Auditors cited what they said were many other improper or fraudulent expenses, including $200,000 in construction, $12,000 to two jewelers, $235,000 to credit-card companies, $44,000 to "cash," and nearly $200,000 to five fictitious workers.
One of his achievements was the construction of a fraudulent perpetual motion machine, for which he offered a small prize to anyone able to deduce what made it keep turning with no evident source of power.
She had invested her savings in the man's construction business, which turned out to be fraudulent.
They were accused of filing fraudulent paperwork to obtain some $5 million in mortgages and construction loans and then hiding their assets during a 2009 bankruptcy petition.
A licensed engineer was charged Thursday with filing fraudulent plans with the city's Department of Buildings in connection with a Brooklyn construction site where the collapse of earth and debris killed a day laborer in March.
The budget for this particular stadium nearly tripled between the beginning and end of its construction, an outcome that most Brazilians attribute to corruption and fraudulent spending.
As part of the scheme, Karimi and others submitted fraudulent invoices that "significantly overstated" the true costs of framing, plumbing, drywall and other construction work at affordable-housing projects built with taxpayer support, according to the federal grand jury indictment, which was filed in 2014 and unsealed this week.
According to information obtained under a plea bargain agreement with Ricardo Pessoa, former CEO of construction company UTC and leader of a cartel of Petrobras suppliers that stole billions of dollars in fraudulent contracts, the equivalent of at least two million dollars of these funds were solicited by Silva and deposited in a bank account of Rousseff's Workers Partyy.
Fraudulent incapacity benefit claims?
They obtain fraudulent documents.
