Charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States, defraud customers and violate the Clean Air Act.
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The employees are being charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S., defraud customers and violate the Clean Air Act.
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They and Mr. Schmidt were charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, defraud customers and violate the Clean Air Act.
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The indictment accuses Holmes, 2600, and then 2100-year-old Balwani of engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors, and a separate scheme to defraud doctors and patients.
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Conspiracy to defraud the United State requires an agreement of two or more individuals to defraud the United States and an overt act by one of the conspirators in furtherance of the scheme.
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Chombo faces charges including trying to defraud the central bank.
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A fourth, Peter Johnson, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not only was it a conspiracy to defraud.
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Is it not a crime to defraud customers and shareholders?
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They are charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud.
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That is conspiracy to defraud -- listen -- INGRAHAM: Conspiracy to do what?
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The review found no intent to defraud the company, it added.
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His son, Adam, 30, has been charged with conspiracy to defraud.
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And when I say defraud the FISA court, I mean it.
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He has been accused of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.
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Mr. Schmidt faces charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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"It shouldn't be this easy to defraud the Department of Education."
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Typically, such charges are levied against individuals and companies that defraud investors.
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Some have said, oh, it&aposs a conspiracy to defraud the government.
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Prosecutors said Kapoor also sought to defraud insurers into paying for Subsys.
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After all, zero emissions means zero chances to defraud regulators and consumers.
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In 2017, he was charged with conspiracy (ironically) to defraud the government.
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If done with an intent to defraud, such actions can be felonies.
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Dr. Kanevsky pleaded guilty to scheming to defraud in the second degree.
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The Enron scandal showcased the lengths corporate financiers would go to defraud investors.
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Authorities said there were two conspiracies to defraud the plan involving different players.
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He is charged with tampering with computer data to defraud or obtain property.
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A seventh has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud regulators and car owners.
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All of the defendants are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Individuals defraud each other, they libel each other, they commit many horrendous crimes.
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" The court refused and instead told the jury that "the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Shaw knowingly executed a scheme to defraud a financial institution as to a material matter with intent to defraud the financial institution.
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They can work to cripple regulation, so that they can hurt and defraud people.
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If so, Meng would face U.S. charges of conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions.
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At a separate trial, Mr. Hayes was convicted in August of conspiracy to defraud.
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QUITO (Reuters) - A New York man charged with trying to defraud Facebook Inc (FB.
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The Enron scandal showcased the lengths some corporate financers would go to defraud investors.
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The specific charges include money laundering, scheming to defraud falsifying business records and conspiracy.
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Attempts to defraud Americans through automated calls have grown more prevalent and more sophisticated.
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The lawsuit asks for $23.7 million for breach of contract and conspiracy to defraud.
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A conspiracy to defraud conviction carries a jail sentence of up to 10 years.
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The suit accused dozens of doctors and business owners of trying to defraud insurers.
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He was convicted at a separate trial in August 2015 of conspiracy to defraud.
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Eventually, Garvey and three others were charged with conspiracy to use the mails to defraud.
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By the time he finished his burrito, he had a plan to defraud the system.
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Washington allegedly conspired with others to defraud online payments companies eBay and PayPal, investigators said.
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Manafort pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States, and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
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"There are a lot of easier ways to defraud the system, frankly," he tells Axios.
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He is accused of criminal possession of stolen property, grand larceny and scheme to defraud.
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Or, it can be bad, if it is meant to defraud, deceive or create illegality.
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The shareholders' basis for reconsideration is that there is no "actual" intent to defraud here.
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He did not defraud Theranos investors, who were among the most sophisticated in the world.
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"Well, it's a conspiracy to defraud the United States, not any other country," Friedrich responded.
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It prohibits conspiracies to defraud the United States by impeding the federal government's lawful functions.
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In some cases, this information is used to defraud people two or three times over.
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Should we have drawn the conclusion that they were trying to defraud the American people?
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U.S. Tobacco now accuses them of using that authority to defraud millions from the company.
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Count one alleges a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States, by all of the defendants.
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But the researcher said that the bug could have been exploited to defraud the phone giant.
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He was accused of conspiring to distribute illegal narcotics, and conspiring to defraud the United States.
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Kenya also charged a director of the company in absentia with conspiracy to defraud the country.
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Prosecutors said Kapoor also directed efforts to defraud insurers who were reluctant to pay for Subsys.
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Medical providers defraud Medicare; bankers perform sleights of hand with the markets and destroy the commonweal.
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"For you to believe that he's defrauding those investors, he's got to defraud himself," Baez said.
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The dramatically titled "conspiracy to defraud the United States" is particularly well-suited to Mueller's purposes.
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Wire fraud involves an intentional scheme to defraud using an interstate telephone call or electronic communication.
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THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR, JUST DON'T BREAK THE LAW, DON'T CHEAT PEOPLE AND DEFRAUD PEOPLE.
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Deals • How a former Credit Suisse banker allegedly conspired to defraud investors in Mozambique debt deals.
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The various charges include identity theft, bank fraud and criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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" The eight-count indictment charges all of them with "criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Or a strain of tax refund scam can be repurposed to defraud employees of escort services.
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All the defendants are charged with "criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States," a federal offense.
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Basically, Gates has admitted to conspiring to commit offenses against, and to defraud the US government.
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Albert Hallac, Weston's founder, pleaded guilty in 2016 to charges that he schemed to defraud Weston investors.
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The radio host was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., wire fraud and securities fraud.
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Albert Hallac, Weston's founder, pleaded guilty in January to charges that he schemed to defraud Weston investors.
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For it to be a felony, prosecutors must prove there was an intent to defraud or mislead.
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If extradited to the United States, Meng would face charges of conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions.
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They have also pleaded guilty to charges ranging from fraud to conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Rotich, together with other senior officials, is accused of conspiring to defraud the public among other charges.
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Charges against the pair include conspiracy to defraud the government and engaging in commerce with adulterated drugs.
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Federal prosecutors accused him and six others of participating in a pair of schemes to defraud investors.
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They divorced the following year, after William was convicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the government.
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In the past I have been critical of people who defraud and abuse our government assistance system.
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They have all denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to the single charge of conspiracy to defraud.
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Last February, Mueller charged 13 Russians and three Russian firms with conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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But it upheld the S.E.C.'s sanctions, finding that he had engaged in a scheme to defraud.
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Prosecutors in Virginia, not Mr. Mueller's team, charged Ms. Khusyaynova of conspiring to defraud the United States.
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He has pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud and obstruction of justice.
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Mr. Isackson will also plead guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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These laws cover deception and schemes to defraud involving valuable property, including intangibles like Bitcoin and Ether.
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The two jail staff members were charged with falsifying records and conspiring to defraud the United States.
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They were both acquitted of one of the counts against them, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government.
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For Vermont Law professor Jennifer Taub, the inkblot looks like a conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Prosecutors do not need to show that the statement was falsely made with an intent to defraud.
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Six people were arrested Monday and charged with conspiracy to defraud regulators and misuse of confidential information.
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At times, companies defraud customers, who do not have the power, wherewithal, or resources to fight back.
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The charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States and making false Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) statements.
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Kenya also charged a director of the company, Paolo Porcelli, in absentia with conspiracy to defraud the country.
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Singer pleaded guilty in March to racketeering, money laundering; conspiracy to defraud the US, and obstruction of justice.
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With weekly launches of new alternative coins, or "altcoins," cybercriminals have developed several schemes to defraud cryptocurrency holders.
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He argued, however, that he shouldn't have been convicted because he never intended to defraud Bank of America.
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Sanchez allegedly stole the identities to defraud credit card companies such as Bank of America and Capital One.
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In 2010, Catalano and Wills were convicted in federal court of conspiracy to defraud the United States government.
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They were charged with grand larceny, scheming to defraud and violating New York's securities law, the Martin Act.
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Last February, special counsel Robert Mueller indicted a Russian troll group for conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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He was the first defendant convicted of trying to defraud the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.
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But what if false statements are not enough to prove a person engaged in a scheme to defraud?
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They are accused of trying to defraud bank lenders and insurance companies that invested in a bond offering.
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Another strategy to defraud our immigration system is for lottery contestants to submit multiple applications under various aliases.
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The issue of loss can be important for showing whether a defendant acted with an intent to defraud.
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Kirchner to stand trial on charges that she planned to defraud the government through the dollar futures market.
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Amanat, 44, also engaged in a scheme to defraud investors in Maiden Capital, Maiden's hedge fund, prosecutors said.
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He was charged with wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud American customers and violate the Clean Air Act.
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Singer pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering, conspiracy to defraud U.S. and obstruction of justice in March.
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"The loan agreements were unmistakably structured as a scheme to defraud the investors," the SEBI said in its order.
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There can be no tolerance for those who seek to defraud the system to advance their own personal interests.
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She had faced a maximum of five years in prison on one count of conspiracy to defraud the government.
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She faces U.S. charges of conspiring to defraud global banks about Huawei's relationship with a company operating in Iran.
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Rosenstein specifically noted how the efforts included efforts to defraud the Federal Election Commission, Justice Department, and State Department.
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Singer, meanwhile, pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy; money laundering conspiracy; conspiracy to defraud US; obstruction of justice on Tuesday.
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Y.: Trump&aposs campaign manager Paul Manafort has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States of America.
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Basically, the charge accuses Manafort and Gates of conspiring to commit offenses against and to defraud the US government.
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Her father, also a taxi entrepreneur, pleaded guilty to a felony, conspiracy to defraud the IRS, the year before.
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Prosecutors say he unlawfully devised a scheme to defraud investors and personally enrich himself for more than two decades.
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Officials say Azari is now facing charges of coke possession, organized scheme to defraud, identity fraud and grand theft.
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The purpose, Epstein alleged, was "to defraud investors and support extortionate demands for payment from Epstein," the complaint says.
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Anthony Tanner and another defendant were convicted in federal court in Florida of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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He did not defraud consumers but instead worked tirelessly to empower them with access to their own health information.
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And if not, one might ask, why bother to hold elections that give politicians license to defraud the electorate?
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Tax evasion claims Around 2010, the couple and a third person conspired to defraud the IRS, the indictment says.
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"The Democrats need to decide whether they will continue to defraud the public with ridiculous bullshit," the president said.
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Tens of millions of fake accounts have been deployed to defraud businesses, influence political debates online and attract customers.
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In fact, Mr. Brafman said, Mr. Shkreli never did defraud them, as the investors ultimately got their money back.
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"The defendant's scheme to defraud is remarkable in both its scope and duration," prosecutors wrote in their sentencing request.
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Prosecutors say a company, China Zhongwang Holdings Limited, designed a plan to avoid paying aluminum tariffs and defraud investors.
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Earlier this month, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the federal government and violating the Clean Air Act.
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The Justice Department made public on Friday a criminal complaint against Khusyaynova for conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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"The Government must therefore prove, among other things, that Giannulli and Loughlin intended to defraud USC," the motion read.
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" And Massachusetts AG Maura Healey has said that ACICS "enabled predatory for-profit schools to defraud students and taxpayers.
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Singer has been charged with racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., and obstruction of justice.
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The LaFrances were charged with scheme to defraud in the first degree and endangering the welfare of a child.
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Shih and another defendant, Kiet Ahn Mai, were found to have worked together to defraud an American semiconductor chip manufacturer.
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The judge, however, denied the defendants' motion to dismiss the still pending conspiracy, scheme to defraud and securities fraud charges.
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Because the group&aposs activities were illegal and meant to defraud, the documents say they formed an organized crime "enterprise."
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Singer has pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
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The former owners of Newsweek are being indicted for an alleged scheme to defraud lenders out of almost $10 million.
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The founders, Raymond Trapani, Sohrab Sharma, and Robert Farkas, were found guilty of trying to defraud investors with their ICO.
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A 13-count indictment includes charges of sexual exploitation of children, child pornography, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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But to this day, there's no evidence that any of these sites are anything more than attempts to defraud people.
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"When it's something intentional, and there was obvious intention to defraud, then that's more impetus for congressional hearings," he said.
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So far, Singer has been charged with racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud U.S., and obstruction of justice.
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Alice has trained her daughters to help defraud clients — or, as she calls it, giving the spirits a slight nudge.
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She believes the money will be used to improve lives and the local government will not defraud her, she said.
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When they give sweetheart contracts to their chums, they defraud taxpayers and deter honest firms from investing in their country.
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Singer has pleaded guilty to racketeering, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and obstruction of justice, CNN noted.
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Gates, a former Trump aide, pleaded guilty last month to lying to investigators and conspiring to defraud the United States.
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And it doesn't matter whether you intended to defraud the election system, or whether you simply didn't know the law.
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He dropped out of sight in February after Punjab National Bank accused him of helping defraud it of $2 billion.
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In September, James Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiring to defraud regulators and car owners.
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The workers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, were charged with making false records and conspiring to defraud the United States.
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He was charged with mortgage fraud, conspiracy, falsifying business records, and scheme to defraud as a result of that investigation.
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All face one count each of conspiring to defraud the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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In DC, Manafort pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States, a charge that encompassed a range of financial crimes.
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Singer pleaded guilty in March to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
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Last September, James Liang, a veteran Volkswagen engineer, pled guilty to conspiring to defraud the American public about its vehicle emissions.
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He's charged not only with conspiracy to defraud the US but also committing bank or wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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But still, Jennings said, intent to defraud is extremely easy for a prosecutor to charge, even if it's hard to convict.
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We watch him take money from Elie Wiesel, knowing he will even defraud the beloved Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor.
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The CFO, Meng Wanzhou, is facing extradition to the US for conspiring to defraud banking institutions, according to The Star Vancouver.
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The South Korea investigation is part of a Justice Department crackdown on companies that defraud the U.S. government on military contracts.
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The three of them, along with the assistant manager, discussed "how to defraud the store of money," according to court documents.
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Caproni dismissed claims against them last March, finding a lack of evidence that they acted recklessly or intended to defraud anyone.
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Tucker was previously convicted of making a false statement to a bank and using the mail for a scheme to defraud.
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Singer pleaded guilty Tuesday to four charges: racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and obstruction of justice.
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Sadr faces six counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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It wants to counterfeit other nations' currencies, conduct cyberattacks, and defraud corporations to obtain the economic benefits its system cannot provide.
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Other moves include shutting down the bot networks used to defraud advertisers and suppressing links from websites with bad ad experiences.
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Prosecutors alleged that Manafort and Gates worked hand-in-hand to defraud banks and avoid paying taxes on their offshore money.
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Many states use systems that would be difficult to hack or defraud, including paper ballots which initially are tallied by machines.
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That is why Mueller was able to charge the thirteen Russians with perpetrating a conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission.
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Wells Fargo agreed to pay the Navajo Nation $85033 million to settle claims it used "predatory" practices to defraud the tribe.
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" He argued, "Practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.
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The farm was meant to benefit the local community but prosecutors described it as a "scheme designed to defraud and steal".
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Four years after becoming a citizen, she pleaded guilty to assisting her boss defraud a bank and cooperated in the investigation.
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Thirteen Russians and three Russian companies were accused of conspiring to defraud the United States by illegally influencing the presidential election.
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The charges: One count each of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice.
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The United States attorney's office in Manhattan accused Rochester Drug Cooperative of conspiring to distribute drugs and defraud the federal government.
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The first is to claim that their statements were made in good faith, and that they did not intend to defraud.
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Singer has pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
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Rather, Trump has described the reading as an attempt to defraud viewers into believing a more sinister version of the call.
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Trump administration officials estimate that more than 100,000 packages a day from China contain items that could defraud or harm Americans.
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Mulvaney has insisted that the CFPB will continue to crackdown on banks and lenders knowingly violate defraud or abuse their customers.
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" Akerman said the alleged plan could violate a federal statute creating an offense of conspiracy to defraud the government — "conspiracy 85033.
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Facebook&aposs support forum is overrun with scammers trying to defraud desperate users, and the company has ignored it for months.
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For example, the federal conspiracy statute also prohibits conspiracies to "defraud" the United States by impeding the federal government's lawful functions.
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Manafort pleaded guilty to just two more counts — conspiracy to defraud the United States, and an attempted obstruction of justice charge.
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"Any attempt to defraud or scam others is in clear violation of our terms of service and strictly prohibited," the representative said.
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"The trial evidence fails to demonstrate the contemporaneous fraudulent intent necessary to prove a scheme to defraud through contractual promises," Wesley wrote.
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"The trial evidence fails to demonstrate the contemporaneous fraudulent intent necessary to prove a scheme to defraud through contractual promises," Wesley wrote.
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A man was arrested for faking his own kidnapping after his alleged scheme to defraud a Super Bowl betting pool went awry.
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Gates pleaded guilty to conspiring with Manafort to defraud the government and making false statements, and agreed to cooperate with Mueller's office.
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McFarland, 25, was charged in connection with a scheme to defraud investors, which included misrepresenting financial information about his company, Fyre Media.
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It claims the company "conducted a systematic scheme to defraud and mislead subscribers" by promising Internet speeds that it couldn't actually deliver.
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CEO John Stumpf on Thursday was grilled again on Capitol Hill, where he denied there was an "orchestrated effort" to defraud customers.
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But the testimony served as a cheat sheet for how to defraud the health insurance industry and mostly get away with it.
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She is accused of conspiring to defraud HSBC and other banks by misrepresenting Huawei's relationship with the suspected front company, Skycom Tech.
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"The Democrats now have to decide if they will continue to defraud the American public with this ridiculous bull---t," he added.
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The SFO's planned charge of "conspiracy to defraud" is also unusual internationally and could become a focus of argument, some lawyers say.
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By shielding schools from liability when they defraud or deceive students, these mandatory arbitration clauses are an invitation to shady business practices.
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"It's basically a product that's designed to defraud the free trial providers," a fintech lawyer for a major payments company told Wired.
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Two Anglo Irish executives were among three Irish bankers jailed in July for between 24 and 42 months conspiring to defraud investors.
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James Liang, a veteran Volkswagen engineer, pled guilty Friday to conspiring to defraud the American public about its vehicle emissions, Bloomberg reports.
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The tool is intended to help investors avoid bad actors likely to defraud them, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said in a statement.
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In 2000, he was charged with felony grand theft and "organized scheme to defraud," in addition to 18 counts of Medicaid fraud.
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" Trump is a criminal, he said, surrounded by "fifth-tier grifters" who, under normal circumstances, would be "generating PowerPoints to defraud pensioners.
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In 2007, executives of the company pled guilty to the charge that they marketed OxyContin "with intent to defraud or mislead" regulators.
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Hauschild was among 11 individuals who were charged in Britain in 2015 of rigging the Euribor interest benchmark with conspiracy to defraud.
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The project was meant to benefit the local community, but prosecutors described it as a "scheme designed to defraud and to steal".
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Plaintiffs in the lawsuit claim the school lured "student-victims" into its doors, only to defraud them once their checks were cashed.
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In 2007, Purdue's parent company pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge of misbranding OxyContin with the intent to defraud or mislead.
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Both men confessed their role in the plot to Comiskey, and then to grand jurors, who indicted them for conspiracy to defraud.
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They decided that Mr. Shkreli had not intended to defraud Retrophin or his investors, and found him not guilty on that count.
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I don't mean that Trump is stupid; a stupid man couldn't have managed to defraud so many people over so many years.
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L), were convicted of conspiracy to defraud by dishonestly manipulating Euribor (the Euro interbank offered rate) between January 2005 and December 2009.
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Theranos' founder Elizabeth Holmes was indicted here on charges of engaging in schemes to defraud investors and doctors in June last year.
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Companies that collect consumer data can't defraud or mislead their customers, and the Federal Trade Commission is a watchdog for those standards.
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Congress invited predatory for-profit colleges to defraud military veterans when it wrote a loophole into the rules governing federal education aid.
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He pleaded guilty in January 2014 to identity theft and scheme to defraud and admitted to selling $1.5 million in fake artwork.
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Federal prosecutors announced the charge involves a scheme to defraud investors, which included misrepresenting financial information about Mr. McFarland's company, Fyre Media.
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Too many students borrow heavily to attend for-profit colleges, which do nothing to increase earnings and in some cases defraud students.
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Mr. Liang pleaded guilty in August to charges that included conspiracy to defraud the federal government and violating the Clean Air Act.
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Six Volkswagen employees have been charged in the case; a seventh has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud regulators and car owners.
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By contrast, the maximum sentence on the scheme to defraud charge could result in a sentence of up to four years in prison.
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Bruce Isackson also pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the IRS for taking a tax deduction for the bribe.
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LaRouche was later convicted of scheming to defraud the IRS and deliberately defaulting on more than $30 million in loans from his supporters.
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In January the Department of Justice charged Volkswagen AG executives with conspiring to defraud the United States by cheating on U.S. emissions tests.
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Basically, Manafort has admitted to conspiring to commit offenses against and to defraud the US government, specifically the Justice Department and Treasury Department.
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A central repository of keys would be a magnet for cyber-crooks, who could use them to impersonate and defraud ordinary internet users.
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On Wednesday, the governor of Busia county in western Kenya and three other officials were charged with conspiracy to defraud the county government.
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The five have pleaded not guilty to one charge of conspiracy to defraud by manipulating US dollar Libor rates between 2005 and 2007.
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But surely China would not have orchestrated an attack on a federal agency just to help an American woman defraud a credit union?
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The jury found for Mr. Hall's claim against Nikolas Gascard for fraud, and against both Nikolas and Lorettann Gascard for conspiracy to defraud.
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But during his testimony, he also admitted that he had tried to defraud a credit card company in violation of his cooperation agreement.
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Mr. Michel and Mr. Low have both been charged with violations of campaign finance law and conspiracy to defraud the United States government.
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Rule 10b-5 prohibits any scheme to defraud, which includes misstatements or omissions of material information that affect the market value of shares.
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"Medgar Evers College has zero tolerance for anyone attempting to defraud our students, least of all a member of our community," he said.
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Singer, the scheme's mastermind, has pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
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A person with insider knowledge, therefore, would not be able to defraud the company, which presumably has access to the same nonpublic information.
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Singer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice, prosecutors said.
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He pleaded guilty March 218 in federal court to racketeering, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
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"I don't know that there's any other way to defraud a bank and not intend it to lose the money," Mr. Andres replied.
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In September, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States through a range of financial crimes, and conspiring to tamper with witnesses.
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It is the fifth SFO prosecution of traders on conspiracy to defraud charges relating to benchmark rate manipulation in a six-year British investigation.
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The thing is, I mean, he was charged with conspiracy against the U.S., that&aposs defined as an effort to defraud the U.S., right?
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Rotich, who spent the night in a police cell, is accused alongside other senior officials of conspiring to defraud the public, among other charges.
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Liang pleaded guilty for his role in an almost 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. customers, according to the Justice Department.
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Singer has pleaded guilty to charges including racketeer conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice, Lelling said.
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She faces extradition to the United States on charges she conspired to defraud global banks about Huawei's relationship with a company operating in Iran.
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Yahoo boys even impersonated a U.S. forces commander in Afghanistan to defraud people by asking for help in recovering the assets of deceased soldiers.
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Rotich and 13 co-accused face eight charges, ranging from conspiring to defraud and financial misconduct, said Noordin Haji, the director of public prosecutions.
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U.S. prosecutors had sought to try the two men together on charges that they schemed to defraud investors in a hedge fund Shkreli controlled.
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The South Korea bid-rigging investigation is part of a U.S. Justice Department crackdown on companies that defraud the U.S. government on military contracts.
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Chombo, detained by the military before Robert Mugabe resigned as president, is accused of corruption, including trying to defraud the central bank in 2004.
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But Martin Weinberg, McLellan's lawyer, said his client never intended to defraud anyone and believed the mark-ups were allowed under the customers' contracts.
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He was accused alongside other senior officials of conspiring to defraud the public, among other charges, having spent the night in a police cell.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan county governor and three other officials were charged with conspiracy to defraud the government and abuse of office on Wednesday.
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"I felt that some punishment or deterrent was needed for other individuals who might think to defraud the various school districts," Cosgrove told ABC.
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Tamara Williams, 38, of Queens, pleaded guilty to grand larceny, identity theft and scheming to defraud, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said on Wednesday.
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Shusterman was charged with two other men in 1993 with conspiring to defraud the IRS in connection with his New York taxi medallion business.
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In the March decision, Schneiderman was allowed to proceed on fraud claims that require proof of intent to defraud and those that do not.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Friday granted bail to a county governor charged with conspiracy to defraud the government and abuse of office.
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Four other men and one woman have pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud by manipulating Euribor between 2005 and 2009.
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All the defendants in the case, which involves the 13 Russian nationals and three entities, are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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If so, Meng would face U.S. charges of conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions, with a maximum sentence of 30 years for each charge.
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The government of India has accused Mr. Mallya of conspiracy to defraud, making false representations to make a gain for himself and money laundering.
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In 2007, the parent company of Purdue pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge of misbranding OxyContin with the intent to defraud or mislead.
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"These defendants used their positions as religious leaders and investment advisers to defraud Louisiana residents many of whom are elderly and retired," said Joseph.
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"These defendants used their positions as religious leaders and investment advisers to defraud Louisiana residents – many of whom are elderly and retired," said Joseph.
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But there was also a scheme to defraud casinos with a hacking device that predicted the behavior of particular models of electronic slot machines.
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Singer pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering, money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the United States in federal court in Boston last week.
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Under a revision of the charges, he pleaded guilty to two counts: conspiracy to defraud the federal government and violating the Clean Air Act.
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Parkside Construction and its co-owners — Francesco Pugliese, 39, and Salvatore Pugliese, 46 — were charged with grand larceny, insurance fraud and scheme to defraud.
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Scott and Jean were both arrested on Wednesday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, and are facing charges of conspiracy to defraud.
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Singer pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice in federal court in Boston.
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Bruce Isackson will also plead guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the IRS for taking a tax deduction for the bribe.
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Schmidt, who is German, is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, violating the Clean Air Act and aiding and abetting wire fraud.
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A lawyer who once advised the former drug company executive Martin Shkreli was convicted on Wednesday of helping Mr. Shkreli defraud a pharmaceutical company.
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She is accused of conspiring to defraud HSBC and other banks by misrepresenting Huawei's relationship with the suspected front company, Skycom Tech Co Ltd.
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Its former boss, Derish Wolff, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud USAID by faking timesheets, fined $217m and sentenced to a year's home confinement.
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Singer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four charges: racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice, PEOPLE confirmed.
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The indictment alleged that they led a nationwide conspiracy to bribe medical practitioners to unnecessarily prescribe a fentanyl-based pain medication and defraud health insurance.
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" Tharp noted that the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals previously ruled that spoofing "can constitute a 'scheme to defraud' under the commodities fraud statute.
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" The judges also wrote that Nosal "knowingly, and with the intent to defraud Korn/Ferry blatantly circumvented the affirmative revocation of his computer system access.
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Singer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four charges: racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice, PEOPLE confirms.
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They could apply for loans in other people's names, for example, or defraud the taxman, inducing him to send them refunds that belong to others.
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Another photo falsely claimed that a former finance minister said ballot boxes were ordered to defraud the election, which Aos Fatos also debunked Oct. 7.
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In April, two former executives of Rochester Drug Co-Operative were charged with illegally distributing opioids and conspiring to defraud the US Drug Enforcement Agency.
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In other words, the Justice Department didn't get sufficiently inside the minds of the executives to prove a deliberate scheme to defraud Fannie and Freddie.
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It also states the group conspired to defraud clients of their own employer by billing them for some of the bribes, claiming they were legitimate.
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Gates and Manafort continued to "defraud" the U.S. government after the election and into 2017 through money laundering and tax evasion, according to the indictment.
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The line between information given as part of political speech and information given to defraud could vanish… with a great deal of our political discourse.
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Police said the raid was in connection with a state-funded dairy farm, which prosecutors last month called a "scheme designed to defraud and steal".
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Despite all of that, Grasso says he is "very confident" that people will continue trying to defraud the system, possibly on the scale of Conn.
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The DOJ charged both men each with one count of smuggling contraband into the prison, and conspiring to smuggle contraband and defraud the United States.
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In the segment, Mr. Oliver explained the two ways mediums defraud people into believing they communicate with lost loved ones: cold reading and hot reading.
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Those laws, however, require proving the defendant's intent to defraud, which is unlikely when a senior executive has little to do with the actual misconduct.
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They also sought to defraud insurers into approving payments for Subsys when it was prescribed to patients who did not have cancer, the indictment said.
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Avenatti was jailed without bond last week until his trial for probable violations of his pretrial conditions, including allegedly hiding his assets to defraud creditors.
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The charges — wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the government and two counts of tax evasion — carry a maximum penalty of 35 years in prison.
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Stifel denied wrongdoing, and contended in court papers that there was no evidence that the defendants had any intent or motive to defraud the districts.
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The authorities arrested Mr. Awan, a former I.T. aide for the House of Representatives, on charges of conspiring to defraud the Congressional Federal Credit Union.
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Linville worked with three associates to defraud more than 303,000 victims and collect more than $150,000 in traceable donations over six years, according to investigators.
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Yale will use external advisers who will suggest changes that will help the college "detect and prevent efforts to defraud the admission process," he added.
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Prosecutors said Parmar used the app to enter false destinations on at least 11 occasions in order to inflate ride charges and defraud Uber passengers.
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Six executives have so far been charged in the United States, and one engineer has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud regulators and car owners.
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Both indictments accuse Meng and Huawei of conspiring to defraud HSBC and other banks by misrepresenting Huawei's relationship with a company that operated in Iran.
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Meng faces extradition to the United States on charges that she conspired to defraud global banks about Huawei's relationship with a company operating in Iran.
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But his charmed life came to a screeching halt in 22017 when he was arrested and charged with using a fake identity to defraud investors.
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The indictments detail multiple agreements to defraud the United States and commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and multiple overt acts to further those plans.
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Shusterman was placed on probation in the mid-1990s after pleading guilty in a case in which he was charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS.
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She pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, for which there is a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
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Manafort pleaded guilty in September in federal district court in Washington, DC, to two counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
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Criminal penalties could be added if FCA were proven to have used a defeat device to defraud regulators and consumers, similar to Volkswagen AG (BBB+/Negative).
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Meng is facing extradition to the United States on charges that she conspired to defraud global banks about Huawei's relationship with a company operating in Iran.
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Mr. Hayes was the first person to go to trial over criminal charges related to Libor manipulation and was convicted in August of conspiracy to defraud.
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He also admitted to serving as a "casher" by working with other hackers to defraud an Atlanta company that helped process credit and debit card transactions.
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Gravity Waves Are a Scam to Defraud the PublicImage: ShutterstockAh yes, a classic theoretical physics scam, paid for by the sweat and tears of hardworking taxpayers.
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Former finance minister Ignatius Chombo is on bail after being charged in November over accusations he tried to defraud the central bank over a decade ago.
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This one will be about the strange-but-true story behind the man who used McDonald's Monopoly game to defraud the fast food chain of millions.
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Cynthia Holder, 52, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to defraud the United States and to wire fraud.
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The jury acquitted the men of more serious felony counts of wire fraud and conspiracy, finding they did not act with intent to defraud or mislead.
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The second assumption was that all case workers do is process paperwork and collude with folks who are requesting resources in order to defraud the system.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian police on Monday arrested 100 Chinese people suspected of running a telecoms scam to defraud victims in China, a senior official said.
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WE'VE NOT FOUND ANY INDICATION THAT ANY OF OUR PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO DEFRAUD OR TRYING TO COME UP WITH A SCHEME TO CIRCUMVENT THE REGULATIONS.
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It was relatively small in scope, and did not include financial information or the kind of sensitive data that is most commonly used to defraud someone.
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Paul Manafort issued a statement after Rick Gates plead guilty to lying to the FBI and the Special Counsel and conspiring to defraud the United States.
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Vargas lays out how they're going to defraud the I.R.S, through a fake set of books, some legal maneuvers, and by being too big to fail.
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They might be trying to defraud Medicare, cheat you, or simply get enough information about you to steal your identity for use at a later time.
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That can make it easier to exploit any weak spots in the government's case and explain how the defendant did not have an intent to defraud.
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Celebrity financial adviser Kenneth Ira Starr has also spent time at FCI Otisville after pleading guilty to carrying out a $33 million scheme to defraud clients.
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The revelations this month in court all but list Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to defraud the people of the United States.
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Reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were indicted in Georgia on Tuesday on charges of wire fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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On Wednesday, the Serious Fraud Office said it would seek a second trial for Mr. Contogoulas and Mr. Reich on a charge of conspiracy to defraud.
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The police said the raid was in connection with a state-funded dairy farm, which prosecutors last month called a "scheme designed to defraud and steal".
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The authorities now say that Mr. Caspersen had sought to defraud investors out of $150 million, up from the $95 million cited in the criminal complaint.
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Singer was also charged with racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., and obstruction of justice for his alleged role in the scandal.
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Irish officials sought his return to face charges that include forgery, conspiracy to defraud, provision of unlawful financial assistance, false accounting and falsification of loan facilities.
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There are two counts of wire fraud—including one count of knowingly misleading Fyre Festival investors through falsified emails and another of scheming to defraud investors.
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Among the Watergate charges: Conspiracy to defraud the United States by interfering with the normal functioning of the FBI, the CIA and the Department of Justice.
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Mr. Howe, during a grueling cross-examination on Thursday, acknowledged that he tried to defraud a credit card company after his cooperation agreement had been finalized.
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The jury found Shkreli not guilty of a separate charge that he conspired to defraud Retrophin when he used the company to pay back the investors.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos finalized her effort on Friday to make canceling student debt harder for federal loan borrowers if colleges defraud those students, Politico reports.
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This means it's most likely the vast majority were created to trick or defraud Facebook users with, for example, commercial pages for fraudulent goods or services.
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They indicated that they would portray Mr. Shkreli as a "boy genius," as his lawyer, Mr. Brafman, put it, who never meant to defraud his investors.
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The indictment released Friday names 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups, and accuses them of criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States, among other charges.
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Kirchner with corruption relating to purchases of liquefied natural gas and alleged that she led an effort to defraud the government through the dollar futures market.
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In the end, though, jurors convicted Mr. Shkreli of securities fraud involving his two hedge funds and conspiracy to defraud Retrophin, a pharmaceutical company he founded.
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Another former Volkswagen executive, James Liang, has pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States government and to violate the Clean Air Act.
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"This indictment alleges a corporate conspiracy to defraud financial investors," said John F. Bennett, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Francisco.
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Concord is facing charges of conspiring to defraud the United States, and is accused of controlling funding, recommending personnel and overseeing the activities of the propaganda campaign.
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Concord's attorneys said Mueller's claim that Concord conspired to defraud the United States was fatally flawed because it does not allege the company intended to do so.
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" This type of "elder abuse" occurs, for example, when a person obtained the "real or personal property of an elder or dependent adult...with intent to defraud.
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The UK's SFO said the jury had also reached a not guilty verdict on one count of conspiracy to defraud faced by former ICAP broker Darrell Read.
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The lawsuit filed last week specifically targets Singer, who pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
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Singer confessed to carrying out the scheme and pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
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Bruce Isackson also pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering conspiracy to defraud the IRS for claiming the payments were for tax deductible contributions to charity.
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Schmidt is not the first person to face criminal charges over Dieselgate: Volkswagen engineer James Liang pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the American public last September.
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It claims Ackerman McQueen went to great lengths to defraud the NRA, most visibly through NRATV, the organization's online streaming service that shut down earlier this year.
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The state Attorney General&aposs Office says Antonia Barrone pleaded guilty to a scheme to defraud and will serve 16 months to 3 years in state prison.
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The Justice Department said he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., to commit wire fraud and to violate the Clean Air Act.
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In his testimony last week, Stumpf apologized for the millions of accounts opened without customer approval but denied that an "orchestrated effort" to defraud customers took place.
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Garwood, a government contractor, pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to commit an offense or defraud the US and was sentenced to two years probation in September.
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So the point is that the laws that are on the books are more than adequate to go after terrorists and criminals who defraud the immigration system.
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WE HAVE A NUMBER OF CONTROL STRATEGIES THAT RUN OUR ENGINES, AND THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANY INTENT IN PUTTING THE SOFTWARE IN THE VEHICLES TO DEFRAUD ANYBODY.
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"It is absolutely outrageous that these 858 aliens were able to defraud the government because these paper based fingerprints were not uploaded," Culberson said in a statement.
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Hayes had been charged by UK prosecutors with conspiracy to defraud in June 2013, six months after also being charged by U.S. prosecutors with fraud related offences.
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Ryan Reich, a 35-year-old American, and Greek national Stylianos Contogoulas, 45, walked free after their second trial on a single charge of conspiracy to defraud.
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The report noted that in June, Elizabeth Gurrieri, a former manager of reimbursement services for Insys, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud insurers into paying for Subsys.
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"The trial evidence fails to demonstrate the contemporaneous fraudulent intent necessary to prove a scheme to defraud," Judge Richard C. Wesley wrote in a 31-page ruling.
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Moms get 16 percent less in Social Security benefits Beware of scammers using Medicare to defraud you Hey grads, it's time to start repaying that college debt
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In all, the indictment charges 11 defendants with conspiring to defraud the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, and conspiring to commit money laundering.
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Seth Waxman, a former federal prosecutor, said bribery could be a 15-year offense, while a scheme to defraud donors could lead to 20 years in prison.
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Oliver Schmidt, a German resident, pleaded guilty in August to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, commit wire fraud and violate the Clean Air Act.
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In June this year, Holmes and former Theranos president Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani were indicted on charges that they engaged in schemes to defraud investors, doctors and patients.
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Melngailis and Strangis are now in Sevierville jail, and Melngailis is facing charges of grand larceny, criminal tax fraud, scheme to defraud, and violation of labor law.
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In all, the indictment charged 11 defendants with conspiring to defraud the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, and conspiring to commit money laundering.
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The other case that Gates' lawyer is working on involves three defendants who allegedly took part in a scheme to defraud feature film and documentary movie investors.
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Microsoft employees had long tracked the group as it infected nine million computers around the world, hijacking them to send spam emails intended to defraud unsuspecting victims.
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"We're talking about over 100,000 packages a day coming into the U.S. from China that can defraud, harm or even kill Americans," Mr. Navarro said in January.
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It's a misdemeanor for a person or company to make a false entry in a business record or cause one to be made, with intent to defraud.
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The indictment accuses Meng and Huawei of conspiring to defraud global banks by misrepresenting Huaweis relationship with Skycom Tech Co Ltd, a company that operated in Iran.
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The indictment accuses Meng and Huawei of conspiring to defraud global banks by misrepresenting Huawei's relationship with Skycom Tech Co Ltd, a company that operated in Iran.
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The theory was that bankers knew they were enabling Americans to break the law and therefore were part of a conspiracy to defraud the United States government.
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Those statutes make it a crime to engage in a "scheme or artifice to defraud," so proving deceptive conduct can be the basis for a RICO lawsuit.
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While the crimes alleged began years before Mr. Trump's campaign, the indictment asserted that Mr. Manafort's scheme to defraud continued through last year until early this year.
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The jury convicted Mr. Sanders, who could be sentenced to as many as four years in prison, on charges of securities fraud, scheme to defraud and conspiracy.
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It could make it easier for the Trump venture ultimately to be held liable, because the claim does not require proof that there was intent to defraud.
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Another former Volkswagen executive, James Robert Liang, has pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States government and to violate the Clean Air Act.
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The special counsel could consider charging Cohen with conspiracy to defraud the FEC, arguing that his actions impeded the commission's ability to regulate political spending, Zeldin explained.
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On Thursday, the jury acquitted Stylianos Contogoulas of a charge of conspiracy to defraud, a day after finding Ryan Michael Reich not guilty on a conspiracy charge.
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"If the government deems that you've willfully failed to file or filed fraudulent returns, they could see it as an attempt to defraud the government," says Green.
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Moreover, presenting false documents to a public official with the intent to defraud the government can be a felony, a crime known as filing a false instrument.
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Oliver Schmidt, a German resident, pleaded guilty in August to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, commit wire fraud and violate the Clean Air Act.
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" But Trump refused to accept that explanation Friday, twice calling for Schiff's resignation and claiming that he "lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American Public.
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Authorities have so far taken a cautious view on cryptocurrencies, over concerns that they could be used for illicit practices like money laundering, or to defraud investors.
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The state prosecutor said Chombo was charged three counts of corruption, including attempting to defraud the Zimbabwean central bank in 2004, when he was local government minister.
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A warrant had been issued for her arrest, and Duncan was initially charged under section four of the Vagrancy Act, and with conspiring to defraud the public.
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The charges against him in the Washington case include conspiring to launder money, conspiring to defraud the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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Both defendants had been accused of violating a federal law that lets the SEC pursue civil fraud claims based on alleged negligence, rather than an intent to defraud.
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The defendants allegedly conspired to defraud America by impairing the lawful functions of the Federal Election Commission, the United States Department of Justice, and the Department of State.
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She was charged with attempting to defraud the provincial government, since she hadn't paid the full price for the "whites only" seat, which was a one-cent difference.
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In 2000, for example, Lourdes Navarro pleaded no contest to grand theft in a scheme to defraud California's healthcare system and was sentenced to jail time and probation.
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Singer has confessed to carrying out the scheme and pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
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He has been charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud with others at Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Societe Generale and other banks between January 2005 and December 2009.
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His father-in-law, Shusterman, was charged with two other men in 1993 with conspiring to defraud the IRS in connection with his own New York taxi business.
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The appeals court in the Tuesday opinion said the plaintiffs adequately alleged that Alibaba intended to defraud them but did not rule on the merits of the case.
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Manafort is accused of defrauding or attempting to defraud three banks by submitting false information about his income, debts, and how he was using one of his properties.
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Although the latest charging papers include just two criminal counts, the conspiracy to defraud the United States charge still encompasses a broad range of financial and other crimes.
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Bell said that the argument of the case is that the scheme would be to defraud the insurer -- and in the case of her client, not the bank.
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It's still possible Mueller will find that the Trump campaign committed crimes that fall under the US legal code, such as a conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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He'd been sent to Whitemoor, which houses some of the UK's most dangerous inmates, and became embroiled in a plot to defraud banks of £800 million [$100 million].
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The London jury is still deliberating over one count of conspiracy to defraud against a sixth broker, Darrell P. Read, who worked at the British financial firm ICAP.
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If you're going to defraud someone out of several hundred thousand bitcoin, maybe don't also draw undue attention to yourself by publicly claiming to have created the cryptocurrency.
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She is facing possible extradition to the United States to face charges that she conspired to defraud global banks about Huawei's relationship with a company operating in Iran.
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Pindrop already catches fraudsters that defraud companies using voice altering software, for example to allow men to pose as women and gain access to financial accounts, he says.
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The New York Giants are jumping to Eli Manning's defense against allegations he tried to defraud sports collectors into buying game used helmets that weren't really game used.
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Friday's complaint said that in 2011 Walker participated in a scheme with McLellan and another unnamed State Street employee to defraud the insurance company through inflated trading commissions.
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He again ran afoul of the law in the mid-2000s, when he was accused of trying to defraud licensed cosmetologists in Mississippi through a fake cosmetology association.
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An Alabama state lawmaker has been charged for his alleged role in a scheme to defraud Medicare and pay kickbacks to a physician's office, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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The cases involve individuals who had been ordered to be removed from the country and intentionally used multiple identities to defraud the government to obtain citizenship, USCIS said.
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Last month, a veteran Volkswagen engineer pled guilty to conspiring to defraud the American public about its vehicle emissions, marking the first criminal charge in the ongoing scandal.
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Federal prosecutors working for Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, contend that Mr. Caspersen, 39, had sought to defraud investors of as much as $95 million.
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Jackson last week refused to dismiss the charges, which include conspiring to launder money, conspiring to defraud the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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" However, the crime itself requires a showing that Trump Jr. sought to "conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States.
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Yohai also sought to defraud the owner of a rental property with a $60,000 check he falsely claimed was remitted from his ex-wife's account, the release said.
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If an individual diverts the nonprofit's funds for their personal benefit, that could be viewed as a potential scheme to defraud people who donated to the inaugural committee.
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Earlier this week the Hawks raided Gupta properties in Johannesburg in connection with the dairy farm, which prosecutors last month called a "scheme designed to defraud and steal".
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U.S. prosecutors have in recent months charged several senior executives of Abraaj with criminal charges, accusing them of taking part in a massive international scheme to defraud investors.
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I have never encountered a voter trying to defraud the system, but if anyone should try to do so, he or she would not get away with it!
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The charges related to conspiring to hide accounts connected to the brother-in-law of former Anglo Chairman Sean Fitzpatrick and of conspiring to defraud the tax authorities.
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"If there is a conspiracy to defraud the United States, a collusion indictment, it would be the last indictment Bob Mueller would seek, not the first," Schiff said.
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When she was first charged earlier this month, Freedia said a statement that she had made a mistake and had not set out to defraud the government intentionally.
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Mr. Howe was arrested after admitting under cross-examination that he had tried to defraud his credit card company after he signed his cooperation agreement with the government.
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Whistleblowers and government lawyers have often used such guidance documents to show that health care providers committed violations of the False Claims Act to defraud Medicare or Medicaid.
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So the twin punch of taking funding away from public K-12 schools and encouraging for-profit colleges to continue to defraud students will undeniably limit people's futures.
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Historically, cybercriminals have used crises to increase criminal activity and scams related to stealing personally identifiable information, as well as financial and personal health Information to defraud victims.
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He copped to charges of conspiring to defraud the United States and to obstruct justice, each of which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison.
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In November, she pleaded guilty to four counts — wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the government, and two counts of tax evasion — as part of a plea agreement.
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In State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Tuesday, the Israel brothers pleaded guilty to engaging in a scheme to defraud as well as three counts of unlawful eviction.
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They, along with the company's export compliance officer, pleaded guilty last October to conspiracy to defraud the United States and illegally export aviation parts and equipment to Syria.
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Greek-born Stylianos Contogoulas, 44, is one of five men on trial for conspiracy to defraud by manipulating U.S. dollar Libor rates between June 2005 and September 2007.
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Any agreement to secretly and dishonestly attempt to interfere with a federal election would fall squarely within Section 371's prohibition on conspiracies to defraud the United States.
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But she says Suede turned sour after she turned down his offer to be her tour DJ ... and claims he went on a warpath to defraud her after.
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"Banks that defraud their clients in this way must be held accountable, no matter how big they are," acting U.S. Attorney William Weinreb in Boston said in a statement.
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The British-born security researcher now faces charges of conspiracy to defraud the US, computer fraud, lying to the FBI, and distribution, possession, and advertisement of an intercept device.
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Tucker, who competes on U.S. and European racing circuits, was previously convicted of making a false statement to a bank and using the mail for a scheme to defraud.
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Last year, the company's billionaire founder John Kapoor was charged with participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers into paying for it.
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He has been charged with a scheme to defraud in the first degree, which is a class E felony and carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison.
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Scammers have taken to Zelle, the Venmo alternative backed by U.S. banks, to defraud consumers who believe the service includes the same protections they've come to expect from PayPal.
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In this case, it was a scam run out of Nairobi that allegedly used internet phone accounts to defraud Chinese victims of more than 600 million yuan ($93 million).
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Both Peterson and Raja were charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and multiple counts of making false claims, the Justice Department said.
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In March, Yariv Katz, the lawyer who encouraged her to sign away her house, was among 11 people indicted for allegedly trying to defraud people out of their homes.
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The Marks family argued that they were simply carrying on a tradition of fortune telling as part of their Roma—or gypsy—heritage, and never meant to defraud anyone.
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Prosecutors say Holmes and Balwani engaged in a pair of schemes to defraud investors, doctors and patients with claims that Theranos had developed a revolutionary new blood testing system.
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"It is my opinion that you are a key conspirator in this scheme to defraud the United States," U.S. District Judge Sean Cox of Detroit told Schmidt in court.
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Roland Scahill pleaded guilty to three counts of grand larceny in the third degree and one count of scheme to defraud in the first degree, according to court documents.
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Hillary Clinton was not that voice, allowing Donald Trump, a man who has used the broken economic system to defraud thousands of regular people, to seize the populist megaphone.
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In response to the accusation of breaking anti-hacking laws, LeakedSource said they didn't access any computer without authorization, and have no intent to either defraud or extort money.
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If the IRS can show that the parents intended to defraud the government by claiming these payments as charitable deductions, there could be a civil fraud penalty, Blank said.
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In the United States, Meng would face charges in connection with an alleged conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions, with a maximum sentence of 22014 years for each charge.
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But it has also charged five men and one woman with conspiracy to defraud in connection with an investigation into the setting of Euribor, a Brussels-based euro benchmark.
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"If evidence collected shows intent to defraud investors by the real estate trusts, this matter has the potential to be a top ten Corporate Fraud case," the reply reads.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is responsible for holding those who commit securities fraud accountable, including Ponzi con artists and insider traders who harm investors and defraud our markets.
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The former chief attorney for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Seattle is facing prison time for stealing the identities of immigrants to defraud banks and credit card companies.
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In its various forms, the doctrine voids transfers made with the intent to defraud creditors like the banks and others who lent over $20 billion to finance this debacle.
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Earlier this month, the Indian authorities arrested 70 people there who were also accused of taking part in call-center schemes to defraud Americans by posing as I.R.S. agents.
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Federal prosecutors claim that Andrew Caspersen ran a Ponzi-like scheme to defraud friends, family and a hedge fund foundation of nearly $295 million over an 203-month period.
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Manhattan prosecutors have charged Newsweek's former parent company, IBT Media, with carrying out a plot to defraud lenders out of millions of dollars as it struggles to remain profitable.
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Prosecutors said the scheme to defraud investors began in 2012 and continued up until April 2015, a month before agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Mr. Newman.
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Employees had tracked the group, believed to be based in Russia, as it hijacked nine million computers around the world to send spam emails meant to defraud unsuspecting victims.
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Prosecutors said that between 2015 and early 2017, Manafort defrauded or attempted to defraud several US banks, by lying about his company's finances and other matters in loan applications.
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Oliver North, were charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States over their alleged roles in illegally selling arms to Iran and passing the proceeds to rebels in Nicaragua.
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A decision by Mueller to charge Americans with a conspiracy to defraud the United States would draw a through-line from Watergate and Iran-Contra to the Russia investigation.
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The commission said the schemes violate the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009, which bars deliberately falsified caller ID information that is intended to harm or defraud consumers.
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Mr. Howe was thrown into jail after he admitted during a trial that he tried to defraud a credit card company after becoming a cooperating witness for the government.
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But even with that surge, many of the S.E.C.'s cases underscored its focus on smaller defendants who defraud individual investors, according to experts who track the agency's doings.
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In November, Pugh pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and two counts of tax evasion.
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She also admitted to using several methods to defraud health care companies, taxpayers and Baltimore's school system starting in 2011, when she was a member of the Maryland Legislature.
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Manhattan prosecutors said Mr. DiCarmine and Mr. Sanders had plotted to manipulate the firm's financial records to defraud banks and insurance companies that had invested in a bond offering.
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They were able to defraud banks because of the tens of millions of dollars they earned doing Ukrainian political work and lobbying from 2006 until 2015, the prosecutors allege.
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and the company's former president Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani were indicted in June on charges that they engaged in schemes to defraud investors, doctors and patients.
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Eran Eyal, 44, of Brooklyn, also pleaded guilty to two felony counts of scheming to defraud in connection with his two prior companies, Passo Sync Inc and Springleap Inc.
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There are thousands of emails and other communications between the two men, so prosecutors are expected to argue that each played a role in a scheme to defraud Retrophin.
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But most of those suspected of conspiring to defraud United States regulators are out of reach of American justice in Germany, which normally does not extradite its own citizens.
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If so, then aside from the campaign finance violation, Trump may have also entered into a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. — by thwarting the administration of a fair election.
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In exchange, Gates pleaded guilty to two counts — one conspiracy to defraud the United States charge encompassing the overall Ukrainian lobbying and money allegations, and a false statements charge.
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And finally, in the unlikely event that any of these Russian citizens are indicted, how difficult will it be to prove that they conspired to defraud the United States?
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Police said the raid on the Gupta estate was in connection with a state-funded dairy farm, which prosecutors last month called a "scheme designed to defraud and steal".
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Meng and Huawei are accused of conspiring to defraud HSBC and other banks by misrepresenting Huawei's relationship with Skycom Tech Co Ltd, a suspected front company that operated in Iran.
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She was arrested in March and charged with identity theft, scheme to defraud and grand theft of more than $163,000, according to an Orlando Police Department report obtained by PEOPLE.
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He argued that he "no intent ... to defraud, cause harm or wrongfully obtain anything of value," which is weird because it seems like that was exactly what his intent was.
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McFarland was taken into custody on Friday and charged in connection with a scheme to allegedly defraud investors, a plan that allegedly including misrepresenting information about his company, Fyre Media.
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Often, the ideomotor effect is used to defraud people who visit exorcists, psychics, mediums, and other self-proclaimed spirit-channeling types — sometimes leading to severe financial, physical, and psychological harm.
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Raymond Swayney pleaded guilty earlier this week in federal court to one count of conspiracy to set a timber fire and to defraud the United States, CNN affiliate WLOS reports.
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Under Bank for International Settlement definitions, "external fraud" relates to "Losses due to acts of a type intended to defraud, misappropriate property or circumvent the law, by a third party".
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In April, Rochester Drug Cooperative agreed to pay a $20 million settlement after it was charged with unlawfully distributing oxycodone and fentanyl and conspiring to defraud the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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He pleaded guilty to two counts — conspiring to defraud the United States through a range of financial crimes, and conspiring to attempt to interfere with potential witnesses in Mueller's investigation.
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The move came as U.S. prosecutors last week charged several senior executives of Abraaj with criminal charges, accusing them of taking part in a massive international scheme to defraud investors.
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U.S. prosecutors have charged several senior executives of Abraaj, including its founder Arif Naqvi, with criminal charges, accusing them of taking part in a massive international scheme to defraud investors.
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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf endured another round of tough Capitol Hill grilling Thursday, pledging to fix what went wrong and denying there was an "orchestrated effort" to defraud customers.
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Several older attendees were there in support of Lyndon LaRouche, a 94-year-old fringe political candidate who was jailed in 1989 for attempting to defraud donors and the IRS.
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The former CEO, Laurence Doud, 75, was arrested Tuesday and charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Evidence is not a conclusion, but what we should do is let Bob Mueller tell us criminally whether there was collusion which is a conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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According to the judge, this makes it responsible for two claims filed by the homeowners association, but not any claims related to any attempt by Millennium Partners to defraud homeowners.
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Mr. Hayes, the first person to go on trial in Britain over criminal charges related to Libor manipulation, was convicted in a separate trial in August of conspiracy to defraud.
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Some EU officials complain that national authorities can lack zeal in pursuing those who defraud the EU budget and in general can be careless about handing out EU funds correctly.
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U.S. prosecutors have charged several senior executives of Abraaj including its founder Arif Naqvi with criminal charges, accusing them of taking part in a massive international scheme to defraud investors.
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On Wednesday, the Ingrams pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during an appearance in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.
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The pair is charged with second-degree grand larceny, second-degree criminal tax fraud, first-degree scheme to defraud, violation of labor and other crimes in a 24-count indictment.
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Meng and Huawei are accused of conspiring to defraud HSBC and other banks by misrepresenting Huaweis relationship with Skycom Tech Co Ltd, a suspected front company that operated in Iran.
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An August 78.83 indictment shows Yu has been charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and is further accused of conspiracy to commit offense or defraud the United States.
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An August 21 indictment shows Yu has been charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and is further accused of conspiracy to commit offense or defraud the United States.
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Of course, this is not to suggest that individuals ought to be "free" in a way that would endow them with a license to hurt, defraud, or steal from others.
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According to a statement from the Cayuga County Sheriff's office, the pair are charged with one count each of scheme to defraud in the first degree, which is a felony.
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While CMS is right to make sure public funds are used wisely, the current audit process targets prescribers' medical records instead of tracking down systemic efforts to defraud the government.
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One major manufacturer, Insys Therapeutics, was recently caught up in an alleged scheme to defraud insurers by pushing a highly-addictive fentanyl product on people who didn't qualify for it.
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Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged Edward Robinson, a union official with ties to UAW President Gary Jones, with conspiracy to embezzle union funds and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged him in a criminal complaint with securities and wire fraud in what they called a "brazen" scheme to defraud investors of up to $95 million.
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Prosecutors allege that from 2012 to 2015, Kapoor and his-co-defendants conspired to pay doctors bribes in exchange for prescribing Subsys and to defraud insurers into paying for it.
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"We need someone who will work to substantially lower drug prices, implement rules to safely import brand-name drugs from Canada and hold companies accountable who defraud our government. "Dr.
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One of the case's star witnesses was Rick Gates, another former campaign aide who was given immunity to testify about his role in helping Manafort defraud the United States government.
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Mr. Caspersen leveraged his Ivy League connections and reputation to undertake what the authorities have called a "brazen" scheme to seek to defraud investors of tens of millions of dollars.
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But thanks to President Trump and his allies in Congress, managers now have freer rein to defraud veterans and taxpayers alike, all while silencing anyone who stands in their way.
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Prosecutors said Caspersen ran a Ponzi-like scheme from November 163 to March 2016 to defraud more than one dozen investors, including friends, family and classmates, of nearly $150 million.
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An August 21 indictment shows Yu has been charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and is further accused of conspiracy to commit offense or defraud the United States.
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Scammers found that Google ads were an easy way to defraud treatment-seekers in an industry in which regulations vary greatly by jurisdiction, authorities and patient advocacy organizations have said.
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They were all charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud between January 2005 and December 2009 by making or procuring false or misleading Euribor rates to boost trading profits.
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The once-promising blood-testing startup Theranos, based out of Palo Alto, and its founder Elizabeth Holmes are facing criminal charges after allegations emerged of a scheme to defraud investors.
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Bob Klein, a New Orleans supplier of components to the Department of Defense, was arrested last month and accused of carrying out a decades-long scheme to defraud the Pentagon.
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JIM GUY TUCKER JR.|Arkansas Resigned in 1996 after he was convicted of making false statements to obtain a federally backed loan and conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service.
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A U.S. jury on Monday cleared a lead salesman for a Lebanese shipbuilding company of charges that he helped to defraud U.S. investors in bonds backed by the Mozambican government.
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Where the case devolves into finger-pointing is Mr. Shkreli's claim that he only followed the advice of Retrophin's corporate lawyers, and therefore did not have any intent to defraud.
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That is exactly the position Mr. Greebel takes, asserting that he was misled by Mr. Shkreli and used as a pawn as part of larger scheme hatched to defraud Retrophin.
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In his plea hearing, he admitted to conspiring with others to defraud Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, a nonprofit real estate arm of SUNY Polytechnic, in the award of significant contracts.
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That assertion became more difficult to defend in May after federal prosecutors indicted Martin Winterkorn, the former chief executive of Volkswagen, on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the government.
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If extradited to the United States, Meng would face charges of conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions, the court heard, with a maximum sentence of 30 years for each charge.
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Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law, wrote that those crimes would fall under "scheme to defraud" under New York state law, which means Cohen could face state felony charges.
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While the fundraiser did not violate existing policies on untruthful campaigns, which focus on campaigns that mislead and defraud donors, Indiegogo never promoted it on its site, the company spokesperson said.
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Manafort is charged in DC with failing to report his work as an agent for Ukraine to the US government, conspiracy to launder money, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Sanchez used the identifying information of the seven immigrants to "defraud financial institutions" including American Express, Bank of America, Capital One, Citibank, Discover, and JPMorgan Chase, according to the charging document.
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Drumm, 51, was found guilty earlier this month of conspiring to defraud depositors and investors and of false accounting, in the most high profile conviction of any bank executive in Ireland.
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Guatemala accuses the company of partnering with its suppliers to defraud the government of taxes between 2010 and 2012, according to ECOM Managing Director Eduardo Esteve and a Public Ministry spokeswoman.
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Within New York, a 1921 law known as the Martin Act gives Underwood broad power to pursue criminal and civil securities fraud cases without having to prove an intent to defraud.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Authorities in Cambodia on Friday arrested 36 suspects from Cambodia, Taiwan and neighboring Thailand on suspicion of running a telecoms scam to defraud victims abroad, military police said.
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We don't believe that Mr. Shkreli ever knowingly violated the law or intended to defraud anyone, and we want to try this case in the courtroom and not in the media.
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Giovanni Pamio, an Italian citizen, was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, and violation of the Clean Air Act, the Justice Department said in a news release.
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Former foreign minister Walter Mzembi faces charges of "criminal abuse of office", and former finance minister Ignatius Chombo has been charged tried to defraud the central bank over a decade ago.
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Sullivan said the deal was approved by independent directors and that creditors lacked sufficient evidence to allege that those directors had tried to defraud them through the buyout of the publisher.
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In a 32-page opinion, Judge Dabney Friedrich rejected efforts by Concord Management and Consulting to dismiss the indictment, which accused the Russian company of conspiring to defraud the US government.
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Concord was charged with conspiring to defraud the US government by hiding its election-related activities and failing to register as a foreign agent trying to influence the US political process.
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The Baumblits got into the three-quarter-house business in 1503, the investigation found, even while facing felony charges of using medical clinics to defraud insurance companies with fake injury claims.
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The charges that Manafort already was facing in Washington include conspiracy to defraud the United States, money laundering, acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign principal and making false statements.
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The report exposed unspeakably frightening conditions in nursing homes, all while the owners ran fictitious real estate schemes to defraud Medicaid and steal hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements.
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She said the banks themselves had made a number of failings but said there was little evidence that senior IDBI officials had been involved in planning to defraud their own bank.
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A cabal of Russian tax and law enforcement officers conspired to defraud Russian taxpayers of $230 million, the largest tax fraud in Russian history, by targeting Bill Browder's company, Hermitage Capital.
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In August, Tom Hayes, a former trader at UBS and Citigroup, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud in the first criminal case related to Libor to go to trial in Britain.
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Prosecutors claim the fraud was part of a complicated scheme in which leaders of the church taught members how to defraud the government's SNAP program, as food stamps are officially known.
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A Volkswagen engineer pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to defraud regulators and car owners, in the first criminal charges stemming from the American investigation into the German carmaker's emissions deception.
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Fisher, citing Pursglove's possibly forged signature removing her from the accounts, threatened to sue Wells Fargo, asserting that the bank had allowed Oesterlund to defraud his wife of millions of dollars.
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One official said the Petro should be viewed as directly supporting the Maduro dictatorship and its attempts to undermine democratic order in Venezuela, calling it a scam to defraud international investors.
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On Tuesday, prosecutors charged Rochester Drug Cooperative, or RDC, as a corporate entity with conspiring to distribute drugs, conspiracy to defraud the United States and failing to file suspicious order reports.
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He avoided a second federal trial by pleading guilty on Friday to conspiracy to defraud the United States, largely through the use of offshore companies, and conspiracy to obstruct of justice.
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The complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Connecticut, alleges that Flotron and unidentified co-conspirators devised and executed schemes to defraud other market participants through the illegal practice of spoofing.
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Mr. Daleiden and Ms. Merritt were charged with making and presenting fake California driver's licenses, with the intent to defraud, for their April meeting at a Planned Parenthood location in Houston.
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Prosecutors allege that from 2012 to 2015, Kapoor, former Chief Executive Michael Babich, Burlakoff and others conspired to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers into paying for it.
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But even after that pledge, Mr. Liang received a harsher sentence than the government recommended for pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and violating the Clean Air Act.
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A former executive at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International and the onetime head of a small mail-order pharmacy were convicted on Tuesday of using a secret kickback arrangement to defraud the drugmaker.
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Last month, special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for allegedly meddling in the 2016 presidential election, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Another prisoner once admitted to Mr. Wicker's murder, but a judge found that Mr. Arthur and the inmate had "engaged in an attempt to defraud" the court with a false confession.
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"It's discouraging to think these defendants were willing to defraud an investor supporting a charity foundation," William Sweeney, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's New York Field Office, said.
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James Liang, a former Volkswagen engineer who worked for the automaker in California, pleaded guilty in September to charges that included conspiracy to defraud the federal government and violating environmental regulations.
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The mastermind of the scheme, Rick Singer, is cooperating with prosecutors and has pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the US and obstruction of justice.
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The Florida-based ophthalmologist had participated in an overbilling scheme to defraud Medicare, according to the statement from the office of US Attorney Benjamin Greenberg of the Southern District of Florida.
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Gates also pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. by making false statements regarding his status as a foreign agent, a charge initially proffered in the first indictment from Oct.
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A few years earlier, Mr. Blackburn acknowledged while settling an unrelated lawsuit that he had been part of a scheme to defraud a businessman who claimed he had lost $1 million.
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Many workers quit after realizing they were not going to be paid, but the company would find new workers through their network of contacts and defraud them as well, prosecutors said.
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Now imagine they use the names and phone numbers — along with years of recorded photos and memories — to defraud now-elderly people by convincingly pretending to be a long-lost acquaintance.
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Similar cases were normally tried under the Vagrancy Act (often used to prosecute fortune tellers and spiritualists attempting to defraud the public) and would not be seen before a Crown Court.
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She and former Theranos COO and president Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani allegedly engaged in schemes to defraud investors, doctors and patients, according to a release from the US Attorney's office at the time.
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Also identified by the hacker pseudonym "GoldSun," Yu has been charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and is further accused of conspiracy to commit offense or defraud the United States.
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Edmonds, a New York resident, pleaded guilty in October to one count of conspiracy to defraud the market and manipulate prices of precious metals futures contracts and one count of commodities fraud.
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"These indictments should serve as a stern warning to anyone trying to defraud elections in North Carolina," Kim Strach, executive director of the state election board, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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The indictment charges all of the defendants with conspiracy to defraud the United States, three defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and five defendants with aggravated identity theft.
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A former Insys Therapeutics Inc executive has been criminally charged for conspiring to defraud insurers into paying for a fentanyl-based cancer pain drug that was sometimes prescribed for off-label uses.
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The record-tampering charges accused Mr. Daleiden and Ms. Merritt of making and presenting fake California driver's licenses, with the intent to defraud, for their April meeting at Planned Parenthood in Houston.
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It also leveled a stream of puzzling and false accusations, including that Woobi created a fake employee to deal with Imoderatus, and that it was running an elaborate scheme to defraud publishers.
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These new rules appear to be designed to protect consumers from apps that deliberately steal or defraud users, as well as restricting apps that offer stolen content, such as books or movies.
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Last week, the Justice Department charged a Russian national with ties to Vladimir Putin with conspiracy to defraud the U.S., including crimes related to interference in the 2018 midterms via social media.
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U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said in a written ruling that there was a "genuine issue of material fact" as to whether Trump knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud the students.
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"Custodial sentences and criminal fines will be sought against the accused ... given the severity of the scheme to defraud and fraudulent misappropriation of billions in bond proceeds," Thomas said in a statement.
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Identity thieves not only drain bank accounts and charge credit cards, but they also defraud the government and taxpayers by using stolen personal information to submit fraudulent billings to Medicare and Medicaid.
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The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) alleges they conspired with others at Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale and other banks to defraud by rigging Euribor, the Euro interbank offered rate, for profit.
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In a 228-page decision on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon said UBS PaineWebber brokerage customers failed to show that the Swiss bank intended to defraud them into buying Enron securities.
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Any official who still denies the very real dangers of climate change lacks the requisite intelligence to hold public office or is actively involved in a scheme to defraud the American public.
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From 2011 to 2013, prosecutors said, Lumiere and others schemed to defraud investors by mismarking the value of securities held by the bond fund, causing its net asset value to be overstated.
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The three traders - New Yorkers Kamaldeep Gandhi and Krishna Mohan and Chinese citizen Yuchun (Bruce) Mao - engaged in a scheme to defraud other market participants from about March 2012 to December 2013.
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Federal charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort include conspiracy to commit money laundering, failure to file reports regarding foreign bank and financial accounts, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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In January, US federal prosecutors hit Wanzhou and Huawei with 23 indictments for a variety of alleged crimes, including bank and wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the US, and stealing trade secrets.
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These combined charges would dwarf the more commonly discussed campaign finance and conspiracy to defraud the United States charges, each of which carry relatively short 2 to 5 year maximum prison terms.
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Under Bank for International Settlement operational risk definitions, "external fraud" relates to "Losses due to acts of a type intended to defraud, misappropriate property or circumvent the law, by a third party".
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Karime Macias, 43, who is wanted by Mexico on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, was arrested in London last month after handing herself into police.
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The charges in those case included conspiracy to defraud the United States, the making false statements on tax returns and the aiding and abetting of the filing of a false tax return.
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A probe into Grimm's fundraising eventually led prosecutors to file a 20-count indictment in April 2014, with charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud and hiring undocumented immigrants.
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"When public officials use their office to defraud donors and violate federal law, we will hold them accountable," U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick of the Southern District of Texas said in a statement.
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"Custodial sentences and criminal fines will be sought against the accused ... given the severity of the scheme to defraud and fraudulent misappropriation of billions in bond proceeds," Thomas said in a statement.
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The center has already received more than 400 complaints, most of them involving allegations of people trying to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to the center's acting director, Corey Amundsen.
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Christopher Ciccione, 52, a veteran of the Navy and Army National Guard, pleaded guilty in Miami federal court in November to conspiracy to defraud the United States, two months after his arrest.
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Montgomery said there were competing narratives, fraud versus business failure, and that no reasonable jury would be able to reach a safe conclusion that there had been a deliberate intent to defraud.
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Two remaining charges, scheming to defraud and violating New York's securities law, each carry a maximum sentence of four years, while the third, for conspiracy, carries a maximum sentence of one year.
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Tom Brady returns from his four-game suspension for being a lying cheater out to defraud the game for his own personal glory, and Patriots fans are pumped all the way up.
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A developer who wants to defraud someone can "make up something wild and crazy" and get away with it if the EB-5 fund-raiser doesn't do enough due diligence, he says.
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Mr. Howe is not testifying at Dr. Kaloyeros's trial; he was arrested after admitting on the witness stand during Mr. Percoco's trial that he had tried to defraud his credit card company.
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Dan Richards, the chief executive of Global Rescue, a company that organizes medical evacuations, said Nepal was an outlier in that so many actors colluded to defraud the consumer and insurance companies.
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They even got the witness, Todd R. Howe, a disgraced former Albany lobbyist, thrown in jail, after the lawyers cornered him into admitting he had tried to defraud his credit card company.
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Meng and others are accused of conspiring to defraud HSBC and other banks by misrepresenting Huaweis relationship with a company that operated in Iran, putting them at risk of violating U.S. sanctions.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston say that beginning in 2012, Kapoor, former Chief Executive Michael Babich and others conspired to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers into paying for it.
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The indictment cites a series of schemes to defraud government agencies including the New York City Council, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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The FTC alleged that for many years Western Union was aware that criminals were using its money system to defraud customers and that some Western Union agents were complicit in the fraud.
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The former CEO, Laurence Doud III, 76, was arrested last year and charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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" The two guards are each charged with one count of "conspiring to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the MCC, and to make false records.
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Beginning in 2015, Avenatti executed a scheme to defraud five clients, according to the indictment, one of whom was a paraplegic from whom Avenatti allegedly withheld a settlement payment of $4 million.
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Last October, the mayor was charged with wire fraud and filing false tax returns in what federal prosecutors said was part of a scheme to defraud investors in an app-development company.
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Last October, the mayor was charged with wire fraud and filing false tax returns in what federal prosecutors said was part of a scheme to defraud investors in an app-development company.
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In the context of the "official" language, the RNC's solicitation of contributions has the potential to defraud recipients into believing that payment is required for the completion of the official 2020 Census.
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He also admitted to having schemed to defraud his prior employer, a New York-based hedge fund, by embezzling money and taking kickbacks from vendors who submitted inflated invoices, court papers said.
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But despite laws prohibiting certain types of robocalls, including those made to individuals on the national Do Not Call Registry and those meant to defraud, such calls have risen over the years.
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Mr. Howe admitted on the witness stand that he had tried to defraud a credit card company after signing his deal with the government, an act he had not disclosed to prosecutors.
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Mr. Singer appeared in federal court in Boston on Tuesday afternoon and pleaded guilty to counts of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice.
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The Moroccan-born trader was found guilty last year of conspiracy to defraud by dishonestly manipulating the benchmark Euribor rate (euro interbank offered rate) for profit between January 2005 and December 2009.
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The charges, which stem from special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe into Russian election interference, include conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
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He reportedly admitted that he was able to travel freely between the U.S. and Mexico using a passport that he obtained via the same stolen identity he used to defraud public assistance programs.
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If extradited to the United States, Meng would face charges of conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions, a Canadian court heard on Friday, with a maximum sentence of 30 years for each charge.
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Jurors convicted Conigliaro and Carter of conspiring to defraud the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by misleading it into thinking NECC was operating like a conventional pharmacy and not like a drug manufacturer.
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Washington, who was arrested Tuesday in Los Angeles, is accused of using Project Contact Africa, the charity he founded and ran, to defraud donors to fund his vacations, jewelry anc even his rent.
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He also used the real names of acquaintances, former colleagues, and business partners on documents and emails used in the scheme, unbeknownst to those individuals that they were being used to defraud Epix.
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In a ruling on Thursday, a three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals found the government had not proved Bouchard had the intent to defraud a federally insured financial institution.
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The Russians face multiple charges, including one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud and six counts of aggravated identity theft.
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Mueller indicted 13 individuals and three entities in Russia on charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by posing as Americans to stoke political and racial tension on social media during the election.
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This weekend, VW executive Oliver Schmidt (who ran the company's regulatory compliance office) was accused of conspiracy to defraud the United States and taken into custody by the FBI at Miami International Airport.
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Martin Winterkorn, the former CEO of Volkswagen, was charged with conspiracy to defraud the US related to the massive diesel emissions cheating scandal that has ensnared the German automaker for almost three years.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston have accused seven former executives and managers at Insys including billionaire founder John Kapoor of participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers.
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On March 12, Singer pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and obstruction of justice for his leading role in the alleged $25 million scheme.
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SOLOMON: The conspiracy that we&aposre going to all be looking at in a month for now will be the one inside the Justice Department to defraud the FISC Court, the FISA court.
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Photo: Andrew Harnik (AP)Authorities on Friday announced the arrest of one of the founders of Bulgarian cryptocurrency business OneCoin, saying it was nothing more than a pyramid scheme designed to defraud users.
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A New York City bus driver pleaded guilty on Friday to participating in a scheme to defraud insurers out of $5 million by using phony prescriptions for unnecessary medications made by compounding pharmacies.
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The defendants "tried to defraud the United States by evading sanctions restrictions and doing business with proliferators of weapons of mass destruction," U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito in New Jersey said in a statement.
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The goal of the multi-year investigation, officials said, was to lure criminals who defraud the country's Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which monitors schools that verify student visas and non-immigrant students.
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A charge sheet, seen by Reuters, says Gordhan "unlawfully, falsely and with intent to defraud" gave Pillay a retirement package and a new contract when SARS was under no obligation to do so.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday unveiled an indictment against three men for engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud consumers by charging unsuspecting mobile phone users for unwanted text messages.
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The letter says that he plans to plead guilty following recent charges, brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, including lying to the FBI and conspiracy to defraud the Unites States, ABC News reports.
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The former Democratic presidential nominee has herself not yet commented on the indictments, which accuse 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups of criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States, among other charges.
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Two former Barclays traders, Jay Vijay Merchant and Alex Pabon, as well as Jonathan J. Mathew, a former rate submitter at the bank, were each convicted on a charge of conspiracy to defraud.
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In December, federal prosecutors in Boston charged six former Insys executives and managers, including ex-Chief Executive Michael Babich, with engaging in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys and defraud insurers.
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Federal authorities accuse Mr. Caspersen, who until recently worked for the Park Hill Group, a division of PJT Partners, of engaging in a scheme to defraud investors of as much as $95 million.
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Attorneys for Dittman and Sears—who each face up to up to five years behind bars for conspiracy to defraud—did not return voice mail messages from VICE requesting comment on the case.
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Prosecutors have accused Kapoor, ex-Insys Chief Executive Michael Babich and five other former executives and managers of conspiring to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers into paying for it.
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In early February, he was arrested midway through his testimony, after admitting during cross-examination that he had attempted to defraud his credit card company — after signing his cooperation agreement with the government.
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Mr. Mueller's team has obtained indictments against Russians for conspiring to defraud the United States through an illegal social media campaign and conspiring to hack Democratic computers to steal emails and other documents.
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But his star turn on the witness stand nearly backfired when he admitted in court that he had violated the terms of his cooperation deal by trying to defraud a credit card company.
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"Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver have been convicted, while Andrew Cuomo continues to bend the rules, break the law and defraud taxpayers seemingly without consequence," said Marc Molinaro, the Republican candidate for governor.
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The bank was formally charged on Tuesday with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to violate sanctions, bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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Facebook was fined for failing to give access in 2016 to WhatsApp messages exchanged by individuals under investigation for an alleged scheme to defraud the state's health system, prosecutors said in a statement.
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In September, a former Volkswagen engineer who worked for the company in California, James Liang, pleaded guilty to charges that included conspiracy to defraud the federal government and violating the Clean Air Act.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two people previously convicted of trying to defraud the U.S. Export-Import Bank could stand to lose their U.S. citizenship, after the Justice Department filed denaturalization lawsuits against them on Tuesday.
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In July, two former Barclays traders, Vijay Merchant and Alex Pabon, as well as Jonathan J. Mathew, a former rate submitter at the bank, were convicted on a charge of conspiracy to defraud.
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Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for allegedly meddling in the 2016 presidential election, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Department of Justice announced in February.
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The subpoenas, as described by the newspaper, listed numerous potential charges under consideration including obstruction of justice, conspiracy to defraud the United States, making false statements to the federal government and money laundering.
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The founder of the conservative group Freedom Watch filed a lawsuit against the Republican National Committee and chairman Reince Priebus on Thursday, accusing the national party of "conspiring to defraud" GOP primary voters.
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The defendants' lawyers argued during the trial that it was not a crime to violate NCAA rules, and their clients' actions were intended to help the universities attract star players, not defraud them.
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Mr. Singer has pleaded guilty: He pleaded guilty to counts of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice in federal court in Boston on Tuesday.
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Their point was boosted by the stunning mid-trial arrest of Mr. Howe, the government's star witness, after he admitted under cross-examination that he had tried to defraud his credit card company.
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He pleaded to a "conspiracy to defraud the United States" by hiding that the work he and Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had done was on behalf of a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party.
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LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - Former Deutsche Bank trader Christian Bittar has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud over a British investigation into the manipulation of Euribor benchmark interest rates, the Serious Fraud Office said.
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The indictment said that, beginning in 2012, Kapoor, Babich and others devised a scheme to pay speaker fees and other bribes to medical practitioners to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers into approving payment.
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In October, federal prosecutors in Boston announced billionaire Insys founder John Kapoor's arrest on charges he participated in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers into paying for it.
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And on February 16, 2018, Mueller filed charges — including the charge of criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States — against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups for interfering with the 2016 US elections.
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Investigators now say Brandel had set up a game of Super Bowl squares with a $50,000 payout, but was unable to make payments to other players after a scheme to defraud them went awry.
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"This scheme to defraud Company-1 and its shareholders allowed Levoff to realize profits of approximately $227,000 on certain trades and to avoid losses of approximately $377,000 on others," according to the press release.
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West, from Kent in southeast England, was sentenced in May last year to over 10 years in prison for charges from conspiracy to defraud and possession of criminal property to the possession of drugs.
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A federal appeals court has overturned the bank fraud conviction of former lawyer Michael Bouchard, who was accused of participating in a scheme to defraud mortgage lender and former Lehman Brothers subsidiary BNC Mortgage.
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"Today's jury verdict holds accountable the final defendant for his role in the largest scheme to defraud the Social Security Administration in its history," Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco said in a statement.
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Contogoulas, 44, is one of five former Barclays bankers charged with conspiracy to defraud by manipulating Libor, the London interbank offered rate, a benchmark for rates on around $450 trillion of financial contracts worldwide.
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The four men and one woman each face one charge of conspiring together and with Bittar and others to defraud by dishonestly manipulating Brussels-based Euribor between January 2005 and December 2009 for profit.
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Next month, he will be on trial again in D.C. where he is facing seven additional charges of ranging from conspiracy to defraud the United States to failing to register as a foreign agent.
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The two were initially indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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Prosecutors allege Elmezayen posed as his domestic partner when calling insurance companies in an attempt to defraud the companies, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California says in a news release.
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On Monday, former Visium portfolio manager Stefan Lumiere pleaded not guilty to charges that he engaged in a scheme to defraud investors by inflating the value of a bond fund and overstating its liquidity.
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Singer, a resident of Newport Beach, California, has checked into the pool more than a dozen times since pleading guilty to racketeering conspiracy; money laundering conspiracy; conspiracy to defraud US; and obstruction of justice.
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Ross McLellan, a former executive vice president, sought to defraud customers including Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund and European pension funds out of millions of dollars, prosecutor William Johnston told a federal jury in Boston.
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The defendants' lawyers argued during the trial that it was not a crime to violate NCAA rules, and that their clients' actions were intended to help the universities attract star players, not defraud them.
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The Federal Trade Commission's Acting Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen, and FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny testify at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on "Fighting Back Against Scams Used to Defraud Americans" hearing at 2:30 p.m.
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Prosecutors in February unveiled a revised indictment that added a new allegation that McLellan with others sought to defraud a New York-based insurance company, the same one now at issue in Walker's case.
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The siblings were initially indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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NEW YORK, March 28 (Reuters) - A managing principal at financial services firm Park Hill Group was arrested on charges that he engaged in a $95 million scheme to defraud investors, U.S. prosecutors said Monday.
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"We appreciate the one not guilty verdict, on the conspiracy to defraud the United States charge, but overall we're very disappointed with the result," Nelson Boxer, a lawyer for Middendorf, said in an email.
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Those potential offenses include violating the Emoluments Clause, an attempt to "defraud the United States" by directing Cohen to make the hush money payments and whether evidence from Mueller's investigation finds obstruction of justice.
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In Wednesday's decision, Circuit Judge Raymond Gruender said it was not until The Spine Journal article was published that reasonable shareholders might have inferred that problems with Medtronic's studies reflected an intent to defraud.
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The former chief attorney for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Seattle has been slapped with a four-year prison sentence after stealing the identities of immigrants to defraud banks and credit card companies.
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She was arrested at Vancouver's airport in December on a U.S. warrant and is fighting extradition on charges that she conspired to defraud global banks about Huawei's relationship with a company operating in Iran.
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Nigeria's financial watchdog, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said in its Thursday statement that the defendants are accused of being part of a scheme to defraud the government of 1.1 billion naira.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Schmidt on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with the automaker's emissions cheating scandal, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters on Monday.
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Tina Scee, 54, of Interlachen, Florida, was arrested Friday and charged with organized scheme to defraud, grand theft, illegally placing a child for adoption and perjury in connection with the scam, according to FDLE.
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But defense lawyers repeatedly called him an irredeemable liar — an argument bolstered considerably in early February, when he was arrested midway through his testimony for admitting to trying to defraud his credit card company.
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Arif Naqvi and Sev Vettivetpillai are among six people charged to date by U.S. prosecutors, who allege they took part in a vast international scheme to defraud investors including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Thus, when Theranos raised millions of dollars by selling shares to hedge funds and venture capitalists, the false claims about the viability of its blood-testing labs ended up being a scheme to defraud.
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Federal prosecutors have criminally charged a Georgia man for allegedly conspiring to defraud federal and private health-care benefit programs "by submitting fraudulent testing claims" for coronavirus and genetic cancer screenings, authorities announced Monday.
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"It's a fantastic opportunity to defraud people because you give them just enough sense of danger," said Emily Wilson, the head of research at Terbium Labs, a security firm focused on the dark net.
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Pugh, 22018, pleaded guilty last fall to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and two counts of tax evasion tied to the scandal.
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The scheme aimed to defraud mining firms by raising the value of royalties owed to municipal governments and among those hurt was Vale SA, the world's top producer of iron ore, the person said.
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Oliver Schmidt, a German who is the former top emissions compliance manager for Volkswagen in the United States, was arrested by investigators in Florida on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Manafort was convicted on eight charges of tax and bank fraud in the Eastern District of Virginia in August 85033 and has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and witness tampering.
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But the main legal theory on which he indicted the Russians — the conspiracy to defraud the United States — could theoretically expand to net both Russians and Americans involved in the hack-and-leak operation.
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His other charges include engaging a scheme to defraud Alaska Medicaid of $10,000, and theft of $25,000 or more by diverting funds from Alaska Dental Arts, among other accusations laid out in the lawsuit.
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On Monday, he pleaded not guilty to five counts of grand larceny, two counts of attempted grand larceny and four counts of scheme to defraud at his arraignment in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
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Ms. Meng has been under house arrest in a six-bedroom home, awaiting potential extradition to the United States on charges that she conspired to defraud banks about Huawei's relationship with an Iranian company.
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" The attorney general is asking for a civil penalty of $50,000 for every "deceptive or unfair act or practice and an additional $50,000 for each act or practice committed with the intent to defraud.
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The charges, filed on Thursday in U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y., were conspiracy to commit offenses and defraud and conspiracy to induce aliens to come to, enter and reside in the country.
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In the Senate, Republican leadership could vote any day to rescind a new agency rule that protects consumers' access to justice when financial institutions — like Wells Fargo and Equifax — defraud or discriminate against consumers.
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"These indictments should serve as a stern warning to anyone trying to defraud elections in North Carolina," Kim Strach, the executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, said in a statement.
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The statute makes it a crime to "knowingly and with intent to defraud" to falsify or conceal a material fact about an aircraft part, or to make "any materially fraudulent representation" about a part.
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The 220-page Justice Department indictment lays out an alleged scheme Avenatti conducted starting in 210 to defraud five clients, where he would secure major settlements and then lie to clients about the terms.
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"A spokesperson for Fiverr sent Gizmodo a statement saying the company doesn't discuss individual users, adding: "Any attempt to defraud or scam others is in clear violation of our terms of service and strictly prohibited.
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While at the company from 2011 to 2014, Fiumano oversaw a staff of 60 salespeople and perpetrated a scheme to defraud homeowners who were seeking to take advantage of government mortgage relief programs, prosecutors said.
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Kapoor was earlier charged by federal prosecutors in Boston in October with conspiring with six former executives or managers, including former Chief Executive Michael Babich, to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers.
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The two brothers were initially indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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" David Wilks, a lawyer for North, said his client "remains steadfast that he never engaged in any criminal wrongdoing or that he took part in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the government or the public.
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Cadden, 50, owner and head pharmacist of the New England Compounding Center, was convicted of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, mail fraud and introduction of misbranded drugs into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud and mislead.
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He pleaded guilty to two counts: conspiring to defraud the United States, a charge that encompassed the broad range of financial crimes he was charged with in both cases, and attempting to interfere with witnesses.
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The director was arrested and charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud by the National Fraud & Anti-Corruption Directorate of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary on Monday, the firm said in a statement.
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The charges include, among other things, conspiracy to defraud the United States, acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign principal, filing false income tax returns, bank fraud, and failure to report foreign financial accounts.
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The Justice Department alleged that Elena Khusyaynova, an IRA accountant, had engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the US by helping craft an army of fictitious social media personalities designed to inflame American political tensions.
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Alex Pabon, a 39-year-old American former derivatives trader, was jailed in 2016 alongside three other former Barclays traders for conspiracy to defraud in relation to the manipulation of Libor (London interbank offered rate).
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"The investigation revealed conclusively that the child was never diagnosed with cancer or any other medical condition that was alleged in the GoFundMe solicitation," the department wrote, noting that "scheme to defraud" is a felony.
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The indictment charges Zarrab, Jamshidy, 29, and Najafzadeh, 65, with engaging in conspiracies to defraud the United States, to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, to commit bank fraud and to commit money laundering.
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Prosecutors are fighting a bid by seven former Insys Therapeutics Inc executives and managers to dismiss an indictment alleging they engaged in a racketeering scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe and opioid and defraud insurers.
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After helping three of his clients purchase an insurance company in Florida with a fake check, they then became close investors in Scores, using the company to embezzle funds and defraud investors and the government.
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What Magnitsky uncovered was what the US government has alleged was a shockingly vast criminal conspiracy to defraud not Browder and Hermitage, but the Russian public, of $230 million using the purloined Hermitage corporate documents.
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MOSCOW/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian billionaire and owner of Monaco soccer club, has sued Sotheby's for at least $380 million, alleging the auction house helped his former art adviser to defraud him.
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The indictment charged Kapoor, former Insys Chief Executive Michael Babich and others with conspiring since 2012 to pay bribes to doctors to prescribe the drugmaker's fentanyl-based cancer pain medication Subsys and to defraud insurers.
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Both sides settled nearly four months after U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan ruled for JPMorgan, saying the largest U.S. bank had no obligation to keep Lehman alive and did not defraud it into providing collateral.
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In a decision made public on Monday, U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods in Manhattan said the Securities and Exchange Commission's complaint raised a "strong inference" that Todd Takeyasu and Jeffery Curran intended to defraud investors.
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These settlements exclude charges announced in April against two former State Street executives for scheming to defraud six clients, including Irish and British government pension funds, through secret commissions on billions of dollars of trades.
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Yury Baumblit, 65, and an assistant, Edwin Elie, 42, were arraigned in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Wednesday on felony charges of scheming to defraud and misdemeanor charges of unlawful eviction and criminal contempt.
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But the judge said "it was Enron (and its accountants and lawyers) ... that was responsible for using these transactions to 'cook its books,' creating its allegedly fraudulent financial statements," and ultimately defraud the investing public.
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"The 'petro' is a desperate effort by a corrupt regime to defraud international investors," a senior U.S. administration official told reporters, strongly warning that any transactions in the petro digital currency would violate U.S. sanctions.
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One possible charge would be conspiracy to defraud the United States, the same charge that Mueller slapped on thirteen Russian intelligence operatives in February for making political expenditures to influence the election as foreign nationals.
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The previous year, two nurses who formerly worked for him secretly filed a whistle-blower suit charging "widespread billing schemes" intended to defraud the government, and federal agents executed a search warrant on his clinic.
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If you ignored every blast of hatred from Donald Trump, every attempt to defraud people or stiff those who worked for him, every bellow from the bully, consider his low view of humanity in general.
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Doud and Pietruszewski are both being personally charged with the two counts of conspiracy to distribute drugs and conspiracy to defraud the government, while Pietruszewski is also facing the additional charge regarding suspicious order reports.
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Chombo, who faces charges including trying to defraud the central bank, was detained after the military seized power in "Operation Restore Legacy", which it said was meant to remove "criminals" around former president Robert Mugabe.
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"Defendant Brinkley devised and intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud the BBB and obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representation, and promises," the original indictment said.
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Two publishing companies, IBT Media, which owned the magazine, and Christian Media, a faith-based online publisher in Washington, were charged with trying to defraud lenders by pretending to borrow money for sophisticated computing services.
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Rosemont Seneca Bohai was controlled by Mr. Archer, who left Burisma's board after he was charged in connection with a scheme to defraud pension funds and an Indian tribe of tens of millions of dollars.
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It wasn't until four years later, in 20163, that Ms. Borgoño pleaded guilty to helping her boss, to no benefit of her own, defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States of $24 million.
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Sorrentino and his brother Marc were indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the U.S. after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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Manafort and Gates face charges including conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and failure to register as foreign agents in connection with their political work for a pro-Russia Ukrainian party.
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Concord was charged in 2018 with conspiracy to defraud the United States for its role in election meddling aimed at sowing discord in the United States, helping Trump and harming his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
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Schiff had said he was parodying the president by filling in sinister inferences, but Trump has fixated on the episode to suggest Schiff has tried to defraud the public about the nature of the call.
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The Justice Department charged Mr. Shkreli with multiple conspiracies to defraud investors in two hedge funds he managed and for improperly funneling assets from his first pharmaceutical company, Retrophin, to repay claims by those investors.
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Twitter is a well known home for those looking to defraud oblivious users out of their hard-earned cash or cryptocurrency, and it seems like someone at the company eventually decided that enough was enough.
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Mr. Schmidt admitted conspiring with other Volkswagen employees to mislead and defraud the United States in 2015 by failing to disclose that thousands of diesel cars were rigged to evade detection of excess emissions levels.
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Prosecutors said the company set up a "reimbursement unit" that was used to mislead and defraud insurers who were reluctant to approve the drug when it was used for people who did not have cancer.
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Appearing in US District Court in Baltimore, Pugh, 22015, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and two counts of tax evasion.
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The defendants are being charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States; three defendants also face additional charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and five with charges of aggravated identity theft.
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Last month, addiction recovery mogul Ali Ahmed pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to conspiring to defraud Aetna, Cigna, and other insurers of $21 million for rehab services in Davie, a city in Broward County.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Former Zimbabwe finance minister Ignatius Chombo, among those detained by the military before Robert Mugabe resigned as president, was charged on Saturday with corruption, including trying to defraud the central bank in 2004.
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February 16, 2018 - The Department of Justice announces that Mueller has indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for allegedly meddling in the 103 presidential election, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Excepting the snake who allegedly screwed over Eve, animals in general would seem to lack the complex powers of thought which allow us humans to more or less constantly scam, defraud and double-cross one another.
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The 2014 indictment accused Ronald Calderon of taking bribes from California hospital owner Michael Drobot to preserve a legislative loophole that allowed Drobot to defraud the state's healthcare system out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A San Francisco investment fund manager was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud investors by fabricating an impressive investing track record.
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Some people have been known to hoard scooters in an attempt to defraud the scooter companies, and criminals have used scooters to lure enterprising freelancers into unsafe areas to rob them or worse, according to sources.
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The legal question, which could affect other cases, is whether under the Securities and Exchange Act shareholders need to show intent to defraud when suing a company over statements made during the merger and acquisition process.
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Sorrentino and his brother Marc were indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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Ross McLellan, a former executive vice president at the bank, was previously charged in an indictment filed in Boston federal court with participating in a scheme to defraud six clients in Europe and the Middle East.
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According to a statement from the Department of Justice, Bobby Pitts, 48, conspired to defraud the Navy in connection with an investigation into Leonard Glenn Francis, the owner and CEO of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA).
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A 48-year-old Lithuanian man named Evaldas Rimasauskas managed to defraud internet giants Facebook and Google of $100 million over a span of two years, according to Fortune and the United States Department of Justice.
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Sorrentino and his brother Marc were indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $20183 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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From 2011 to 2013, prosecutors said, Lumiere and others, including portfolio manager Christopher Plaford, schemed to defraud investors by mismarking the value of securities held by the fund, which invested in debt issued by healthcare companies.
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"Donald Trump is nothing but a con man who will say anything to defraud the American people like he did at Trump University, taking four businesses into bankruptcy or hiring foreign workers over Americans," Pounder said.
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Mike and his brother Marc were indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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During the time Ivanka Trump was involved in the business, Moshe Lax allegedly used Madison Avenue Diamonds to defraud the government by transferring partial interest in the business to a holding company for nothing in return.
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The charges against Manafort in Washington include conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to defraud the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government under former President Viktor Yanukovych.
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A former executive at State Street is set to face trial on U.S. charges that he participated in a scheme to defraud the bank's clients by charging them secret commissions on billions of dollars in trades.
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"Individuals who use charitable organizations to defraud donors and evade tax obligations inflict substantial harm on every U.S. taxpayer and cause untold damage to well-intentioned charitable endeavors," added Caroline D. Ciraolo, acting assistant attorney general.
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In a decision made public on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos in Manhattan said shareholders did not show that Express Scripts intended to defraud them, or made false or misleading statements to support their claims.
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DUBLIN, June 3 (Reuters) - An Irish court on Friday acquitted the former finance director of bancassurer Irish Life and Permanent, Peter Fitzpatrick, of conspiracy to defraud investors in the run-up to the country's banking crisis.
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In terms of challenges, Spaxman said he sometimes had to contend with fake accounts that offer non-existent items for sale in an attempt to defraud people actually looking to exchange or purchase spare drone parts.
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Hauschild was charged with conspiracy to defraud over the alleged manipulation of Euribor (the euro interbank offered rate), a Brussels-based benchmark that helps determine rates on around $180 trillion of global financial contracts and loans.
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In recent years, a Berkeley, California business man managed to defraud clients of $45 million worth of wine futures, most of which he spent on cars and women, in what was essentially a glorified pyramid scheme.
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Federal prosecutors charged Elena Khusyaynova, a Russian national, with conspiracy to defraud the United States on Friday for her role in a Russian influence campaign aimed at inflaming American political tensions ahead of the 2018 midterms.
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The indictment said that beginning in 2012, Kapoor, Babich and others devised a scheme to pay speaker fees and other bribes to medical practitioners to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers into approving payment for it.
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A variant of the conspiracy to violate federal election laws is a charge under 18 USC §371, a conspiracy to defraud the United States by impairing and impeding the legitimate functions of the Federal Election Commission.
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That will make it easier to present the case to a jury, which may not have to grapple with a mountain of evidence in trying to discern whether there was an intent to defraud the banks.
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This year, Munich prosecutors arrested Rupert Stadler, the head of Audi, and federal prosecutors in the United States indicted Martin Winterkorn, the former chief executive of Volkswagen, on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the government.
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Mr. Howe was arrested in Manhattan on Thursday night, after a cross-examination in court that afternoon revealed that he had attempted to defraud a credit card company after his cooperation agreement was finalized in 2016.
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He is charged with conspiracy to defraud over the alleged manipulation of Euribor (the euro interbank offered rate), a Brussels-based benchmark that helps determine rates on around $180 trillion of global financial contracts and loans.
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Mr. Atilla was convicted of five of the six counts against him, including bank fraud and conspiracies to violate the Iran sanctions, to defraud the United States, to commit bank fraud and to commit money laundering.
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Hauschild is charged with conspiracy to defraud over the alleged manipulation of Euribor (the euro interbank offered rate), a Brussels-based benchmark that helps determine rates on around $180 trillion of global financial contracts and loans.
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As part of the deferred prosecution agreement in April 2019, RDC waived its right to a criminal indictment and admitted to a pattern of conduct that violated federal narcotics laws and conspiracy to defraud the DEA.
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On Friday, Mr. Keefe announced charges against 29 people, including a federal official, "who actively worked to defraud the federal government and taxpayers of hundreds of thousands of dollars" that were meant for drought-stricken farmers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Lithuanian man on Wednesday pleaded guilty to U.S. charges that he helped orchestrate a scheme to defraud Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google out of more than $100 million, federal prosecutors announced.
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At Mr. Percoco's trial, Mr. Howe testified about a life of lies and unsavory business dealings, but it was only under a withering cross-examination that he admitted to attempting to defraud his credit card company.
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They are accused of conspiring to defraud the United States government in its enforcement of pollution standards under the Clean Air Act, and conspiring to commit wire fraud and to violate the Clean Air Act itself.
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The idea of compensating borrowers when schools mislead or defraud them dates back to the 1970s, when federal officials saw that some colleges were looting the federal student aid program while giving students nothing in return.
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Weir, who trained 2015 Melbourne Cup winner Prince of Penzance, was also charged with conspiracy to defraud stewards of the state racing authority, possessing an unregistered Category A firearm and using the controlled weapon without excuse.
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Oliver Schmidt, a German resident, pleaded guilty in August to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act and violating the Clean Air Act.
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A grand jury indicted Pugh, a Democrat, on the conspiracy to commit wire fraud, seven counts of wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and two counts of tax evasion in a newly-unsealed indictment.
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She said, her voice occasionally shaking, that she was "profoundly shocked" by the vigor with which the case against her was pursued and by the "theories of an imaginary plot" by her to defraud the state.
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NEUQUÉN, Argentina — An Argentine judge has ordered former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to stand trial on charges that she masterminded a plan to defraud the government of over $3 billion through the dollar futures market.
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A Florida eye doctor was convicted on Friday of running a vast scheme to defraud Medicare of more than $90 million in a case that could have significant ramifications for Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey.
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They face charges including conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to defraud the United States and failure to file as foreign agents for lobbying work they did on behalf of the pro-Russian Ukrainian Party of Regions.
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Ramirez headed the agency, which enforces antitrust law and pursues companies that defraud consumers, during what another antitrust enforcer called a "tsunami" of high-value deals in industries that already were dominated by a few large players.
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Prosecutors found a law to use against Khusyaynova, charging her with conspiracy to defraud the United States by acting as an undisclosed foreign agent, in violation of requirements that such agents register and publicly declare their ambitions.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled criminal charges against three more former executives of collapsed Dubai private equity firm Abraaj Capital Ltd, accusing them of taking part in a massive international scheme to defraud investors.
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Mark Nordlicht, Platinum's founding partner and chief investment officer, was arrested at his New Rochelle, New York, as federal prosecutors in Brooklyn accused him and six others of participating in a pair of schemes to defraud investors.
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The crux of the case is that Meng and Huawei allegedly conspired to defraud HSBC Holdings Plc and other banks by misrepresenting Huawei's relationship with Skycom Tech Co Ltd, a suspected front company that operated in Iran.
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"I get the impression that the Princesses may not actually have read the Great Gatsby, seeing as they just read a passage about the smile of a conman about to massively defraud you," wrote one Twitter user.
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A court filing on Friday charged that between 2008 and 2017, Gates and Manafort devised a scheme to defraud the United States to obtain money and property by making false representations to banks and other financial institutions.
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According to the suit, Chuck D says he only became aware of the scheme against him in February, when he finally got his hands on some of the documents that he claims were used to defraud him.
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Sorrentino, 37, and his brother Marc were indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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Oliver Schmidt, who ran Volkswagen's US regulatory compliance office between 2014 and 2015, was arrested on Saturday and will be charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
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Sorrentino, 36, and his brother Marc were indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday for up to three-and-a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country's economy.
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The indictment said that, beginning in 2012, Kapoor, Babich and others devised a scheme to pay speaker fees and other bribes to medical practitioners to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers into approving payment for the product.
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Sorrentino and his brother Marc were initially indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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The Rochester, New York-based company entered a "deferred prosecution agreement" Tuesday waiving its right to a criminal indictment and admitting to a pattern of conduct that violated federal narcotics laws and conspiracy to defraud the DEA.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday brought a new charge against a former State Street Corp executive accused of participating in a scheme to defraud clients by charging them secret commissions on billions of dollars of trades.
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A day after Gorokhov's fall, he had been due to appear in the Moscow City Appeals Court to present new evidence that he claims support Magnitsky's findings of a far-reaching conspiracy to defraud the Russian taxpayer.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston have accused seven former executives and managers at Insys, including billionaire founder John Kapoor, of participating in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe Subsys and to defraud insurers into paying for it.
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He has pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. and conspiring to defraud the United States for activities related to his work in Ukraine mostly before joining the Trump campaign, and agreed to cooperate with the investigation.
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Defense lawyers told a federal judge in Boston that, because the law was unclear at the time whether the FDA or Massachusetts should regulate New England Compounding Center, it was legally impossible to defraud the federal regulator.
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Prosecutors said from 2014 to 2017, Crater and others sought to defraud investors by soliciting investments in My Big Coin, which they falsely claimed was backed by gold and could be traded on a virtual currency exchange.
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Klein, the defendants were convicted of a conspiracy to defraud the government by engaging in certain acts, including altering and falsifying books and records, making false statements in tax returns, and making other misstatements to the IRS.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - An Irish court on Thursday convicted former Irish Life and Permanent chief executive Denis Casey of conspiracy to defraud in the run-up to the banking crisis that forced Ireland to seek an international bailout.
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QUITO (Reuters) - An Ecuadorean court authorized the extradition of Paul Ceglia, a New Yorker charged with trying to defraud Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg, to the United States, Ceglia's lawyer in the Andean country said on Thursday.
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He was charged with 20 felonies, including grand larceny, criminal tax fraud, falsifying business records and a scheme to defraud, relating to accusations he inflated his rental income to secure more than $45 million in bank loans.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A court on Wednesday charged the ex-chairman of a Kenyan bank with conspiring to defraud depositors of 1.7 billion Kenyan shillings ($16 million), in a case that undermined confidence in the country's banking sector.
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" Most recently, in January of this year Huawei, their Iranian subsidiary Skycom, and their CFO Wanzhou Meng were indicted for numerous offenses including "money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of justice and sanctions violations.
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Philippe Moryoussef, a 50-year-old former senior derivatives trader, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud by dishonestly manipulating Euribor - or Euro interbank offered rate - between January 2005 and December 2009 after an 11-week trial.
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In 1988, he was convicted of income tax evasion and mail fraud in addition to the charges of attempting to defraud the IRS, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, of which he served 5 years.
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Sorrentino, 37, and his brother Marc were indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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Two ex-sales representatives for an Alabama-based compounding pharmacy have agreed to plead guilty to charges they engaged in a scheme to defraud healthcare insurers and prescription drug administrators out of tens of millions of dollars.
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This opens the door to questionable supply chains and a whole host of other unknowns, including bad actors hiding behind anonymity, using their companies as a tool to defraud the government, other businesses, and, most importantly, taxpayers.
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They have alleged that around this time he was using the hollow foreign accounts to help him reduce the taxes he paid to the US government and defraud at least one bank into giving him a loan.
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Christian Bittar, a former senior trader at Deutsche Bank, pleaded guilty earlier this month to conspiracy to defraud in the manipulation of a global benchmark interest rate known as Euribor, the Serious Fraud Office said on Thursday.
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He was even thrown into jail in the middle of Mr. Percoco's trial, when he admitted that he had tried to defraud his credit card company at the same time that he was cooperating with the government.
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QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno has blocked the extradition to the United States of a New York man charged with trying to defraud Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg, a document obtained by Reuters showed on Friday.
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Sorrentino, 37, and his brother Marc were indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $20183 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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While Mr. Trump has dismissed the relevance of allegations against Mr. Manafort because they involved business dealings before the campaign, the latest indictment claims that he was scheming to defraud banks while serving as Mr. Trump's chairman.
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Washington (CNN)A California federal judge on Wednesday ordered attorney Michael Avenatti to be held in jail without bond until his trial for probable violations of his pretrial conditions, including allegedly hiding his assets to defraud creditors.
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But he also prepared a related civil complaint, citing the Cook trust and Oesterlund's threatening emails: Oesterlund, Fisher wrote in court papers, was using illegal asset transfers to defraud his wife, the co-owner of his companies.
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After an 63-week trial, 26-year-old former senior derivatives trader Philippe Moryoussef was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud by dishonestly manipulating Euribor (Euro interbank offered rate) for profit between January 22 and December 22005.
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Cybercriminals have developed new methods to defraud digital currency investors, especially as new alternative coins -- or "altcoins" -- continue to regularly join the roughly 85033,442 cryptocurrencies already in circulation, according to a report by intelligence firm Digital Shadows.
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Etienne Uzac and IBT Media are accused of conspiring with two other companies to defraud lenders out of money that the media organization used to keep itself in business, according to an indictment that was unsealed Wednesday.
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He was arrested in early February after admitting under cross-examination that he had tried to defraud his credit card company after he had already signed his cooperation agreement and promised not to commit any more crimes.
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DUBLIN, June 9 (Reuters) - An Irish court on Thursday convicted the former chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent, Denis Casey, of conspiracy to defraud investors, depositors and lenders in the run-up to the country's banking crisis.
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Security specialists say news events like the TSB outage are the perfect hook for scammers, largely because people using social media may identify themselves as a customer of a given firm making it easier for them to defraud.
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During a press conference on Thursday, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina revealed a shocking discovery about the homeless man who was charged with allegedly working with a New Jersey couple to defraud people in an elaborate GoFundMe scam.
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Susanne Rüegg Meier, a former manager with Credit Suisse, pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia to conspiring to defraud the United States through her work heading of a team of bankers, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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Manafort has been sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison between his sentencing for conspiring to defraud the federal government and tamper with witnesses and his sentencing on tax and bank fraud charges.
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A common thread through Downing's arguments was also that the financial issues at play were complicated, and that even if Manafort's documents included wrong information, the government failed to show he intended to defraud the government or banks.
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The 12-count indictment accused the two men of conspiring to defraud the US government, money laundering, failing to register with the government as agents for foreign entities, failing to report foreign bank accounts, and making false statements.
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Sorrentino, 36, and his brother Marc were initially indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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The London jury is continuing to deliberate over one remaining count of conspiracy to defraud against a sixth broker, Darrell P. Read, who worked at the British financial firm ICAP, after it was unable to reach a verdict.
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Sorrentino, 36, and his brother Marc were initially indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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Cohen's father-in-law, Fima Shusterman, has been in the taxi business for decades, and was charged in the early 1990s with knowingly conspiring to defraud the IRS as part of a money laundering and tax fraud scheme.
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As previously detailed, the companies used fake employees, copycat corporate websites, a portfolio of more than 214 Android apps and websites, and advanced techniques for creating fake traffic to defraud brands and other players in the ad industry.
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Eight years later, after she'd won the mayoralty, a federal grand jury indicted Taylor, her husband John Taylor, and her sister Elvira Smith for conspiracy to defraud the IRS, as well as making false statements to federal investigators.
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Republicans in Congress have used Rob Undersander, a millionaire in Minnesota who signed up for food stamps under categorical eligibility, as a kind of mascot in the debate, trying to prove that the program was easy to defraud.
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A statement from the Anti-Corruption Commission said the 45-year-old Watson was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to defraud, fraud on the government, conflict of interest and breach of trust by a public official.
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Andrew Skeene, a former director of Global Forestry Investments, has been charged with three counts of conspiracy to defraud, four offenses of forgery, misconduct and making a false statement between 2010 and 2015, the SFO said on Tuesday.
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In November 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Los Angeles finance executive Morrie Tobin for his role in an attempt to defraud investors in two public pharmaceutical companies through a so-called "pump and dump" stock scheme.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A former employee of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Monday to having conspired to defraud insurers into paying for an expensive fentanyl-based drug that is at the heart of an investigation into the company.
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The indictment filed on Wednesday added a new allegation that McLellan with others sought to defraud an unnamed New York-based insurance company by applying hidden fees to fixed income trades conducted for funds advised by the insurer.
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Trump had urged his Twitter followers to "watch" Cohen's father-in-law, who was placed on probation in the mid-1990s after pleading guilty in a case in which he was charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS.
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He said Kapoor also sought to defraud insurers into paying for Subsys and carried out the scheme with the help of his co-defendants, former Insys executives and managers Michael Gurry, Richard Simon, Sunrise Lee and Joseph Rowan.
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NEW YORK, June 13 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled criminal charges against three former executives of collapsed Dubai private equity firm Abraaj Capital Ltd, accusing them of taking part in a massive international scheme to defraud investors.
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From the Post's report: A smoking-gun email from Eli Manning proves he quarterbacked a conspiracy to defraud collectors by pawning off phony game-worn gear as the real deal, according to court documents obtained by The Post.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A second former State Street Corp executive is expected to plead guilty in connection with what U.S. prosecutors say was a scheme to defraud six clients through secret illicit commissions on billions of dollars of trades.
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But these indictments paint a picture of something much broader, akin to the first layer of an onion being peeled back on Russia's broad, multi-year information operation to defraud the United States and boost Donald Trump's candidacy.
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But instead of simply banning the bad actor from listing new products, Google Shopping's trust and safety team initiated a global probe that ultimately tracked down 5,000 merchant accounts wrapped up in a sophisticated scheme to defraud users.
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The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled that investors suing the Cambridge-based biopharmaceutical company had failed to allege facts that could lead to an inference that Sarepta and its executives intended to defraud shareholders.
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Huffman, Loughlin and Loughlin's husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, were among 50 people named last Tuesday in an alleged conspiracy to defraud and undermine competitive student admissions at elite colleges and universities, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A former State Street Corp executive has agreed to plead guilty in connection with a scheme to defraud six clients through secret commissions on billions of dollars of trades, according to court papers filed on Tuesday.
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Brooks and Debord were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, and Pitts was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and two counts of obstruction of justice, the department said.
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BOSTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc has been indicted on U.S. charges that he participated in a scheme with other executives to bribe doctors to prescribe a fentanyl-based drug and defraud insurers.
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Andrew Skeene, a former director of Global Forestry Investments, has been charged with three counts of conspiracy to defraud, four offences of forgery, misconduct and making a false statement between 2010 and 2015, the SFO said on Tuesday.
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British prosecutors had been granted warrants in 2016 for the arrest of four Germans, who they said were part of a conspiracy to defraud in relation to their alleged role in manipulating Euribor, the euro interbank offered rate.
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He is also accused of using the offshore accounts to defraud banks by taking out mortgages that made him appear to have more liquid assets than he actually had, enabling him to obtain better interest rates on loans.
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Matsumoto issued an order late Sunday barring Shkreli's lawyers from arguing to jurors that he lacked the "intent to defraud" because some of the investors he is accused of defrauding actually ended up making money on their investments.
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" Rule 103b-5 prohibits three types of violations: employing any "device, scheme or artifice to defraud"; making a false statement or omitting information that misleads investors; or engaging in conduct that "would operate as a fraud or deceit.
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But defense lawyers relentlessly assailed Mr. Howe's credibility — armed, in particular, with his arrest during the trial after he admitted on the witness stand to trying to defraud his credit card company, and hiding the attempt from prosecutors.
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Manafort has been under increasing pressure to cooperate with Mueller's probe, especially after his former business partner and former Trump aide Rick Gates pleaded guilty last month to lying to investigators and conspiring to defraud the United States.
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Perhaps a more difficult issue to proving a violation of Rule 10b-5 would be showing that the defendant acted with an intent to defraud, or at least was reckless in making statements that were misleading or incomplete.
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In April, a federal jury found the former congressman, Steve Stockman, 2120, guilty on 23 counts — including money laundering, conspiracy and making false statements — after prosecutors alleged that he had orchestrated a yearslong scheme to defraud charitable donors.
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In February, when a grand jury indicted 13 Russians and three Russian organizations accused of undertaking a covert operation to manipulate American social media and help the Trump campaign, the charges included conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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But his assertions are increasingly difficult to defend after Volkswagen pleaded guilty in the United States last week to criminal charges that included conspiracy to defraud the government, violations of the Clean Air Act and obstruction of justice.
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The executive, Oliver Schmidt, a German who is the former top emissions compliance manager for Volkswagen in the United States, was arrested on Saturday by investigators in Florida on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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U.S. authorities last Wednesday accused Galanis of enlisting six others to defraud clients who invested in over $60 million in bonds issued by the Wakpamni Lake Community Corp, an affiliate of the Oglala Sioux Nation in South Dakota.
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Last week, Bulgarian authorities arrested him following an Interpol Red Notice on a U.S. Department of Justice indictment for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and violate the Syria embargo by selling aircraft parts to Syrian Arab Airlines.
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There's evidence Russian meddling has continued into the 2018 election; federal prosecutors charged 44-year-old Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, of St. Petersburg, Russia, with conspiracy to defraud the United States for her work with the Internet Research Agency.
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But in October, prosecutors allowed Mr. Canellas to renegotiate and enter a new plea to a charge of scheme to defraud, a much lower felony count, and they agreed to cut in half the recommended time in prison.
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The government has stripped several nonprofits of their tax exemptions for breaking the law over the years, including organizations that used their charitable status to defraud donors and, in the 1940s and '50s, groups suspected of supporting communism.
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By Nate Raymond A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a whistleblower lawsuit against Wells Fargo & Co after concluding the False Claims Act can be used to sue companies who defraud the Federal Reserve System's emergency lending facilities.
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The attorney general also found that Devumi's sale of fake accounts using identifying details stolen from real people violated a New York statute that prohibits impersonating someone with an intent to obtain a benefit or defraud another person.
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Ordering subordinates to lie in an ongoing federal investigation can indeed be grounds for obstruction of justice, and an agreement to go along with such a policy could be a conspiracy to obstruct or defraud the United States.
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To arrive at that total, Judge Jackson gave him a 60-month sentence for the charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, with half of that to be served concurrently with his Virginia sentence for financial crimes.
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At Tuesday's sentencing, Miller advocated for a state sentence for Weaver-Gates "since her callousness evidenced an unusually cruel scheme to defraud people who were at their most vulnerable, friends and relatives of real cancer survivors," Miller tells PEOPLE.
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An owner of a New York cosmetic testing company was arrested on Friday on charges that he engaged in a two-decade scheme to defraud its customers out of tens of millions of dollars by falsifying laboratory test results.
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The reality star and his brother Marc were initially indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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Trump repeatedly has made public mention of Cohen's father-in-law, Fima Shusterman, who was placed on probation in the mid-1990s after pleading guilty in a case in which he was charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS.
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The 35-year-old and his brother were initially indicted in September 2014 for tax offenses and conspiring to defraud the United States after allegedly failing to properly pay taxes on $8.9 million in income from 2010 to 2012.
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Nordlicht, Levy and Jeffrey Shulse, former chief executive officer of Platinum's majority-owned Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC, also schemed to defraud bondholders of Black Elk, a now-defunct Texas energy company, out of $50 million, prosecutors said.
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The indictment also alleges Manafort and Gates, along with others, conspired to defraud the United States by "impeding, impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful governmental functions" of the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department between 2006 and 2017.
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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged a Barclays foreign exchange trader based in New York over his alleged role in a scheme to defraud a client of the bank, the DoJ said.
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Jurors also found NECC co-owner Gregory Conigliaro and Sharon Carter, its former director of operations, guilty of conspiring to defraud the U.S. Food and Drug Administration into thinking NECC was a compounding pharmacy that should be state regulated.
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Mikal Watts was among five defendants found not guilty by a Mississippi federal jury of charges related to an alleged scheme to defraud a program set up by BP to compensate people who suffered economic losses from the spill.
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A 16-count indictment accuses him with three counts of residential mortgage fraud, a single count of attempted residential mortgage fraud, three counts of conspiracy, eight counts of falsifying business records, and one count of a scheme to defraud.
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Other moves have included shutting down vast bot networks used to defraud advertisers, suppressing links from websites with bad ad experiences, and adding warning labels to links from sites that tend to get low ratings from reputable fact-checkers.
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Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, who is Ren's daughter, was arrested in Canada in December and faces extradition to the United States on charges she conspired to defraud global banks about Huawei's relationship with a company operating in Iran.
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Trump last week urged people to "watch" Cohen's father-in-law, Fima Shusterman, who was placed on probation in the mid-1990s after pleading guilty in a case in which he was charged with conspiring to defraud the IRS.
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Under the deal, a criminal case charging that the company's Bank Julius Baer & Co, Ltd unit conspired to defraud the United States and to file false tax returns would be dismissed after three years if various conditions are met.
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Stylianos Contogoulas and Ryan Reich deny one count of dishonestly skewing Libor, a benchmark for interest rates on about $2000 trillion of financial contracts and loans worldwide, to boost profits and defraud others between June 2005 and September 2007.
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"Hirst and his co-conspirators issued large amounts of stock, lied about their roles, and found other novel means to defraud the stockholders of Gerova Financial and the investing public," acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said in a statement.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday for up to three-and-a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country's economy.
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At the start of a trial in Manhattan, Randy Mastro, Tilton's lawyer, told an administrative law judge that the founder of New York-based Patriarch Partners did not defraud investors, who were instead well aware of her investment strategy.
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They had been each indicted on felony charges of tampering with a governmental record with the intent to defraud, for using fake identity documents; Mr. Daleiden had faced an additional misdemeanor charge related to offering to purchase human organs.
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A search of court judgments online and news reports of court verdicts turns up dozens of instances across China of gangs killing vagrants and workers in dark, isolated chambers far underground, and using the deaths to defraud mine owners.
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McKinsey, with nearly 30,000 employees in more than 120 cities, countered that Alix could not show intent to defraud or any direct injury, including in 13 bankruptcies where he said its conflicts would have disqualified it from being hired.
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Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland was already out on bail facing two counts of federal wire fraud this winter when he began orchestrating a scheme to defraud the victims of his earlier scams of an additional $100,000, prosecutors say.
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Prigozhin and Concord were both charged in 2018, along with 12 other individuals and two other entities, with conspiracy to defraud the United States for their alleged role in election meddling aimed at sowing discord in the United States.
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In a separate deal, Mr. Baumblit also pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Supreme Court to scheming to defraud tenants by evicting them illegally, putting their belongings on the street, removing their mattresses and preventing them from cooking by breaking stoves.
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Prigozhin and Concord were both charged in 2018, along with 12 other individuals and two other entities, with conspiracy to defraud the United States for their alleged role in election meddling aimed at sowing discord in the United States.
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If Mr. Shkreli testifies, the lawyer said, he will discuss why he worked on these companies, how hard he worked on them, and whether he intended to defraud or was trying to make good on money he lost trading.
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It is the threat of economic harm that is enough to prove the case, and deceiving investors about the potential losses they might suffer can establish a scheme to defraud because serendipity — unlike good faith — is not a defense.
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Prosecutors said from 2011 to 2016, the defendants engaged in a scheme to defraud the Mexican government of tax revenue relating to its value-added tax (VAT) and then launder the scheme's proceeds throughout the United States and Mexico.
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She believes that prosecutors could charge the participants with seeking to defraud the United States under 18 U.S.C. 371 by going to a meeting to hear evidence that another party may have committed a crime … against the United States.
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The former chief executive of an Indiana drug compounding facility was sentenced on Wednesday to 2-3/4 years in prison after being convicted of conspiring to defraud regulators and distributing over- and under-potent drugs to U.S. hospitals.
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