Iran is engaged in a widespread clampdown on broadcast, mobile phone and internet communications in response to the country's contested election results.
In December, the Justice Department brought a residential fair-lending case against Countrywide, which prosecutors said engaged in a widespread pattern of discrimination against qualified African-American and Hispanic mortgage borrowers from 2004 through 2008.
In June, 71 students were found to have engaged in a widespread pattern of cheating that involved using cellphones to pass along photos of test pages and share information about state Regents exams while they were taking them.
The new managers say the two men engaged in a widespread financial fraud and manipulated the accounting ledgers to hide millions of dollars in losses from the company's musicals.
The suit alleges that local police engaged in a "widespread and illegal campaign of surveillance and intimidation" against a local chapter of the Fight for $15 fast-food worker organization as it campaigned for an increase in the minimum wage and union rights for fast food workers.
Livent has sued Mr. Drabinsky and his partner, Myron I. Gottlieb, contending that the two men, who founded the company, engaged in a widespread corporate fraud and manipulated the company's accounts to hide the fact that its extravagant productions were losing tens of millions of dollars.
As his campaign has struggled to respond to sexual assault allegations, Trump has increasingly suggested on Twitter and in speeches that the Clinton campaign, the media and international banks are engaged in a widespread conspiracy to rig the election against him.
"Deutsche Bank employees engaged in a widespread effort to manipulate benchmark interest rates for financial gain," Benjamin M. Lawsky, superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, said.
A 2011 Justice Department report found the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office had engaged in a "widespread pattern or practice of law enforcement and jail activities that discriminate against Latinos," according to a letter of warning sent to Maricopa County officials.
"Sadly, the city continues to engage in a widespread practice of flouting federal laws that require taxpayer dollars be used to produce affordable housing that persons with disabilities can live in," HUD Secretary Ben Carson said in a statement.
"Sadly, the city continues to engage in a widespread practice of flouting federal laws that require taxpayer dollars be used to produce affordable housing that persons with disabilities can live in," HUD Secretary Ben Carson said in a news release.
