When Williams asked for reactions to Senator Harry Reid's remark that "the war in Iraq is lost," Gravel replied, "Well, first off, understand that this war was lost the day that George Bush invaded Iraq on a fraudulent basis".
He stated that the Iraq War had the effect of creating more terrorists and that the "war was lost the day that George Bush invaded Iraq on a fraudulent basis".
The company got Radcliff arrested on fourteen felony counts, including corrupt business influence and attempted theft, based on trumped-up evidence that he had vandalized roofs as a basis for fraudulent insurance claims.
Most recently, in 1997, an appeals court unseated Xavier Suarez, who had been elected mayor of Miami, after his challenger, Joe Carollo, contested the election on the basis of fraudulent absentee ballots.
In a recent interview, Mr. Picard argued that recognizing these fraudulent transactions as the basis for actual cash losses would be to "allow the thief to pick the winners and losers".
Also, the F.D.A., after a scandal several years ago involving an antibiotic called Ketek, which the agency approved on the basis of fraudulent data and was subsequently linked to severe liver damage, has been cautious in approving new drugs, infectious disease experts say.
And nothing at all would be paid to people who had been foreclosed on the basis of fraudulent documentation, or otherwise victimized by fraud, etc., by banks and their mortgage sellers, etc., except where those real victims had had mortgages that were now "underwater".
For his part, Mr. Picard defended his methodology in an interview last month, saying that valuing cash losses on the basis of the fraudulent transactions would essentially "allow the thief to pick the winners and losers".
He also panders somewhat to the Republican right wing, by claiming there's a basis to the fraudulent charges that "death panels" will be set up to decide whether elderly people receive care, and that the Obama plan will result in rationing "that could lead to people getting different treatments".
Courts rejected the suit, he said "because we didn't have sufficient basis to prove the fraudulent concealment".
The New York Times and their papers, though, they know the election was right, but on a daily basis they call me a fraudulent president in order to pressure me and put mental pressure on me," he said.
