Sentence examples for mass fraud from inspiring English sources

"My belief is that US scientists aren't actively engaging in mass fraud – instead, most of these questionable practices are unconscious," he said.

"It's historic in that up until today, Putin had some claim on legitimacy as a political leader, but now that he has run this fake election marked by mass fraud to become emperor, he has none".

That is just as well, given the decline of another body, the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC), that just about saved the day last year when three non-Afghans on its five-man board insisted on a fairly rigorous inquiry into mass fraud.

Nor would it be possible to hold a credible poll under the auspices of the current IEC, which proved itself to be anything but independent in the presidential one.Mr Karzai has so far praised the IEC and reserved his own criticism for the independent foreign officials who made a fuss about mass fraud.

As compared to the presidential elections last year, which were an act of mass fraud, this was more like a multiparty auction of opportunities for graft — with a semi-efficient market in votes (the Times found prices ranging from one to eighteen dollars).

Afghanistan's 2009 presidential election was also marred by claims of mass fraud.

These ranged from the mass frauds of the US sub-prime mortgage meltdown to the fraud-and bribery-induced bankruptcy of Jefferson County, Alabama to multitrillion-dollar market manipulation cases like the Libor scandal, so well known to British readers (but less well known to American ones).

In the early 90s, the US convicted more than 900 people in criminal prosecutions connected to the savings and loan crisis, a mass-fraud scheme similar to the sub-prime mess, but far less serious.

There is also no denying that at some point his career was going to unravel, as it now has in a mass of fraud allegations and a raging torrent of Schadenfreude.

They committed mass document fraud when they failed to follow the steps to create mortgage-backed securities, covering up with fabrications and forgeries to prove the standing to foreclose.

Once in office, to lend credence to his claims of mass voter fraud, Trump created the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, naming Vice-President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to head it.