Sentence examples for fraudulent venture from inspiring English sources

The company, law enforcement officials say, turns out to have been a fraudulent venture that took more than $54 million from investors.

In one of the more outlandish uses of the money stolen from investors, Mr. Lichtenthal, who used the alias Michael Taylor, acknowledged in a court hearing today that he took $265,000 that he collected from investors for a fraudulent venture called Northeast Telecom and used the money to buy toy trains.

"Investors who take deductions for investments in a fraudulent venture are liable for those writeoffs," says IRS special agent Peggy L. Thomas.

evangelist; his outrageous methods of collecting funds from his congregation; & his fraudulent ventures.

According to the indictment, Erxleben, 56, lured investors into fraudulent ventures dealing in post-World War I German bonds and paintings by the French artist Paul Gauguin.

After joining "M*A*S*H" and earning his "first real money," he invested, as did Walter Cronkite and others, in a fraudulent energy venture.

"Indeed, the Whitewater investment was so unsuccessful that McDougal was obliged to engage in a series of fraudulent transactions to keep the venture afloat.

Capitalizing on the panic coursing through the ranks of the ultra-wealthy in the wake of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme scandal, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is joining forces with Nine Thirty Capital in a new venture to vet hedge fund managers for fraudulent activity, according to an announcement being released today.

By 1890, the English-owned Sapphire and Ruby Mining Company had bought several thousand acres of land where Montana sapphires were found, but the venture failed after a few years because of fraudulent practices by the owners.

Some voices warned that we were making a terrible mistake — that the case for war was weak and possibly fraudulent, and that far from yielding the promised easy victory, the venture was all too likely to end in costly grief.

In the fraudulent deal, the three recommended that NatWest offload a stake in an Enron-related venture in the Cayman Islands for a knockdown price of $1m.