Word: defraud
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...think it’s helpful if elected officials and leaders…take action to make sure that citizens qualified to vote do vote and that people do not defraud the system,” he said. “But I would not sign on to Dr. Guinier’s suggestion to allow felons the right to vote...
...year-old student at Harvard’s Extension School was arrested on Friday for allegedly running a complex real-estate scam that used made-up e-mail addresses and old bank accounts to defraud at least seven apartment-seekers out of thousands of dollars...
...past Lopez-de-Silanes has worked closely with Harvard Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer, who was convicted in June of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government...
Shleifer and project administrator Jonathan Hay were found liable in June for conspiring to defraud the government while they ran the project, which was administered by the now-defunct Harvard Institute for International Development. Harvard was found liable for breach of contract because of Shleifer and Hay’s conduct, but the University was absolved of the charge of fraud in the case...
...court’s findings against Hay, who currently practices law at the London office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, were most serious. He was found liable for entering false claims, making false statements in support of false claims and conspiring to defraud the government to pay false claims...