Sentence examples for a fraudulent operation from inspiring English sources

The school turned out to be a fraudulent operation.

Threats to cancel AOL service are often a sign of a fraudulent operation.

What mattered, Picard said, was whether Wilpon and Katz blinded themselves to warnings that Madoff was running a fraudulent operation.

However, he concedes that some faculty requests for APC funds might be rejected, for example, because a given journal appears to be a fraudulent operation or because a given author has already tapped into the fund too many times that year.

Some of his hyperbolic statements court skepticism, and in January 2015 they provoked a whistle-blower lawsuit from two ex-employees alleging that the grand Nantworks project a fraudulent operation that hurts its patients; Nantworks disputes the claims.

The American law school is "a mostly fraudulent operation," Campos writes, whose professoriate engages in bogus analysis to justify its existence.

A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒn.zi/; also a Ponzi game) is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned through legitimate sources.

A particular specialty has been the fraudulent operation known as a boiler room, in which hundreds of young men use "never-take-no-for-an-answer" telephone tactics to sell worthless stocks to investors, mostly in the South and Midwest (like other birds of prey, these scam artists do not like to foul their own nests).

Mr. Alishtari also pleaded guilty to stealing millions of dollars through fraudulent operation of a loan investment program.

She said a man named Flaming was sending a package to a fraudulent telemarketing operation in Montreal.

Officials said they shut down the fraudulent operation during the summer after an informant tipped off the assistant investigator for the Regional Security Office.