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The Scanner: How an accused Bay Area fraudster may have gamed Google to hide Chronicle story

When a news article exposed the criminal past of a former insurance claims investigator at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland — who’s now accused by federal prosecutors of embezzling $7 million from the company — it created a digital record available to the world. Potential employers, industry colleagues, friends, relatives or anyone else who ran Michael […]

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Here’s the Story of the Stanford PhD Who Allegedly Gamed the Texas Lottery (and Won $20 Million)

I wrote recently about the husband and wife team out of Michigan who figured out how to game the lottery, and walked away with almost $27 million over the course of nine years. But it turns out there’s a greater mystery in the world of lottery watchers. Her name is Joan Ginther, and she won