Inflating the size of a crowd to one million is the same offense, whether perpetrated about Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally (Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota) or a Million Man March (Louis Farrakhan).
Among the scams he allegedly perpetrated is selling the same Monet–"Resting in the Garden at Argenteuil"–to three different buyers.
Since 2004, per a New York Times report at the end of last year, the United States has been responsible for upwards of 400 drone bombings in Pakistan alone, not to mention those perpetrated in Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan over the same period.
Some have blamed the talks as the reason for the assassinations, either perpetrated by PKK members unhappy with the resumption or possibly by the Turkish state for the same reason.
During the civil war, the White Army and the Red Guards both perpetrated acts of terror, called the Red terror and White terror.
And David Starr, chief information officer of the Reader's Digest Association, calls hype over the millennium-bug problem "the biggest fraud perpetrated by consultants on the business community since re-engineering".
We mean who might have been complicit in some of the unspeakable excesses perpetrated by the Adolf Hitler regime, like death camps.
But the bombings of the Boston Marathon, allegedly perpetrated by two Chechen brothers, Dzokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, are something altogether new.
It included murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, persecution and inhumane acts committed against civilian populations, "whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated".
