Sentence examples for fraud defense from inspiring English sources

[C3.] Scrushy Arguments Close With a Fairy Tale As prosecutors sought yesterday to portray Richard M. Scrushy as a pied piper leading more than a dozen executives at HealthSouth to a sweeping $2.7 billion accounting fraud, defense lawyers pointed to another HealthSouth executive as the "big rat" responsible for the wrongdoing.

In the United States, whistle-blowers can file lawsuits anonymously on behalf of the government under the False Claims Act, which was put in place after fraud by defense contractors during the Civil War.

To prevent those click frauds, several defense techniques have been introduced.

After the presidential elections of 1986, in which Marcos claimed victory despite allegations of large-scale electoral fraud, Ramos and defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile supported Marcos' opponent, Corazon Aquino.

They include radiation and biological warfare experiments on Americans; safety violations in nuclear power plants; waste and fraud in the defense industry; and human rights abuses in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Co-authors are the first line of defense against fraud.

Prosecutors had accused all seven defendants of fraud, a charge that defense lawyers rejected.

The sentence was one of the most severe imposed in a white-collar fraud case, prosecutors and defense lawyers said.

The ink was meant to be "the last line of defense against fraud," in the words of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, an independent research group.

Although there has been steady growth in consumer protection law since the early 20th century, ranging from food safety to computer software integrity, the best defense against fraud is an informed consumer.

Truth is, regulators have never been a reliable defense against fraud.