Sentence examples for for consumer fraud from inspiring English sources

On that information alone, a claim for consumer fraud would boil down to two main questions.

The maker, Servier, has been charged with defrauding the health-care system and is being investigated for consumer fraud and manslaughter.

BALTIMORE - WHILE Commissioner Bud Selig is investigating steroids and vitamin B-12, he should also investigate the Baltimore Orioles -- for consumer fraud.

The New York State attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, sued GlaxoSmithKline for consumer fraud, charging the company with concealing negative information about its popular antidepressant medicine Paxil.

And in 2006, the Vermont attorney general sued the Milins for consumer fraud, ultimately fining them $65,000 and allowing customers to seek more than $325,000 in refunds.

Though it was "unusual for a corporate executive to do time for consumer fraud," he said, he had "no alternative" but to sentence Hoyvald to a prison term of a year and a day, plus fines totaling $100,000.

Having explained the place of reliance within fraud, we next explain why reliance need not be central to other wrongs that bear some resemblance to fraud, including, for example, private enforcement actions brought under consumer protection statutes.

In June, a jury found that a nonprofit conversion therapy group called JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives For Healing) was guilty of consumer fraud for promising that men could overcome their sexual urges toward other men.

Mr. Cuomo's office filed a subpoena and warned that the company could face charges of consumer fraud for exaggerating the effectiveness of its security measures.

These categories are not mutually exclusive, and it is not uncommon for a victim of consumer fraud to exhibit more than one of these characteristics.

Officials at the Federal Trade Commission are warning Americans to be on the alert for a new wave of consumer fraud based on the recent arrival of a large meteor in northern Russia.