Sentence examples for land fraud from inspiring English sources

Bowie, a former slave trader, had been involved in numerous cases of land fraud in Louisiana.

But corporate scandals have been a part of American history since the Yazoo land fraud of 1795.

Knox appointed another special prosecutor, Francis J. Heney, in 1905 to investigate a land fraud scheme in Oregon.

Nonetheless, politicians were careful to keep mine operators happy, and let them get away with land fraud, pollution, unsafe work conditions, and price gouging.

Land fraud was common, as was the illegal use of undocumented workers mostly from Mexico and Central America in factories and farms at extremely low pay rates.

Title insurance is rarely purchased in NSW because the integrity of the system of registration is sound and there's almost negligible land fraud.

COOKE ON WAY HERE IN MARSHAL'S CHARGE; He Will Be Prosecuted by the Federal Authorities for Land Frauds.

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Its applications, too numerous to catalog, cover not only the full range of consumer frauds, stock frauds, land frauds, bank frauds, insurance frauds, and commodity stock frauds, but have extended even to such areas as blackmail, counterfeiting, election fraud, and bribery.

Bonnin, perhaps more Indian than Eastman but less so than Standing Bear ,wrote "to influence and change Euro-American opinions about Indians, opening their eyes to abuses, such as land frauds" (111).

His wife is home already and has been bailed having pleaded not guilty in a land-fraud case brought by an army-backed corruption inquiry.