Sentence examples for fraud sweep from inspiring English sources

United States authorities have charged 107 people, including doctors and nurses, for trying to defraud the federal Medicare health care program for the elderly and disabled of about $452 million, the biggest Medicare fraud sweep to date, the Obama administration said Wednesday.

The S.E.C., announcing its fifth nationwide Internet fraud sweep, said the people accused used so-called spam e-mail messages, electronic newsletters, Web sites, hyperlinks, message boards and other Internet media in cases involving both publicly traded securities and privately held companies.

The original cyber group faced a similar threat in the form of unlawful offerings conducted via the Internet and came out swinging against those frauds, leading five Internet fraud sweeps in its first two years.

Many New York City prosecutors reacted slowly and brought few indictments as foreclosure swindles and mortgage fraud swept the city during the past decade, allowing problematic operators to flourish even as the nation's housing market rose and crashed, according to housing lawyers, prosecutors and federal reports.

SOX, as it's known, was a response to an epidemic in corporate accounting fraud that swept American business in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

For far too long, digital advertisers either ignored ad fraud or swept it under the rug.

According to the book, Mr. Pasciuto provided information about 22 people who were arrested and charged with securities fraud in a sweep of small brokerage firms in June 2000.

Protesters set fire to cars, tires and two polling stations in riots that erupted around Egypt on Monday over allegations that the ruling National Democratic Party was guilty of widespread fraud in its sweep of Sunday's parliamentary elections.

Regardless, the whole mess obscures an even bigger policy problem: federal regulators overseeing large financial firms now have more incentive than ever to sweep fraud under the rug.

At a time when Wall Street swindles, debt-reduction frauds and high-tech schemes all compete for the attention and savings of what is left of the unsuspecting masses, there evidently are still some practitioners of the tried and true: the chimney-sweep fraud.

Patrons of the Detroit Public Library (DPL) may have a greater interest in checking out books on fraud following an FBI sweep of the institution on Tuesday morning.