There was only one problem: American intelligence, which received the same reports and published them in a classified National Intelligence Estimate in October, quickly concluded that the charges were based on fraudulent documents in the case of one country, Niger, and couldn't be proved in the case of two others.
Caracas Country Club, founded in 1918 and with 8,000 well-heeled members, went on the offensive last week by claiming the expropriation threat was based on fraudulent documents.
The study which claimed to prove the weight-loss abilities of the product was retracted after it emerged it was based on fraudulent data.
Banks that received money from the relief program must also curb outsize severance packages, and pull back bonuses that were based on fraudulent or misstated results.
The judge, Lewis A. Kaplan of United States District Court in Manhattan, declined to rule on Chevron's request, saying it remained to be seen whether the judgment was based on fraudulent evidence.
"It's one thing for him to pander to people who want to believe this; it's another to run on an educational issue that is based on fraudulent claims," Mr. Kenny said of Mr. Schundler.
Mr. Pirro's conviction was based on fraudulent tax forms that she also signed, and her vow that she was kept in the dark became a credibility issue in her re-election bid in 2001, which she won narrowly.
A1 Bell Labs Accused of Fraud An investigative committee appointed by Bell Labs reported that extraordinary advances claimed by scientists at the laboratories were based on fraudulent data, including assertions last fall that the company's scientist had created molecular-scale transistors.
His work was found to be based on fraudulent data and the study retracted from the journal that published it.
The company repeatedly performed internal audits of its lending practices, and discovered multiple times that enormous proportions of the loans it was issuing were based on fraudulent documents.
