Postscript: Alan Ellis was tried, aged 26, for conspiracy to defraud at Teesside crown court in January 2010, the first person in the UK to be prosecuted for illegal filesharing.
This state law is a powerful one (and beloved of Mr Cuomo's predecessor as attorney-general, Eliot Spitzer), since it does not require proof of any intent to defraud.
America's Senate unanimously passed a raft of measures on July 15th, which includes making schemes that defraud shareholders a crime and prison terms for wrong-doers of up to ten years.
As a result of Halliburton's reticence, the charity claims, it suffered a loss on its holding.That is the essence of the principle of "fraud-on-the-market": that by its communication (or lack of it), a firm's management can, in effect, defraud all its shareholders.
NO EAST European leader has come into office more determined to crush crime, especially the sort that involves the use of state privileges to defraud the public, than Romania's new president, Emil Constantinescu.
Pull the trick in reverse inflating the value of a player you are buying and you gain a usefully overvalued asset on your balance-sheet, which will help your club to borrow.Transfers can also help you privatise club revenues and defraud minority shareholders.
What would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if people weren't scared anymore?"You know you're reaching when you accuse the the Weather Channel of being the driving force behind a vast, insidious conspiracy to defraud the American people.
In 1999, one Madhav Patel managed to defraud Dubai banks of $300m before vanishing.One thing Dubai's NRIs do not enjoy, however, is citizenship.
The criminals used an array of scams to defraud their victims, who were mostly ethnic Chinese residents in six countries.Myanmar's army engaged one of the country's largest rebel militias in pitched battles in the north-east, where China is building a series of vast hydropower projects.
Kickstarter projects have no disclosure requirements, making it easier to defraud contributors.
Siemens and the Munich prosecutors point to evidence that in the latest shenanigans the suspects "banded together" to defraud the firm.
