There have now been over two dozen investigations, over the last eight years, which have found a clear pattern of blatant fraud and abuse in SBA managed programs.
According to her main investigators, such as the Polish philosopher-psychologist Julian Ochorowicz, the French physiologist Charles Richet, the British physicist Oliver Lodge and the Italian psychiatrist Enrico Morselli, Palladino's performances were a strange mixture of blatant fraud and genuine 'supernormal' phenomena.
Justice also has the power, of course, to pursue criminal investigations, which seem entirely appropriate given the evidence of blatant fraud at a number of these institutions.
The institute, which had an observer mission in Ukraine, cited "systematic intimidation, overt manipulation and blatant fraud" that were "designed to achieve a specific outcome irrespective of the will of the people".
That one was marked by violence and blatant fraud, yet still produced a record advance by the Muslim Brothers, who won a fifth of seats despite contesting only a third of them.
Phil Hall of Film Threat gave the film a negative review, saying "An Inconvenient Truth is something you rarely see in movies today: a blatant intellectual fraud".
Afghanistan's presidential election has been plunged into crisis after one candidate demanded a halt to vote counting, suspended cooperation with election authorities and called for a UN commission to mediate over cases of "blatant fraud".
So they have adopted a new message: while the vote was generally free of blatant fraud like ballot stuffing, the election itself was rigged from the beginning.
Golos, the nonprofit group that is Russia's only independent election monitoring organization, offered a similar assessment, saying that there was no repeat of the blatant fraud that occurred during the December 2011 parliamentary elections.
Historian Carolyn Baker who follows the economic crisis for her Speaking Truth to Power website believes: "History will prove that the number of people busted for this is only a drop in the bucket compared to the number involved in nationwide blatant fraud and theft which created the largest mortgage meltdown in the history of the world.
