I wouldn't say that Draper and Ellison were defrauded the way later investors were defrauded. Exactly.
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If you defrauded the state, you defrauded it when you are a New York state resident.
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Prosecutors said they also defrauded insurers into paying for Subsys.
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Judging defrauded holders of partial credits against graduates seems unfair.
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But in the second, it's the voters who get defrauded.
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The scheme also defrauded insurers into paying for the drug.
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"I thought he was getting scammed, defrauded," she said later.
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Prosecutors in Manhattan have said Avenatti defrauded Daniels out of proceeds from a book contract, while prosecutors in California said he defrauded other clients and lied to the Internal Revenue Service and a bankruptcy court.
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He's conned them, he's defrauded them, and he's ripped them off.
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"Hillary defrauded America as Secy of State," he wrote on Twitter.
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Prosecutors said McFarland defrauded investors and ticket vendors of $26 million.
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When, unfortunately, they allegedly defrauded Medicare of multiple millions of dollars!
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Ratepayers also sued the company, saying the utility had defrauded them.
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Barka defrauded victims of more than $29 million, the department said.
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They allege that Holmes and Balwani defrauded investors, doctors and patients.
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Additionally, it would eliminate the existing protections for students who have been legally defrauded, known as borrower defense, and put in place new rules that make it more difficult for defrauded students to have their loans discharged.
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"While the department has been searching for a legal method of shortchanging defrauded borrowers, those defrauded borrowers have been left with mountains of debt, worthless degrees, and none of the job opportunities they were promised," he added.
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"While the department has been searching for a legal method of shortchanging defrauded borrowers, those defrauded borrowers have been left with mountains of debt, worthless degrees and none of the job opportunities they were promised," he added.
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Prosecutors said he defrauded investors and ticket vendors of about $26 million.
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Prosecutors said they also defrauded insurers into paying for the pain treatment.
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Instead, those students sued, saying Trump and his eponymous university defrauded them.
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Food Philip Baker admitted that he had defrauded his hedge fund clients.
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He is after Favraux, a shady banker who has defrauded several people.
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The lawsuits alleged that the for-profit university misled and defrauded students.
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There is no question that students who are defrauded should be protected.
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Mr. Baldwin filed a lawsuit in 21, saying he had been defrauded.
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The feds claim this shows USC, with the exception of Heinel, was defrauded.
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The suits also claim Questcor defrauded Medicare by illegally marketing H.P. Acthar Gel.
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Never in U.S.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal.
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An anonymous "company 1," a digital payments service, was defrauded in the process.
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In other words: He defrauded clients, for which he later paid a settlement.
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The pharmaceutical executive apologized to investors he defrauded in a securities fraud conviction.
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The suspects had defrauded people of six million yuan ($900,000), the ministry said.
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He ultimately settled for $22018 million with students who said they'd been defrauded.
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Besides the extortion trial, Avenatti also faces an April trial in New York on charges that he defrauded Daniels of book proceeds and a May trial in Los Angeles on charges that he defrauded clients and others of millions of dollars.
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The three allegedly defrauded Deishley of nearly $1 million, according to the Review-Journal.
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Mudd has refused to settle, saying the SEC has not shown he defrauded investors.
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He's been charged with looting his former biotech company to pay back defrauded investors.
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Zhang claims he cannot repay because he has been defrauded by a third-party.
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The suits claim Apple defrauded iPhone users by slowing down their devices without warning.
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Eurochem alleged that a subsidiary of IMR had defrauded them in a mining deal.
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He later pleaded guilty to leading a scheme that defrauded investors of $700 million.
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Students defrauded by for-profit schools can expect no help from the Education Secretary.
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The report revealed the weak and easily defrauded requirements to receive an enterprise certificate.
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Prosecutors say he defrauded investors who helped finance a controversial minor league baseball stadium.
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Under the rule, those students don't have to submit documents proving they were defrauded.
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Service members unlawfully fired because of their military service, or defrauded by predatory lenders.
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However, a police document issued in December declared that Fanya had defrauded 238,600 investors.
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"The expectations of Angolans are high and they cannot continue to be defrauded," Lourenço said.
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If you become more alarmed and believe that he is being defrauded, disconnect the app.
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They sought to make it easier for defrauded student loan borrowers to seek debt forgiveness.
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In some cases, disaster victims found out they had been defrauded when applying for aid.
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If it's a case where you have defrauded investors, they are going to be angry.
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Through his lawyer, Mr. Kay denied he ever misled Mr. Brown, much less defrauded him.
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The person who had defrauded him, using a new email address, sent him a response.
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" He added, "Never in U.S.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal.
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I said rogue trader John Rusnak had defrauded its U.S. subsidiary Allfirst of $212 million.
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In August, the DOE made it harder than ever for defrauded students to obtain relief.
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The SEC is asking the court to order Shapiro to reimburse the allegedly defrauded investors.
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Many of the strikers attended for-profit colleges that allegedly misled or defrauded their students.
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The suits alleged Trump defrauded people who enrolled in real estate seminars he started in 2005.
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The cases alleged Trump defrauded people who enrolled in real estate seminars he started in 2005.
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He defrauded investors out of millions of dollars, and his company's treasurer was arrested for embezzlement.
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He sued his business managers for $25 million, claiming they defrauded him by masking his debts.
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Only 44 percent of voters were bothered "a lot" by allegations that Trump University defrauded students.
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One such rule allows students who were defrauded by for-profit colleges to seek loan forgiveness.
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Schneiderman has said that students were defrauded out of $40 million, while Trump pocketed $5 million.
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The jury found that Rathburn defrauded customers by supplying body parts infected with HIV and hepatitis.
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OneCoin defrauded investors to the tune of $3.8 billion, for example, with a non-existent cryptocurrency.
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The "pharma bro" also posted he had actually paid West via bitcoin, but was somehow defrauded.
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Curiel is overseeing three lawsuits that allege Trump University defrauded students and saddled them with debt.
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Whether a student debtor succeeded after being defrauded bears no direct relationship to the fraud itself.
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U.S. prosecutors filed civil lawsuits in July alleging that over $3.5 billion was defrauded from 1MDB.
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Trump is being sued for his connection to the real estate school, which allegedly defrauded students.
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"The defendants and their co-conspirators exploited and defrauded women, misrepresenting health risks," Mr. Donoghue said.
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"Students who have been defrauded and suffered harm should absolutely be made whole," Ms. Hill said.
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Prosecutors charged he illegally used a pharmaceutical company he founded, Retrophin, to repay defrauded MSMB investors.
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Instead he defrauded contributors of $87,000, which he spent on designer clothes, expensive meals and trips.
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Advocates also worry that loan discharges for students who say they were defrauded have hit roadblocks.
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" Any "edits were done in good faith," Mr. Moskowitz said, and ultimately, "no homeowners got defrauded.
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Some students allege the program defrauded them, teaching them little and leaving them saddled with debt.
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Prosecutors said the two men defrauded investors who helped finance a controversial minor league baseball stadium.
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"Guys who go out on a meeting risk being killed, robbed, beaten, blackmailed, defrauded and detained".
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He said Manafort had hid his income from Ukraine, lied to federal authorities and defrauded banks.
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"Guys who go out on a meeting risk being killed, robbed, beaten, blackmailed, defrauded and detained".
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Some students who claimed their colleges defrauded them will no longer get their loans forgiven entirely.
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Right, and then potentially defrauded investors, but she was potentially putting patients in harm's way. Right.
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He sees his service as a way to help ordinary people, especially older Americans, from being defrauded.
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Donald Trump paid out millions of dollars to former students he allegedly defrauded at a fake university.
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Federal authorities said TelexFree morphed into a pyramid scheme that defrauded people out of around $1 billion.
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And just like that, a man who paid out students he'd defrauded was poised to take office.
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The suit, which claimed Trump University defrauded students, was also filed by the New York AG's office.
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Some of those people might not have heard that Donald Trump cheated his workers or defrauded students.
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Abraaj's executives are facing U.S. charges that they defrauded their investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Investigators said that the scam defrauded the Brazilian social security system by an estimated 240,000 reals ($64,830).
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But many of the defrauded students didn't finish, because Corinthian shut down before they completed their coursework.
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Any borrowers who believe they have been defrauded can also apply under a separate loan forgiveness program.
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You should file a complaint only if you believe you've been defrauded — simply losing money isn't enough.
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I'm pleading with President Obama to cancel the debts of all defrauded borrowers before he leaves office.
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Those students who were defrauded would still be eligible for loan forgiveness, she said at the time.
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Mr. Nemazee was charged in 2009 with orchestrating a scheme that defrauded banks of nearly $300 million.
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Trump University is facing multiple lawsuits nationwide alleging it defrauded students and left them with crushing debt.
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In reality, the person was probably defrauded by whomever convinced them to send his or her coins.
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Trump added that "never in U.S. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters" like the Connecticut Democrat.
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DeVos's move marks a departure from Obama-era rules, which allowed full loan forgiveness to defrauded students.
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The Obama administration also tried to channel loan relief to graduates who were defrauded by their colleges.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVosElizabeth (Betsy) Dee DeVosDeVos releases new loan forgiveness rule for students defrauded by their colleges The new terrain of the school voucher wars Black Education Department employee's office allegedly vandalized MORE on Friday unveiled a new loan forgiveness policy for students defrauded by their colleges.
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The lawsuits involve accusations that the automaker violated environmental laws and defrauded regulators with emissions-cheating diesel vehicles.
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He claimed the bank had defrauded him after it later resold his stake for a much higher sum.
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Mayer paid this amount to the IB for purposes of reimbursing the defrauded customers, according to the order.
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What's left of Theranos is still struggling in court against its former lenders, who say they were defrauded.
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And she has revamped the process for approving debt relief for defrauded students, granting only some partial relief.
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Its owner had filed several complaints with the courts, arguing that he was being defrauded, the agency added.
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When Mr Sanea's empire collapsed in 2009 in the financial crisis, it had defrauded more than 100 banks.
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In 2006, investigators discovered that he had defrauded investors of more than $300 million in a Ponzi scheme.
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This helps explain why investors who have lost life savings continue to support the companies that defrauded them.
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Lawyer Jacqueline Schaap said De Mol's reputation suffered damage when people clicked on the ads and were defrauded.
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Madison was convicted in November of unrelated charges that he defrauded insurers into paying for unperformed chiropractic procedures.
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He said the bank had defrauded him after it later resold his stake for a much higher sum.
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I also fought to persuade the Department to cancel the loans of defrauded students, including thousands in Massachusetts.
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And second, if they believed that the school they attended had either violated state law or defrauded them.
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The new policy is a departure from Obama-era rules, which provided full loan forgiveness to defrauded students.
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Frotman's resignation comes as the Department of Education continues to propose changes regarding aid meant for defrauded students.
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His guilty plea is all about his real estate Ponzi scheme -- he defrauded actor Dustin Hoffman, among others.
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Sewell's case was one of the first to show prosecutors and attorneys how Medicare Advantage could be defrauded.
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"Volkswagen deceived American regulators and defrauded American consumers for years," U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider said in a statement.
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" He said withdrawing would mean proving the defense attorney had either defrauded the client or was "wildly incompetent.
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The company ran a 19-year criminal scheme that defrauded NASA, the Department of Defense, and other entities.
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PNB has been defrauded of over $2 billion in a separate scam that came to light last year.
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The federal prosecutors allege Holmes and Balwani defrauded doctors, patients, and investors of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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That sounds like something you would deem suitable for somebody who defrauded a chapter, stole money, lied, plagiarized.
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The scheme defrauded Google out of $23 million and Facebook out of $99 million, according to that order.
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Tapie later claimed the bank defrauded him after it later resold his stake for a much higher sum.
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Banamex was defrauded of about $400 million by an oil services company with a history of questionable dealings.
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The change creates a complicated sliding scale on which defrauded students' relief is calculated using group earnings data.
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Brafman said he believed there were fewer than 10 people whom the government argued were defrauded by Shkreli.
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Democrats often tout the $85033 million in restitution the CFPB won for more than 30 million defrauded consumers.
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Kalanick calls Benchmark's claims — that he defrauded the firm into signing amendments to the board's voting agreements — fabrications.
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And the National Association of Attorneys General says that millions of Americans are defrauded by illicit telemarketers every year.
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Eventually the firm discovered the unauthorized trades and transfers and promptly reimbursed the defrauded customers $105,090, the CFTC said.
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Trump continued tweeting about Blumenthal, saying that "never in US history has anyone lied or defrauded voters" like him.
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NORDLICHT, LEVY WERE FOUND NOT GUILTY OF CHARGES THEY DEFRAUDED INVESTORS IN PLATINUM HEDGE FUNDS IN 'PONZI-LIKE' SCHEME
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According to the court documents, the suspects pocketed almost $2 million in schemes that defrauded more than 1,500 victims.
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If all three insurers that Williams defrauded had referred him, his case could have been prioritized and stopped sooner.
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Every year, $3 billion is stolen or defrauded from millions of seniors, according to the US Department of Justice.
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The people being defrauded are the players and the fans—of the sport, not necessarily just of the team.
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An Education Department regulation to streamline relief for students defrauded by their school is in its final review stages.
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Stoltmann primarily represents defrauded investors in lawsuits across the country against companies like Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, and UBS.
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That's essentially what Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced last week for students defrauded by for-profit chain Corinthian Colleges.
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The more professional ingenuity they showed despite being defrauded by Corinthian, the less money they will get in restitution.
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Let's go through-- New Yorker says-- says 2 million customers are known to be explicitly defrauded, true or false?
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He also allegedly defrauded terminally ill cancer patients, treating them with baking-soda infusions instead of traditional medical treatments.
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I was an authenticator for the Russian mob, I was a dealer, a stupid collector who has been defrauded.
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Most of the sum goes to customers defrauded by the scammers, and the remainder belongs to the U.S. Treasury.
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Now, Zinni is taking legal action in federal court in California -- claiming Floyd damaged their reputation and defrauded them.
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In the meantime, those who say they were defrauded by Mr. Oei have seen their lives turned upside down.
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Samuel and Jose Manuel Morales are accused of facilitating false receipts that defrauded the national property registry in 2013.
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In 1993, Congress ordered the secretary of education to develop a process allowing defrauded students to seek loan forgiveness.
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A criminal conspiracy to steal the software, the investigator said, had defrauded Rambler of 51 million rubles, around $810,000.
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The justices also struggled to decide a second legal question: whether the Port Authority had been defrauded of anything.
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Last year, the department limited how much in loan forgiveness students who were defrauded by their colleges could receive.
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"If a student has actually been defrauded, it is not harder at all to receive loan relief," Broadwater said.
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The phenomenon has been marred by various scams and failed projects, leading to concerns that investors are being defrauded.
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Dick Durbin asked DeVos why it was taking so long for the department to give defrauded students a break.
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Some of the arrests involved criminal organizations that defrauded businesses, with others involving individual victims involved in wire transfer.
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Two years ago, Judge King certified the class, meaning he officially allowed defrauded customers to band together and sue jointly.
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The students claim they were defrauded, including by false claims that he had handpicked instructors to teach them his secrets.
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In its pilot episode, Johnny, Moira, and their two kids, David and Alexis (Annie Murphy), learn that they've been defrauded.
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They claim they were defrauded of their business in Russia in a way similar to that experienced by Mr Browder.
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It's heartbreaking in any case, but especially so when those old people are defrauded via their weakness for line dancing.
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Speaking to reporters after a court hearing, Brafman said the reason was the unrelated criminal charges that Shkreli defrauded investors.
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Schneiderman alleges that Trump University defrauded students who enrolled expecting to learn Trump's secrets to making money in real estate.
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PJT on April 8 said Caspersen also defrauded a small number of family and friends out of another $14 million.
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This is far from the first time that a major tech company has been defrauded out of millions of dollars.
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In the ad, the PAC argues that when Scott was CEO of health-care company Columbia/HCA, he defrauded taxpayers.
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The prospect of a taxpayer bailout for defrauded students could run into the billions of dollars depending on eligibility rules.
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After all, if Theranos were a public company, there would be a slew of lawsuits claiming that shareholders were defrauded.
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The idea was that he defrauded the Senate, by providing false information, in order to get confirmed for his judgeship.
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They allege he looted millions of dollars from Retrophin to repay the investors he had defrauded at his hedge funds.
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And let's not forget all those sophisticated banks that willingly lent that money and have not claimed to be defrauded.
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In June 2012, Left published a research report in which he said that Evergrande was insolvent and had defrauded investors.
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In June 2012, Left published a research report in which he claimed that Evergrande was insolvent and had defrauded investors.
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A trio of lawsuits allege the controversial for-profit real estate program defrauded participants and left them with crushing debt.
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"Today's decision is a huge win for defrauded borrowers around the country," said Murray, an attorney representing the students suing.
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A billion dollars was allegedly defrauded from a major Moldovan Bank Economii with his – and other politicians' - participation. http://www.vedomosti.
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"The bottom line is, there was overwhelming evidence that Russian operatives hacked American computers and defrauded American citizens," Rosenstein said.
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In December 2017, the S.E.C. accused Woodbridge of running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 8,400 investors, many of them elderly.
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Srimushnam says he sympathizes with people who have been defrauded and urges them to report their experiences to the FTC.
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She's also changed guidelines around erasing loans for students defrauded by for-profit institutions, making loan forgiveness harder to get.
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The authorities have already arrested people who have been involved in virtual currency operations that defrauded investors, the regulators said.
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"We were shocked the new Education Department didn't even want to hear about complaints from defrauded veterans," Ms. Wofford said.
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The Education Department has drafted a plan that will make it more difficult for defrauded students to receive loan forgiveness.
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Some operators were so bold that they sued insurers that had stopped paying after they realized they were being defrauded.
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And in June, a Brooklyn man allegedly defrauded three immigrants, claiming he could get them green cards and work permits.
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But he also faces trial in May in Los Angeles on charges that he defrauded clients of millions of dollars.
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At trial, a jury agreed unanimously that Manafort had defrauded the IRS by making false claims on his tax statements.
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Prosecutors additionally claim Shkreli used sham consulting agreements from Retrophin to facilitate a number of such payoffs to defrauded investors.
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If homeowners were defrauded or lost equity, they could file a petition in the forfeiture proceeding to be made whole.
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They also slammed the bank for pursuing arbitrated settlements with defrauded consumers as Democrats hone in on the controversial practice.
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But as the probe grew into a full-blown investigation he abruptly recanted, suggesting that Obokata might have defrauded him.
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Prosecutors have said Shkreli defrauded investors in a hedge fund and misappropriated $11 million in assets from Retrophin to repay them.
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U.S. prosecutors are probing whether Valeant defrauded insurers by shrouding its ties to Philidor, the Wall Street Journal reported on Aug.
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Washington (CNN)Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is facing another lawsuit over the department's loan forgiveness program aimed at helping defrauded students.
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The Borrower Defense rule creates a way for students to apply for loan forgiveness if they were defrauded by a college.
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Around 0003,000 people have filed claims with the government that their school defrauded them, and new applications continue to pour in.
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The department told him that because he hadn't personally been defrauded, it would not be able to act on his complaint.
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Mayo said new CEO Tim Sloan, elevated late Wednesday from president and COO, has the opportunity to really compensate defrauded customers.
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Nissen's case is the second since January alleging that investors were defrauded over ticket sales to "Hamilton" and other popular events.
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The IRS must show that the offending taxpayer willfully defrauded the government in order for this penalty to apply, Blank said.
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In 2014, a Michigan neurologist was arrested after federal prosecutors said he defrauded Medicare of $7 million and improperly prescribed Subsys.
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"He has wasted all our time, he generated false expectations and he has defrauded us," he told parliament before the vote.
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Prosecutors said he defrauded at least two investors and used false stock ownership documentation in an effort to legitimize the project.
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Wells Fargo Securities and Rhode Island's economic development agency defrauded investors to finance the company, called 38 Studios, the SEC said.
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If you do suspect you've been defrauded, call your bank immediately and attempt to stop any payments before they are finalized.
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Thousands of people across the US have been defrauded by criminals posing as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the phone.
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Some Abraaj executives are facing charges in the United States that they defrauded their investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Benchmark sued Kalanick after ousting him as CEO of the world's most valuable privately held company, claiming that he defrauded them.
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Indeed, the booms of cryptocurrency trading have led to market manipulations in Initial Coin Offerings in which unwitting investors are defrauded.
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" By the 1980s, Ronald Reagan was slashing government spending and asserting that taxpayers were being defrauded by undeserving black "welfare queens.
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The trickery earned Ponzi his own namesake scheme, made notorious by Bernard Madoff, who defrauded clients of more than $50 billion.
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"No student should be defrauded, and if fraud is involved, there are consequences, and there will be consequences," Ms. DeVos replied.
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The state's attorney general claims the city inflated taxi license prices by 240% for more than a decade and defrauded drivers.
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More than 160,000 people have claimed to the government that their school defrauded them, and new applications continue to pour in.
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The criminal case related to accusations that Shkreli defrauded multiple people who had invested in two hedge funds he previously ran.
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Avenatti has denied the accusation that he defrauded his star client out of $300,000 owed to her for a book deal.
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Those transactions are at the heart of a federal racketeering lawsuit brought by a tobacco cooperative, which says it was defrauded.
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" Trump went on to say that Blumenthal "defrauded voters" and "cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child.
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Ellis struggled on Thursday reckoning how Manafort's crimes could be punished harshly when the banks he defrauded saw little financial loss.
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The parents sued under the False Claims Act, which allows individuals to make claims that the federal government has been defrauded.
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Then, after his money in Ukraine dried up, they allege he defrauded banks by lying about his income on loan applications.
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When the average American gets injured, defrauded and harassed every year, they end up owning something against their will: a lawsuit.
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Andrew Caspersen pleaded guilty to charges that he defrauded friends, relatives and a hedge fund billionaire's foundation of nearly $40 million.
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Prosecutors claim that Shkreli used sham Retrophin consulting contracts with defrauded investors at his hedge funds to pay them back money.
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"Senator, no student should be defrauded, and if fraud is involved, there are consequences and there will be consequences," DeVos responded.
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The Education Department can forgive the federal loans of students who were defrauded by their schools through its borrower defense program.
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"Today's decision is a huge win for defrauded borrowers around the country," said Julie Murray, an attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Paul told jurors that Williams' firm defrauded 6,000 customers from 2009 to 2014 into paying about $4.1 million.
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According to Bloomberg:McFarland was arrested on June 30 on charges he defrauded investors who bought a $1.2 million stake in Fyre Media.
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A third victim told us she was defrauded $2,000 through one of these scams after trying to buy event tickets on Craigslist.
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In 22018, investors who put money into the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas sued the company, claiming they were defrauded.
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At issue is an Obama-era rule meant to help students defrauded by for-profit colleges that DeVos has sought to rewrite.
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More than 15,000 people were defrauded out of hundreds of millions of dollars between 2012 and 2016 as part of this scam.
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A class-action lawsuit filed in a California state court last month alleged Tezos' organizers violated U.S. securities laws and defrauded participants.
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Shkreli, who is separately facing federal criminal charges that he defrauded investors, has been served with a subpoena to appear on Jan.
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Authorities said Mr. Newman, 36, defrauded more than a dozen investors out of at least $2 million in trying to raise money.
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In one, also in New York, prosecutors claim that Avenatti defrauded porn star Stormy Daniels, the client who propelled him to fame.
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Manafort faces charges that he hid tens of millions of dollars earned in Ukraine in offshore accounts and defrauded banks for loans.
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The jury found that the federal government had been defrauded of $250,000, and State Farm was ordered to pay $758,000 in damages.
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Depp claims TMG defrauded him out of millions of his earnings; TMG claims Depp's wild spending left him unable to pay debts.
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He also prosecuted companies that defrauded the public by hiring undocumented workers and avoiding their obligations to pay federal and state taxes.
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She was a lead attorney for the Trump Organization in lawsuits alleging Mr. Trump's real-estate seminars, Trump University, had defrauded customers.
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The project was eventually found to have been defrauded of about 230 million rand ($15 million) by powerful political and business interests.
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Earlier this year, DeVos proposed creating a new formula for granting partial loan forgiveness to students who were defrauded by their schools.
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The judge said that he had defrauded four people of 4.8 million renminbi, equal to about $720,000, said Mr. Ding, the lawyer.
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At the same time, federal prosecutors were building a case against Mr. Antar, charging that he had defrauded shareholders through stock manipulation.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation last week said they were investigating Modi and others over accusations that they defrauded Punjab National Bank.
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Among those he defrauded were his mother and the family of a former girlfriend, Catherine F. MacRae, who died in the Sept.
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Prosecutors claim he ripped off his former drug company Retrophin for millions of dollars to repay investors defrauded at his hedge funds.
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The Brooklyn resident was arrested in November on charges that he defrauded investors in two cryptocurrencies, violating the federal Securities Exchange Act.
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The trickery took Ponzi's name, as the headlines noted 10 years ago when Bernard Madoff defrauded clients of more than $50 billion.
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Bernard "Lotsapoppa" Crowe: Crowe was an LA drug dealer who threatened to wipe out the Manson Family after Tex Watson defrauded him.
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The question is whether the mere entry and cancellation of orders are enough to show that traders were actually misled and defrauded.
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Nangle also defrauded the IRS by misleading his tax preparer by "inflating different expenses ... and continuing to conceal income," the indictment alleges.
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Among other accomplishments, it has promulgated new rules to end abusive mortgage practices and has recovered billions of dollars for defrauded consumers.
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Mr. Avenatti was arrested in California after prosecutors said he defrauded and concealed money from creditors while on bail for similar charges.
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The rule enraged Democrats, who argue the department is falling far short of helping students who were defrauded by for-profit schools.
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Prosecutors also claimed McLellan defrauded a unit of insurance company AXA SA by applying hidden fees to trades conducted on its behalf.
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As a businessman, Trump stumbled through multiple bankruptcies, defrauded students at a phony "university" and even ran a casino into the ground.
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The central defense claim was that "nobody was defrauded, nobody lost any money," even though Mr. Shkreli's statements were not always truthful.
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The Justice Department charged 26 people nationwide, including dozens of doctors, in schemes that collectively defrauded the government of about $26 billion.
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" As for Lonzo, Ball family spokesperson Denise White tells us... "Alan Foster has repeatedly lied, defrauded and stole from the Ball family.
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Supporters say the arbitration rule protects vulnerable consumers from being defrauded by companies without a chance to hold them accountable in court.
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Lobbyist Jack Abramoff laundered money defrauded from clients through a Delaware shell company run by a lifeguard out of a beach house.
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Democrats and progressive groups have long called for action on forced arbitration, which they say denies defrauded customers of basic constitutional rights.
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Many thousands have been literally robbed of their life savings after regime-affiliated financial institutions, free from accountability and regulations, defrauded them.
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Prosecutors claim those investors were defrauded by Shkreli, 22011, because of his allegedly misleading statements about his funds' assets and financial returns.
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Prosecutors claim Shkreli, 34, looted Retrophin of stock to pay off investors he had allegedly defrauded at two hedge funds he ran.
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Trump official and fellow rich person DeVos just rolled back Obama administration loan forgiveness rules for students defrauded by for-profit colleges.
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The Zug-based Tezos Foundation is facing U.S. class-action lawsuits from those who say they were misled and defrauded in its ICO.
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The department stopped processing claims under DeVos, who wants to rewrite the Obama-era rule that allows defrauded students to seek loan forgiveness.
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Fifteen students who had been defrauded by the predatory, for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain publicly announced they would no longer pay their loans.
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In his opening statement in Brooklyn federal court, lawyer Jose Baez said Nordlicht never defrauded investors, who included himself and his own family.
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But it would also mean that defrauded students are left saddled with debt, or are not refunded for the loans they've already paid.
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Dick Durbin revealed that 15,000 people have applied to have their student loans forgiven, claiming they were defrauded, since President Trump took office.
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Trump for setting up Trump University, for which he is facing three lawsuits that argue the program defrauded thousands of people of millions.
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She grilled King at his confirmation hearing, pointing out that just a tiny fraction of defrauded students had actually seen their debts forgiven.
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The suits also claimed Questcor defrauded Medicare by illegally marketing the drug, which is used for treating multiple sclerosis and seizures in children.
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The company last week won the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders about its ability to protect customers from the outbreaks.
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All told, the agency has chalked up nearly $12 billion in civil fines and consumer refunds for 29 million Americans defrauded by scams.
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According to court documents, he operated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors, including a sitting congressman, of more than $2009 million.
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But law enforcement also must be empowered to catalyze rescues of women who are forced, defrauded, coerced or deceived into commercial sexual exploitation.
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The district court ordered the department to cease debt collection from the defrauded students and to stop seeking SSA's services for the practice.
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Critically, last year's GI Bill update restored the benefits to veterans defrauded by two for-profit college chains, Corinthian Colleges and ITT Tech.
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In December 2017, the Department of Education announced new rules for providing aid to students who said they were defrauded by their colleges.
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Several of Erickson's former business partners have claimed he defrauded them and the U.S. attorney's office in South Dakota is investigating the matter.
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Hope set himself up as a foreign exchange trader who defrauded investors of 5.5 million pounds, spending the money in casinos and bars.
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"Wells Fargo's predatory actions defrauded and harmed the Nation," Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said in a statement on Thursday announcing the settlement.
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Curiel is overseeing a handful of lawsuits against Trump University that allege the program defrauded students and left them saddled with debt. Sen.
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"For years, the Department of Education has failed to do its job and cancel the debt of defrauded students like me," she said.
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" To avoid detection of their scheme, the indictment said, the defendants routinely defrauded and misled federal and state regulators "and the betting public.
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Judge Matsumoto said it didn't matter that Mr. Shkreli later repaid the investors he defrauded, or that some of his investors made millions.
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A parallel loan forgiveness program, borrower defense, allows students to have their loans eliminated if they can prove that their school defrauded them.
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It claimed that Huawei defrauded four large banks into clearing transactions with Iran in violation of international sanctions through a subsidiary called Skycom.
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As we reported ... Sherri claimed Lamar defrauded her into getting a surrogate to carry a baby, just so he could get child support.
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In 2011, the Bronfman sisters sued Mr. Parlato, whom they had hired as a consultant, alleging he had defrauded them of $1 million.
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" Another victim wrote that Madoff "knowingly defrauded thousands of people and I know this stress contributed to the early death of my husband . . .
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Ms. DeVos has already proposed tightening loan forgiveness rules to make it virtually impossible for those defrauded by predatory schools to get relief.
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The Department of Education will cancel federal loans for about 1,500 defrauded students at two shuttered art institutions, reports the New York Times.
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He starts his company that basically does due diligence for investors and provides insurance for them in the event that they are defrauded.
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The bureau won more than $12 billion in restitution for more than 30 million defrauded consumers, a figure often cited by its allies.
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Most crucially, it made sure that schools — not taxpayers — would foot the bill for discharging the loans of students who had been defrauded.
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But Mr. Parris and an associate, Perry Santillo, were actually running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 600 investors, the commission said.
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A spokeswoman for City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, a Queens Democrat, said that on Monday a constituent had reported being defrauded in Woodside.
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The museum announced last February that it had been defrauded when it bought the coffin and was cooperating with the district attorney's investigation.
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"The Malaysian people were defrauded on an enormous scale..." FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said at a briefing in Washington on Wednesday night.
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"He defrauded no one and, as Autonomy's CFO, acted at all times with the highest standards of honesty, integrity and competence," Keker said.
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But Takano questioned why those claims had been prioritized over those from students who are arguing their schools defrauded them but hadn't closed.
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Madam secretary, there is no freedom in a student being obligated to pay off a loan from a school that has defrauded them.
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It could soon become a lot harder for people who say they've been defrauded by their schools to have their student loans cancelled.
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Adindu defrauded his victims by impersonating executives or vendors of companies, prosecutors said, directing employees of those companies to make large wire transfers.
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But supporters say the arbitration rule protects vulnerable consumers from being defrauded by companies without a chance to hold them accountable in court.
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The bureau won more than $12 billion in restitution for more than 30 million defrauded consumers, a figure often cited by its allies.
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Remember, this is the kid Sherri tried to disavow, claiming she was defrauded into making a surrogacy contract ... a claim the judge rejected.
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And he will help determine the fate of more than 1,875 former DeVry students who filed claims saying they were defrauded by the university.
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Those students filed so-called "borrower defense" claims, saying that they were defrauded by DeVry and are entitled to have their student loans forgiven.
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The platform has also published guides on how Nextdoor users can avoid being defrauded and has warned its community about the gift card scam.
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The records show that nearly 15,000 people applied for loan forgiveness from January 20 to July 5, claiming their colleges and universities defrauded them.
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Borrowers have complained that these plans are complicated and the Department of Education has recently come under fire for delaying relief for defrauded students.
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Among those defrauded are corrupt athletes' innocent team-mates, legal bettors and ordinary fans, who pay to see a real contest, not a sham.
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The "hustle case" was brought by a whistleblower: former Countrywide vice president Edward O'Donnell, who argued that his ex-employer defrauded Fannie and Freddie.
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Shkreli is accused of looting Retrophin out of millions of dollars to pay back investors in the hedge funds whom he also allegedly defrauded.
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The jury found that the U.S. government had been defrauded of $250,000 over a house that had sustained Katrina-related damage in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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The hearing will come the day after West Virginia disclosed an investigation into whether Mylan violated antitrust laws or defrauded the state's Medicaid program.
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Boeing's problems continue to mount after shareholders launched a legal challenge Tuesday, claiming they were defrauded over safety deficiencies on the 737 Max aircraft.
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While some women may consent into selling their bodies for money, many of these women are being forced, defrauded, or coerced into sexual exploitation.
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Plaintiffs allege federal securities law violations and that the fundraiser defrauded participants, who were told they were making non-refundable donations to the foundation.
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One such step was to strengthen loan regulations that forgave the debts of defrauded students who did not receive the education they were promised.
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Woodbridge imploded into bankruptcy in 2017 and the SEC later charged it with operating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded 8,400 retail investors.
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The announcement comes two weeks after DeVos said she would replace the "borrower defense" rule that aimed to help defrauded students seek debt relief.
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Former students who claim they were defrauded are now eligible for a refund of up to 90% of the money they spent on courses.
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Shkreli is accused of ripping off his former drug company Retrophin for millions of dollars to repay allegedly defrauded investors at his hedge funds.
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The crux of it — establishing a federal standard for determining if a borrower was defrauded — applies only to loans made in 2017 and beyond.
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Parents do not always use that opportunity, and immigration officials could deny a green card, claiming the parents had willingly defrauded the American government.
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"Wells Fargo's predatory actions defrauded and harmed the Nation," said Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said in a statement on Thursday announcing the settlement.
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"It is very clear that the people of Malaysia were defrauded by many individuals, including the highest members of the prior government," Solomon said.
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Most eligible students who are defrauded by schools are unaware that their loans can be canceled, and the department has not necessarily told them.
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This spring, the Education Department abruptly suspended federal rules that allow students who have been defrauded by colleges to have their federal loans forgiven.
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Mr. Bolan also represented Mr. Cohn, successfully defending him in 1971 against charges that he had defrauded a bus company, Fifth Avenue Coach Lines.
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Aside from the moral problem with welcoming individuals who might have defrauded their own states, the influx pushed up already sky-high property prices.
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"It is very clear that the people of Malaysia were defrauded by many individuals, including the highest members of the prior government," he said.
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Prosecutors allege that McFarland defrauded at least two people to invest roughly $22019 million in Fyre Media LLC and a subsidiary, Fyre Festival LLC.
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Prosecutors charge that he defrauded those investors at the funds, whose financial performance was poor at the time he was issuing glowing financial statements.
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In addition to establishing a new burden of proof for student borrowers who feel defrauded, the department is relaxing financial accountability rules for institutions.
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But the decision also leaves thousands of defrauded students unsure whether they should pay their debt, including interest, or seek other avenues of forgiveness.
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There is no evidence, of course, that anyone has defrauded a Kaiser Gypsum asbestos trust - for the simple reason that the trust doesn't yet exist.
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Their case essentially alleges that by enticing developers to build apps around extensive access to user data that was then unilaterally revoked, Facebook defrauded them.
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Indian federal agents last week said they were investigating a billionaire jeweler, Nirav Modi, and others over accusations that they defrauded PNB of $44 million.
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The whistleblower act allows for up three times any amount the government is found to have been defrauded -- in this case just under $180 million.
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The secretary attempted to roll back another Obama-era rule on for-profit colleges, which allows students defrauded by their schools to seek loan forgiveness.
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In reality, it was an elaborate and illegal "pump and dump" stock scheme that defrauded investors out of nearly $40 million, according to court records.
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The conventional wisdom in 2014 was that the tens of thousands of students who had been defrauded by Corinthian Colleges were, in a word, screwed.
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The Department of Justice (DoJ) has alleged that kickbacks were offered to encourage drug prescriptions and also that, as a result, health insurers were defrauded.
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In 2014, F-Squared admitted to wrongdoing and agreed to pay $35 million to settle SEC charges that it defrauded investors through false performance advertising.
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It means that some students who were defrauded by their schools but took home higher incomes than average could now see almost no debt forgiveness.
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Students who were defrauded by their schools, and who take home 70% of their peers' incomes, for example, will have 30% of their loans forgiven.
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According to the SEC's complaint, Shapiro ran a "sham" business model that allegedly defrauded more than 8,400 investors, including many elderly, in unregistered Woodbridge funds.
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The Education Department is reportedly abandoning an Obama-era policy that erased the student debt of people who had been defrauded by for-profit colleges.
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One in three of the country's 3,20163 platforms failed and shut down, including marketplaces like Ezubao, which defrauded over 900,000 investors out of $7.6 billion.
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Just last year DeVry agreed to pay $212 million in a settlement agreement to students the school defrauded by peddling deceptive employment and earnings numbers.
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The plaintiffs sued under the federal False Claims Act, which lets whistleblowers pursue claims that the government was defrauded and, if successful, share in recoveries.
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Under her leadership, the department tightened eligibility rules and stopped processing claims from students who said they were defrauded by their schools, the AP reports.
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The company being promoted by Mr. Parnas, Fraud Guarantee, was billed as a way for investors to get insurance against the risk of being defrauded.
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In 2014, F-Squared admitted to wrongdoing and agreed to pay $35 million to settle SEC charges that it defrauded investors through false-performance advertising.
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The lawsuit estimates there are more than 460 defrauded investors in three Chais-related companies, which would work out to reimbursements of about $32,600 each.
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It was not an accredited university or college and was the subject of two class action lawsuits, which alleged that Trump University defrauded its students.
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The ensuing investigation into PTL's shady bookkeeping practices highlighted by the Hahn scandal revealed that Jim Bakker had defrauded his flock of over $158 million.
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New York's attorney general sued Exxon Mobil on Wednesday, claiming the company defrauded shareholders by downplaying the expected risks of climate change to its business.
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Ms. DeVos suspended a rule change set in motion by the Obama administration that would have granted quicker relief to large batches of defrauded borrowers.
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He advocated for an ending in which Michael owns up to the women he'd defrauded, something the movie doesn't include, "which is shocking," he said.
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On Tuesday morning, Mr. Avenatti pleaded not guilty in Federal District Court to charges that he defrauded and stole close to $300,000 from Ms. Daniels.
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And Thursday, US prosecutors charged 80 people -- mostly Nigerians -- in the widespread conspiracy that defrauded at least $6 million from businesses and vulnerable elderly women.
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McMillions — the HBO documentary which premieres February 20183 — uncovers the network of scammers and criminals who defrauded McDonald's, essentially stealing more than $22018 million dollars.
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Mr. Avenatti was arrested Tuesday after prosecutors said that he defrauded and concealed money from creditors while on bail for similar charges from last year.
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The hearing was convened as the Education Department began notifying borrowers who claimed they were defrauded how much debt they will have to pay back.
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Shkreli is charged with looting the drug company, Retrophin, of stock and cash to pay investors in his hedge funds, whom he also allegedly defrauded.
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It also says Manafort defrauded another lender by falsely overstating the 2015 income of one his businesses by more than $4 million, among other charges.
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It calculates loan forgiveness based on how much a defrauded student's "estimated earnings" differed from those of students who attended similar programs across the country.
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The Obama-era rule, known as Borrower Defense to Repayment, allows students who believe they were defrauded by their college to apply for loan forgiveness.
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Democrats also criticized the secretary for not doing more to help defrauded student borrowers who are waiting for their loan forgiveness applications to be processed.
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Federal prosecutors alleged a Florida doctor defrauded Medicaid, Medicare and other insurance providers to the tune of $26 million by billing them for nonexistent procedures.
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"As our lawsuit makes clear, Mr. Trump's phony university defrauded thousands of students through an illicit scheme that cost them millions of dollars," Schneiderman continued.
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Just last year DeVry agreed to pay $100 million in a settlement agreement to students the school defrauded by peddling deceptive employment and earnings numbers.
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In a statement, Schneiderman said Cephalon defrauded the Patent and Trademark Office in order to secure an additional patent, which was later invalidated by a court.
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Prosecutors say they have turned over 138,000 pages of financial records, emails, text messages and memos summarizing the government's interviews with the clients Avenatti allegedly defrauded.
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The U.S. attorney&aposs office estimated the company made more than $100 million through the scheme and defrauded Medicare out of tens of millions of dollars.
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The indictment said he defrauded a Mississippi bank of $4.1 million in loans by submitting false tax returns for 2011 to 2013 that inflated his income.
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The lawsuits, filed in federal court in Philadelphia, claimed Questcor Pharmaceuticals, which Mallinckrodt acquired in 2014, defrauded government healthcare programs by illegally marketing H.P. Acthar Gel.
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New York's attorney general filed a lawsuit Wednesday against ExxonMobil, claiming the company defrauded shareholders by downplaying the expected risk of climate change to its business.
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He said the bank, owned by the French state at the time, had defrauded him after it later resold its stake for a much higher sum.
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They also say he defrauded a Mississippi bank of $4.1 million in loans by submitting false tax returns for 2011 to 2013 that inflated his income.
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The prosecutor said his office had found evidence pointing to Alonso's having defrauded Spain's tax office of 3 million euros ($3.3 million) from 2009 to 2011.
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The new process, the Education Department argues, will compensate defrauded students "based on damages incurred" — taking into account whether they received any benefit from their degrees.
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"The question is going to be whether the case is nuts: Nobody was defrauded, nobody lost any money," Brafman claimed in court, according to the Times.
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In total, authorities allege that Gonzales defrauded the victims of more than $950, and he could face up to 13 years in state prison if convicted.
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Rimasauskas allegedly defrauded Google out of $23 million and Facebook out of $99 million, according to Lithuania's top court, which ordered his extradition earlier this month.
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Mainland Chinese are defrauded of more than 10 billion yuan by Taiwanese through scams on the telephone every year, the official Xinhua news agency has reported.
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Vincent Lazar, a Jenner & Block partner representing Grede, said the settlement will allow the trustee to make "substantial" additional payouts to Sentinel customers who were defrauded.
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Two Arizona men were charged on Thursday for allegedly operating several fraudulent political action committees that prosecutors say defrauded donors out of more than $22019 million.
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A coalition of students refused to pay their debts to Corinthian, citing a clause in their loan contracts allowing "defense to repayment" if they were defrauded.
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The drugmaker is being investigated by federal prosecutors over whether it defrauded investors by masking its affiliation with mail-order pharmacy Philidor, according to the paper.
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He said government entities and non-profits were "defrauded of millions" when they entered into swap contracts with Barclays as a result of the rate-rigging.
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US prosecutors charged 80 people in the alleged scam, saying that the group, consisting mostly of Nigerians, defrauded businesses and vulnerable elderly women out of millions.
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While authorities contend more than 10 people and possibly as many as 30 were defrauded by Mr. Newman, he maintains there were fewer than 10 victims.
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National Briefing | Washington The United States Department of Education says more students who were defrauded by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges can get their loans forgiven.
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The indictment against Shkreli claims he defrauded investors by misleading them about the performance of his hedge funds, which were money losers, and not money winners.
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Wells Fargo has been able to stop lawsuits from defrauded customers by moving the cases into private arbitration, a secretive legal process that often favors corporations.
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"Students, including veterans, who are defrauded by their school and suffer financial harm as a result deserve relief, and our rule provides them relief," she added.
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Today, some 45 million Americans carry $1.6 trillion in student debt, and tens of thousands of people defrauded by for-profit colleges are still owed compensation.
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Previously, President Trump was forced to return $25 million to students of his shuttered Trump University, a portion of what they say they were defrauded of.
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The allegations: The indictments say Ms. Meng and Huawei defrauded four large banks — possibly including HSBC — into clearing transactions with Iran in violation of international sanctions.
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The state's attorney general filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil yesterday, arguing that the oil giant defrauded investors by playing down the risks of climate change.
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Over the course of 10 months, Delvey — posing as a member of the 1% — defrauded friends and financial institutions out of $275,000 in cash and services.
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Mr. Caspersen was a successful Wall Street investment banker who defrauded family and friends out of more than $38 million to finance a speculative trading binge.
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When Wells Fargo defrauded millions of customers last year, creating fake accounts in their names and incurring fees on innocent families, Americans didn't care about politics.
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There's compelling evidence the Exxon Mobil Corporation defrauded its investors, and at minimum, the company will be exposed to deep public scrutiny as the trial develops.
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Wells Fargo Securities and the economic development agency defrauded investors in order to finance the videogram startup, founded by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling.
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"Many of us feel defrauded by Jeff Sessions," said Ned Ryun, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush and founder of the conservative group American Majority.
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The policy is a departure from the practice of the Obama administration, which provided full relief to all borrowers that the Education Department determined were defrauded.
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For example, recent rules dismiss the loans of students defrauded by for-profits, and put the colleges on the hook for repaying part of their balances.
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Without making a formal announcement, the department under Betsy DeVos stopped canceling defrauded students' debt under an Obama-era forgiveness program, leaving them in financial limbo.
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At least eight lawsuits have been filed in California, New York and Illinois alleging that the company defrauded users by slowing devices down without warning them.
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Cuomo's office has opened its own investigation into what it has called suspicions of "improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interest" that may have defrauded the state.
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He said that as a result of the rate-rigging, government entities and non-profits were "defrauded of millions" when they entered into swap contracts with Barclays.
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She has been released on bail but is still in Canada as the United States pursues her extradition on allegations she defrauded banks with Iran-related sanctions.
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Prosecutors said Shkreli engaged in a Ponzi-like scheme in which he defrauded investors in MSMB, and misappropriated $11 million in assets from Retrophin to repay them.
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He reportedly admitted:I wanted to file a complaint with FBI on being defrauded but got no response, after which I made calls, threatening to attack Miami airport.
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Trump had defrauded thousands of other unwitting Trump University students as well, hauling in roughly $50 million and earning a D-rating with the Better Business Bureau.
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The indictment also charged Keith Wellner, the former general counsel of Weston Capital Asset Management, whose hedge fund investors were defrauded by the defendants, according to prosecutors.
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Credit Suisse is also under fire after a former wealth manager who is now facing up to 10 years in prison allegedly defrauded clients for 6 years.
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The indictment also said he defrauded a Mississippi bank of $4.1 million in loans by submitting false tax returns for 2011 to 2013 that inflated his income.
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A former MetroHealth System executive and three dentists have been convicted on charges they engaged in an elaborate bribe-and-kickback scheme that defrauded the Ohio hospital.
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Thanks to state and federal lawsuits against Corinthian, Warren and others argued, the government already knew which students had been defrauded, and could grant their claims automatically.
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She wanted the department to dramatically increase the pace of loan forgiveness, and to fix the system so that other defrauded students would not have to wait.
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Prosecutors claim that he engaged in a Ponzi-like scheme in which he defrauded investors in MSMB and took millions in assets from Retrophin to repay them.
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In a court filing on Tuesday, police said the Gitanjali group of companies controlled by jeweller Mehul Choksi allegedly defrauded PNB of 70.8 billion rupees ($1.09 billion).
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New York's AG sued the company in October, alleging Exxon defrauded shareholders by downplaying the expected risk of future climate change policies on its business and assets.
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The drug maker is being investigated by federal prosecutors over whether it defrauded investors by masking its affiliation with mail-order pharmacy Philidor, according to the paper.
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Speaking to US District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan today, McFarland admitted he defrauded 80 investors and a ticket broker out of more than $26 million.
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The Department of Education stopped processing claims under Secretary Betsy DeVos, who wants to rewrite the Obama-era rule that allows defrauded students to seek loan forgiveness.
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Many of the attorneys general are also part of a lawsuit against DeVos over changes to college financial aid rules that were meant to protect defrauded students.
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" He followed it up in rapid succession with two more tweets on Blumenthal: "Never in U.S. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal.
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Theranos Inc has reached a settlement in a lawsuit by indirect investors who claimed the blood-testing company defrauded them by touting revolutionary technology that never existed.
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As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped charges that Meli helped run a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors in a hedge fund, Sentinel Growth Fund Management.
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In March the department joined a pair of whistleblower lawsuits that alleged Questcor Pharmaceuticals, which Mallinckrodt acquired in 2014, defrauded government healthcare programs by illegally marketing Acthar.
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Since Trump has already paid out more than $20 million in compensation to students he allegedly defrauded at his eponymous fake university, that suspicion seems reasonable enough.
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A separate lawsuit is pending, filed by New York's attorney general who has said over 5,000 students across the country were defrauded out of about $40 million.
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Additionally, the administration has forced many colleges to forgive billions of dollars in loans to hundreds of thousands of students who have been defrauded by their universities.
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The rule repeal would come shortly after DeVos proposed establishing a new federal standard for what constitutes "misrepresentation" when determining whether a for-profit college defrauded students.
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While the criminal case against Shapiro is over, independent managers are in charge of selling off the rest of Woodbridge's assets to recoup money for defrauded investors.
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LOVE, THE POLICE: The police department of Bangor, Maine, posted a photo of a defrauded car registration sticker with a pen coloring the year '220006 to '2202.
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That left the federal government legally responsible for forgiving the student loans of thousands whose schools had either defrauded them or shut down while they were enrolled.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York hedge fund manager on Thursday pleaded guilty to federal charges that he defrauded investors through a nearly $22 million Ponzi scheme.
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Prosecutors claim he used the money to repay investors whom he allegedly defrauded at two hedge funds he had run, in addition to paying off personal debts.
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The Education Department's Inspector General said this week the agency has stopped cancelling the student-loan debt of people defrauded by failed for-profit schools, Reuters reported.
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Prosecutors accuse Shkreli of using stock in his Retrophin pharmaceutical company to pay off investors like Blanton, who were allegedly defrauded at two Shkreli-run hedge funds.
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"Changing course now is unfair to defrauded borrowers who were misled first by Corinthian and now by the department, and is likely to be challenged in court."
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Prosecutors claim he used the money to repay to investors whom allegedly defrauded at two hedge funds he had run, in addition to paying off personal debts.
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Prosecutors said the defendants defrauded Black Elk's bondholders out of $50 million by diverting the proceeds of asset sales to Platinum ahead of Black Elk's 2015 bankruptcy.
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Carreyrou followed up those stories with Bad Blood, a nonfiction book that was cited in last week's charges that Holmes had allegedly defrauded investors, doctors, and patients.
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" John C. Coffee Jr., a professor at Columbia Law School who teaches classes on white-collar crime, agreed that "it appears a lot of people were defrauded.
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The S.E.C. sued Theranos, Mr. Balwani and Elizabeth Holmes, the company's former chief executive, in March 2018 on charges that they defrauded investors of over $700 million.
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Then in June 2018, a grand jury indicted Ms. Holmes and Mr. Balwani on charges that they defrauded investors and patients about the problems with Theranos's technology.
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A former official with the union's GM department, Jeff Pietrzyk, also is expected to plead guilty to charges involving bribery and kickback conspiracy that defrauded union workers.
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Additional regulations put in place to provide federal student loan relief to defrauded borrowers and make it harder for schools to hide fraud are also in jeopardy.
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In a separate matter, he acknowledged in court papers that he was involved in a business in which an investor claimed he was defrauded of $1 million.
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Another count says that he defrauded Retrophin to pay back MSMB investors via settlement agreements that were never approved by Retrophin's board, and by sham consulting agreements.
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"Today's decision is a huge win for defrauded borrowers around the country," said Julie Murray, a Public Citizen attorney who represents two students involved in the litigation.
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The Trump administration is considering abandoning an Obama-era policy of fully forgiving federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, The Associated Press reported Saturday.
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The drugmaker had said in November that it was cooperating with the authorities while noting that the charges included allegations that the defendants had defrauded the company.
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China's main policing agency, the Ministry of Public Security, asked for Australia's help in 2016 to identify two Chinese nationals whom Beijing said defrauded money from investors.
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Farmers in North and South America sued C.H. Robinson, the world's third-largest logistics company, alleging illegal business practices they say defrauded them, Texas Public Radio reported Friday.
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"And it reflects the extreme harm that Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education have caused students who were already defrauded by a for-profit college," she added.
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F-Squared in 2014 agreed to pay $35 million to settle SEC charges that the Wellesley, Massachusetts-based investment adviser defrauded investors by making false performance advertising claims.
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Mark Cuban prodded Tesla CEO Elon Musk to settle his dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission over charges he defrauded investors, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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A federal judge ruled last year that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' delays of an Obama-era regulation aimed at forgiving the student debt of defrauded students were illegal.
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Prosecutors claim that Shkreli engaged in a Ponzi-like scheme in which he defrauded investors in MSMB and took $11 million in assets from Retrophin to repay them.
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Ultimately, the Court held that the government did not have to prove that Shaw knew he had defrauded the bank of property in which it had an interest.
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It's unclear what SWIFT tells its member banks when it does find out about cyber thefts, which are typically first discovered by the bank that has been defrauded.
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It seems to mean that the crux of the government's case against VW's admitted emissions cheating will be that the company defrauded customers who financed their VW purchases.
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Prosecutors allege that William "Billy" McFarland, co-founder and CEO of Fyre Media, defrauded at least two investors who invested about $1.2 million total in the Fyre Festival.
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Since then several class-action lawsuits have been filed in the United States against the project's organizers alleging that the fundraiser violated federal securities laws and defrauded investors.
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The district court ordered the department to cease debt collection from the defrauded students and to stop seeking SSA's services for the practice, according to The Associated Press.
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The SEC is alleging that BitFunder and Montroll defrauded users by misusing their bitcoins and not disclosing a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of over 6,000 bitcoins.
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"The defendant defrauded numerous financial institutions and obtained over $85,000 in illicit proceeds, which she converted to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies," the Justice Department said in a statement.
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Among other things, the new rules would clarify and strengthen the process under which students could have their debt erased if a college had misled or defrauded them.
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Westling asked the jury why the government never called to the witness stand the loan officers Manafort allegedly defrauded when his source of income dried up after 2014.
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DeVos, however, announced in June that she was rolling back a rule that was specifically created to help defrauded students after the collapse of Corinthian Colleges in 2015.
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He is accused of looting Retrophin to repay investors he allegedly defrauded while running two other hedge funds, MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare, which he formed after Elea.
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A defrauded bank with standing to challenge a Manafort pardon might argue that Trump abdicated his Article II prerogative by impeding the administration of justice to save himself.
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Mr McLellan's team also cheated an Irish government agency of $4.5 million and defrauded a UK postal company of $113 million on transition deal charges, the SEC said.
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After finding himself the subject of several lawsuits, things went further south for Pearlman when he defrauded investors out of more than $300 million in a Ponzi scheme.
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Nordlicht, Levy and Jeffrey Shulse, former chief executive officer of Platinum's majority-owned Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, also defrauded the Texas energy company's bondholders, the indictment said.
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Three former top officials of the country's soccer federation are under indictment in the United States, including one who FIFA is claiming defrauded it of several million dollars.
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Ellis had raised the question to the lawyers earlier in the trial: Could Calk's bank be defrauded if its leader wanted to make the loans no matter what?
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Further, MANAFORT defrauded the banks that loaned him the money so that he could withdraw more money at a cheaper rate than he otherwise would have been permitted.
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Sample, the appeals court overturned a sentence of probation for a defendant who defrauded investors of over $1 million after pleading guilty to mail and wire fraud charges.
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Universal said that it had been "misled and likely defrauded" by representatives of Bremer Trust, the Minnesota bank charged with administering the estate, and demanded its money back.
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If every individual defrauded by a company loses fifty dollars, the collective harm can be immense, but it's not worthwhile for any single victim or lawyer to bother.
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The commission alleged that BitFunder and founder Jon E. Montroll ran the operation as an "unregistered securities exchange" and defrauded users of that exchange, according to a statement.
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A federal judge ruled this week that repeated delays by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos of an Obama administration plan to provide debt relief to defrauded borrowers was unlawful.
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Prosecutors claimed Shkreli had defrauded multiple investors in two hedge funds he previously ran, and then looted another drug company he founded, Retrophin, to pay back those investors.
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New York's Attorney General, Letitia James, intends to sue the City of New York for $810 million claiming the city defrauded taxi drivers for more than a decade.
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Former students had alleged they were defrauded by the operation, and after the 2016 election, Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle three lawsuits against the program.
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The SEC is alleging that BitFunder and Montroll defrauded users by misusing their bitcoins and not disclosing a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of over 2628,28500 bitcoins.
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The bureau fined Wells Fargo more than $85033 million for opening up to 2 million fake accounts and returned $12 billion to more than 29 million defrauded consumers.
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VEREIT said it would pay the funds $42.5 million to resolve their suits claiming ARCP defrauded investors by inflating a key accounting metric in a 2014 financial report.
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As I wrote in a previous column in 22019, the CFPB levied an $80-million fine against Ally Financial after finding that they committed wrongdoing and defrauded consumers.
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Lisa A. K. Kirchenbauer, president of Omega Wealth Management in Arlington, Virginia, said that there is a danger in being defrauded by "shady companies" with self-directed IRAs.
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Under DeVos, the Department of Education delayed implementation of the Obama-era rule that allows people to apply for loan forgiveness if they believe their school defrauded them.
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This summer, the department put the rule on ice and suspended another one that sped up debt relief for students defrauded by defunct schools, such as Corinthian Colleges.
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She pointed to the example of the now-defunct Trump University, which earlier this year reached a $25 million settlement after thousands of students claimed they were defrauded.
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Apple is already facing lawsuits in the United States over accusations of having defrauded iPhone users by slowing down devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance.
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Meanwhile China, which is investing heavily in fintech has been grappling with a series of peer-to-peer lending scams that have seen investors defrauded of billions of dollars.
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Now that the Obama-era regulation, known as borrower defense, is in effect, there is a clear process through which defrauded students can have their federal student loans cancelled.
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He defrauded investors in two hedge funds that he operated and also lied about a company he founded in 2011 called Retrophin to keep its stock price artificially inflated.
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But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals that Hill Crest withheld crucial information from government regulators, falsified patient records, defrauded insurers, and lied to the families of its young charges.
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Another victim, a USAA customer, published a warning about Zelle to the bank's community forums site after being defrauded – again, while trying to purchase concert tickets from a seller.
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"There should be a clear-cut process for accepting, assessing and ruling on former students' complaints that they were defrauded," said Bob Shireman, a former top Education Department official.
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Abdel-Wadood and Arif Naqvi, founder of Dubai-based Abraaj, were arrested earlier this month on U.S. charges that they defrauded their investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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"Jim Hodge and Allied defrauded a federal mortgage insurance program designed to help spread the dream of homeownership, and then lied about it repeatedly," Kim said in a statement.
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The federal securities charges against him involve accusations that he defrauded investors in two former hedge funds he ran and are unrelated to accusations of price gouging by Turing.
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Lawyers in the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan are pursuing a theory that Valeant and Philidor Rx Services LLC allegedly defrauded insurers by concealing their ties, the WSJ said.
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It alleged that Williams kept the retirement payments of a relative that were intended for nursing home costs and defrauded friends who gave him $10,000 to cover the expense.
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A court-ordered forensic audit of Amrapali released in May said the firm defrauded its customers out of around 35 billion rupees ($507.88 million) by diverting home buyers' funds.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former chief digital officer of the Epix cable television network was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he defrauded it of more than $8 million.
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NS, its two promoters and a Dubai-based company, alleging they had defrauded the banks and siphoned off funds through group companies, a police report reviewed by Reuters showed.
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In particular, the Republican lawmakers asked Barr to investigate whether Cohen lied when he testified that he never defrauded a bank, claiming that the statement contradicted his guilty plea.
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Shapiro and his company defrauded over 26.7,22.6 investors — many of them elderly — over the course of five years, promising that investments would go towards building and buying luxury properties.
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Earlier this month, the SEC's newly created cyber unit filed its first ICO charges against a privately held company, PlexCorps, saying it had defrauded investors with its "PlexCoin" ICO.
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Tapie himself was ordered last year to repay the money, which he received as state compensation for a business transaction in which he later claimed he had been defrauded.
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NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Indian billionaire jeweller, Nirav Modi, who is facing accusations that he defrauded a state-run bank of $44 million left the country on Jan.
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Current students left stranded by the closing of a school can apply for a loan discharge, while former students are eligible only if they can prove they were defrauded.
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"The criminal scheme involved the participation of dozens of companies that, via a cartel, defrauded decades of tender processes," prosecutors said in documents filed with the court on Wednesday.
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According to a government complaint against him, Peterson "defrauded investors by issuing false filings and press releases touting its purportedly lucrative — but wholly fictitious — business deals," Yahoo News reported.
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Since the feud was reported, several class-action lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. against the project's organizers alleging the fundraiser violated federal securities laws and defrauded investors.
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In a deposition, the Capital research analyst who recommended Puma said she had known Puma CEO Auerbach for years and did not believe he ever misled or defrauded her.
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DeVos has undone a series of Obama-era rules during her time leading the Education Department, including some that protected students who had been defrauded by for-profit schools.
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Shkreli is accused of looting stock and cash from Retrophin, the company he started in 2011, to pay back investors he allegedly defrauded at two hedge funds he ran.
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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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Theranos agreed to return over $750 million to defrauded investors if it was acquired or liquidated, and Ms. Holmes could not profit from her ownership stake in the company.
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Democrats have clamored for Mr. Trump's returns since he burst onto the political stage, convinced they will show that he has distorted his assets and potentially defrauded the government.
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Officials also alleged that SNC-Lavalin defrauded the Libyan government of nearly CA$130 million — money that was tied to construction projects in the country from 2001 to 2011.
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A few months earlier, she had filed a federal claim that the school and its owner, the InfiLaw Corporation, defrauded taxpayers of $22016 million over a five-year period.
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Mr. Baldwin sued Ms. Boone in New York State Supreme Court last year, asserting that he had been defrauded when he purchased a painting from Ms. Boone in 2010.
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Among the most damaging charges against Mr. Williams was that he defrauded a nursing home and family friends of money that was designated for the care of his mother.
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Salus Rehabilitation, in which whistleblower Angela Ruckh is appealing a 2018 decision granting judgment as a matter of law to Florida nursing homes that allegedly defrauded Medicaid and Medicare.
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Shkreli, 34, has pleaded not guilty to charges linked to allegations that he defrauded investors at two hedge funds he ran by misleading them about the funds' financial performance.
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An indictment alleges that Shkreli defrauded a group of investors at two hedge funds he ran, MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare, by misleading them about the funds' financial performance.
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S.E.C. In that case, a District Court found that Charles C. Liu and his wife, Lisa Wang, had defrauded 50 Chinese investors in an EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.
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The regulator alleged that BitFunder and founder Jon E. Montroll ran the operation as an "unregistered securities exchange" and defrauded users of that exchange, according to a SEC statement.
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In December 2016, Lagarde was found guilty of negligence after being involved in a dispute concerning Bernard Tapie, who claimed that the state-owned Crédit Lyonnais had defrauded him.
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A similar earlier plan was blocked by a district court in May 2018, with the court finding the department violated student privacy by collecting income data for defrauded students.
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They allege that Apple defrauded customers by hiding the true cause of an iPhone's decreased performance, leading to potentially costly repair attempts that did not address the root issue.
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The lawsuits argue that Apple misled and defrauded customers who may have spent money on fixes that didn't speed up their phones, according to Reuters which reviewed the lawsuits.
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This outcome would be similar to that of the New York AG's settlement with Trump University in 2017, in which $25 million was returned to students who were defrauded.
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The prosecution has introduced a trove of documentary evidence as they've sought to prove Manafort defrauded banks and concealed millions of dollars in offshore bank accounts from the IRS.
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Mr. Meli and Mr. Simmons are accused in the criminal case of running a similar scheme that defrauded investors putting money into what they thought was a hedge fund.
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A Tennessee nurse practitioner has pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme that defrauded the military healthcare program Tricare into paying more than $65 million for expensive compounded medications.
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Several Saints ticket holders have filed lawsuits against the N.F.L., variously claiming that they have endured mental anguish, lost the enjoyment of life and been defrauded by the league.
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Officials also alleged that SNC-Lavalin defrauded the Libyan government of nearly CA$26 million — money that was tied to construction projects in the country from 22019 to 2011.
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Later, they alleged, Manafort defrauded several US banks to get more than $20 million in loans (after the Ukrainian regime was deposed and he was looking for cash elsewhere).
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Also, Deutsche Bank AG has agreed to pay $20.5 million to settle U.S. regulatory charges that it defrauded government and nonprofit entities by manipulating Libor and other benchmark interest rates.
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If convicted, they each face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, plus restitution to those found to have been defrauded, on each count.
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Aldrin, who has previously sued a trading card company for using an image of him on the moon, claims that his son Andrew defrauded him of substantial amounts of money.
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If the trial had occurred as originally scheduled, Trump would have been forced to defend against charges that he defrauded thousands of people during the height of the presidential campaign.
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The statement came after Abraaj founder Arif Naqvi and a former Abraaj executive were arrested last week on U.S. charges that they defrauded investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Shkreli pleaded not guilty last month to charges that he ran his companies like a Ponzi scheme, using each subsequent company to pay off defrauded investors from a prior company.
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The Navy personnel are accused of taking lavish gifts, prostitutes, and luxury hotel stays from a Singapore-based defense contractor who defrauded tens of millions of dollars from the Navy.
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S&P and its parent company McGraw-Hill Financial settled a similar case with the DoJ last year without admitting allegations that it defrauded investors, paying a whopping US$1.375bn.
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The jury has heard that Calk is the majority shareholder of Federal Savings Bank, but prosecutors argued that also doesn't matter — the bank was defrauded, not Calk individually, they contend.
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Farmers in North and South America are suing C.H. Robinson, the world's third-largest logistics company, alleging illegal business practices that they claim defrauded them, Texas Public Radio reported Friday.
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DeVos has characterized the Obama-era version of the standards as a government handout to students — giving "free money" to anyone who "raised their hand" to claim they'd been defrauded.
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals may be under criminal investigation over allegations that it defrauded insurers by hiding ties to a mail-order pharmacy that boosted sales, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
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After thinking long and hard, Brittany and I decided to take this lawsuit on in part because we fear we are not the only ones Moradi has misled and defrauded.
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It makes me sad because I was one of the people who voted for (Rosselló) and I feel defrauded though you still feel some affection because he was our governor.
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Another victim who was reportedly defrauded through breaches of his My McD's apps told the CBC that McDonald's also told him his credit card company was responsible for the refund.
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The student-led mass rally comes more than a month after U.S. prosecutors filed civil lawsuits alleging that over $13 billion was defrauded from state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).
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NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - A former Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc sales representative was arrested Tuesday on charges that he defrauded insurance companies into paying for the company's expensive cholesterol drug.
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Schneiderman accused Charter's Spectrum unit, previously known as Time Warner Cable, of having systematically defrauded customers since 2012, including by creating an impression they would consistently get fast internet speeds.
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"The city council should not engage in any business for the next two years with this institution that has deceived, defrauded and duped its customers," Burke said in a statement.
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" De Mol said he hoped that "this verdict prompts Facebook to take measures as soon as possible, so that innocent people can't be defrauded by those fake Bitcoin advertisements anymore.
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In 2010, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison in Fayette County for a Kentucky basketball season ticket scheme that defrauded victims of thousands of dollars.
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The Department of Education on Wednesday announced new rules for providing aid to students claiming they were defrauded by their colleges that limits some student loan refunds according to income.
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Since then, at least six class-action lawsuits have been filed in the United States against the project's organizers, alleging the Tezos fundraiser violated federal securities law and defrauded participants.
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The process should be streamlined by the Department of Education and made clear to the average user, so that students who feel they have been defrauded know of its availability.
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US prosecutors charged 80 people in connection to an international romance scam, saying that a group, consisting mostly of Nigerians, defrauded businesses and vulnerable elderly women out of $6 million.
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A Texas biotech investor who prosecutors claim was defrauded by Martin Shkreli refused to disclose his estimated net worth under cross-examination at the "Pharm Bro's" federal securities fraud trial.
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Prosecutors claim Blanton was one of several people to be granted sham consulting agreements from Retrophin to funnel them money and stock after they were defrauded at Shkreli's hedge funds.
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The lawsuit, filed in Middlesex County Superior Court, alleged Insys also paid kickbacks, including sham speaker fees to medical practitioners to prescribe Subsys and defrauded insurers into paying for it.
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A federal judge in California has ordered the Department of Education to stop collecting debts from all students defrauded by the for-profit Corinthian College, which shut down in 2015.
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The Chandler, Arizona-based company will pay a $2 million fine, forfeit $28 million, and pay $195 million to settle charges it defrauded the government under the False Claims Act.
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She said she had been defrauded by her lawyer and her psychiatrist, who had made off with almost all her fashion earnings and left her owing millions in back taxes.
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In 2013, a federal jury in California found that the Los Angeles-based company had defrauded states and municipalities for more than a decade by knowingly selling defective water pipes.
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"These defendants are alleged to have illegally defrauded some of America's most honorable citizens, our elderly and disabled veterans and servicemembers," Attorney General William Barr said in a statement Wednesday.
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A rival, Postmates, is reportedly interviewing banks for an I.P.O. Politics and policy • A federal rule intended to protect student-loan borrowers defrauded by their schools finally went into effect.
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Mr. Grewal said they had ignored requests from New Jersey to work with the state on behalf of students who were defrauded by Corinthian Colleges, a bankrupt for-profit chain.
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Prosecutors say Hu defrauded the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by failing to disclose the fact that he was also a professor at the Beijing University of Technology in China.
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They could claim that Equifax's stock price was inflated because the company, executives and directors defrauded them about Equifax's ability to protect data, and should not have waited until Sept.
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The agreement brought closure to a drawn-out legal battle in which the federal government argued USPS was defrauded to the tune of millions in sponsorship from Armstrong's doping scandal.
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In 2018, Armstrong agreed to pay the federal government $5 million to settle a civil lawsuit claiming he defrauded his sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service, by using performance-enhancing drugs.
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Prosecutors have made a huge deal of the fact Olivia Jade and Isabella were photographed on a rowing machine ... saying it's proof Lori and husband Mossimo Giannulli defrauded the University.
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Prosecutors also charge that Shkreli defrauded the new drug company he founded, Retrophin, by looting that firm of stock and cash to pay back the ripped-off hedge fund investors.
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Timothy Egan You voted for a man who boasted of sexual assault, a man whose "university" defrauded thousands of people, a billionaire who thought the minimum wage was too high.
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In the cases unsealed on Thursday, prosecutors say, the schemes committed widespread immigration fraud and money laundering and defrauded property owners when leasing apartments and houses for the pregnant women.
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The company is currently under investigation for securities fraud and for misleading its investors; it's also been named in several class action lawsuits, which allege that the company defrauded customers.
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When she sheepishly admitted to her granddaughter that she had been defrauded, Ms. Lecoq spent months calling law enforcement agents and prosecutors to help make a case for serious theft.
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A trial in federal court in San Diego over former Trump University students' claims that they were defrauded by a series of real-estate seminars is scheduled to begin on Nov.
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Shkreli is accused of looting the pharmaceuticals firm he previously headed, Retrophin, of about $11 million in order to pay off investors in his hedge funds whom he allegedly had defrauded.
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Bergstein was indicted in November 2016 along with Keith Wellner, the former general counsel of Weston Capital Asset Management, whose hedge fund investors were defrauded by the defendants, according to prosecutors.
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He also signaled he intends to ask Judge James Selna to move the Daniels embezzlement case to California and combine it with the case involving the other clients he allegedly defrauded.
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I felt defrauded because they made excuses such as "showing you the kitchen" to cover how to actually want to kick you out, even after we each paid $300 for lunch.
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Washington (CNN)House Democrats are calling on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to testify next month about the delay in canceling the debt of thousands of defrauded former for-profit college students.
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The SEC filed the lawsuit in Boston federal court against the Nevada-based investment adviser and its principal, Louis Navellier, contending they defrauded existing and prospective clients from 2010 to 2013.
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The suit stems from the U.S. Department of Education's decision to block an Obama-era rule that was put in place to protect students from being defrauded by for-profit colleges.
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In 2013, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a $40 million civil lawsuit against Trump personally and the school on behalf of 5,000 former students who had allegedly been defrauded.
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Shkreli pleaded not guilty last month to criminal charges that he ran his companies like a Ponzi scheme, using each subsequent company to pay off defrauded investors from a prior company.
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For example, in 2014, the SSA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) utilized social media reviews to help arrest more than 100 people who defrauded SSDI out of millions of dollars.
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In its statement, the DoJ did not name the client the pair allegedly defrauded, but a different source familiar with the situation said the trades involved British oil firm Cairn Energy .
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Ruperti said just how much money had been defrauded in total isn&apost yet known because investigators are still trying to determine how many years the racket has been going on.
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She could reverse the Obama administration's crackdown on for-profit colleges, including ending a new regulation that gets students out of their loans if they can prove their college defrauded them.
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Rebound: Spectrum was easily over-subscribed on this fund, reflecting a major reputational rebound after the firm was among those defrauded in 2009 by a duplicitous portfolio company called Canopy Financial.
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Transcripts of defense documents that his lawyers released earlier showed prosecutors charged Xia had defrauded several people out of at least 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) to pay off gambling debts.
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And she would also continue the Obama administration's efforts to forgive student loans for borrowers defrauded by colleges that lure them in based on misleading job placement statistics or other statements.
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In what has been dubbed the biggest fraud in India's banking history, PNB, the country's second-biggest state-run lender, said last month it had been defrauded of about $2 billion.
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"I am concerned in light of your troubling record of working with Secretary DeVos to undermine protections for students who were cheated and defrauded by for-profit colleges," Ms. Murray wrote.
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It was a rare victory for borrowers seeking debt relief from a department that, under Ms. DeVos, has frozen or curtailed relief programs for students who claim that schools defrauded them.
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Manafort will likely end up paying less than $24 million in restitution because the properties he has been forced to forfeit will go toward the debt owed to banks he defrauded.
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Mr. Schneiderman sued Mr. Trump in 2013, claiming that his for-profit educational programs at Trump University defrauded students, and he recently said his office was looking into Mr. Trump's foundation.
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The Department of Education acknowledges in the proposed rules that it will be necessary to provide debt relief for groups of students who may have been defrauded by the same company.
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"It is very clear that the people of Malaysia were defrauded by many individuals, including the highest members of the prior government," David Solomon said Wednesday on the company's earnings call.
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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered "pharma bro" scammer Martin Shkreli to immediately pay a defrauded hedge fund investor about $20153,22015 in restitution, roughly half of what the investor asked for.
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Students who were defrauded at 91 campuses operating as Everest or WyoTech in 20 states can apply for forgiveness through the department's website, Education Secretary John B. King Jr. said Friday.
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A New York appeals court decided on Tuesday that a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general claiming that Donald J. Trump's defunct for-profit school defrauded consumers can go forward.
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You won't see a dime just for getting annoyed by calls, though — you'd need to show that it was one of these companies and that they defrauded you, or attempted to.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday said Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV must face a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by overstating its ability to comply with vehicle safety laws.
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Federal prosecutors began investigating soon after the festival collapsed and concluded that Mr. McFarland had defrauded investors in Fyre Media as well as a subsidiary that had promoted the music festival.
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The organization says that the Center for Medical Progress a "criminal enterprise" that, among other things, defrauded the IRS by creating a fake nonprofit and illegally recorded people without their consent.
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Yet neither the S.E.C. nor the Justice Department ever pursued charges related to Lehman's accounting, so perhaps the questionable tactic was not enough to warrant a claim that investors were defrauded.
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The prosecution brought forth an "avalanche" of evidence, as the prosecutor Jacquelyn Kasulis put it in her rebuttal argument, that Mr. Shkreli illegally used Retrophin to repay the defrauded MSMB investors.
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Mr. Poehling filed his suit in 22014 under the False Claims Act, a law that allows private citizens to sue on behalf of government agencies they believe to have been defrauded.
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The department has also reportedly considered ending other policies that would eliminate debt forgiveness, including an Obama administration rule that erased the debt of students defrauded by predatory for-profit programs.
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Here's what the rule would do Arbitration clauses are commonly included in customer contracts to help banks or businesses avoid lawsuits from consumers who say they have been defrauded or abused.
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Returning money to defrauded investors is crucial to showing that the S.E.C. is not merely collecting money that will go to the United States Treasury but is restoring funds to investors.
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Embattled ex-pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli on Monday pleaded not guilty to an additional federal charge filed against him last week claiming that he defrauded investors about a company-owned drug.
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He starts this company that basically does due diligence for investors and provides insurance to them in the event that they are defrauded, and that was the basis of his company.
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And a federal judge recently held Ms. DeVos in contempt of court for illegally collecting on the debts of thousands of students defrauded by another, defunct for-profit chain of colleges.
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Democrats and progressive political groups have fiercely defended the rule, insisting it would ensure vulnerable consumers have their day in court when they've been defrauded by banks or credit card companies.
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According to prosecutors, Nordlicht and Levy defrauded bondholders in Black Elk, an oil exploration company Platinum owned, by diverting money from asset sales to Platinum ahead of Black Elks 2015 bankruptcy.
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The "borrower defense to repayment" rule gave students who attended colleges that had misled or defrauded them, and loaded them up with illegitimate debt, a pathway to have their debts canceled.
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In 2014, Avenatti defrauded a Mississippi bank and submitted fake income tax returns, false law partnership tax returns to support applications for three loans totaling over $4 million, according to Hanna.
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When we last saw the Roses, they seemed to be actually liking Schitt's Creek, the small town that the formerly wealthy family landed in after being defrauded by their business manager.
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Chris Christie of New Jersey, Mr. Trump repeatedly defended himself over questions about the educational seminars known as Trump University, which is the subject of Mr. Schneiderman's lawsuit claiming it defrauded students.
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Specifically, these charges pertain to the allegation that Theranos defrauded its investors out of millions of dollars while also deceiving — and putting at risk — the lives of hundreds of patients and doctors.
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At trial, prosecutors alleged that Shkreli defrauded multiple investors out of millions of dollars placed in his hedge fund, only to repay them with stock and cash that he looted from Retrophin.
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The Qingdao court's use of JD.com follows the sale of inventories of the defunct Fanya Metal Exchange on another e-commerce platform, Taobao, in an effort to recoup funds for defrauded investors.
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The defendants defrauded at least 400 victims in the Baltimore area, Virginia and in Texas, Gordon Johnson of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Baltimore Field Office told reporters at the same briefing.
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While that summit was in full swing, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada and charged in Vancouver over allegations that the company defrauded banks by concealing payments from sanctioned Iran.
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Prosecutors said he defrauded investors in two hedge funds he ran, MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare, schemed to prop up the stock price of Retrophin, the drug company he founded in 2011.
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Mastro called the SEC enforcement division's decision to sue "offensive," and said that the evidence showed Tilton, 57, had not defrauded investors in three debt funds that loaned money to distressed companies.
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Related: Hated 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's Former Pharmaceutical Company Files for Bankruptcy Shkreli's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman said Shkreli would not answer questions because of the unrelated criminal charges that Shkreli defrauded investors.
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An Arizona man pleaded guilty in a federal court in Manhattan Friday to creating six PACs and misrepresenting their activities to potential donors, resulting in tens of thousands of donors being defrauded.
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"The list goes on and on – leading a company that defrauded taxpayers, rewarding state contracts to companies he had a financial interest in, slashing education funding and raising property taxes," he added.
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But Mr. Menashi's legal advice found a willing audience: Ms. DeVos has been clear that she did not want to grant full relief to students who claimed they were defrauded by colleges.
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The settlement with state regulators involves allegations that the bank and its employees artificially manipulated Libor prices in contractual arrangements that defrauded government entities and nonprofit organizations out of millions of dollars.
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He'd defrauded investors by falsifying bulk-ticket deals with producers of Broadway shows and with concert promoters, and then used the investors' money to pay off earlier investors or to enrich himself.
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"After thinking long and hard, Brittany and I decided to take this lawsuit on in part because we fear we are not the only ones Moradi has misled and defrauded," he added.
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"It's very clear that the people of Malaysia were defrauded by many individuals, including the highest members of the prior government," Solomon said on conference call discussing the bank's fourth-quarter results.
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According to the Justice Department, HMA, beginning in 2008, defrauded government healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid by illegally pressuring and inducing doctors into increasing the number of emergency department patient admissions.
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For more than a year, DeVos tried to overhaul or delay the Obama-era "borrower defense" regulations, which intended to automatically cancel loan debt for students who for-profit institutions clearly defrauded.
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Depp and his old management firm, TMG, are locked in a huge legal battle -- first, Johnny said they defrauded him out of $25 million and then TMG filed a countersuit against him.
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In October, the judge ordered the Education Department to enforce a long-delayed Obama-era rule that expanded and expedited loan relief for defrauded students, many of whom attended for-profit colleges.
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The Times - Nigerian oil company Lekoil ltd appears to have been defrauded after paying $22,21 for a fake $20.899 million loan agreement with people pretending to represent Qatar's sovereign wealth fund. bit.
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The new plan also nixes an Obama-era policy that allowed state attorneys general to file claims on behalf of groups of students who claim they were defrauded by the same school.
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The state, by way of the Martin Act, has accessed a wealth of documents showing how the corporation conducts business, and allegedly mislead and defrauded investors about climate change and climate science.
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During our time at the Department of Education, we saw thousands of requests for debt relief flow in from borrowers who were defrauded by their colleges and had nowhere else to turn.
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The documents detail payments that Shkreli's drug company made to investors he had allegedly previously defrauded at two hedge funds he ran, as well as supposedly bogus consulting agreements with some investors.
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Matsumoto refused to give Shkreli credit that would offset that total, saying he only started paying back his defrauded hedge fund investors after they began raising concerns he had ripped them off.
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Their sins: They returned over $12 billion to defrauded consumers and plan to issue regulations dealing with payday debt traps and compulsory arbitration clauses that deny aggrieved consumers their day in court.
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Alleged NFL scam Twelve former NFL players are accused of participating in a health insurance scam that allegedly defrauded the league's retiree health care benefits program to the tune of $3.4 million.
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Legal experts said that if a bank acting as an agent for its clients can be proven to have defrauded them through deceit then this would be illegal under UK law as well.
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Avenatti is also indicted in a third case in California, in which he is alleged to have defrauded five clients, and at his second appointment Tuesday all three of the cases momentarily converged.
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During Mr Lobo's presidency the social-security system was defrauded of $300m; a small amount of money from firms linked to the scandal helped finance Mr Hernández's campaign (without his knowledge, he says).
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The money will go toward various remedies for students who are owed debt relief after President Barack Obama's Education Department found they were defrauded by the chain, Corinthian Colleges, which collapsed in 2210.
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Lance Armstrong agreed on Thursday to pay $5 million to settle claims that he defrauded the federal government by using performance-enhancing drugs when the United States Postal Service sponsored his cycling team.
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The regulations also required schools that might be at risk of closing to put up financial collateral and banned arbitration agreements, which have kept many students from suing schools they believe defrauded them.
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Now Trump University is the focus of two class action lawsuits in San Diego by some students who claim they were defrauded and a separate suit filed by the New York attorney general.
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The affidavit also states the group defrauded clients of their own employer by billing them for some of the bribes "while falsely representing those bribes to be legitimate expenses" of the proxy solicitor.
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Abraaj, its founder Arif Naqvi and a former executive are being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on U.S. charges that they defrauded investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Former Platinum Partners chief Mark Nordlicht and other executives of the now-defunct hedge fund group are due to go to trial on Tuesday on charges they defrauded investors out of $1 billion.
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AHAB has said al-Sanea, who married into the al-Gosaibi family more than 30 years ago, defrauded it of billions of dollars after he was put in charge of its financial businesses.
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The defense to repayment rule, which the department is expected to finish in November, creates a process for students who feel they have been defrauded by their school to apply for loan forgiveness.
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Shkreli, 32, is charged in that criminal case with looting the pharma firm Retrophin, which he previously ran, in order to pay off investors in his hedge fund, who were themselves allegedly defrauded.
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A 48-page criminal indictment said since 2012, Nordlicht and four other defendants defrauded investors by overvaluing illiquid assets held by its flagship Platinum Partners Value Arbitrage funds, mostly troubled energy-related investments.
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The award recipients were a diverse group, including scientists who sought cures to rare genetic diseases, as well as government attorneys who worked to bring justice to people who were defrauded by scams.
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"They said sex trafficking laws aimed to eradicate activity that didn't fit his actions since there were no allegations he "trafficked anybody for commercial profit; that he forced, coerced, defrauded, or enslaved anybody.
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But let's recall that more than 2,200 people, most of whom were considered "smart" men and women, were defrauded out of more than $60 billion by former stockbroker and admitted fraudster Bernie Madoff.
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A former operator of flophouses who was profiled in an investigation last year by The New York Times is facing additional criminal charges that he defrauded tenants and illegally evicted them, prosecutors said.
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Shkreli is accused of ripping off his publicly traded drug company Retrophin out of millions of dollars while serving as CEO to repay investors he allegedly defrauded at two hedge funds he ran.
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Clinton, has tangled with Mr. Trump over other matters, including his high-profile lawsuit alleging that students were defrauded out of thousands of dollars at Mr. Trump's for-profit education program, Trump University.
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At the same time, U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto left undecided, for now, the question of whether she will also order Shkreli to pay hundreds of thousands in restitution to a defrauded investor.
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Fuel cell maker Bloom Energy recently filed to go public, but the beneficiaries may include two men who defrauded Bloom investors nearly a decade ago, according to a note in its IPO filing.
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To prove that Mr. Manafort defrauded banks, prosecutors need to show he deliberately lied about financial facts, said Nancy Gertner, a former United States District Judge and a professor at Harvard Law School.
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Democrats argue that the Trump administration's overhaul of the standards makes it too burdensome for legitimately defrauded borrowers to obtain loan forgiveness and protects for-profit colleges at the expense of students. Sen.
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The actions of shoe company executives and members of these college's basketball staffs defrauded them because their actions exposed the universities to the economic harm that could result from N.C.A.A. penalties, prosecutors said.
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Between 2009 and 2015, mortgage lenders paid billions of dollars to settle claims that they defrauded the government program, which insures lenders and mortgage investors against defaults on loans they make to homeowners.
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Prosecutors claims that Shkreli defrauded multiple hedge fund investors by misleading them about the funds' performance, and then sought to make them whole on their investments by looting Retrophin that he gave them.
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Prosecutors claim that despite those shares being held in the names of other people, Shkreli secretly controlled them without disclosing that fact as required, and used the shares to pay back defrauded investors.
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The government contends Armstrong and his team defrauded the government in signing a sponsorship contract with the United States Postal Service that included an antidoping clause when they knew the team was doping.
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The Trump administration, under Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has brought student loan forgiveness measures for defrauded for-profit college students to a standstill, a move that is being challenged in court. Sen.
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Tesla and CEO Elon Musk were saddled with a combined $40 million worth of fines to settle SEC's claims that Musk defrauded investors with tweets saying he planned to take the company private.
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The prosecutor's office alleges that Ronaldo had defrauded the tax authorities of 1.4 million euros in 2011, 1.7 million euros in 13, 3.2 million euros in 2013 and 8.5 million euros in 2014.
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Manafort was found guilty in the Virginia trial of having defrauded Citizens, after he was charged with misleading the bank to obtain a $3.4 million loan on a condo he owned in SoHo.
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In 2016, the actor Alec Baldwin sued Ms. Boone, saying she had defrauded him by promising him one painting by Mr. Bleckner, but then providing another, similar Bleckner painting with the same name.
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While middle-class white women celebrated with ticker tape parades, black women in the former Confederacy were being defrauded by voting registrars or were driven away from registration offices under threat of violence.
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"When the government, at appropriate levels, repeatedly concludes that it has not been defrauded, it is not forgiving a found fraud — rather it is concluding that there was no fraud at all," Higginbotham wrote.
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Last year, the New York Attorney General's office filed a lawsuit against Time Warner Cable claiming it defrauded consumers by intentionally slowing down internet services specifically to negotiate higher fees from Cogent, among others.
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Meng, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, was charged in Vancouver over allegations that the company defrauded several banks, including HSBC and Standard Chartered, by concealing payments from Iran in violations of sanctions.
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"Thus, the bottom line: during the critical times, these defendants (and NECC) could not have defrauded the FDA by interfering with the relevant regulatory functions because there were none to speak of," Stearns wrote.
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It alleges that CVS has defrauded the general public by implying homeopathic remedies sold at its stores and online are every bit as effective for treating illness as FDA-approved, over-the-counter drugs.
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Meng and others defrauded HSBC and other banks by misrepresenting Huawei's relationship with Skycom, according to U.S. prosecutors who claim Skycom's operations in Iran were controlled by Huawei from at least 2007 until 2014.
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His trial centered on charges that he had laundered $30 million he made working for Ukrainian politicians into the US and had defrauded several US banks to get more than $20 million in loans.
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In the second scheme, Nordlicht and Levy defrauded bondholders in Black Elk, an oil exploration company Platinum owned, by diverting money from asset sales to Platinum ahead of Black Elk's 2015 bankruptcy, Hein said.
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Under DeVos, the Department of Education has scrapped a rule that was intended to protect students from for-profit colleges, and is rewriting a rule about how defrauded students can qualify for loan forgiveness.
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Meng and others defrauded HSBC and other banks by misrepresenting Huawei's relationship with Skycom, according to U.S. prosecutors who claim Skycoms operations in Iran were controlled by Huawei from at least 2007 until 2014.
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After Warren's office worked with Connor to collect and document the stories of defrauded borrowers, Warren's staffers sent signed copies of the report they produced to each of the students they had spoken with.
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"As alleged, the defendants placed personal and company profits ahead of their duties of trust and confidentiality owed to their client, and in doing so, defrauded their client of millions of dollars," Capers said.
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Federal prosecutors said he ran a scam for two decades that defrauded some 30,000 investors and centered on the sale of fraudulent high-yielding certificates of deposit through his Antigua-based Stanford International Bank.
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In the letter to DOJ, they wrote that Cohen lied when he said he "never defrauded any bank," denied any foreign government ties and that he didn't want to work in the White House.
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Prosecutors allege that Holmes and Balwani defrauded investors, doctors, and patients with false claims about supposedly miraculous blood-testing devices varyingly branded as the TSPU, Edison, or minilab, which they knew were hopelessly unworkable.
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Hanna's office said Avenatti allegedly defrauded a bank in Mississippi by submitting to that bank fake tax returns to get three loans totaling $22013 million for his law firm and coffee business in 22012.
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A class-action lawsuit was filed last week against the founders of Tezos, a blockchain project, over its July initial coin offering (ICO), alleging they violated securities laws and defrauded participants in the fundraise.
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Last year, Goldman paid $5 billion to settle allegations by the Department of Justice that it defrauded investors and the public when it was profiteering before and during the financial meltdown of 2008-2009.
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While no one has been charged, the governor's office has opened its own investigation into what it has called suspicions of "improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interest" that may have defrauded the state.
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William McFarland, 26, has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with the fake ticket scheme, which defrauded at least 15 customers out of about $100,000, according to a criminal complaint.
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On May 27, a federal grand jury in Portland awarded $2500 million, including $2000 million in punitive damages, to former Rajneeshee Helen C. Bryon, deciding that Sheela had defrauded her of $4003,2400 in India.
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A newly unsealed lawsuit alleges UnitedHealth Group "defrauded the United States of hundreds of millions — and likely billions — of dollars" by knowingly submitting false and inflated charges to Medicare, multiple media outlets have reported.
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Poehling also sued other insurers, claiming that they along with UnitedHealth had defrauded the United States of hundreds of millions - and likely billions - of dollars through claims for payments from Medicare for the elderly.
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If the settlement stands, this means that our client Sherri Simpson and others like her who were defrauded by Trump could only get about one-seventh the value of their claims under this settlement.
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Mahathir told Reuters in an interview that Malaysian investigators already "have an almost perfect case" against the principal suspects who had defrauded 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and misappropriated billions of dollars in public funds.
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Mr. McKenzie and Mr. Thomas have said in their court responses that it is the Morgan company that actually defrauded Mr. Indiana, by failing to pay royalties on the sale of Indiana-related products.
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The Senate on Wednesday issued a strong bipartisan rebuff to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, passing legislation to block her policy that makes it tougher for defrauded student loan borrowers to have their debts forgiven.
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The government contends that Mr. Serebrennikov and his fellow defendants, working through Seventh Studio, a private enterprise set up to organize the festival, defrauded the Ministry of Culture through schemes like presenting inflated invoices.
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Mr. Grassley is also the foremost champion of whistle-blower laws, under which drug companies have paid billions of dollars to resolve allegations that they defrauded the government or engaged in illegal marketing practices.
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Add a cacophony of news about data breaches that have shaken the U.S. government, taken entire hospital systems hostage, and defrauded the international banking system, and hackers start to sound like omnipotent super-villains.
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Along the way, the currency became a magnet for greed and attracted a group of scammers and hackers who defrauded investors, hyped fake products, and left many of the currency's original backers empty-handed.
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PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police arrested 94 people in pre-dawn raids on Wednesday as part of an investigation into an alleged Mafia scam that defrauded European Union agriculture funds of millions of euros.
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Warren was one of several Democratic lawmakers who had pushed the agencies to issue that earlier guidance providing tax relief to students whose loans were discharged after their schools had defrauded them or closed.
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"This indictment outlines the unscrupulous and anti-competitive practices of a corrupt businessman who defrauded the United States," Nick Hanna, the United States attorney for the Central District of California, said in a statement.
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A federal judge on Monday at the U.S. Justice Department's request tossed a lawsuit over the objections of a purported whistleblower alleging that manufacturers of multiple sclerosis drugs and pharmacy benefit managers defrauded Medicare.
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He has been married at least eight times, has falsely claimed to be a Homeland Security agent and a terminally ill cancer patient and has defrauded people out of tens of thousands of dollars.
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Past associates of the man described the Englishman to BuzzFeed News as a "Walter Mitty character" who repeatedly defrauded a company he cofounded despite disciplinary actions that were meant to keep him in check.
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd has agreed to pay $135 million to resolve a long-running lawsuit alleging that the generic drugmaker defrauded Illinois' Medicaid program by overstating the wholesale price of its prescription drugs.
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She also noted that "there is a fairly limited universe" of investors whom Shkreli allegedly defrauded, suggesting that it would not be onerous to prosecutors or jurors to have those people called as witnesses.
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"I know fraud when I see it, and these students were misled and cheated -- and the fact that some of them may be making money doesn't mean that they weren't defrauded," said Democratic Rep.
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That's a complete reversal of priorities for an agency that, until Mulvaney arrived, had responded to 1.2 million consumer complaints and returned nearly $12 billion to consumers harmed, cheated or defrauded by financial institutions.
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In the years leading up to the financial crisis, unscrupulous lenders manipulated and defrauded millions of American families, resulting in the loss of millions of jobs and homes and trillions of dollars in wealth.
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While Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told senators on Thursday that her department had restarted loan forgiveness to defrauded students, the data shows it did not immediately start doing so despite an October court order.
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The commission also ordered Forex Capital Markets, its parent FXCM Holdings LLC and founding partners Drew Niv and William Ahdout to pay $7 million to settle charges it had defrauded retail foreign exchange customers.
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Black, a Canadian-born citizen of Britain and a member of the U.K.'s House of Lords, served three years in prison after he defrauded investors in his company, Hollinger International, of $6 million.
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Shkreli defrauded investors in two of his hedge funds and one of his pharma companies in 2015 when he lied to investors about the fund's performance and misappropriated their money, prosecutors argued during the trial.
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Messi, 29, and his father defrauded the Spanish tax office of almost 4.2 million euros from 2007-09 by using a web of shell companies to avoid taxes on income from the player's image rights.
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"It's very clear that the people of Malaysia were defrauded by many individuals, including the highest members of the prior government," Solomon said at the start of a conference call to discuss fourth-quarter earnings.
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But instead of asking him about that correspondence, prosecutors grilled President Trump's former secretary of state on whether Exxon defrauded investors by using different calculations to account for the cost of future climate change regulations.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Financier Lynn Tilton took the stand on Tuesday to defend herself against U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that she defrauded investors in three debt funds that loaned money to distressed companies.
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Gates also acknowledged creating a fraudulent letter for movie producer and political operative Steven Brown, who pleaded guilty in April to participating in a scheme that defrauded investors of over $9.5 million involving false documents.
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A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's pretrial bid to win a lawsuit brought by Trump University students who said they were defrauded into signing up for its real-estate seminars.
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His company defrauded nearly 1,800 investors, and he was eventually charged with nine federal crimes, including wire fraud, investment advisor fraud, money laundering, racketeering, and public urination (that one was unrelated to his Ponzi scheme).
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A federal appeals court has declined to revive a whistleblower's claims that four banks defrauded the U.S. government's mortgage insurance program, ruling the whistleblower did not have actual knowledge that a fraud had been committed.
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The U.S. Attorney's Office claims Todd and Julie defrauded banks by fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars in loans, and also claims the couple cheated taxpayers by actively evading federal taxes on the money they earned.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Paul said Williams' firm defrauded 143,000 customers from 2009 to 2014 into paying about $4.1 million by misrepresenting how much they owed and by falsely claiming they could face prison time.
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The case does not involve any alleged Russian meddling or collusion, and instead focuses on accusations that Manafort failed to properly report his income on tax returns and defrauded banks to obtain multimillion-dollar loans.
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Paul Guadalupe Gonzalez, 45, defrauded eight women of more than $950 over a two-year spree from May 2016 to April, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
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Since Tezos's problems were first detailed by Reuters in October, several class-action lawsuits have been filed in the United States against the project's organizers alleging the fundraiser violated federal securities laws and defrauded investors.
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Prosecutors said that between the launch of Bitfunder in 2012 and at least July 2013, Montroll defrauded investors by taking WeExchange users' bitcoins for himself, selling them for dollars and spending them on personal expenses.
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Indeed, new figures reveal that the bank spent $21625 million more lobbying Congress to loosen consumer protections between 2900 and 220006 – the prime years of its scandal – than it returned to defrauded customers in arbitration.
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A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that a fast-growing North Carolina-based manufacturer of urine drug test analyzers fueled its growth through a marketing scheme that defrauded Medicare and Medicaid.
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Coincidentally, just one day after Perdue filed his McConnell-endorsed discharge petition to gut prepaid card protections, NetSpend agreed to pay $53 million to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it had defrauded customers.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa will probe allegations that state attorneys defrauded government of billions of dollars by deliberately losing cases, the justice minister said on Tuesday, the latest crackdown on corruption under President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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In a letter dated Tuesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission denied a public information request from a lawyer representing class-action plaintiffs who say they were defrauded by Tezos' $232 million fundraiser in July.
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Simmons admitted that he defrauded the government in 2008 when he got work as a team leader in an Army program, and again in 2010 when he was deployed to Afghanistan as an intelligence adviser.
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The indictment said the defendants and their co-conspirators defrauded other traders by placing fraudulent orders they did not intend to complete, hoping to manipulate prices by creating the appearance of false supply and demand.
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Aaron Schock, the Illinois Republican who left office last year amid a federal corruption probe, from a bizarre class action lawsuit alleging the ex-lawmaker defrauded the public and campaign contributors through false campaign representations.
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That's the number of Americans who have benefited from the nearly $85033 billion in relief that the agency has recovered so far for consumers defrauded by banks, payday lenders, debt collectors and other bad actors.
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Three years ago, Mr. Schneiderman sued Mr. Trump and Trump University, his for-profit educational company, saying that students had been defrauded out of thousands of dollars with false promises about what they would learn.
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In April, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Paxton over what the agency said was his role in a stock scam that defrauded investors in a Texas-based technology company called Servergy Inc.
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Taxpayers will foot the bill for hundreds of millions of dollars in student loans that will be forgiven for students who were defrauded by the schools or who were enrolled when their campuses shut down.
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Accusations of fraud, of course, must be premised upon a showing or assumption that some individual or group has been defrauded, that is, fooled into taking or avoiding actions that otherwise would have been chosen.
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The case against Messi, who plays for the Spanish powerhouse Barcelona, and his father dates back to 2013, when a state prosecutor opened an investigation into whether they had defrauded the state of €4.1 million.
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Andrew Caspersen, a former Wall Street executive and scion of a wealthy family, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal charges that he defrauded friends, relatives and a hedge fund billionaire's foundation of nearly $40 million.
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"As a result of Barclays' misconduct, government entities and not-for-profits were defrauded of funds that otherwise could have been used to benefit the people of New York," Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement.
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An Education Department official who was formerly an executive at a for-profit college reportedly helped shape the agency's rollback of a policy designed to help protect students from being defrauded by for-profit colleges.
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In his 2014 interview with Billboard, Mr. Pearlman insisted that he could have paid back the people he defrauded if the federal authorities had only allowed him to start auditioning singers, even from behind bars.
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I went to the Orlando area during the '08 campaign to make the same case, visiting with families who had been defrauded by mortgages, these subprime mortgages that put them and their homes at risk.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Wall Street executive Andrew Caspersen pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges that he defrauded investors out of over $38 million, blaming his conduct on a gambling addiction he could not control.
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Avenatti is facing serious criminal charges alleging he misappropriated client trust funds for his personal use and he defrauded a bank by submitting phony tax returns in order to obtain millions of dollars in loans.
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The Pomerantz lawsuit alleges Gerdau failed to disclose it and its executives bribed tax authorities, defrauded Brazil's tax revenue service of $429 million, laundered illegal funds and carried out influence peddling, according to the filing.
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In the second scheme, according to prosecutors, Nordlicht and Levy defrauded bondholders in Black Elk, an oil exploration company Platinum owned, by diverting money from asset sales to Platinum ahead of Black Elk's 2015 bankruptcy.
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In 2009 a woman claiming to be from a long line of witches defrauded a lawyer out of thousands of dollars by telling him he was possessed by the soul of his recently departed sister.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston have argued that John Kapoor, the company's former chairman, should be 100% jointly responsible for paying restitution to insurers who were defrauded into paying for the drug, Subsys, through the scheme.
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Just this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained an emergency court order halting an initial coin offering by Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services that the agency claimed had defrauded investors out of about $21 million.
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" As Attorney General Letitia James said in her announcement of the accusations, "The very government that was supposed to ensure fair practices in the marketplace engaged in a scheme that defrauded hundreds of medallion owners.
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Washington (CNN)Paul Manafort defrauded banks, the IRS and other federal authorities out of greed, and thus should spend perhaps all his remaining years alive behind bars, special counsel Robert Mueller's office said Friday night.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Breitling CEO Chris Faulkner, a frequent media commentator dubbed the "Frack Master," had with others defrauded investors through the sale of oil-and-gas working interest investments.
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Avenatti is facing serious criminal charges alleging he misappropriated client trust funds for his personal use and he defrauded a bank by submitting phony tax returns in order to obtain millions of dollars in loans.
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A Los Angeles court has set down a May 19 trial for Avenatti to face charges he defrauded clients of millions of dollars by diverting money they were to be paid to accounts he controlled.
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Prosecutors say Shkreli defrauded more than a half-dozen people who invested in two hedge funds he ran by lying about his investing prowess, and by misstating the size, performance and strategy of the funds.
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The prosecution contends that he lied about the money in the MSMB hedge funds he ran and improperly used money from Retrophin to pay back defrauded MSMB investors through settlement agreements and sham consulting agreements.
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In the 21st century, it is frankly absurd for American consumers to face the significant risk of being defrauded or physically harmed by the products they buy online, yet the current risks are unacceptably high.
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A U.S. judge on Monday rejected BlackBerry's request to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it inflated its stock price and defrauded shareholders by painting a misleadingly positive picture of sales prospects for its BlackBerry 10 smartphones.
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Washington (CNN)Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on Thursday defended her decision to move ahead with partial loan forgiveness for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, pushing back on criticism from Democrats over her approach.
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"As alleged, the defendants defrauded mortgage loan holders out of millions of dollars, with taxpayers saddled with much of the loss," Richard P. Donoghue, United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, announced.
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Last summer, Manafort was found guilty in the Virginia trial of having defrauded Citizens after he was charged with misleading the bank to obtain a $3.4 million loan on a condo he owned in SoHo.
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A federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit claiming a Texas hospice and related companies defrauded Medicare by admitting patients who did not qualify for care and by failing to regularly certify them as required.
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Shapiro allegedly used the part of the $1.2 billion from defrauded customers, many of which were seniors, to "charter planes, pay country club fees, and buy luxury vehicles and jewelry," according to the SEC complaint.
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RICHMOND, Va. — A judge in Virginia reopened a more than two-year-old case on Wednesday to consider accusations that the powerful consultancy McKinsey & Company had defrauded his court while advising a bankrupt coal company.
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Proving that Musk intentionally defrauded investors is an uphill climb, but Musk has provoked unneeded federal scrutiny at a time when Tesla's troubled core business — car production — should be where he is spending his time.
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The defrauded cited a lack of transparency as to what the influencers were paid to hawk the festival to their millions of followers online, although not everyone agreed they deserved the blame to begin with.
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In Thursday's debate, Mr. Trump was dismissive of attacks on his involvement with Trump University, which has drawn lawsuits from individuals who claim they were defrauded, and from Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York.
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Roger Zullo defrauded his clients, lied to his supervisors and fabricated client financial suitability profiles to enrich himself and his employer by selling identical, illiquid, and high-commission variable annuities, the state said in its complaint.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission, which announced the order on Monday, filed an emergency action in December 2017 charging the company with operating the $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded 8,400 retail investors across the country.
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Medtronic Inc has agreed to pay $43 million to resolve a class action lawsuit claiming it defrauded investors by manipulating clinical studies for its Infuse bone graft product in order to artificially inflate its stock price.
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WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd agreed to pay $195 million for a deferred prosecution agreement after the Israeli bank admitted it had defrauded the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
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The Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC has agreed to allow its unsecured creditors' committee to pursue claims against affiliates of the bankrupt property developer, which has said its prior management defrauded investors through a Ponzi scheme.
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In one of the most significant civil prosecutions of alleged securities fraud in many years, the SEC is now seeking to prove in court that Mr Musk defrauded investors through his bizarre and ill-considered actions.
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Source: Federal Trade Commission BuzzFeed News also identified 63 lawsuits between 2003 and 230 involving businesses, lawyers, religious figures, and other individuals who allegedly defrauded their clients and used the promise of legal status for profiteering.
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Natalie Levine, who worked at the Arizona-based drugmaker from 2013 to 2014, entered her plea in federal court in Hartford, Connecticut to one count of engaging in a kickback scheme that defrauded federal healthcare programs.
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King was determined, one former Education Department official said, to speed up the process of loan forgiveness for defrauded students, and to create a lasting way to cancel the loans of other for-profit college students.
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And while creditors and credit bureaus do try to help victims of identity theft clear their credit reports of errors after they've been defrauded, their systems are flawed in ways that make children particularly vulnerable targets.
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And after these children have been defrauded, it's difficult for them to clear their credit because banks assume the identity thief, who was the first person to use the social security number, is its true owner.
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Bill Ackman, the activist investor, has been painted as a loser in his yearslong quest to shut down Herbalife, the nutritional supplement company that he bet against, contending it defrauded customers and was a pyramid scheme.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's pretrial bid to throw out a lawsuit brought by Trump University students who said they were defrauded by its real-estate seminars.
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A federal judge has approved a $4.95 million settlement resolving claims that Smith Barney Fund Management defrauded its mutual fund investors of fee savings, ending a more than decade-old case against the former Citigroup unit.
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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)A Chinese national and former engineering student in Oregon pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods in a scheme that defrauded Apple out of roughly 1,500 iPhones.
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Bart Friedman, a corporate lawyer at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, said he viewed Benchmark's case as weak, given the "extraordinarily high hurdle" they must clear to show that they were defrauded, one of their most potent allegations.
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The venture firm had signaled that it would only sell if Kalanick could be sufficiently restrained; it sued him earlier this year in an unprecedented lawsuit arguing that he defrauded the board, on which Benchmark sits.
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Scam artists, like the Platinum Partners hedge fund executives who allegedly defrauded inventors of nearly $1 billion, are increasingly preying upon people they get to know through shared interests and activities, especially religious or cultural affiliations.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Tuesday sided with Fidelity Investments in rejecting a claim the mutual funds company retaliated against a former employee after she complained that it potentially defrauded investors by incorrectly calculating expenses.
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At some point a court or jury will have to make a determination as to the reasonableness of the expectations of these plaintiffs -- whether they were defrauded, or whether they got exactly what they paid for.
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But a federal appeals court overturned the conviction in December 2015, citing errors by the trial judge and a lack of evidence that Litvak defrauded the government in connection with a financial crisis-era federal bailout.
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In a court filing on Tuesday police said that, including a new complaint filed by the bank, the total amount Choksi's Gitanjali group of companies allegedly defrauded PNB of has reached 70.8 billion rupees ($1.09 billion).
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Education Department: The Associated Press: Federal court ruled the department violated privacy laws when it used the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help it analyze loan forgiveness for students defrauded by the for-profit Corinthian Colleges.
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More intriguingly, Wolfe also alleged that Kraemer Manes defrauded her and other clients because many of the firm's glowing reviews – those posts that allegedly persuaded Wolfe to hire Kraemer Manes in the first place – were fakes.
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Shkreli, 34, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he defrauded investors at MSMB Capital and another hedge fund he ran, and that he later looted the drug company he founded, Retrophin, to repay those investors.
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Samuel Morales admits to facilitating the falsification of receipts to account for thousands of dollars defrauded from Guatemala's national property registry as a "favor" to his nephew, but said he did not benefit from the scheme.
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The justices left in place a 2017 decision by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturning a 2014 verdict by a federal jury in Texas that found Trinity had defrauded the government.
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Reuters reported two lawsuits have been filed — the most recent one was filed this week and alleged that Tezos' organizers broke U.S. securities laws and defrauded and misled participants during the token sale, according to Reuters.
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In a decision late on Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins in San Jose, California said PETA failed to show that Whole Foods' alleged misrepresentations on in-store signs, placards and napkins defrauded consumers into overpaying.
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These were hard-fought regulations battles that granted a slew of new and improved protections for student loan consumers who were defrauded into borrowing for a shoddy education, as well as penalties for "bad actor" schools.
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Since Trump's inauguration, Becerra has filed 113 lawsuits on behalf of his state against the federal government on issues ranging from healthcare to immigration to net neutrality to loan forgiveness for students defrauded by their schools.
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Jason Forge, a lawyer for the students who claim they were misled and defrauded by Trump University, said Petrocelli could not point to any particular harm if the videos are released since transcripts are already public.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Platinum Partners chief Mark Nordlicht and other executives of the now-defunct hedge fund group are due to go to trial on Tuesday on charges they defrauded investors out of $1 billion.
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Despite Betsy DeVos' best efforts, the U.S. Department of Education will cancel the nearly $150 million in student loan debt for 15,215 people whose schools shut down in the middle of their education or defrauded them.
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Despite Betsy DeVos' best efforts, the U.S. Department of Education will cancel the nearly $150 million in student loan debt for 15,000 people whose schools shut down in the middle of their education or defrauded them.
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A recent review of "borrower defense claims" — requests for loan relief filed with the Education Department by students asserting they were defrauded or misled by their schools — found that almost 99 percent involved for-profit institutions.
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Between the settlements for his sham university or the myriad lawsuits filed against him for fleecing contractors, it's easy to understand why the left asserts that his supporters have been emotionally defrauded in a similar fashion.
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The case centers on accusations that SNC-Lavalin paid 47.7 million Canadian dollars in bribes to officials in Libya to win contracts there, and defrauded the Libyan government and its agencies of 129.8 million Canadian dollars.
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A federal jury in New Hampshire said a former college professor and her son defrauded a Wall Street titan by selling him a series of fake paintings they claimed were by the modern artist Leon Golub.
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"Doping fraud is a crime in which big money, state assets and transnational criminals gain advantage and honest athletes and companies are defrauded," said Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat of Texas, who introduced the legislation on Tuesday.
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Theranos Inc founder Elizabeth Holmes and the blood-testing technology start-up's former president, Sunny Balwani, will be tried separately after being indicted on charges that they defrauded investors and patients, a federal judge has ruled.
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A nearly identical coalition of state attorneys general in July sued to stop the Education Department's delay of "borrower defense" rules that were meant to make it easier for defrauded students to discharge their federal loans.
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Manafort's defense team believed the four Federal Savings Bank fraud charges could be dismissed because of previous comments made by Ellis suggesting the bank couldn't be defrauded if its founder wanted Manafort to have the loans.
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Prosecutors say he defrauded hedge-fund investors by lying about the amount of money he had under management, and by misleading them about the returns he was making on their money with his stock-trading strategy.
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New York's Attorney General, Letitia James, plans to sue the City of New York for $810 million over allegations the city defrauded taxi drivers for 14 years by inflating prices of taxi licenses, Gothamist reported Thursday.
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Forced arbitration denies Americans the basic right that CFPB rule restores: a hearing, a chance to make their case that they were defrauded and the opportunity to ensure that other consumers don't get the same treatment.
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At least one time as a lawyer, Mr. Puzder was on the other side of such a case, helping to represent the interests of a police pension fund that had been defrauded by its investment managers.
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He took on big banks like Wells Fargo, insisting they should not be allowed to keep their customers out of court when they defrauded millions of them by opening fake accounts no one ever asked for.
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But, really, is there any rationale for universities to send young people onto playing fields and courts where they are at risk for serious injury while they are being defrauded on the education they were promised?
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Kalanick, however, says Benchmark had 14 months to voice its concerns over that agreement and the first mention of the claims that they were defrauded into singing those voting agreements was in the lawsuit Benchmark filed.
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The American Future Fund, a conservative group that does not disclose its donors, announced plans on Friday to run ads blasting Mr. Trump for his role in an educational company that is alleged to have defrauded students.
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Last year, a judge in Fort Worth ordered Hayward to set aside $10 million to pay Pedroza after a Fort Worth jury decided in February 2015 that Pedroza was defrauded out of her fair share of royalties.
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China has stepped up its crackdown on illicit financing in recent months after a series of high-profile scandals, in which P2P operators and asset management firms were alleged to have illegally taken deposits or defrauded investors.
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Warren's office conducted its own investigation into how many former Corinthian students were being pursued by debt collectors — a move geared at putting pressure on the department to stop collecting the loans of some 250,2000 defrauded students.
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Chief Crown Prosecutor Janine Smith said the sentences "reflect the level of exploitation, control and violence they showed and betrayal of the trust both from those victims they condemned to forced labor and the people they defrauded".
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Ramona Singer is being sued by a former employee who alleges the reality star underpaid and mistreated her — and defrauded Bravo by scheming the network into paying for clothes that she either already owned or eventually returned.
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Signed by U.S. District Judge David Carter in Santa Ana, California, on Friday, the judgment includes a largely symbolic $831 million disgorgement, which the court considered satisfied by earlier payouts to defrauded investors in the civil case.
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But because Cohen appears to have lied about his clout—because he may even have defrauded those who paid for access or insights or whatever they want to call it—he might have gotten away with it.
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Unlike when a credit card is defrauded and a customer is refunded, "if there is a problem with Apple Pay it is not clear under some arrangements what's going to happen there," said the U.S. central banker.
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The disclosure may make it easier for former students of the defunct institution to have their federal loans forgiven by helping them establish that they were defrauded or that Corinthian violated federal law while it was operating.
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A federal court in California ruled Friday that the Education Department violated privacy laws when it used the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help it analyze loan forgiveness for students defrauded by the for-profit Corinthian Colleges.
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In all, more than 2120,000 property investors were defrauded over five years until Woodbridge went under in late 2017 amid a wide-reaching federal investigation into the scheme, the government said in a release announcing the sentencing.
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"For over 30 years, Stanley Chais unscrupulously defrauded Californians, many of them elderly, by taking their life savings, charging steep fees and funneling their money to Bernie Madoff's elaborate Ponzi scheme," Ms. Harris said in a statement.
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The Education Department is completing rules for what is known as "borrower defense to repayment," under which borrowers may apply to have federal direct loans canceled if their school misled or defrauded them or broke state law.
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Behind the high-thread-count sheets, there has been controversy, from the bankruptcy of Mr. Trump's hotels and casinos in Atlantic City, N.J., to a lawsuit involving Trump SoHo from buyers who alleged they had been defrauded.
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DealBook Bill Ackman, the activist investor, has been painted as a loser in his yearslong quest to shut down Herbalife, the nutritional supplement company that he bet against, contending it defrauded customers and was a pyramid scheme.
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This specific case alleges that the company paid 48 million Canadian dollars (around 36 million USD) to Libyan government officials to secure construction contracts from 2001-2011, then defrauded the Libyans for about 130 million Canadian dollars.
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He pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges of conspiracy and money laundering in connection with a decades-long Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors who had poured an estimated $300 million into a company that never actually existed.
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The Justice Department charged Mangione for his role in the alleged scheme in its complaint, saying he defrauded investors in a $1 billion security called ACE 2007-HE4 and another $400 million security called ACE 2007-HE5.
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The statements were ordered May 1 as part of a 2006 federal court decision that found the major cigarette manufacturers, including R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, had defrauded the public about the health risks of their products.
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According to the prosecution, Simmons defrauded his former girlfriend, referred to in documents as E. L. (Simmons denies any romantic involvement.) She gave him $125,000 to invest in a real estate venture, and Simmons pocketed the money.
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The court ruled in May that the Department of Education had violated privacy laws by using Social Security Administration information to help it determine how much relief defrauded Corinthian students should get based on their earning capacity.
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A criminal prosecution is permitted only when the insider personally benefits from the disclosure and is deemed to have defrauded the insider's employer by using for personal advantage information that was intended only to serve corporate purposes.
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In November 2016 she was finally convicted in a criminal defamation case over a story she published eight years earlier claiming that several B.J.P. leaders had defrauded a jeweler and was sentenced to six months in jail.
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Richard Westling, one of Mr. Manafort's lawyers, argued that the bank, Federal Savings Bank, was not defrauded because its chairman, Stephen M. Calk, was determined to do business with Mr. Manafort, despite questions about Mr. Manafort's wherewithal.
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It also prompted an ongoing investigation and subpoena by New York State attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman into whether Exxon defrauded investors and consumers by misrepresenting its knowledge about the connection between fossil fuels and climate change.
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"The question is going to be whether the case is nuts: Nobody was defrauded, nobody lost any money," Mr. Brafman argued, telling the jury that the investors in fact made money because of Mr. Shkreli's financial prowess.
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New York (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge has ordered seven U.S. stock exchanges to face proposed class-action claims that they defrauded ordinary investors by quietly enabling high-frequency traders to trade faster and at better prices.
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The victims here are not just people like Mr. Dailey, whose life is on the line, but also the countless people who suffered because of Mr. Skalnik's own crimes — the children he abused, the people he defrauded.
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The whistleblowers, who are represented by the Strom Law Firm and Richardson Patrick Westbrook & Brickman, claimed that about two dozen Agape facilities defrauded the U.S. government by pushing thousands of Medicare patients into medically unwarranted hospice treatment.
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One email chain in particular between the two men shows Shkreli excoriating Greebel for not promptly sending him a copy of a purportedly sham consulting agreement that Shkreli allegedly was using to pay off a defrauded investor.
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It allows students to apply for debt cancellation if they were defrauded by their college -- but DeVos wants to rewrite it to ensure taxpayers aren't on the hook for students who weren't actually harmed by their schools.
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In the next couple of weeks, Trump may finally have to face in court the people who claim that Trump University defrauded them, although his lawyers are trying to convince Judge Curiel to postpone the trial yet again.
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A judge ruled on Tuesday that an Obama-era set of consumer protections for defrauded students will go into effect immediately, after repeated attempts by the Trump administration and the for-profit college sector to delay the regulation.
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Indian federal agents last week said they were investigating the jeweller and others over accusations that they defrauded PNB of $403 million, and a CBI offical said told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the cases were related.
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The chief executive and a managing partner of the collapsed Dubai private equity firm Abraaj Capital were arrested on U.S. charges that they defrauded their investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a federal prosecutor said on Thursday.
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Warren wanted to use her influence to steer the government into following that path and creating a process for defrauded students to apply for loan cancellation that would eventually allow Corinthian students' loans to be forgiven en masse.
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Simmons admitted that he defrauded the government in 2008 when he got work as a team leader in an Army program, and again in 2010 when he was deployed to Afghanistan as an intelligence adviser, the statement said.
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PNB, India's second-largest state-run bank, disclosed in February that two jewelery groups had defrauded it by raising credit from overseas branches of other Indian banks using illegal guarantees issued by rogue PNB staff over several years.
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Apple defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance, according to eight lawsuits filed in various federal courts in the week since the company opened up about the year-old software change.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Weight Watchers International Inc on Wednesday won the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders about how badly enrollment declines and the proliferation of free mobile weight loss applications were hurting its bottom line.
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The current administration's proposals include making it harder for former students who claim they've been defrauded by their schools to get their debt canceled and relaxing the standards for-profit schools must meet to keep their federal funding.
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As well as the one-year prison sentence to be served under probation, the 56-year-old has been fined 1.9 million euros, equivalent to 60 percent of the amount defrauded, as well as 121,764 euros in interest.
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In the past year and a half, she said, Baidu paid roughly 50 million yuan ($7.6 million) in compensation in response to 2,477 complaints involving people who said they had been defrauded or had their consumer rights violated.
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" In Manafort's plea deal, the special counsel specifies that Manafort defrauded the government by "impeding, impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful governmental functions of a government agency, namely the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury.
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A three-judge panel ruled on Monday that federal prosecutors had failed to prove that Bank of America's Countrywide unit had defrauded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage firms, when it sold them troubled loans.
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Huawei's chief financial officer Sabrina Meng, who is also the daughter of its founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested and released on bail in Canada earlier this month as the U.S. alleged she defrauded banks with Iran-related transactions.
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Filed against Department of Education over debt-relief claims Becerra filed a lawsuit in 2202 after the Department of Educations was accused of failing to process loan repayment claims from students who were defrauded by for-profit universities.
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They cite the more than $11 billion in restitution the agency won for defrauded Americans, and high-profile enforcement and regulatory actions taken against Wells Fargo, payday lenders and other financial services providers Updated at 5:02 p.m.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A KDDI Corp mobile phone unit has agreed to pay $30 million to resolve U.S. government claims that it defrauded a low-income subsidy program by seeking reimbursement for ineligible consumers, prosecutors said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Former Platinum Partners chief Mark Nordlicht and other executives of the now-defunct hedge fund group are due to go to trial on Tuesday on charges they defrauded investors out of $1 billion.
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The regulator pursued charges against Holmes and Balwani to deter executive wrongdoing elsewhere and out of concern that imposing stiff penalties on the company itself could make it even more difficult for defrauded investors to recoup any funds.
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For six years, instead of safely investing the athletes' money—as well as 28 other clients—he defrauded them out of millions, secretly transferring their money to an unprofitable ticket-buying business in which he held considerable interests.
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On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced a lawsuit against ExxonMobil over allegations that the multinational oil and gas company defrauded and misled investors about the effect that climate change would have on its share values.
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Mr. Vahamaki is suspected of having defrauded Parliament of around 13,000 euros (about $14,800) in the form of unjustified allowances, the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation said in a statement, adding that he had paid the money back.
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WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has temporarily halted relieving the debt of some student borrowers who were defrauded by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges, after a federal judge found her department misused earnings data to calculate loan forgiveness.
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And yet, arbitration has been the only recourse even in cases where customers were defrauded, like those caught up in the still-unfolding scandals at Wells Fargo who could not sue because of the bank's mandatory arbitration requirement.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Avenatti, the celebrity lawyer and self-described high-profile nemesis of U.S. President Donald Trump, faces a trial on charges he tried to extort Nike Inc and defrauded a youth basketball coach he represented.
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The former top aide of retired UAW Vice President Joe Ashton, a former member of the GM board of directors, is expected to plead guilty next week to charges involving bribery and kickback schemes that defrauded union workers.
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Apple is already facing lawsuits in the United States and elsewhere over accusations of having defrauded iPhone users by slowing down devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance and to push clients into buying new phones.
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Anna Sorokin, the Russian immigrant convicted this year of conning New York society into thinking she was a German heiress named Anna Delvey, defrauded hotels and banks of hundreds of thousands of dollars by pretending to be rich.
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Investigators said the two parliamentarians along with tax authority chief Gelu Diaconu, his deputy Mihai Gogancea-Vatasoiu and eight other people allegedly defrauded two projects aimed at giving vocational classes to the underprivileged, mostly from the Roma minority.
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Now the 48-year-old celebrity lawyer faces an uncertain future, as he goes on trial on Monday on charges he tried to extort up to $25 million from Nike Inc and defrauded a basketball coach he represented.
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The judge, Gonzalo Curiel, first entered the Trump political story long before the President came to the White House, back when Curiel got a class-action lawsuit concerning students who said they had been defrauded by Trump University.
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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executive and a managing partner of the collapsed Dubai private equity firm Abraaj Capital Ltd have been arrested on U.S. charges that they defrauded their investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The company's chief financial officer Sabrina Meng, who is also the daughter of founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested and released on bail in Canada earlier this month as the U.S. alleged she defrauded banks with Iran-related transactions.
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Finally, imagine living in a country where the oxymoronic unconstitutional Constituent Assembly now decides it wants to hold state elections that will be overseen by the same unscrupulous electoral commission that defrauded the Venezuelan people just weeks before.
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Washington (CNN)It's been five months since a federal court ordered Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to give defrauded student loan borrowers relief, but more than 100,000 people are still waiting to hear whether their debt will be canceled.
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BOSTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Tuesday sided with Fidelity Investments in rejecting a claim the mutual funds company retaliated against a former employee after she complained that it potentially defrauded investors by incorrectly calculating expenses.
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Federal prosecutors are recommending that Mary Boone, the veteran art dealer, be sent to prison for as much as three years, saying she deliberately defrauded the government by filing false tax returns and evading $2000 million in taxes.
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A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of two Tennessee men for an alleged $5 million bank fraud against two mortgage companies, ruling that the government did not prove that any bank was defrauded by the men's scheme.
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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said a jury's 2014 finding that Trinity had defrauded the government could not stand, and that the Dallas-based company was entitled to prevail as a matter of law.
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Baldetti has been imprisoned in Guatemala since 2015 on charges of leading a network that defrauded the government of the Central American country along with former president Otto Pérez Molina, who has also been arrested and is awaiting trial.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Jamaican fashion model who alleges that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's modeling agency defrauded her of $225,000 in pay is moving forward with her case, despite a federal judge's decision to dismiss the lawsuit.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A Cayman Islands court has dismissed rival claims made by a Saudi Arabian family and a Kuwaiti-born businessman, finding both to have defrauded scores of banks out of about $126 billion over more than two decades.
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During their trial, both former and current Baltimore PD officials testified GTTF members stole money and drugs from suspects, lied to suspects about arrest warrants they didn't obtain and defrauded the agency by falsely claiming overtime and vacation pay.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former drug executive Martin Shkreli plans to hire new legal counsel to represent him against U.S. charges that he defrauded investors at his former hedge fund and a pharmaceutical company he headed, Shkreli's current lawyers said.
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The SEC at that time claimed that Goldstone and Simmons defrauded investors by overstating Thornburg's income by more than $400 million and falsely reporting a profit rather than a loss for the fourth quarter in its 2007 annual report.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a jury verdict that found State Farm defrauded the U.S. government when the insurance company assessed damage caused by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf of Mexico coast in 2005.
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States sued DeVos earlier this year over another rollback of an Obama regulation, the borrower defense rule, which laid out a process by which students who said they were defrauded by for-profit colleges could apply for loan forgiveness.
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The corruption cases' central theory, which several defendants' lawyers have challenged, is that the under-the-table payments to players defrauded the universities for which they played, because they exposed those institutions to N.C.A.A. sanctions and other potential harms.
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In December, Canadian authorities arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to serve an extradition request from the U.S. government, which has alleged that the company defrauded several banks by concealing payments from Iran in violation of sanctions against that country.
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But rather than frame the case as just a commodities fraud, the prosecutors are using RICO to try to show that the defendants misled JPMorgan and defrauded customers of the bank by costing them money on their trading strategies.
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Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals fell nearly 10.4 percent on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported the pharmaceutical company is under federal investigation for allegations it defrauded insurers by hiding its ties to Philidor, a mail-order pharmacy unit.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal prosecutor told jurors in Manhattan on Thursday that a former Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc executive and the former head of mail order pharmacy Philidor Rx Services defrauded Valeant through a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme.
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A Mississippi community health center has agreed to pay $6.93 million to resolve claims that it defrauded federal healthcare programs by filing false claims for services that it either did not provide or that were provided by unqualified employees.
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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the dismissal of a whistleblower lawsuit by the law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres alleging four chemical manufacturers defrauded the Environmental Protection Agency by failing to disclose information regarding their products' health risks.
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XU YUYU was a poor 18-year-old student from the coastal province of Shandong when, on the eve of going to university in 2016, she was defrauded of the savings that her family had painstakingly accumulated for her.
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan announced the charges against BitFunder founder Jon Montroll the same day the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit accusing him and the company of running an unregistered securities exchange that defrauded its users.
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A man in Colorado was arrested on Friday, December 28, after a woman claimed that he defrauded her of more than $100,000—all while claiming to be a former player for the Denver Broncos, according to a police report.
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Shkreli, widely criticized after he acquired rights to an infection treatment and then raised prices 5,000 percent in 2015, hopes to avoid prison because of an unusual twist to his case: defrauded investors suffered no loss from his crime.
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In 2007, he was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that he defrauded investors out of $1.8 million in connection with the construction of a storage facility and renovation of a Las Vegas Casino.
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He disappeared amid claims he defrauded investors who had poured tens of millions of dollars into a fraudulent liquor exporting scheme, which became the basis of a 1997 indictment in New York charging him with fraud and grand larceny.
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The six-year statute of limitations precluded him from pressing criminal charges, however, so last year he filed a civil suit in New York State Supreme Court against Boone and her gallery, charging that they had intentionally defrauded him.
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