Sentence examples for described as a scheme from inspiring English sources
A federal jury convicted the couple, Erica Chase, 23, and Leo Felton, 32, in July for what prosecutors described as a scheme to foment a racial holy war.
She goes on to detail what The Economist described as "a scheme for fraudulently boosting the vote of the National Party at the expense of its rivals".
The former officer, Michael Carsey, 31, was the second to be convicted in what prosecutors in Manhattan described as a scheme to cover up illegal searches of vehicles.
The indictment stemmed mainly from what the grand jury described as a scheme in which Mr. Turoff gave competitive advantages to a taxi-meter company formed by friends of his and also demanded and got a $30,000 payoff.
The decree, entered in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, ended an investigation by the state's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, into what he described as a scheme that violated the privacy of thousands of children and young people.
He was one of 11 people, including the mayor, Joseph P. Ganim, who were convicted on corruption charges in what the federal government described as a scheme requiring companies to pay kickbacks in exchange for city contracts.
They had previously been charged in connection with what prosecutors describe as a scheme to fraudulently ease their children's admission to selective colleges, using bribery to cheat on standardized exams and to falsely portray their children as athletic recruits.
A criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan listed charges of fraud and money laundering, in what prosecutors describe as a scheme that also touched Andrew J. Stein, a former City Council president, assemblyman and Manhattan borough president who left politics in 1994.
Power is concentrated at the top with the few, in a structure which PhD Comic's Jorge Cham described as a 'Profzi Scheme' (after the Ponzi Scheme).
Regardless of whether Herbalife can be fairly described as a pyramid scheme, or even a Ponzi scheme, this is the type of language that draws the attention of the S.E.C.
The changes come in response to what prosecutors described as a bribery scheme.
