Scammers eye Y2K fears across the United States
AP reports criminals exploiting year 2000 anxieties with phone based telemarketing fraud, fake bank tellers, false repairmen, and dubious sales pitches. Authorities warn scams spike as the calendar flips, with risks for the elderly and new millennium hype driving risky schemes and thefts.
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New York
Herbert Stupp
New York City
Holly Anderson
National Fraud Information Center
U.S
Eric Holder
Halder
Anderson
Surge in meth use linked to local drug epidemics nationwide
A government report led by Barry McCaffrey shows methamphetamine trafficking and use rising across the Midwest Northwest, turning the national drug problem into local epidemics. The study notes hundreds of meth labs seized in Kansas Iowa Missouri and Washington state, with federal funding climbing from 25 million in 1990 to 190 million in 2000.
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Washington
Midwest
Northwest
America
Barry McCaffrey
Administration
Drug Policy Control
New York
McCaffrey
Kansas
Iowa
Missouri
David Burton
Washington State
Medicare to cover nutrition counseling for seniors
The Institute of Medicine urges Medicare to cover diet counseling when doctors recommend it, estimating a 1.4 billion dollar cost over five years. It argues diet changes can prevent common elder diseases, with 86 percent of Americans over 65 affected by hypertension, high cholesterol or diabetes. The proposal would also aid a million disabled beneficiaries.
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Washington
Medicare
Institute of Medicine
Institute
Amer
Icans
Lawrence Appel
John Hopkins University
Congress
Huang admits arranging illegal campaign donations
Former Democratic fund raiser John Huang testified before the House committee that he arranged about 1 million in illicit contributions for the Democratic Party largely to fulfill a 1992 Lippo promise to raise that amount for President Clinton. He said donors were reimbursed by Lippo and testified under immunity.
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Washington
John Huang
Democratic Party
Clinton
Huang
House Government Reform Committee
U.S
Commerce Department
Democratic National Committee
Committee
Lippo Group
Dan Burton
Indiana
Lippo
James Riady
Arkansas
Riady
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American Association of Retired People
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Reumayr
FOGER
Gannett
Teleflora Florist
Butler
Ottawa
Wysocki
Eles Semok
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GOH
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