The witness, Diana D. Brooks, Sotheby's former chief executive, has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge and admitted working to execute a scheme with the rival Christie's house to raise commission fees charged to sellers and set them identically so customers could not bargain down prices.
On another point, however, the House version of the new securities-fraud statute calls for penalties only for those who "execute" a scheme to defraud investors.
On April 12 , 1862 twenty Union soldiers in disguise boarded a train in Georgia to execute a scheme that wasmeant to bring a quick end to the Civil War.
"Its executives developed — and successfully executed — a scheme to steal millions of dollars from their clients".
"knowingly and with the intent to defraud, devised, participated in, and executed a scheme to defraud investors" in certain mortgage-related securities, according to the suit filed against the agency and its parent company, McGraw-Hill Companies.
"knowingly and with the intent to defraud, devised, participated in, and executed a scheme to defraud investors" in certain mortgage-related securities, and that the agency falsely represented that its ratings "were objective, independent, uninfluenced by any conflicts of interest".
In charges filed earlier this year against William T. Owens, a former president and chief financial officer of HealthSouth, the government said he had conspired and executed a scheme with "the C.E.O. and others to fraudulently enrich themselves by inflating artificially HealthSouth's publicly reported earnings".
How did Mr. Ripp, who successfully minded the finances of Time Inc. for 25 years and has been lauded by Justice lawyers as a pivotal figure in exposing criminal fraud at AOL, wind up in the cross hairs of the S.E.C.? The S.E.C. claims Mr. Ripp "knowingly or recklessly engineered, oversaw and executed a scheme to artificially and materially inflate the company's reported online advertising revenue".
As Bond villains go, Hunt had already executed a scheme that pisses on Xavier Bardem's torturous train-derailings.
Executing a scheme planned in advance of Iran's June 12 election, the nation's theocratic ruling elite announced that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had "won" reelection by a landslide, garnering two thirds of the popular vote, despite persuasive anecdotal indications that his main challenger, former Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi, was set to defeat the increasingly unpopular incumbent.
According to his own admission, within a year, Glasrud "devised and executed a scheme to defraud," and as the U.S. Attorney's Office continues in its case against Glasrud, he "misrepresented, concealed, and omitted material facts, and breached duties that he owed to the schools as an administrator and employee".
