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Employee terminated after obtaining Red Cross assistance under ?false pretenses?
Employee terminated after obtaining Red Cross assistance under ?false pretenses?Matter of Christopher Mapp v Burnham, 8 N...

Malaysian Police Investigate Reporter's Activities In Attending Mass Under False Pretenses
In Malaysia, where causing religious disharmony can be prosecuted as a crime, police are investigating two Muslim men who attended a Roman Catholic mass as part of an investigative article published in the Malay-language Al-Islam magazine...

Duo Facing Theft By False Pretenses Charge Accused Of Leasing Vacant Homes In Some Stage Of Foreclosure To Unwitting Tenants, Pocketing Deposits, Rent
In Barstow, California, the Desert Dispatch reports:Barstow Police have arrested two people in connection with recent housing fraud involving foreclosed or pre-forclosure homes that were rented out to unsuspecting tenants...

CI charged with perjury for false information leading to false search warrant
Informant lies to NYPD, innocents get searched, and the informant gets charged with perjury. See WABC TV news, which takes credit for this investigation, posted July 17: Informant arrested after misguided raids: "Sometimes, however, you will get a situation where the police may act too quickly, where there's no immediate urgency to go into an apartment, and, in fact, the police may have the time to verify the information that's given to them by the informant," explained Robert Silbering, a former special narcotics prosecutor in New York City...

"Polluting Medical Judgment? False Assumptions in the Pursuit of False Claims Regarding Off-Label Prescribing"
Sandra Johnson (Saint Louis University) in the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology:Over half of the FDA-approved prescription medications taken by patients are prescribed for a different purpose, in a higher or lower dose, for a discrete population, or...

When Are A Rape Victim's Prior False Allegations "False Enough"?
When is a prior false allegation of rape by a rape victim really "false enough" to have it admitted at your trial when you are accused of a sexual offense? When an accused is facing allegations of rape or molestation or any related crime and the defendant or his family tells you that the alleged victim has a "history" of bringing false allegations of rape or sexual assault in the past what do you need to do as a competent criminal defense attorney to be able to get that information before the jury? A recent decision by the Court of Appeals on June 17, 2008 would indicate that you have to do a "whole lot" before that prior "false allegation" will be admitted at the trial...

Did I harass someone?
Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...

How can I prove my wife only married me to get a green card?
The problem with an annulment is that they are hard to get-- they are not someth...

Can I return an entire lot of merchandise is some of the items were not as advertised?
Since they were specified as leather, you do have a case - however, your best fi...

I had an account with GEMB/Select Comfort to buy a new bed back in 2005. After paying it off (in 2006), I requested they close the account. In January of 2008, I declared bankruptcy (chapter 7). The creditor was NOT list
if you did pay it off before the bankruptcy and it wasn't listed as a accou...

Some elses debt is being reported by a bank to the crecit agencies. They know and have ackowledged it is not mine, yet it is still being listed as mine. it was my son's and no I didn't co-sign. It is adversly
It is easy for the bank and the credit reporting agencies to clear this confusio...