Word: frauds
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Walsh was convicted by a federal jury last April of 41 counts of bank fraud. Walsh is also said to have lied to federal officials...
...people don't file them in time or file two or three at a time," said Walsh, who was convicted in May of 41 counts of fraud and conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced November 8. "If the federal government wants to enforce the law, they can probably put 25 percent of the state of Massachusetts in jail...
Heller says he and Cole decided to see if they could lie their way into the Guinness Book. By 1984, Guinness had apparently figured out the fraud. The official world record for egg throwing now stands at 318 feet...
Former B.C.C.I. second-in-command Swaleh Naqvi was sentenced to eight years in the slammer and ordered to pay $255 million in restitution in connection with federal charges stemming from the biggest bank fraud ever. Naqvi now faces trial in New York Friday on state charges. But Naqvi's boss, B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, is currently in Pakistan and unlikely to be brought to justice, says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne, who covered the scandal. Naqvi has pleaded indigence and probably won't pay the fines levied against him. Still, today's development is a significant victory for the feds...
...didn't believe the words of Richard Parella could convict anyone." --Suspended Middlesex County Sheriff John P. McGonigle after being convicted of tax fraud. Purclla, a former deputy sheriff, was the United States District Attorney's lead witness...