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Entries in manti te'o (2)

Friday
Jan252013

Holding Authenticity Accountable

Celeb liars, fakers: Does it matter if it's real or not?

USA TODAY

Lance Armstrong is a cheater. Manti Te'o is a liar. And Beyoncé, it seems, is a pretender. Heck, even Storage Wars is staged.

Is anything for real these days?

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Friday
Jan182013

'Not a Crime to Have an Imaginary Friend'

No indication of criminal fraud yet in Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax

Newsday

"I was talking to my wife about this," said Northeastern University law professor Roger Abrams, who has written extensively on sports and law, "and she said, 'Maybe there was a plan [aimed at Te'o] to have a fund established that would bring in money to cure the disease that killed this fictitious woman . . . '

"I said, 'Yep, then it would be fraud.' But we haven't heard anything about money being involved in this."

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