According to prosecutors, the two obtained a phony Georgetown seal from a Web-based business, rubberstamp.com, and created a fake diploma to match the misstatements on her application, including one that she had earned an undergraduate degree from Georgetown, a falsehood.
H.P.'s directors said that Mr. Hurd had violated the company's code of conduct with misstatements on expense reports.
H.P.'s directors said that Mr. Hurd had violated the company's code of conduct with misstatements on expense reports connected to Mr. Hurd's meetings with Ms. Fisher.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that Egan-Jones, the upstart credit ratings firm run by Sean Egan, was barred for 18 months from issuing certain government-recognized ratings after the firm made misstatements on an application with the government.
But Mr. Cain's failure to effectively address the harassment accusations, coupled with his "confusing and incomplete defense of the 9-9-9 plan to his continued misstatements on abortion and foreign policy," reflected poorly on his ability to solve the nation's problems, Mr. Bise said.
But an interesting question unfolding is whether there is a tipping point at which a candidate becomes so associated with falsehoods that it becomes part of his public persona — which hampered Vice President Al Gore during his run for president in 2000, when his misstatements on the campaign trail were used to stoke the perception that he could not be trusted in general.
Climate Miscommunication | The Union of Concerned Scientists, demonstrated a welcome nonpartisan approach to tracking misstatements on human-driven global warming with "Al Gore, Climate Science, and the Responsibility for Careful Communication," its post on unhelpful hurricane hype from former Vice President Al Gore.
While Fannie and Freddie can point to a borrower's misstatements on a loan application as reason for a buyback, the banks often counter these requests with arguments that some borrowers are defaulting because they have lost their jobs or suffered other woes — not because they originally lied on their loan applications about their income and finances.
