Nowadays the courts make mistakes, serious ones, but mistakes nevertheless, whereas back then outright murder was committed, for purely political ends.
In Texas, with minimal quality control at the state level, it resulted in millions of dollars in public money going to companies that at best showed little evidence of their services' academic benefit, and at worst committed outright fraud.
The statement by Deloitte comes after Autonomy's parent, Hewlett-Packard, stated that the British software maker committed outright misrepresentations about its business before last year's acquisition by H.P. "Deloitte categorically denies that it had any knowledge of any accounting misrepresentations in Autonomy's financial statements," the firm said on Wednesday.
And as the King of Naples, Diego Kelman Ajuz is delightfully, fearlessly committed to outright silliness.
I felt terribly guilty that I had committed an outright deception with this patient — something that is a true no-no.
he parties committed to outright independence garnered 48% of the vote, falling short of the 50% threshold that would have been required in a referendum.
But that remains to be seen, as Republicans failed earlier this year to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act outright, and Democrats are committed to protecting the health care law.
And a few of you consumers — we won't name names — may be committing outright fraud.
To be sure, lots of financiers, executives and politicians have done lots of unethical and greedy things in recent years, from buying influence to committing outright fraud.
It could do this by raising the risks that firms, and their top managers, would run by massaging accounts or committing outright fraud.
