One of the questions at the heart of the case, at least according to the defense attorney Benjamin Brafman, was whether Shkreli possessed the criminal mind-set to render him guilty of fraud, regardless of whether he actually committed fraudulent acts.
The lawsuit claims the various companies involved in Mains's loan acted as a criminal enterprise, "which committed fraudulent acts and attempted to collect on unlawful debt".
And as the report's phrasing makes clear, they knew which individuals within GE had committed the fraudulent acts.
We psyched each other up for it, each trying to persuade the other to commit the fraudulent act.
In the weeks prior to the 1876 convention, Blaine was accused of committing fraudulent activities involving railroad stocks.
To win its case, the S.E.C. must show by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Tourre "committed a fraudulent act that was material".
An anonymous trader committing a fraudulent act that affects the whole British Economy and attracts the attention of regulators around the world and a fine that could bankrupt a small country = Little or no action, no naming and shaming, no criminal prosecution.
The people that are trying to warn us are suddenly placed under more scrutiny than the people committing the fraudulent act.
Then when Nelson Doubleday filed a counterclaim against Fred Wilpon, then his partner with the Mets, in their dispute over the value of the team, union people pounced on Doubleday's charges of fraudulent acts committed by Major League Baseball as evidence supporting their own suspicions.
Fully committing to the fraudulent act, Chokal-Ingam shaved his head, trimmed his eyelashes and applied to schools under the guise of a black man named "Jojo".
