Word: defraud
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Once favored to become Mississippi's first black Governor, Espy is looking at more than six years in prison if convicted on all counts. But many familiar with the case believe Smaltz is unlikely to convince a jury that the young, personable Espy schemed to defraud the people...
...intelligent and driven executive who often worked 18-hour days. Keating made unmerciful demands on subordinates. He leaned hard on top-flight law and accounting firms; a number, including Ernst & Young, Jones, Day and Kaye, Scholer, together paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle claims that they helped defraud investors. The firms denied any wrongdoing...
Over the past year, the self-styled Freemen churned out more than $1.8 million in phony money orders and other financial instruments, according to federal indictments. They used those to defraud banks, credit-card companies and mail-order businesses. A favorite tactic was to use liens filed against the property of government officials and others, then issue worthless money orders or checks using that property as collateral. Some unwary businesses, car dealerships, even the irs, have accepted them. Meanwhile, the Freemen have allegedly harassed local officials and brazenly taught weekend seminars in fraud and larceny to hundreds...
...give Susan McDougal a $300,000 SBA loan. Later, about $25,000 of that SBA-backed money was used to buy a property that briefly passed through Whitewater Development Corp. in late 1986. If Hale's charges are true, Clinton could conceivably be implicated in a conspiracy to defraud. If not, the Arkansas end of the Whitewater investigation may be near its close...
Baseball Hall of Famers Willie McCovey and Duke Snider face prison and fines as high as $250,000 for failing to report income from baseball memorabilia shows. McCovey pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion, while Snider admitted conspiracy to defraud the government by filing a false tax return...