If they sign back with their signature on the letter, they must be that person (otherwise it becomes a federal offense of mail fraud).
Mr. Rajaratnam's lawyers say that there is no indication, in either the text or the history of the federal law that authorizes electronic surveillance, that Congress intended to include insider trading in the list of fraud offenses appropriate to investigate with wiretapping.
That secrecy can be set aside only in cases of fraud or other criminal offenses.
According to court records, Mr. Scott, who was born in South Carolina, was charged in that state with a number of offenses including check fraud, aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon.
Last month, Ticketmaster sued 21 people in federal court, accusing them of fraud, copyright infringement and other offenses in using bots to search for millions of tickets over the last two years.
The man, a 34-year-old computer expert with a record of fraud in Ireland and Switzerland, has been charged with offenses against public health and industrial property, and fraud.
"Police have concluded is that there is sufficient evidence against the prime minister on suspicions for the offense of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust," a police spokesman said in a statement obtained by NBC News.
Basson originally faced sixty-seven cofnts of murder, conspiracy to murder, drug offenses, and fraud.
Scientific misconduct is generally understood to connote grave offenses like fraud or plagiarism, but only three of Harvard's charges were about published articles, and two of these concerned nothing more serious than missing data.
All four defendants have denied charges of encouraging or assisting others to commit computer offenses and fraud.
