Sentences with phrase «fraud schemes involve»

The most common fraud schemes involve automobile property and automobile accidents.

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.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, a reformer and gubernatorial hopeful, lived with an ex-con who pleaded guilty in a multimillion - dollar mortgage fraud scheme involving an S&M club and dominatrixes.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Police Commissioner James O'Neill and New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Mark G. Peters announced the takedown of an expansive fraud scheme involving the city's towing industry.

Self - styled reformer and gubernatorial hopeful Steve Levy once lived with an ex-con who copped a guilty plea in a mortgage fraud scheme involving dominatrixes and a SoHo S&M club.

Landlord Mark Benun was sentenced Friday in Manhattan Federal Court to 51 months in prison for a mortgage fraud scheme involving the sale of a $ 5.9 million commercial property at 67 - 79 East 161st Street near Yankee Stadium in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, according to federal prosecutors.

Seabrook was convicted in 2012 in a brazen fraud scheme involving more than $ 1 million in taxpayer money.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has announced charges against 14 defendants in a $ 58 million mortgage fraud scheme involving Long Island - based mortgage broker First...

Now come similar allegations out of New York, where Newsday reports that a Bethpage lawyer, William Hamel, was charged with bribery this week in an insurance fraud scheme involving patient records purchased from employees in New York City's public hospitals.

Twitter users are collectively being conned out of tens of thousands of dollars per day via fraud schemes involving accounts impersonating...

Twitter users are collectively being conned out of tens of thousands of dollars per day via fraud schemes involving accounts impersonating celebrities, including Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin, the man behind the Ethereum cryptocurrency.

The various mortgage fraud schemes involved cases of inflated home values on mortgage applications, loan applications that contained false information, funds illegally obtained through straw buyers, as well as arson, authorities say.

Not exact matches

«Such investments may involve fraud or pyramid schemes,» the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) cautioned in a statement released late last night, referring to MyCoin's meltdown, likely the worst since Mt. Gox bit the dust.

One of Trump's real - estate advisers in the early 2000s, the Russia - born businessman Felix Sater, was accused nearly two decades ago of being a co-conspirator in a $ 40 million fraud and money laundering scheme involving four Mafia families.

Another first for Bitcoin, but an ignominious one: The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed its first fraud lawsuit involving the virtual currency, claiming it was used in a Ponzi scheme.

Work - at - home schemes involving this type of fraud have occurred in two ways, according to the NCL.

Allow me to direct you to Martin Shkreli, whom a Brooklyn jury convicted this month of security fraud related to a stock scheme involving a pharmaceutical company he co-founded, Retrophin.

«The scheme outlined in the indictment focuses on bogus sleep studies that the defendants utilized to engage in a much more lucrative fraud involving Lap - Band procedures,» said Acting United States Attorney Sandra R. Brown.

Former city Councilman Dan Halloran was also ensnared in the scheme that federal prosecutors said involved conspiracy, wire fraud and extortion charges.

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.

The suit accuses him of a «cold, calculated scheme» involving at least 374 acts of mail fraud over eight years and forged signatures of federal judges.

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.

In March 2009, Ellner was indicted along with former Suffolk County legislator George Guldi, lawyer Dustin Dente, Donald MacPherson and his wife, Carrie Coakley, on charges of running an $ 82 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved dozens of Hamptons properties.

All three cases involved a common issue — a new definition by the Supreme Court requiring a formal exercise of government power rather than just a meeting or phone call to prove a quid pro quo bribery scheme under the federal law prohibiting «honest services fraud.»

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Just last month in the beginning of May, the Student Loan Report ran a story about a «sugar daddy» scheme that targeted «sugar babies» with student debt; the fraud here involved stolen bank account information and empty promises via phony checks.

«Affinity fraud almost always involves either a fake investment or an investment where the fraudster lies about important details (such as the risk of loss, the track record of the investment, or the background of the promoter of the scheme).

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.

Acting for liquidators of companies that perpetrated missing trader intra-community fraud («MTIC» or «carousel» fraud) and of companies involved in VAT avoidance schemes.

The clause, aimed at combating corrupt political influence, was added by Congress after the Supreme Court ruled in a 1987 case, U.S. v. McNally, that mail fraud was limited to schemes involving money or property.

Massachusetts lawyers continue to be successfully targeted by email and internet fraud schemes which many times involve IOLTA accounts.

He oversaw investigations and prosecutions involving significant cyber breaches of personal and financial data, sales of the use of «botnets,» cyber frauds committed against multinational corporations, and insider trading schemes that obtained confidential information through cyber breaches.

In court, his practice covers not only the general range of commercial disputes embraced in his arbitration practice but in addition he has appeared as Counsel in a number of fraud actions involving recovery of stolen property, Ponzi schemes, resolution of disputes between shareholders / joint venturers, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious conspiracy, professional negligence, structured financial products including Islamic finance.

After seven years of litigation, we obtained a dismissal with prejudice in favor of our client, a prominent cardiologist, in a negligence and fraud case involving the operation of a Ponzi scheme.

She also represents receivers in actions by the government to take over companies involving Ponzi schemes or fraud.

It also accuses BitConnect of fraud on several different counts, including failure to properly disclose the identity of its principals, its physical address and place of business, its assets and liabilities, as well as the true risks involved in such investment schemes.

The new Cyber Unit was launched by the SEC in September to focus on problems like ICO fraud, «misconduct» on the dark web, hacks aimed at stealing nonpublic information, intrusions into retail brokerage accounts, market manipulation schemes involving «false information spread through electronic and social media,» and cyber threats to market infrastructure like trading platform.

An informant details that China's Public Information Network Security Supervision task - force is closely watching both domestic and foreign trading platforms involved with cryptocurrencies to prevent fraud, pyramid schemes, and money laundering.

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

Mortgage fraud can encompass elaborate schemes that involve anything from inflated property values, undisclosed kickbacks, identity theft, and preying on home owners facing foreclosure.

Taylor also points out that an appraiser usually has to be involved to make a mortgage fraud scheme work.

Operation Wax House was involved in the investigation and prosecution of a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme out of the Waxhaw, North Carolina area.

Authorities charged 27 South Florida residents in a series of mortgage fraud schemes that involved $ 30 million in bad loans.