Sentence examples for perpetuate a fraud from inspiring English sources

Future historians may well classify the surge as a myth concocted to perpetuate a fraud.

"The conclusion that Chase deliberately camouflaged a loan to Enron as a commodity transaction in order to perpetuate a fraud" on the insurance companies, Mr. Levine says in a court filing, "is buttressed by Chase transactions with other firms".

In 1988 the League of Women Voters withdrew from its role as debate sponsor because demands of the two campaign organizations "would perpetuate a fraud on the American voter".

I couldn't put so much into keeping this place open if I was perpetuating a fraud".

Again, it is far from clear from the interview whether Te'o was perpetuating a fraud or accurately, if awkwardly, relating the details of what had been an exclusively online relationship, one he was perhaps embarrassed was nothing more than that given all the attention it had received.

"We think it's perpetuating a fraud upon the public," he says.

Enron's implosion, in 2001, was a harbinger of the current market havoc, and its ability to perpetuate a vast financial fraud was aided by a series of deregulatory decisions that had begun almost a decade earlier.

Among the first questions they asked: Why did you perpetuate a four year fraud that involved $170 million or so in fraudulent revenues (90% of IT Factory's revenues may have been nothing but lies)?

Jeff Benedict has shown that somebody has perpetuated a massive fraud".

"We, the undersigned," they write, "make this accusation: that you, the teachers of neoclassical economics and the students that you graduate, have perpetuated a gigantic fraud upon the world.

But now I feel a little queasy about the whole thing because while I've been a true believer and I've perpetuated the belief in hard work as the great poverty buster, now when I talk to some of them I feel that I've perpetuated a great fraud upon them.