Not exact matches
Manhattan Democratic Assemblyman Sheldon Silver was arrested in January and later charged with
fraud and extortion stemming from
what investigators say were bribes that had been masked as legal referrals.
Two men pleaded guilty to federal
fraud charges last week for their involvement in an operation that included at least two illegal diploma mills that sold
what a federal
investigator describes as a «voluminous» number of fake university degrees.
What brings this clusterpuckery to the level of
fraud - the purposeful and deliberate criminal misrepresentation of facts in pursuit of a pecuniary gain at the expense of other people, which could not have been achieved without telling lies - is the fact that the breach of method was manifestly not inadvertent, but had been undertaken by the
investigators during the course of data - gathering, with the overt objective of misrepresenting the truth shared by those
investigators among the raters in a manifestly contrived scheme of duplicity.
A well - defined career objective that tops your
fraud investigator resume pretty much sets the tone for
what's to come.
A big part of the problem is
what the FBI calls «collusion
fraud» where real estate professionals work together to take advantage of short sales and distressed properties to make a quick profit, working together in ways that make it hard for their efforts to be discovered by the wronged parties as well as the federal
investigators.