The phrase "engage in a scheme" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in any context where you are discussing someone's involvement in a plan or strategy. For example, "The group of conspirators decided to engage in a scheme to steal the valuable artifacts."
A number of food companies, including McDonalds, the sausage producer Noble Foods and Tyson Foods, the largest beef producer in the US, have started to engage in a scheme that rates them on animal welfare.
Stevens' legacy (whether he likes it or not) clearly sucked diversity out of the Australian economy by allowing our banking system to engage in a scheme to funnel a disproportionate sum of new debt specifically towards the housing market so many more people can suddenly afford to pay more for a home (which raises house prices).
Mr. Pan's lawyers contend that there is no evidence he intended to engage in a scheme to deprive the city of matching funds; they also argue that Mr. Pan was pressured into participating in the straw-donor scheme by the undercover agent.
The case claims that Pinkus "engaged in a scheme to dupe" Lee into assigning the copyright without any payment.
For over a decade, A.I.G. engaged in a scheme to mischaracterize premiums paid on the workers' compensation line of insurance.
According to a superseding indictment filed by prosecutors in May, Mr. Jung and an unidentified co-conspirator had engaged in a scheme to embezzle funds from the company.
"Deutsche Bank violated the commission's anti-manipulation rule by engaging in a scheme in which Deutsche Bank entered into physical transactions to benefit its financial position," the commission said.
In a 23-page complaint, he accused Miller, 10 players and Wilhelmina of engaging in a scheme to defraud him out of his agency.
A spokeswoman for Bristol-Myers denied Ivax's claim that her company was engaged in a "scheme" to keep the generic drug off the market.
The rabbi's followers have also charged that Mr. Biton and Ronn Torossian, a public relations agent based in Manhattan, engaged in a scheme in which they leaked purportedly damaging information about the rabbi to reporters.
Prosecutors on Friday recommended four years in prison for former Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., after his guilty plea this year on charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign money on personal items.
