Sentence examples for egregious fraud from inspiring English sources

"Dr. Kinsey's most egregious fraud is that he wasn't a scientist," Reisman said the other day.

IMAGINE you are a former chief executive of a blue-chip company that is found guilty of "a particularly egregious fraud" by the world's top securities-market regulator.

Even the PRD's Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the loser in 1988, this week said that egregious fraud of the sort that cost him the presidency then is unlikely this year.

But the egregious fraud indicated a corporate culture gone badly awry, and, when Stumpf appeared in front of Congress, Senator Elizabeth Warren demolished him.

"This motion confirms, through expert testimony and other powerful evidence, what we have said all along: this case is an egregious fraud," said Orin Snyder, a partner at Gibson Dunn, who represents Mr. Zuckerberg and Facebook in the case.

With directors and officers buying insurance directly, there would be no need for company bylaws to indemnify their mistakes and let them keep the proceeds even of egregious fraud.

R2 asked the judge to revoke the stock award "to prevent one of the most egregious frauds by a company emerging from bankruptcy under Chapter 11".

"By his own admission here today, he has shown that he is to be ranked with those who have committed some of the most egregious frauds in history".

Last year's "perp walks" and extravagantly worded indictments (the DOJ called the mess at Adelphia, a bust cable firm, "one of the largest and most egregious frauds ever perpetrated") raised expectations of swift justice.

new york times   Prosecutors Recommend a 230-Year Sentence for Stanford  |  The Justice Department called R. Allen Stanford, who was convicted of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, "a ruthless predator responsible for one of the most egregious frauds in history," Bloomberg News reports.

In a letter to the judge, Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court in Manhattan, the prosecutors cited statements that the judge had made when Mr. Dreier pleaded guilty in May: that he "has shown that he is to be ranked with those who have committed some of the most egregious frauds in history," and that "he has disgraced the honorable profession of law".