60 Minutes 57x30 - Fraud | To Walk Again | Jamie Lee Curtis
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Fraud – Correspondent Cecilia Vega reports on rampant fraudin government programs like unemployment, food stamps,disaster aid and more. With few safeguards at state and federallevels, taxpayers are falling victim to complex schemescarried out by scammers, hackers and transnational criminalorganizations, costing the government hundreds of billions ofdollars each year. Ayesha Siddiqi and Kit Ramgopal are theproducers.To Walk Again – For people who've sufferedtraumatic spinal cord injuries that have caused paralysis,positive news has been scarce. However, as correspondentAnderson Cooper discovers, innovative technology now in anearly clinical trial is allowing participants to stand up andwalk or move their arms – by thinking about it. Cooperreports from the NeuroRestore research lab in Lausanne,Switzerland, where he meets the team leading thisgroundbreaking research and hears the stories of patientsenrolled in the trial. Nichole Marks is the producer.Jamie LeeCurtis – Jamie Lee Curtis has been making movies for almost50 years. Not surprising for a child born into Hollywoodroyalty. But to hear her tell it, leaving school as ateenager, only to graduate into an A-list movie star beforeshe was 30, was never the plan. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsitalks with Curtis in Los Angeles about her long career inTinseltown and about her recent wave of award-winningperformances that came to her in her 60's. Michael Karzis isthe producer.
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