Sentence examples for convicted of rigging from inspiring English sources

The company was owned by Steven Berman, who was later convicted of rigging tax lien auctions in Maryland.

In August, Tom Hayes became the first man to be convicted of rigging the Libor rate that banks used to charge interest when lending to each other.

In the UK, a former trader at the Swiss bank UBS, Tom Hayes, is serving 14 years in jail after being convicted of rigging Libor by jury earlier this year.

The names of four of his petition passers appeared as members of Mr. Burke's 14th Ward Democrats on the "clout list" entered as evidence in the 2006 federal trial of Robert Sorich, the former Daley patronage chief who was convicted of rigging hiring to favor political cronies.

Fuzzy jurisdiction means that forces tend to treat football crime as a "low priority", says Chris Eaton, of the International Centre for Sport Security in Doha.The biggest case to date centres on Bochum, Germany, where in 2011 a gang was convicted of rigging scores of matches in many countries.

In the US, Citicorp, JPMorgan, Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS have pleaded guilty to manipulating the foreign exchange rates, and traders have also been convicted of rigging a benchmark interest rate known as the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).

Since 1998, more than 20 council officials have been convicted of either rigging a contract-ratification vote or embezzling union money, with the leaders of the two largest locals found guilty of stealing more than $1 million each.

Set up after the fall of Suharto, its reputation suffered a severe blow earlier this year when Akil Mochtar, its former chief justice, was imprisoned for life after being convicted of graft for rigging rulings in disputed local elections.

Tipton was convicted last year of rigging the $16.5m jackpot in Iowa, and is now awaiting trial on charges linking him to prizes in Colorado, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Mr. Tanzi was convicted of market rigging, false accounting and obstructing the authorities, witnesses said.

In the late 90's, the council was rocked by scandal, with more than 20 union officials convicted of embezzlement or rigging a contract ratification vote.