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  • When Fraud Is Legal

    11/03/2013 12:02:50 PM PST · by Hojczyk · 9 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 1,2013 | JAMES TARANTO
    Suppose BHO Insurance Co. decides it wants to corner its state's market in automobile coverage. It begins an aggressive ad campaign offering a too-good-to-be-true deal: Sign up with us, and we'll give you better coverage at lower premiums. We're so sure you'll love our deal that if you like the terms of your existing policy, you'll be able to keep them--GUARANTEED! The ad campaign, with the company's charismatic president acting as pitchman, is a smashing success. The competing companies lose so much business that they declare bankruptcy or are acquired by BHO. But BHO's policies are more expensive, and they...
  • Obama to mark 9/11 anniversary at Pentagon

    09/07/2010 10:28:50 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 26 replies · 1+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Sept. 7, 2010
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama will mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs says Vice President Joe Biden will travel to New York for Saturday's anniversary. First Lady Michelle Obama will join former first lady Laura Bush in Pennsylvania for ceremonies marking the crash of United Flight 93.
  • Law Firm Is Sued Over Conduct in Liability Case

    07/10/2003 6:46:06 AM PDT · by Pharmboy · 10 replies · 227+ views
    NY Times ^ | July 10, 2003 | ADAM LIPTAK
    A Texas law firm faked evidence and tried to bribe witnesses in a products liability case, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday in San Antonio by the DaimlerChrysler Corporation. The lawsuit follows an appeals court decision last year that dismissed the products liability case and imposed sanctions of $865,000 against three of the firm's lawyers. The appeals court called the firm's conduct "an egregious example of the worst kind of abuse of the judicial system." According to the court's decision and a lawyer for DaimlerChrysler, federal prosecutors are investigating the firm. The United States attorney's office in San Antonio...