Excuses ranged from saving money to even fictitious plans.
A Long Island stockbroker defrauded the producers of the Broadway musical "Rebecca" with an elaborate scheme that included a fictitious loan and phantom investors who were conjured up as part of a sham plan to rescue the financially ailing show, federal authorities charged in a criminal complaint Monday.
As a result, she said, opponents were able to generate politically damaging rumors of looming regulatory crackdowns, such as a fictitious EPA plan to treat bovine excretions as dangerous pollutants.
These disclosures, coupled with allegations of erratic behavior from Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, and the (apparently fictitious) nebulous plans to take the company private, have caused Tesla's share price to slide over roughly $40 over the last two weeks, erasing nearly $6 billion in value from the company.
According to Williams's friend, the journalist Herbert Boyd, "The ploy worked so well that soon after black folks all over New York City were talking about 'the plan' — a fictitious plot that many thought was true".
He's an Ayn Rand character in search of a novel, his John Galt-oriented fiscal plans as fictitious as his heroine's.
But his real name, according to the government, is Emy David Okandue-Ojekwe, and the authorities say he is a gutsy confidence man and drug runner who concocted a gutsy plan: create a fictitious twin brother, take out several life insurance policies on him, then have him meet a tragic but fake demise to pocket almost $5 million in claims.
Fans can satisfy their quest for information and feel like they are getting to know a celebrity although the information they are getting is still planned, staged, and fictitious.
MORGAN: But when you first heard about this outlandish plan to create a fictitious science-fiction movie to get these hostages out, you're the President of the United States.
