Sentences with phrase «shady financial affairs»

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Prior to Spitzer's tenure, it was mostly used for smaller financial violations, such as «shady pharmacists, Ponzi schemes, and peddlers of fraudulent Salvador Dali lithographs,» according to a 2004 article in Legal Affairs by Nicholas Thompson, published prior to the revelation of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, for which Andrew Cuomo used the Martin Act when he was attorney general.