Another idea: set up fraud alerts at the major credit reporting agencies, which can prevent a crook from creating any accounts in your name.
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Nor do senior scientists, who are rarely punished for fraud, set a decent example to their juniors.
The same year the False Claims Act was amended, Phillips set up Taxpayers Against Fraud, a nonprofit group out to aid whistleblowers.
Although Spitzer backed off criminal charges against Greenberg and Smith in November 2005, the civil fraud case is set to go full speed ahead.
Although the proposal I released last week included a comprehensive set of initiatives to combat fraud, waste, and abuse, Senator Coburn had an interesting suggestion that we engage medical professionals to conduct random undercover investigations of health care providers that receive reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid, and other Federal programs.
The government has set itself tough targets for reducing fraud and error: 25% by 2004, 50% by 2006.
Eager to stamp out any shenanigans, the SEC has set up a group to investigate fraud in foreign companies with American listings.
Barrister Martin McCann assured the court that although there was a fraud, they had not set out to make financial gain in any way.
Just a few pages later we hear from Ken Lay, the CEO of Enron who died in 2006 shortly before being sentenced for securities fraud connected to the most well-known financial fraud of the decade, which set a new standard for creative criminal accounting.
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He denied the charges of computer fraud against him and his trial was set to begin this month.
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Another measure imposes checks on firms that shut within a year of being set up, which are considered likely vehicles for fraud.
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First, Mr Karzai set up his own special court to investigate electoral fraud in the September elections, an initiative which the country's two election commissions declared illegitimate.
The people who set up the failed cajas are now in prison for fraud.
We can cut fraud in the entitlement process with a better mind set and a restored patriotism.
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In 2009, HMRC set itself a target of halving the rate of tax credit fraud and error from 9% to 5% by March 2011 and diverted around 400 extra staff to help with the effort.
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New divisions have been set up to tackle modern crimes such as money-laundering and computer fraud.
The law was finally passed seven years later, implementing a new set of guidelines for bankruptcy filings and safeguards to cut down on potential fraud and abuse.
The British empire, navigated by jeweled clockwork, was set on course by collaboration--and a touch of well-timed fraud.
Helen Panagiotopoulos, a former nanny and spokeswoman for Domestic Workers United, said such cases of fraud are "an anomaly" and a result of the way the industry is set up.
Mr. Crucey worked until 2010 as a senior vice president for the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, a taxpayer-funded organization set up to revitalize distressed communities, and was an associate member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, prosecutors said.
Mr Ban has also extended the work of the Procurement Task Force, likewise set up in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal, to investigate allegations of fraud in procurement deals.
The process was set up as the company was negotiating a settlement, now being finalized, over charges of massive Medicare fraud.
Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's president-elect who is set to take office on February 25th, was cleared by a special prosecutor of involvement in a financial fraud in 2001.
Later, financials came through with a rally , just after the Federal Reserve announced that it has conceded slightly to banks and set the cap for debit card fees higher than originally proposed, at 21 cents (22 if they adopt fraud prevention policies and procedures) rather than 12 cents per transaction.
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