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  2. Sponsorship scandal - Wikipedia

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    Jean Chrétien — Prime Minister of Canada (1993-2003) at the time that the Sponsorship Program was established and operated. The Gomery Commission's First Phase Report, which assigned blame for the Sponsorship scandal, cast most of the indemnity for misspent public funds and fraud on Chrétien and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) staff, though it cleared Chrétien himself of direct wrongdoing.

  3. 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal

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    The 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal (also known as the Robocall scandal, Robogate, or RoboCon) is a political scandal stemming from events during the 2011 Canadian federal election. [1][2][3][4][5][6] It involved robocalls and real-person calls that originated in the Conservative Party of Canada 's campaign office in ...

  4. 809 scam - Wikipedia

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    An 809 scam is a form of phone fraud which exploits the tendency of telephone subscribers in Canada and the United States to presume that a number in the familiar North American Numbering Plan format of 1-NPA-NXX-XXXX is a domestic call at standard rates because of the absence of the 011- international prefix which normally indicates an overseas call.

  5. Scams are in the air this election season: How to spot phony ...

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    Here are a few dos and don’ts for keeping your money safe: Do use a credit card. Checks and debit cards don’t have the same scam protections. Don’t give payment info over the phone. Find the ...

  6. Anna Sorokin - Wikipedia

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    Anna Sorokin (Russian: Анна Сорокина, pronounced [ˈanːə sɐˈrokʲɪnɐ]; born January 23, 1991), also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access upper-class New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017. Born to working-class parents in the Soviet Union (now Russia), Sorokin ...

  7. MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle calls out Harris for dodging ... - AOL

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    MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle admitted that Vice President Kamala Harris didn't answer her question about how she'll be able to fund her ambitious economic proposals following an interview.

  8. Can you hear me? (alleged telephone scam) - Wikipedia

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    Reports on the purported scam are an Internet hoax, first spread on social media sites in 2017. [1] While the phone calls received by people are real, the calls are not related to scam activity. [1] According to some news reports on the hoax, victims of the purported fraud receive telephone calls from an unknown person who asks, "Can you hear me?"

  9. Former Snap design engineer on new AR glasses: 'Obviously bad'

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    Laura Bratton. September 23, 2024 at 6:52 AM. One of Snap’s (SNAP) former employees thinks its augmented reality glasses are "bad." Sterling Crispin, an engineer who worked on designing previous ...