Word: scheming
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...papers filed with the US District Court of Massachusetts, the College argued that the two students received substantial sums of money from HSA's Distribution Services for work they never performed as part of a scheme to defraud the agency of thousands of dollars...
...house, both paid for in cash, Frankel had accumulated all the trappings of a depraved mogul. But everything--the women, the houses, the computers, the jet and six-figure shopping sprees, even the riding crop and bondage videos--would turn out to be illicitly funded by an elegantly complex scheme reflective of Frankel's flawed brilliance and bizarre character. "He was the best I've ever seen," says Aubrey Harwell, a Nashville, Tenn., attorney investigating the case. "This will prove, over time, to be one of the greatest scams successfully perpetrated in history...
NICE NO LONGER The IRS is unplugging a popular charitable-giving scheme that is also a way to buy life insurance. Thousands of taxpayers have been writing off donations to charities that agree to use the money to buy life insurance for the donors and later split the benefits with their heirs. No longer. The IRS may subject taxpayers who use such a "charitable split trust" to a 20% underpayment penalty and may yank the tax-exempt status of participating charities...
Before a crowd of 300 Wednesday at the town hall here, McCain put forward his plan to reform the current campaign finance system, which he called "nothing less than an elaborate influence peddling scheme...
Before a crowd of 300 Wednesday at the town hall here, McCain put forward his plan to reform the current campaign finance system, which he called "nothing less than an elaborate influence peddling scheme...