According to police, the male victim told police that he received a phone call from a Key Bank employee in New City, alerting him that
an alleged fraudulent check had been written for $ 19,810 from his checking account.
Nevertheless, the contrarians
allege that CRU manipulated data to fabricate a global warming trend; that CRU prevented critics from accessing the raw data and other information required to
check its conclusions; and that CRU director Phil Jones failed to admit having cited
fraudulent data twenty years ago.