Sentences with phrase «fraud and corruption schemes»

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Former Oklahoma State assistant Lamont Evans, Auburn assistant Chuck Person, Emanuel «Book» Richardson of Arizona and USC assistant Tony Bland and six others, including Dawkins, have each been charged in the corruption and fraud scheme.

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

Court papers say the charges announced Thursday come from «two overlapping criminal schemes involving bribery, corruption, and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in State contracts and other official State benefits.»

It's been a week since a federal corruption investigation exploded in New York state, bringing fraud and bribery and charges against developers and state officials for allegedly running a pay - to - play scheme involving upstate economic development projects.

New York Senate Leader Dean Skelos has been charged with extortion, conspiring to commit fraud, and soliciting bribes in a corruption scheme also involving his son Adam Skelos — making Mr. Skelos the second of Albany's famous «three men in a room» leadership to face criminal charges from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

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.

The complaint says that the men were involved in «two overlapping criminal schemes involving bribery, corruption and fraud in the awarding of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official state benefits.»

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged Mr. Skelos with extortion, conspiring to commit fraud and soliciting bribes in a corruption scheme also involving his son Adam Skelos

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Cuomo, as well as SUNY Polytechnic Institute's founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros and officials at some of upstate New York's most prominent development firms were charged in a federal complaint with allegedly engaging in two overlapping schemes involving bribery, corruption and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official benefits.

«The effectiveness of the SIP will be determined by the level of trust the citizens have in the mechanisms put in place by the authorities to prevent fraud and corruption in the implementation of the scheme.

«We also urge the government to appoint «integrity advisors» as «early warning mechanism» for the SIP to monitor the implementation of the scheme across the states of the federation, identify and alert on any risks of fraud and corruption, and engage in analysing such risks, as well as in corruption prevention and reporting activities in general.

White collar crime is a generic term for crimes involving antitrust violations, computer / internet fraud, credit card fraud, phone / telemarketing fraud, bankruptcy fraud, health care fraud, environmental law violations, insurance fraud, mail fraud, government fraud, tax evasion, financial fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, bribery, kickbacks, counterfeiting, public corruption, money laundering, embezzlement, economic espionage, and trade secret theft, and other forms of dishonest business schemes.

His previous experience included a 10 - year spell at the South African Department of Justice, latterly as a founding member of the office for serious economic offences, where he worked on cross-border investigations and High Court prosecutions relating to bribery and corruption, stock exchange trading schemes, foreign exchange frauds and manipulations, pyramid investment schemes and financial instrument forgery syndicates.

White - collar crime generally includes securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, mortgage fraud, health care fraud, bankruptcy fraud, insider trading, computer and Internet fraud, financial and accounting fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, conspiracy, telemarketing fraud, commodities and futures fraud, business opportunity schemes, tax fraud, identity theft, credit card fraud, FEMA fraud, perjury, obstruction of justice, criminal contempt, bribery, public corruption, and economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.

A particular area of interest is complex financial schemes and he has played a leading part in investigations relating to investment, tax and pension schemes, international financial frauds, money laundering, organised criminality and the corruption of public officials.

The Treasury Department said it had «facilitated transactions involving ransomware, computer hacking, identity theft, tax refund fraud schemes, public corruption, and drug trafficking.»