Sentence examples for fraud and bribes from inspiring English sources

Hiring foreign call girls, intimidation, money laundering, fraud and bribes – those are just some of the activities government officials, defense executives and middle men were accused of Thursday by the activist group India Against Corruption.

Mr. McLaughlin, left, who is accused of illegally obtaining $2.2 million through embezzlement, fraud and bribes, was to have gone on trial in Federal District Court at the end of the month, but in court on Thursday, Judge Richard J. Sullivan said scheduling conflicts required a delay.

That is exactly what Chevron is counting on: that the news media, the courts and members of the public interested in the case will never learn of the overwhelming scientific evidence against the company but instead will focus on the sensational and largely baseless allegations of fraud and bribes, backed by tainted and corrupt testimony paid by Chevron or extorted via economic pressure.

Makudi said last year he always stays upbeat, despite multiple fraud and bribe claims allegations: "I'm guilty of nothing".

Big businessmen found guilty back in the early 1990s of such crimes as tax fraud and bribing politicians still chair leading companies unthinkable elsewhere in the EU.

These laws have eroded across a decade of court decisions, and it remains to be seen whether the full Congress will tighten bans on fraud and bribe-taking by those in its ranks.

But other EU leaders will be left with the unsavoury task of negotiating, and chummily hobnobbing, with a billionaire who has recently been under investigation for false accounting, tax fraud and bribing judges.

The indictment from the Department of Justice named 14 people on charges including racketeering, wire fraud and paying bribes worth more than $150m.

On Dec. 21, a federal jury convicted Mr. Milan of 14 charges of money laundering, insurance fraud and accepting bribes from mob figures and city vendors.

The civil case grew out of a grand jury indictment last November of the I.B.F.'s founder, Robert W. Lee Sr., and three other officials on charges of mail fraud and soliciting bribes.

"Corruption" refers to the ordinary system of kickbacks and bribes; "fraud" is where an official takes a bribe and still does not act.