to one element of one country's grant – the single most extreme example in the world. Investigations are ongoing, but the $34 million in fraud that has been exposed represents about three-tenths of 1 percent of the money the fund has distributed.
Whiskey Ring was a massive corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's (R) administration involving whiskey taxes, bribery and kickbacks ending with 110 convictions. (1875) [45] Orville E. Babcock (R), a personal secretary to Grant, was indicted in the Whiskey Ring scandal and ten days later in the Safe Burglary Conspiracy. He was acquitted both times.
The federal government required the state of Mississippi to match what it spent of the grant with its own funds and stipulated that the state needed to document impoverished families who received direct cash assistance. It did not have strict reporting standards for how the state chose to use the grant otherwise.
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