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The article comments on the Bill Daley, Secretary of Commerce in the U.S. Bill Daley's career began with a forgery and a fix involving his state license to sell insurance. State insurance examiner Robert Wills was convicted of perjury in 1974 for having lied to a grand jury when he denied altering young Bill's answers to the test for the license. Testimony at Wills's trial revealed that he had forged Bill's test answers at the behest of State Senate minority leader Cecil Partee, a Cook County Democratic machine stalwart.

The article discusses the influx of foreign baseball players in the U.S. from Venezuela, Japan and Cuba. Topics discussed include success of Cuban baseball players Liván Hernández and Rey Ordóñez, status of Cuban baseball players in the baseball matches hosted by the organization Major League Baseball, and several threats like ransoms, death and forgery faced by Cuban baseball players in the U.S.

Profiles African American celebrity lawyer Angela Wallace. Allegations of forgery and theft against Wallace; Career background; Remarks on her reputation as a lawyer; Details of her alleged involvement in the Byrdsong murder; Arguments presented by lawyer Milton Grimes during her trial.

Reports on the controversy arising from the sale of forged paintings in New York City, after the arrest of art dealer Ely Sakhai. Circumstances leading to the discovery of a forged painting by Paul Gauguin; Forged art works that government investigators traced back to Sakhai; Sakhai's scheme in selling forged paintings.

In international contract arbitration matter, Third Circuit rules that U.S. defendant's unheeded jurisdictional objections to Chinese arbitration proceedings based on claim that someone had forged contracts with arbitration clauses showed that district court had failed to carry out its independent duty to make factual findings on defendant's jurisdictional claims [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on forgeries found by curator Nicholas Turner in the J. Paul Getty Museum in California. How he identified the drawings as forgeries; Description of the forged drawings; Traces of titanium oxides in the drawings, which were not manufactured until after the drawings were supposedly created; Problems between Turner and the museum; Speculation that Eric Hebborn, a known forger, drew the forgeries.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sparked new fears of terrorism over the New Year's holiday with an unusual, but vague, dragnet notice seeking the whereabouts of five suspicious individuals who allegedly entered the U.S. illegally. Officials said there were several additional people who might have used false documents to enter the country around Christmas Eve. President George W. Bush said that he personally authorized the public appeal, although there was no concrete link to terrorism. According to intelligence sources, the information came from a forgery suspect arrested in Canada.

The article provides information the illicit practice of counterfeiting or altering currency. Topics covered include the findings of studies of chemical makeup of buried silver hoards, how criminals changed the process of altering currency by turning to clipping, a process of cutting a small amount of coin off, and the amount of counterfeit U.S. dollar notes estimated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

In this article the author discusses why individuals believe in conspiracy theories, such as U.S. president Barack Obama's creation of a fake birth certificate to hide his true identity as a foreigner. Empirical research on the factors influencing conspiratorial thinking presented in the 2014 book "American Conspiracy Theories" by political scientists Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, including education level, group identity, and occupational status, is discussed at length.

This article focuses on the efforts made by U.S. authorities to minimize and eliminate the presence of counterfeit goods in the country. Drugs and shampoos, the brake linings in cars, the bolts on airliners, the liquor in the cabinet, sunglasses: none have been immune from illegal copying. In 1979, fake fungicide allowed a coffee-tree disease to run wild in the plantations of Kenya. In 1985, fake Ovulen-21 birth-control pills brought no telling how many unplanned babies. It would probably take less time to list what products have not been counterfeited than to list what have. Counterfeiters exploit the latest technological leaps to make their fakes cheaper and more believable. Three lines of defense protect the U.S.: U.S. Customs, the legal system and new technologies that can help separate genuine from junk. A new trademark law promises to hit counterfeiters with sudden raids, jail sentences and heavy fines. But another law is not enough: it is difficult and expensive to enforce trademark and copyright laws against counterfeiters that the legal system has come to depend on assistance from the trademark owners and their hired help. In the past few years, courts have appointed lawyers as temporary U.S. Marshals and temporary government prosecutors. The U.S. is not acting alone. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the United Nations agency that promotes world commerce, is considering an anticounterfeiting code, and the international Customs Cooperation Council is encouraging stricter sanctions against bogus products.

The article discusses the results of the author's investigation on the real story behind the photographed diary of Robert W. Grow, the former specialist of the U.S. in Russia. Accordingly, Grow was awaiting court-martial due to the accusation of being an advocate of an all-out war against Russia as manifested in his diary. The investigation found that quotations found in the diary that were allegedly cited by Soviet propagandists about Grow as a fire-eating militarist were all forgeries.

Several excerpts from articles published 50, 100, and 150 years ago as of January 2013 are presented, including articles about space research co-operation between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), discovery of the "Piltdown Man" hominid fossil, and the solar spectrum.

The article discusses counterfeit money in the U.S. and how scientists have designed a $100 bill they believe to be unforgeable. The author states that inexpensive scanners and printers have made bills easier to duplicate. The newly designed $100 bills will include scattered microprinting over other copy-proof features like watermarks and intaglio-printed designs. Security threads for the bill will feature 650,000 tiny glass domes stuffed into a strip millimeters wide. INSET: ANTI-COUNTERFEITING AROUND THE WORLD.

This week, the American government unveiled a new $20 bill. Designed to stay one step ahead of counterfeiters, its most notable feature is its color: the stately green and black of the old bills has been joined by sprightly peach and blue. Alone, this might pose little deterrent to America's digital forgers. Armed with PCs, scanners and laser printers, they account for roughly 40% of all counterfeit currency confiscated in America. Other features, however, will make copying far more difficult than it was: the new bill has enhanced security devices--including a watermark, security thread and special inks. Thomas Ferguson, director of the Treasury's bureau of engraving and printing, says that keeping counterfeits at bay has as much to do with strict law enforcement and public co-operation as it does with high technology. Where once counterfeits were cheap and shoddy imitations of the real thing, today their packaging and contents (especially for digital products such as software, music CDs and film DVDs) often render them almost indistinguishable from the genuine article. Most of China's counterfeit bounty stays inside the country, but rising quantities are now destined for foreign markets--as recent customs seizures in America show. The World Health Organization reckons that 5-7% of pharmaceuticals worldwide may be counterfeit--with too few active ingredients, too many contaminants, fake labels or recycled packaging that covers up expiry dates.

This article provides advice on fraud prevention from Frank Abagnale, who lived as a confidence man in the 1960s and has worked with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to combat embezzlement and forgery since his release from prison in 1974. Abagnale discusses the risks associated with writing checks and the importance of reconciling monthly bank statements.

The article discusses the use of holograms as security for driver's licenses and credit cards. While hologram security was once touted as infallible, in 2007 spoofing technology has advanced to the point that holograms have become basically useless as a security measure. The United States Secret Service has recognized the problem of counterfeit holograms, but can do little to prosecute counterfeiters because most of the forgeries come from overseas in countries including China, Korea, India, and Russia.

Reports on the availability of convincing counterfeit versions of United States law enforcement credentials and badges on the Internet. Use of fake credentials by the General Accounting Office (GAO) to gain access to secure federal sites; Percentage of bogus identification which is obtained from Internet sources.

Discusses the success of a number of paleontological hoaxes. Description of the fraudulent Calaveras skull and the Piltdown man; Discovery of the Calaveras skull in 1886 in a mining site in central California; Unearthing of the presumed remains of the Piltdown man in 1912 in Sussex, England.

Reports on the inaction of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Romare Howard Bearden Foundation on reports of the prevalence of fake collages of the late collagist Romare Bearden. Forgery identification at New York City auctions; FBI's inaction to contact former close associates of the collagist; Delay of the forgery investigation.

Focuses on the authenticity of the Cusack Papers which includes evidences of correspondence involving former president John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Larry Cusack. Probate file for the Estate of Marilyn Monroe; Examples of major twentieth-century forgeries; Comparison of documents with known samples of Kennedy's handwriting.

Focuses on Gregg Monsma, who was a gay petty officer in the U.S. Navy. Discrimination faced by Monsma from his comrades and officers in the U.S. Navy; Report that Monsma was charged with forging signatures on a document certifying qualifications of some of the sailors working on the ship's reactor; Information that Monsma had been a member of the San Diego Veterans Association, a predominantly gay group that does community work with homosexual Veterans and AIDS patients and contests the Pentagon's ban; Actions taken by U.S. Navy Commander Fred Mallgrave against Monsma.

Focuses on actions of conspiracy theorists like U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot. Statement that the fantasy of conspiracy requires the reality of counterconspiracy; Comment on the conspirational behavior of Perot; Report that the American Protective Association founded to battle a Catholic conspiracy to take over the U.S.; Description of the classic non-American conspiracy-theorist conspirator Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky officially responsible for forging "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

The article reports on the Merit Systems Protection Board's (MSPB) acceptance of a decision made by the Department of Defense (DOD) to terminate one of its employees. It states that Brian Ellis, a Quality Assurance Specialist, used official paper to create a false document to terminate his lease with his landlord, and of using his position for financial gain. Ellis admitted the former, denied the latter, and challenged the DOD's basis for terminating him on June 26, 2009. The MSPB decided that Ellis' actions gave the DOD cause to terminate him.

The article discusses the act of forgery. The author highlights the popular interest in the crime, highlighting the amount of security measures kept in sports and museum services to prevent it. Several examples of famous historical forgeries are given, including the evolutionary "missing link" Piltdown man, Shakespearean plays, and U.S. presidential confessions.

Uncovers the growing art forgery trade in the United States. Percentage of forged artworks available in the market; Impact of such practice to art dealers and museum curators; Example of a forged artwork.

Focuses on Lazlo Bodak Engineering's lawsuit against NatWest concerning losses from forged checks. Check-screening process; Questions on liability; Growth in the amount of financial paper that needs to be processed; Commercial laws.

The article discusses a 2012 settlement of a class action lawsuit against U.S. banks that allegedly engaged in document forgery, automating signatures in order to more efficiently foreclose on homes. The author compares this situation to one described in the biblical book Isaiah, arguing that justice requires more than what she deems an insufficient settlement against the foreclosing banks.

Looks at the progress of a trial in Los Angeles, California, in which actress Cameron Diaz accuses photographer John Rutter of blackmailing her with topless photographs of the actress taken in 1992. Testimony of Diaz that her signature on a release form which would allow Rutter to sell the photos was forged; Reaction of Rutter's attorney to allegations against his client.

Reports on the actions taken by the Anti-Spam Technical Alliance to manage the spam problem in the U.S. in 2004. Impact of the CAN-SPAM Act passed by the U.S. Congress; List of Internet providers participating in the alliance; Closure of mail servers to nonsubscribers; Development of an anti-forgery technology to stop spammers from hiding their identities.

Reports that a number of former and current students at Southern University in Louisiana had paid to get better grades, based on a yearlong campus review of the university. Dismissal of the registrar who was accused of altering grades for money; Use of computers to change the grades; Proper sanctions for students committing such act.

Focuses on the dinner hosted by artist Mary Boone at the home of her boyfriend Michael Garstin in Georgica Pond, New York. Guests in the event; Discussion about forgeries among the guests; Comment of artist Eric Fischl on the forged drawing of his painting.

Focuses on the issue of whether weapons of mass destruction (WMD) will be found in Iraq. Discussion of a February 5, 2003 briefing at the United Nations (UN) Security Council by Colin Powell that was supposed to prove that Iraq had WMD; View that the United States used chicanery to sway public opinion toward support for an invasion of Iraq; Issue of the falsification of the Niger papers and the role of British intelligence; Reaction of UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, to the forgery; Implications for the credibility of the British and American governments.