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The criminal charges lay out an effort to minimize the losses by using aggressive valuations of the swaps to prop up the portfolio.

The charges — lying to federal investigators and destroying evidence — stem from what happened in the aftermath.

Mr. Jones is not taking the charges lying down (so to speak).

A much more likely path to criminal charges lies in what I.R.S. officials told Congress about how these applications were being handled, including any denials that political criteria were used in reviewing applications.

Mr. Blagojevich's first jury convicted him of one of the least serious charges — lying to federal agents, a conviction that could carry up to five years in prison.

This chapter defines pincer complexes as containing anionic terdentate ligands with formal negative charges lying on the central atom attached to the metal.

But behind this seemingly mundane charge lay a much bigger story.

That charge lay at the heart of "Net Worth" (Viking), a 1991 book by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths that chronicled an exploitive history of owner-player relations.

Mr. Ferguson, a professor of history at Harvard University, didn't take the charge lying down.

Instead, he did something that often guarantees a criminal charge: lying to agents' faces.

He pleaded guilty to one charge — lying to the FBI about his interactions with Kremlin officials — seemingly in exchange for Mueller's dropping more serious charges.