Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrong. If the administration is truly concerned about how we feel, why don't they just ask? The dispensation of information is the best place to start; let us know exactly what the Trust is, what its goals purport to be and how it fits into the grand scheme of funding Harvard student groups. Most importantly, the Trust needs to give anyone who is truly motivated the opportunity to become involved. By appointing a select group of students, an instant wedge is driven between the representatives and the people whom they are supposed to serve...
...Extension School student who tricked several campus organizations into believing he was an undergraduate will be sentenced next Tuesday for his role in a check fraud scheme in Washington, D.C., a court official said...
...Meinert] needed to provide a list of the names of the victims of the fraud scheme and to pay restitution," said Patricia Heffernan, an assistant U.S. attorney. "He didn't do that...
...cubicle looks identical to Shemmer's--the same L-shaped desk, same chair, same color scheme, even the same boxes scattered on the floor. On the filing cabinet is the same row of tombstones (the Plexiglas trophies awarded when a deal is successfully completed). The uniformity seems depressing, but this analyst says he likes working at Broadview because it's actually more exciting than most jobs. He left a computer programming position at Merrill Lynch because the projects were too long-term and slow-paced. What's more, he thinks the variable nature of his job at Broadview will make...
...regulators and prosecutors in states from Florida to California get their way. Late last summer a federal grand jury in Florida indicted Frederick Brandau and his company, Financial Federated Title & Trust, for allegedly defrauding thousands of viatical investors across the country in an elaborate, $115 million Ponzi scheme. Brandau's attorney denies the allegations. Just a month ago, two officers of Justus Viatical, a Pompano Beach, Fla., firm, were charged with selling investors $2 million worth of fraudulently obtained life-insurance policies. Their lawyer calls the indictment a farce. And insurance heavyweights like American General and John Hancock Mutual Life...