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The matter arose with Peter Braunstein, the fired Women's Wear Daily reporter who went whacko and, while disguised as a fireman, set a fake fire, broke in on and sexually abused a young woman and then, when caught, claimed fashion and fashion editors and particularly, Anna Wintour of Vogue were to blame.
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More recently, in 2015, Labour MP Sarah Champion was also caught claiming £17 for a poppy wreath.
Erring MPs cannot escape punishment by offering grovelling apologies and repaying the unjustified expenses they were caught claiming: that would be like letting off a shoplifter who volunteered to return the dress she swiped from Harrods.
The prime minister moved with uncharacteristic speed against Elliot Morley, removing the whip from the former minister after he was caught claiming compensation for a mortgage that did not exist.
D'Agata is well aware of this and is careful not to cross any lines that would make him look silly; he's never, for example, going to be caught claiming that Jayson Blair deserved our admiration because he was actually writing poetry.
Google is in hot water after its lawyers were caught claiming that Gmail users have "no reasonable" expectations of privacy.
However, IRS auditors closely scrutinize deductions for overnight travel and many taxpayers get caught claiming these deductions without proper records to back them up.
This time he was caught, claiming that God had told him to "put the Twin Peaks restaurant back together".
Some corrupt doctors have even been caught claiming from medical insurance organisations more than once for a particular service rendered to a patient.
When caught, they claimed they were en route to a race competition in King's Lynn.
Once caught, he claimed to have been taking orders from a demon in possession of his neighbor's dog, Harvey.
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