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It said the insiders made at least $80 million selling the shares, which were listed on the New York Stock Exchange during part of the period that the S.E.C. said the fraud existed.

What shaped his experience was the determination of the Olympus directors at first to deny the fraud existed before firing him and launching an aggressive public campaign to discredit him.

Here's something you don't expect to hear from a man who made his reputation by jailing bankers and becoming the "scourge of Wall Street": ask him if fraud existed during the mortgage crisis and his answer is "the evidence is not there".

If systematic fraud existed, it's likely that voter protection groups would be hearing about it ― and they weren't.

The state law enforcement agency said Friday it wasn't investigating any allegations of fraud, but Scott continued to insist in a television interview on Fox News Sunday that such fraud existed.

Whatever fraud exists these days, election lawyers say, is limited to very local contests in which every vote is crucial.

The state makes broad claims that noncitizens have unlawfully registered and voted, but, as usual, there is no evidence that any significant voter fraud exists.

Delusion and fraud exist along a spectrum of deceit — first you fool yourself, then others — and one measure of a scientist is his ability to see that he is mistaken.

"What we believe is that the evidence is there that fraud exists," said one of the authors, Jeffrey Gramlich, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Business School and professor at the University of Hawaii.

This would sound somewhat plausible if it were not for the rather inconvenient fact that no lawmaker, Republican or otherwise, has been able to produce any evidence whatsoever that voter fraud exists in any meaningful way.

While O'Keefe made his name, in 2009, by helping to bring down the liberal community-organizing group ACORN, many of his stings since then have been risible duds, including the Open Society Foundations incident and his repeated effort to prove that widespread voter-identity fraud exists.