Speaking in a high school gym in suburban Detroit, Biden sadly recalled that it was McCain who was the victim of false ads and other such attacks during the primary season of 2000.

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He said Williams, 36, may have been the victim of a false positive when tested 16 years ago.

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Then Serrault shows up to rummage around and write a hefty check to himself (made out to a false organization) courtesy of the victim's bank account.

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Mr. Amendola said in a court filing last month that the defense had determined that the young man known as Victim 1 "may well have made false reports" to high-school authorities of an unknown adult male confronting him in the high-school bathroom, "as well as false reports he may have made" concerning an automobile accident.

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Loews unit Lorillard Tobacco alleged double-dipping in a contentious lawsuit in Ohio's Cayahoga County, in which mesothelioma victim Harry Kananian obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars from bankruptcy trusts by submitting claims with false details, such as describing himself as a shipyard worker when he merely passed through a shipyard on his way to Japan in World War II.

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Mark was an innocent victim of his father's monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo.

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"Mark was an innocent victim of his father's monstrous crime who succumbed to two years of unrelenting pressure from false accusations and innuendo, " Flumenbaum said.

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