Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across the U.S., investors were raging at the discovery that Wall Street high rollers had been ripping off millions of dollars by trading on knowledge not available to the general public. That sweeping form of sophisticated fraud did not merely touch the pocketbooks of professional stock-market players. The illicit profits came from taking unfair advantage of price movements in a broad range of stocks. That meant, in the end, that the speculators had pilfered from funds that countless thousands of ordinary investors had contributed to the market, in the form of their own stock purchases or investments in pension...
Friedman, who sat impassively as the verdicts were read, was also convicted of two counts of mail fraud...
Michael Lazar, former city transportation head, was also convicted of two counts of mail fraud; ex-PVB director Lester Shafran was convicted of two counts of mail fraud; and businessman Marvin Kaplan was convicted of one count of mail fraud and perjury for lying before the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Cambridge's largest towing company may lose a lucrative contract with the city because of recent indictments against its owners for alleged involvement in an insurance fraud conspiracy...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Former Memphis State basketball coach Dana Kirk was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on charges or obstruction of justice, mail fraud, income tax evasion and filing false tax returns...