Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drug had to do with sustainable development, spokesman Ron Tisbury had his offbeat sound bite ready: "Anything you can build with petrochemicals, you can make out of marijuana." The media began using words like farce and fiasco to describe Rio, and one participant called the conference the "greatest fraud ever perpetrated...
Charging AMI with fraud, the SEC claims that purchasers were duped into believing the bonds were risk-free. The SEC alleges that AMI misrepresented the financial condition of the churches involved, a number of which were so distressed that it was unlikely they'd ever be able to return investments. The suit also claims that AMI guaranteed customers that their money was insured, when in fact the firm had only $2 million to cover more than 100 times that amount in bond sales...
...Italy's largest banks, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, made $4 billion in illicit loans to Iraq. Those include $350 million in defaulted loans backed by Agriculture Department guarantees. Christopher Drogoul, former manager of the Atlanta office, is expected to plead guilty this week to charges of fraud and money laundering...
Federal officials launched an investigation of fourth-term City councillor William H. Walsh for suspected bank fraud in December...
...federal grand jury subpoenaed documents in late January as evidence for the two counts of fraud with which Walsh may be charged...