Word: defraud
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Shleifer, who is Jones professor of economics, emerged far less scathed in the settlement, agreeing to pay just $2 million. He had faced damages of up to $104 million for conspiring to defraud the government while advising a U.S.-funded program to privatize the Russian economy in the 1990s...
Shleifer, the Jones professor of economics, emerged far less scathed in the settlement, agreeing to pay just $2 million. He had faced damages of up to $104 million for conspiring to defraud the government while advising a U.S.-funded program to privatize the Russian economy in the 1990s...
...ARRESTED. CARY MA, 41, CEO of Moulin Global Eyecare, the world's third largest eyewear producer; on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud; in Hong Kong. Ma transformed the small eyeglasses shop founded by his father?one of four others also arrested?into a global empire that became a model for ambitious Chinese businesses trying to break into the U.S. and Europe. Creditors forced the company into liquidation last month following the unexpected resignation in April of its auditors over financial irregularities and the suspension of trading of its shares. The five have since been released on bail...
...agreement came nearly a year after Woodlock found Shleifer, who is the Jones professor of economics, and Jonathan Hay, a former Harvard employee, liable for conspiring to defraud the government. The two men made personal investments in Russia while advising a U.S.-funded program to privatize the economy there in the 1990s...
...convicted in 1980 of taking $360,000 in kickbacks to arrange a $4 million loan from New Jersey Teamsters Local 701 to a shady West Coast businessman. To reduce his imminent prison sentence, Friedland agreed to act as a federal informant. Meanwhile, he apparently headed a plan to defraud Local 701's pension fund of 520 million. In Friedland's hometown, few who knew the wheeler-dealer raised an eyebrow at his scuba scam. "We're from Jersey City," Lawyer Jack Russell told the New York Daily News. "We understand those kind of things...