Word: defraud
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...proxy statement is much lower than for general securities fraud. In proxy fraud, the prosecution just has to prove that Lewis was negligent in not including certain information. The SEC does not have to prove, as is the case in regular securities fraud, that Lewis orchestrated a scheme to defraud investors. Poor judgment could be enough to get you in hot water in proxy fraud...
Uttering refers to the use or circulation of bills or documents known to be counterfeit with the intent to defraud...
...country's stock market regulator, is the only Indian body with the expertise to investigate allegations that Satyam officials used Byzantine accounting chicanery involving illegal transfers of money between hundreds of shell companies, possible insider trading, money laundering, and other acts to inflate the company's profits and defraud shareholders...
...from the U.S. State Department’s Agency for International Development to advise the former communist country as it moved toward economic privatization. During his time advising the Russian government, Shleifer invested personally in the country, and in 2004, a federal judge found Shleifer liable for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government. The judge also ruled that Harvard had breached its government contract, and the University paid $26.5 million to settle out of court. Shleifer was required to pay an additional $2 million as part of the settlement.Despite the controversy, Shleifer was allowed to keep his endowed Harvard professorship...
Andrei Shleifer ’82, the prominent Harvard economist who found himself at the center of a rare ethics investigation for his alleged role in defrauding the U.S. government, has been stripped of his endowed title as the Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Economics.Beginning on Friday, Shleifer was listed in the Harvard directory as a “Professor of Economics” at Harvard, a step down from the more prestigious, endowed Jones post.“I was a professor of economics at Harvard last week, and I am a professor of economics at Harvard this week...