Sentences with phrase «with fraud schemes»

Businesses with fewer than 100 employees suffer nearly a third of the reported employee theft, with the fraud schemes typically lasting several years before detection.

Even as the California real estate market was moving along at top speed in 2007, some industry professionals were tempting fate with fraud schemes.

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For the CFTC's limited spot market authority, the court pointed to the CEA's anti-manipulation and fraud provisions under Section 6 (c) and CFTC regulations implementing those provisions that prohibit employing a fraudulent scheme «in connection with... a contract of sale of any commodity in interstate commerce.»

However, the entities incorporated by CASPERSEN (the «Fake Funds») were merely shell companies created by CASPERSEN solely for the purpose of perpetrating his fraud scheme, and were in no way affiliated with or authorized by the Legitimate Funds.

A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin - related Ponzi scheme.

On Thursday, U.S. attorneys charged Valeant Pharmaceuticals exec Gary Tanner and the former CEO of the now - defunct specialty pharmacy Philidor Rx (with whom Valeant had an exclusive relationship) with running a multi-million dollar fraud and kickback scheme.

Just this February, federal prosecutors in Connecticut charged two men with bank fraud based on a «jackpotting» scheme.

If true, I agree with the U.S. Attorney's Office that these third - party schemes, initiated by a few bad actors, operated to commit a fraud on the impacted universities and their basketball programs, including the University of Louisville.

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.

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

Former State University of New York Polytechnic Institute head Alain Kaloyeros» trial is set for June, allegedly for his involvement in a fraud and bribery scheme in connection with the governor's Buffalo Billion economic development initiative.

NEW YORK, NY — Harvey Newkirk, formerly counsel at law firm Bryan Cave in Manhattan, was sentenced today to a prison term of six months for wire fraud in connection with his participation in a scheme to fraudulently induce lenders to provide tens

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.

«As a chartered fraud examiner, when the scam called MMM ponzi scheme came with its 30 per cent interest in 30 daysearly last year, I told people then that it was a fraud but many refused to listen and some of them later learnt their lessons in bitter ways.»

The documents are in response to a motion to dismiss all of the charges against Oliver Pan, a Liu fundraiser who is facing fraud charges in connection with a straw donor scheme.

Earlier in the year, the Speaker of the Assembly was arrested and charged with running multi million dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

Former speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested in late January and charged with running a multi million dollar fraud scheme that included payments from two private law firms.

Silver, 71, was charged with honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering stemming from schemes in which he used his leadership position to benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers in exchange for cash.

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

Rechnitz pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit honest services fraud in connection with the wire fraud scheme but is cooperating as a witness for a lesser sentence, the complaint states.

Earlier in the year, the former Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running a multimillion dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

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.

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.

«The Voting Rights Act that Dr. King fought for is being undermined with voting gerrymandering and voting suppression schemes that are being masqueraded over with voter fraud commissions that can't find any fraud because there is none to find,» he said.

They disclosed that, the new management of the scheme led by Mustapha Ussif, Gifty Afia Oware - Aboagye and Henry Nana Boakye, had tried to reverse the biometric registration of all students by the NIA, the regular auditing of the NSS payroll and the E-zwich payment system, and replace it with the normal bank payment system, which brought the fraud.

Earlier in the year, then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running multi-million dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

He had faced three federal charges — mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion — for each scheme, as well as a money laundering charge after prosecutors accused him of having illegally laundered the proceeds of those schemes to lucrative investments with a Buffalo - area venture capitalist.

Heastie has held the speaker's post for just over two months, when the former speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested and charged with running a multi million dollar fraud scheme, and resigned.

That wasn't always the case though, as New York's blue sky law was initially weaker than that of many other states, until the New York Supreme Court determined in People v Federated Radio Corporation (1926) that the act's purpose was to «defeat all kinds of fraud in connection with the sale of securities and commodities and to defeat all unsubstantial and visionary schemes in relation thereto whereby the public is fraudulently exploited,» even if the fraud can't be proven to have «originated in any actual evil design or contrivance to perpetrate fraud or injury upon others.»

Outright fraud has plagued emissions markets, whether it's Anne Sholtz building a Ponzi scheme out of smog allowances in Los Angeles or European cheats charging extra for carbon allowances under the guise of collecting a tax and then disappearing with the proceeds.

«Raising awareness of this type of fraud and including it in training schemes for frontline staff can help overcome these issues, and with new technologies coming on line, it should be a challenge that can be tackled with some success.»

The other scheme the fraud reporting centre have noticed is: «Fraudsters claim they have found a box containing gold, silver, money and jewels (or any one of them) in the desert and have sent it out of the country to set up a future together with the victim.»

The fraud utilized the infamous «visa and airfare» scheme: McCoy and his wife Anna were posing as Russian women seeking marriage and a non-existing Russian marriage agency that would provide women with visas and tickets.

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Adapted from the best - selling memoir by Jordan Belfort, the Bronx - born trader whose «pump - and - dump» schemes and penny - stock frauds made him millions - leaving duped investors with busted bank accounts - The Wolf of Wall Street tracks the rise and fall of its merrily debauched antihero, from his brief stint at an old - money brokerage house to his drug - fueled glory days as the CEO of an epic con.

ORLANDO RESIDENT Damien Budnick was arrested Monday on charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with a widespread bribery scheme that led to the arrests of 13 former employees of American Honda Motor Co..

Mutual Fund Practices, Senior Investment Fraud, Variable Annuities Join 2004 List WASHINGTON (January 14, 2004)-- State securities regulators today forecast that investors will be challenged with increasingly complex and confusing investment frauds and identified the Top 10 schemes investors are likely to see in 2004.

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.

Five years and several million dollars later, a New York art collector claims in court that the sculptor Jeff Koons and the Gagosian Gallery are running a «garden - variety» fraud with all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.

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.

The $ 2.45 billion scheme was suspended two months ago after being riddled with compliance concerns, fraud and linked to the deaths of four young workers.

Our experiences and surmises are remarkably similar: you think Dr. Bengtsson did what he did upon realizing he'd endangered his reputation and with it exposed himself to increased opposition from those who would now realize what he stands for; that he understood better how his free choice would impact his ability to gain the respectability of being published by respectable publishers; that he figured out the grant opportunities gained by open alliance with the tax - free «educational charity» that has a surprising amount of money for media campaigns and spectacle would not balance the grants he'd lose from people who consider association with a transparent tax fraud scheme a bad thing; and, ultimately that he had betrayed the trust of his valued colleagues by exposing them to such scandal.

In November 2009, Hsu was arrested (on fraud charges, not rape) following a scheme in which he allegedly persuaded up to 20 women to have sex with him.

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.

This rise, coupled with a lack of regulation, has seen the crypto currency world being hit with a number of negative incidents from Ponzi schemes to fraud, scams and hacking incidents.

Sidley Austin London partner Matthew Cahill has been charged with tax fraud in relation to a # 134m investment scheme alongside nine others.

The trio — former firmwide chairman Steven Davis, former executive director Stephen DiCarmine and former chief financial officer Joel Sanders — were each charged with conspiracy, scheme to defraud, securities fraud under New York's Martin Act, 15 charges of grand larceny and over 30 charges of falsifying business records.

He credited Mishcons» civil fraud practice with having the necessary experience to have been recommended for the scheme.