Word: scammed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...clubs did have the advantage of physical spaces, and without a house, Sigma Chi was forced to be creative about meeting. “We’d scam wherever we could,” Feltman says. “We’d sign up for a JCR under the auspices of being a study group.” Administrators, particularly Epps, were not pleased about the students’ involvement with the organization and students caught bending the rules were taken to task—and to the Administrative Board. In retaliation for Epps’ actions, Sigma...
...common scam, according to the worker, interpreters hired by FEMA would approach aid seekers who don't speak English, often elderly Chinese or recent immigrants, while they stood in line at the centers. The translators would tell applicants they were ineligible for aid and give them the business card of a confederate who would then provide fake documents for as much as $400. The fees would be split, according to the source, with the interpreters and sometimes with caseworkers at the centers...
...them cashed out as cleanly as Cuban (who bought apartments in New York, Los Angeles and Miami as well as a $41 million Gulfstream jet). For the past two years, Cuban has lectured about the perils of stocks. "Don't trust the stock market. It's a scam. Enron proved that," says Cuban. "Today the stock market is closer to a Ponzi scheme than an investor's paradise." He takes a breath and asks, "Do I sound crazy...
...trades—known “prepaid swaps”—Enron’s management conned its shareholders and employees out of millions of dollars. Now it looks like the Harvard Corporation is trying to pull the same “false swap” scam...
...Corruption Perceptions Index, beaten only by such "show-me-the-money" countries as Nigeria and Indonesia. High-level corruption continues unabated, as evidenced by the 1990s Goldenberg scandal - named for a company that allegedly exported nonexistent gold and then claimed export credits from the Central Bank. The financial scam cost Kenya at least $400 million and allegedly involved top officials and senior politicians close to President Daniel arap Moi. International donors have frozen funds earmarked for Kenya in large part because of the country's failure to set up an independent anticorruption body...