Word: defraud
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...anything you want," he said "providing you don't hurt anybody and you don't defraud anybody...
From all the fuss raised in New York this past winter, one might have thought that the Tribune Company, the parent organization of The Daily News, had tried to defraud the News workers of the last 10 cents of their lawful wages. Not really. Tribune and News executives wanted to end entirely illogical make-work rules which Hoge says were costing the paper millions of dollars a year, which it could ill afford...
...Israelis like to think they can lean on: their military, and the $1.8 billion they receive annually from the U.S. to buy arms. Both pillars trembled when the Justice Department, in a Cincinnati lawsuit unsealed last week, accused General Electric Co. of conspiring with Israeli General Rami Dotan to defraud Washington of $30 million in U.S. military aid by padding invoices and charging for work that was never done. Last March, Dotan was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in the scam, which investigators believe diverted into his bank accounts money earmarked for the purchase...
...good nights, the games, held at the United Steelworkers' Hall, could allegedly bring in $100,000 -- none of which ever made it into church coffers. In addition, the 56-year-old clergyman is accused of falsifying records on the bingo games, conducting an illegal gambling game and conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service...
...deeply sorry for the people who have been hurt," Bakker contritely told U.S. District Judge Robert Potter just before the sentencing. "I have sinned. I have made mistakes. But never in my life did I intend to defraud anyone." That last-ditch bid for leniency made little impression on the judge, known as "Maximum Bob" because of his penchant for stiff sentences. "Those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money- grubbing preachers and priests," Potter angrily told the defendant. Bakker, 49, was quickly bound in handcuffs and leg-irons and driven...