The verdict was a surprise, but the court accepted Mr. de Villepin's insistence that he did not know the list of accounts in a Luxembourg-based institution called Clearstream was fraudulent, rejecting the prosecution's allegation that Mr. de Villepin knew of the forgery but did nothing to stop the plot.
Dangerous goods can be more easily detected and made safe, and more clearly targeted investigation of fraudulent operations and prosecution of fraudsters can be carried out.
In Maine, as with many other states, there has never been a single prosecution of fraudulent SDR voting despite its use for several decades.
And on the other side we have the Wall Street sympathizers and legal junkies who cry "witch hunt" and vehemently oppose retributive measures such as 90% taxes on the money, prosecution of "fraudulent" behavior, and most important, the voiding of the employees' contracts which promised the bonuses.
Stronger remedies are needed, perhaps including higher civil penalties for each fraudulent transaction and criminal prosecutions of the company officials responsible.
I feel I must point out that Fatty Arbuckle was the victim of fraudulent accusations and dishonest prosecutions in San Francisco and a gleeful and equally dishonest media.
Nevertheless, immigrants found to have serious criminal histories or to pose national security risks would be prosecuted for deportation, officials said, and anyone submitting a fraudulent application could face criminal prosecution.
They mentioned that they had known of cases where workers had bought the OSHA 10-hour safety training certificates that are required for work on public projects, but that there had been some greater scrutiny of that practice following the prosecution of a local fraudulent trainer.
If true, this would cast a dim light on the way things were done at the NYSE, where Mr Greenberg used to sit on the board; but it need not constitute "fraudulent" manipulation, the normal standard in prosecutions.Were all this not enough, AIG is still at the heart of another investigation into sleazy sales practices in the insurance industry.
The investigation began in the fall of 1997 and grew out of Mr. Morgenthau's prosecution of A. R. Baron, a fraudulent brokerage firm that bilked investors out of $75 million.
