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  2. California Victim Compensation Board - Wikipedia

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    The Merit Award Program was transferred away from the Board of Control to the Department of General Services in 1976. In 1965, the Board was given the responsibility of administering the state's new "Good Samaritan" law (also known as "Indemnification of Private Citizens"), which provided compensation for citizens who suffered damages while ...

  3. Fake news websites in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In December Facebook and Twitter disabled a global network of 900 pages, groups and accounts sending pro-Trump messages. The fake news accounts managed to avoid detection as being inauthentic, and they used photos generated with the aid of artificial intelligence. The campaign was based in the U.S. and Vietnam.

  4. Pain-relief cream concoction, part of a $25M scam ... - AOL

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    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Southern California doctors were bribed to prescribe a pain-relief concoction as part of a $25 million workers' compensation scam that inadvertently caused a baby's death ...

  5. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...

  6. Tania Head: One of the biggest frauds in history pretended to ...

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    Photos of Tania Head and newspaper articles: Head's personal stories of surviving on the 78th floor of the south tower, encountering a dying man who gave her an inscribed wedding ring that she ...

  7. When will California state employees see pay raises? Here’s ...

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    The State Controller’s Office typically issues “personnel letters” to communicate larger changes, and CalHR issues its own instructions to departments through “pay letters.”

  8. Vanity award - Wikipedia

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    A vanity award [1] is an award in which the recipient purchases the award to give the false appearance of a legitimate honor and achievement. [2] [3] [4] In some countries, those conferring awards may seek "sponsorship fees," "dinner fees," charity donations, and other financial "contributions" to avoid the perception that the award has not been "bought."

  9. ESPN apologizes for fake name scam that led to Emmy statues ...

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    The Emmy scam was first revealed by The Athletic, which reported that ESPN personalities like Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso and Desmond Howard on “College GameDay” were given awards they were not ...