Sentences with phrase «scale frauds of»

Large scale frauds of the kind of Ponzi schemes and pyramids deprived millions of their possessions.

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With widely - scaled decentralized systems, we can eradicate fraud, automate manual processes, and control for issues of authentication and trust.
While, fresh but scaling startups tend to drag their feet until they see clear evidence of issues, prolonging upgrading may cause unnecessary and costly headaches like missed billing opportunities, inventory write - offs, efficiency gaps in operations or even fraud.
Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»
Securities fraud is hardly unheard of on Wall Street and the amounts involved here are nowhere near on the scale of Bernie Madoff.
Amazon is similar story on a grander scale of accounting fraud and fantasy promotion.
With President Trump's claim of voter fraud on a massive scale in the 2016 presidential election, it may be time for the country to...
Hensarling stated during the Q&A that House Financial Services, which has launched an investigation into the Wells Fargo scam, wants to know «why a fraud of this massive scale took place.»
He further stressed that given the current scope of food fraud in the global food marketplace, there is an urgent need to clarify definitions and terms that can collectively be used by companies to address food fraud on a global scale.
Some in the European organic community are critical of the Action Plan, claiming that it's a PR strategy designed to make the public think that by introducing new regulations it will address trust issues, when in fact large - scale fraud problems are the reason behind mistrust.
Saunders added Mars's recall was different from the problems at VW, where dishonesty and fraud were involved, and the horsemeat scandal, where dishonesty and a wide - scale failure of the supply chain were to blame.
The recent horsemeat scandal highlighted the potential scale of mislabeling and fraud in the food industry.
The lawsuit comes in the wake of the Wainstein report, which showed egregious cases of academic fraud at the university on a massive scale.
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Documented allegations and evidence of frauds during the election itself (whose scale is hard to evaluate) and of pressure on the voters.
Some aggrieved workers of the Electoral Commission have petitioned President Akufo - Addo to launch full - scale investigations into what they describe as misconduct and fraud on the part of Charlotte Osei.
Large - scale protests followed the last federal parliamentary elections on Dec. 4, 2011, after widespread reports of electoral fraud and rigged elections.
If such a legislature would exist, I would expect this voting pattern to be the result of large - scale election fraud.
``... It is unremarkable that the arrest of the longtime Speaker of the Assembly on allegations that he committed a large - scale and long - running honest services fraud and extortion scheme generated substantial publicity, and it plainly would have done so regardless of any statements made by the U.S. Attorney.»
While I obviously would not wish on anybody the scale of fraud perpetrated by his management, which was on such a scale that it brought him out to perform a world tour in 2008, the fact that I was able to see him at an atmospheric, open - air concert at Edinburgh castle was a welcome consequence.
Justice Agbim noted that «the fuel subsidy fraud involved corruption and fraud on a very massive scale»; that it involved many oil companies and officials of government's regulatory agencies «looting and stealing of trillions of naira from the Federal Government of Nigeria and threatening the security and economy of Nigeria.»
Kelly Kramer, a white - collar criminal defense attorney at the Mayer Brown firm, said the Supreme Court has scaled back the «honest services fraud» statute, as it is called, in deciding the case of former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling, limiting such prosecutions to cases involving bribes or kickbacks, rather than mere self - dealing.
«The investigation into the abuse of English language testing in 2014 revealed extremely serious, large scale, organised fraud.
«We have taken decisive action against those who have been involved in this extremely serious, large scale, organised fraud of English language tests.
The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB), who manage cross-industry, large scale ghost broker investigations, is currently dealing with 26 cases of ghost broking fraud.
The 2011 parliamentary vote was followed by anti-government street protests across Russia, sparked by what was widely perceived to have been large - scale electoral fraud: a rigged election in favour of United Russia.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: «The possibility of systematic fraud of the public purse on a massive scale by profiting companies diminishes justice.»
Though the GOC is said to be investigating the matter which has caused hue and cry in the country, the Minority MPs want full scale independent investigation to establish the extent of fraud and identify personalities involved in the scandal.
The threat of large - scale electronic fraud is a mere fantasy, many election officials conclude, compared with the logistical problems they face every Election Day.
To put the scale of the problem in perspective, Anastasia has approximately 400,000 pieces of email moving through our system every week with from 20 - 30 complaints about suspicious activity that may involve internet dating fraud.
It seems to Scalia that the whole event has been staged as part of a large - scale fraud.
When sentencing Roach, Judge Andrew Menary said that «the scale of the fraud and deceit was truly shocking».
Accordingly, many Rwandan refugees view this cessation clause as a scam, a global fraud of unprecedented scale.
This procedure has the effect of preventing large - scale fraud or financial misuse.
Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small - scale con artists.
On a small scale, each ebook can generate anything from a few cents to hundreds of dollars over the course of its life span — until Amazon figures out that the book is a fraud.
Allegations of wide - scale voter fraud may not effect the presidential race, but they have kept a one - eyed Chihuahua from appearing on the tail of Frontier Airlines jets.
What I am trying to point out is how they have done this, by tweaking real world physics, swapping properties and processes etc., because this is a scam, a science fraud on a grand scale, and they have used all kinds of tricks to fool the eye, ear and mind.
to back his accusations of scientific fraud («putting [a] thumb on the scale»).
The Bank, BCCI, was found to have been involved with a large - scale fraud and other criminal acts, as a result of which the claimants, both employees of the bank, lost their jobs.
He continued: «Our Director also set out the criteria he would take into account when deciding which cases we should accept for investigation: the impact of the case on UK financial plc in general and the City of London in particular; the scale of losses, actual or potential; the extent of the gain, actual or potential; whether we were dealing with a new kind of fraud or whether there was some other public interest reason for taking the case on.
Mercuria Energy Trading v. Citibank: instructed by Stephenson Harwood to represent Mercuria in expedited Commercial Court proceedings concerning so - called «obligated repo» transactions involving the sale and repurchase of large quantities of metal supposed to be stored in warehouses in the Chinese ports of Qingdao and Penglai and defending a US$ 270 million counterclaim brought against Mercuria by Citibank following the discovery of an apparent large - scale fraud at the ports.
One of the most prominent but less publically acknowledged crimes over the last few decades has been fraud, which in recent years has taken centre stage in large - scale political and financial issues, and been the bane of many nations» governments, especially as the benefits of certain jurisdictions...
So what is the scale of fraud in Britain today?
His cases have included contested winding - up proceedings / shareholder disputes / protection; worldwide freezing and disclosure orders in respect of large scale fraud; company law, property and contractual disputes; trust disputes; breach of directors» duties / breach of fiduciary duties / recovery of assets; advising on Cayman Islands «STAR» trusts / transactions to defraud creditors.
In it, the taskforce explored relevant issues including the scale and impact, regulators and legal frameworks and what has already been done to tackle fraud, before making a range of targeted recommendations.
The scales would be balanced, conflict would be impossible, and bad lawyers would become better from all the experience they would get, and fraud would disappear because the smarts ones capable of pulling it off would never get any work.
I think it's a good thing and very necessary, given the scale of normal and cyber fraud taking place at the moment.
However, she is also able to deal successfully with complex dishonesty cases, and recently secured an acquittal at half time in a money laundering matter, where her client was the wife of a man who had committed large - scale Advance Fee Frauds over a number of years.
Sophia Purkis of Fladgate LLP advises claimants and defendants in relation to large - scale civil fraud claims, often in conjunction with parallel criminal proceedings.
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