Sentences with phrase «alleged fraud scheme»

HCRA, a tax that insurers have paid since the late 90s under health reform legislation enacted during the Pataki administration, has come under scrutiny recently because of the role the tax's collections paid in an alleged fraud scheme by former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver.

U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim detailed during a press conference on Tuesday the alleged fraud scheme involving Adidas representatives, college basketball programs and athletes.

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This was the first ruling by a federal court to confirm the CFTC's determination in 2015 that cryptos are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act, that it can regulate them, and that it can pursue those it alleges to have engaged in fraud and manipulation schemes on crypto exchanges.

The grand jury alleged two overlapping schemes with common threads of «bribery, corruption and fraud.»

Edward and Linda Mangano are not charged in the alleged securities fraud scheme.

SITE SAFETY — Construction firm charged in $ 1.7 M wage theft scheme, by POLITICO's Janaki Chadha: «A Queens - based construction firm is facing fraud, larceny and other charges in an alleged wage theft and insurance fraud scheme that affected 520 workers, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. announced Wednesday.

A state lawmaker from Brooklyn was indicted on Tuesday on 11 counts of fraud and obstruction charges, in what federal prosecutors allege was a variety of schemes to defraud both the city of New York, the federal government and a bankruptcy proceeding.

Federal charges are being levied against top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, the influential head of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, and others for a series of alleged schemes that include fraud, bid - rigging and bribery; Kaloyeros is also facing felony corruption charges from the state.

Reports of alleged electoral fraud through impersonation more than doubled between 2014 and 2016, according to the Electoral Commission, but other campaigners voiced concerns that the scheme would be a barrier to voting.

Dean Skelos, 67, and Adam, 32, face eight counts of bribery, extortion and conspiracy to commit honest services fraud for an alleged scheme in which the elder Skelos allegedly used his office to pressure businesses into giving his son cushy no - show jobs that earned him over $ 200,000 starting in 2010.

Silver, 70, was indicted on three charges, theft of honest services wire fraud and mail fraud and extortion in the alleged real estate and asbestos cancer schemes.

Kang faces wire fraud and securities fraud charges as well as theft of honest services charges in the alleged pay - to - play schemes he carried out as the state Common Retirement Fund's Director of Fixed Income Portfolio Strategy, U.S. Southern District Attorney Preet Bharara said Wednesday after an indictment was unsealed.

In 2016, she committed a similar fraud scheme to obtain funding from the New York City Build it Back Program to pay for construction on her home, the indictment alleges.

The freezing orders had been obtained by the US Department of Justice as part of its prosecution of an alleged Ponzi fraud scheme called the «Vavasseur Programme», run by an American named Terry Dowdell, in which the defendants had participated.

Two doctors listed in incorporation papers were accused of insurance fraud, including a doctor who pleaded guilty to scheming to defraud after his indictment in an alleged phony accident scheme.

Her co-defendant, Abraxas J. «A.J.» Discala, was convicted of securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy in the alleged pump - and - dump scheme.

Today's legal news was dominated by Bernie Madoff's entry of a guilty plea to eleven charges — including securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering and making a false filing to the SEC — all tied to his alleged $ 50 billion Ponzi scheme.

Dean was sued for fraud in January, when the CFTC alleged that Dean and his company, Entrepreneurs Headquarters Limited, misappropriated more than $ 1.1 million in bitcoin from a pooled investment scheme, defrauding some 600 participants in the process, as previously reported.

Around the same time, the CFTC sued crypto scheme My Big Coin for alleged fraud, and brought two lawsuits against allegedly fraudulent cryptocurrency investment schemes just a week before.

U.S. government sues over alleged bitcoin Ponzi scheme — Sep. 21, 2017 Bitcoin is a relatively new currency, but that doesn't mean investors are safe from old school fraud.

On May 13, RCMP announced charges of fraud, forgery and uttering forged documents against Robert Manuel Moniz, 37, of Montreal in a scheme similar to the alleged BMO Alberta fraud.