Sentence examples for an effort to defraud from inspiring English sources

The Pentagon rejected Halliburton's proposal, but attributed it to miscommunication rather than to an effort to defraud the government.

He pleaded guilty on Wednesday to forging the names of relatives and friends in an effort to defraud a mortgage company of $6.5 million.

His tone suggested that he viewed Enron's collapse as an example of the ups and downs of capitalism, rather than an effort to defraud.

Timothy G. Kremer, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, said there was no evidence that school districts overstated their Medicaid costs in an effort to defraud the federal government.

Prosecutors said Mr. Gabayzadeh, 61, inflated American Tissue's accounts receivable and net income in an effort to defraud both a group of banks that loaned the company $145 million and the purchasers of $165 million in bonds from American Tissue, based in Hauppauge, N.Y.

A woman who is "still employed by the DEA, according to a Justice Department press release" and her husband staged the fake kidnapping of American children in Columbia, in an effort to defraud the government.

The judge rejected the contention of defense lawyers that the withholding amounted to an intentional effort to defraud the court.

Federal investigators have said in court records that they think Columbia engaged in a corporate-wide effort to defraud the government by misrepresenting certain of its hospitals' expenses to receive reimbursement from Medicare and other programs.

Mr. Abbey, the state director here, dismissed the accusations as a smokescreen for efforts to defraud the treasury.

In recent years, the greatest delays seem to be caused not by efforts to defraud the public but by attempts to placate it.

Jurors heard extensive testimony about Manafort's tax-free spending on luxury goods and efforts to defraud banks.