A citizen's call to the state police in Prospect recently foiled a scam that had an unidentified man falsely collecting money for a young girl he said was a victim of Hurricane Katrina.
On Oct. 14, 1936, The Times reported that a man had been arrested for falsely collecting $60,000 in disability insurance payments by pretending that "he had been stricken with a form of paralysis known as Parkinson's disease".
Blood pressures can be falsely elevated if collected immediately after a patient enters the clinic, after smoking tobacco or if the blood pressure cuff is too small.
PAGE A19 L.I.R.R. SCANDAL WIDENS The government said it planned to charge 10 more people in a fraud scheme involving hundreds of Long Island Rail Road workers who collected extra benefits each year after falsely claiming to have disabling injuries while retiring to lives of vigorous activity, like golf, tennis and biking.
A prosecutor said on Friday that about 10 more people would be charged in what the government has called a huge fraud scheme involving hundreds of Long Island Rail Road workers, some of whom collected extra benefits each year after falsely claiming to have disabling injuries while retiring to lives of vigorous activity, including golf, tennis, aerobics and biking.
In 35 % of the cases collected, shippers or customs brokers attempted to falsely declare or fudge the product's tax code to reduce or avoid the corresponding taxes.
The three samples that were falsely classified as negative by the IPX were all collected day 0 post partum, i.e. before intake of colostrum.
Lady Redesdale once pointed out that Nancy's letters "usually contain a skillfully hidden dagger pointed straight at one's heart," but, when compared with Decca's, the letters collected in "Love from Nancy" (1993) come across as grating little performances, falsely shrewd and oddly fluttering, self-congratulatory even when self-critical.
80 To avoid falsely low results, ACTH levels should be measured on multiple occasions, and samples should be collected in prechilled ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid tubes, transported in an ice bath, and processed immediately. 1 Values <5 pg/mL (1.1 pmol/L) suggest ACTH-independent Cushing's syndrome.
In addition, unless blood samples for glucose measurement are routinely collected into tubes with a glycolysis inhibitor, the measured blood glucose level may be falsely lowered in patients with high white cell counts (23), precisely the patients at high risk for adverse outcomes.
