Sentence examples for apparent scheme from inspiring English sources

It is unclear when their apparent scheme began.

Investigators found an "apparent scheme" to reimburse at least $46,539 for employees' political contributions and "an apparent conspiracy" to conceal the reimbursement plan from the bowl's directors.

His apparent scheme to negotiate a new minimalist British settlement within the EU and then put it to the vote either in a UK referendum or in a general election hinges on the Lisbon treaty being reopened.

In the U.S., he used his Rockefeller persona to marry into wealth and as part of an apparent scheme to sell bogus art.

Not when juxtaposed against recent headlines about an apparent Ponzi scheme centered on an Amish community in Ohio.

Although the Adams works selected — the Violin Concerto, "Guide to Strange Places," and the "Doctor Atomic Symphony" — are ones in which minimalist processes are less apparent, the scheme made intuitive sense: both composers have a penchant for jagged, floor-shaking brass.

Now, the firm is being liquidated under the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, the government-chartered fund set up to help protect investors of failed brokerage firms, to wring at least a small portion of the $50 billion that is estimated to have been lost by investors in the apparent Ponzi scheme.

While the bank kept the discovery to itself, as is common in the secretive world of wealth management, the information saved Société Générale more than embarrassment: its total exposure to Mr. Madoff's apparent Ponzi scheme is less than 10 million euros, or $13.8 million.

HOUSTON (AP) — Many investors who lost money in the apparent Ponzi scheme run by the jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford should be compensated by a special reserve fund mandated by Congress that protects customers of failed brokerage firms, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday.

Wells Fargo said it wrote off $294 million in the fourth quarter because some of its customers were hit hard by the financier Bernard L. Madoff's apparent $50 billion Ponzi scheme and were unable to pay their loans.

In addition to the allegations regarding Westar and the Federal Aviation Administration, Mr. Bell also complained that Mr. DeLay funneled contributions from one of his political action committees to the Republican National Committee "in an apparent money-laundering scheme".