Sentence examples for petty fraud from inspiring English sources

The private detective also checked Mr. Iorio's criminal record and found that he had a long history of petty fraud.

There are plenty on so-called "expected" losses, such as predictable levels of credit-card abuse, failed trades, even petty fraud.

Will the blogger continue this vicious circle of petty fraud, or will he finally give up on himself, the space, and his site's fourteen monthly visitors?

In Maryland paramilitary police have been sent to break up illegal poker games; in Iowa, to arrest people suspected of petty fraud; in Arizona, to crack down on cockfighting.America's courts tend to smile on SWAT tactics.

Born into poverty in the small village of Hohenstein-Ernstthal, he spent much of his early adulthood engaged in petty fraud and impersonation good training for his subsequent writing career.

Their behavior might be questionable (binge drinking, a bit of petty fraud, eating at Arby's) but hardly resembles the sort of chicanery enjoyed by the Bad Santa, the Bad Lieutenant, or even the Bad President.

By the eighteen-sixties, Sir William J. Herschel, a British civil servant in India, had begun to keep records of fingerprints and use them to resolve common contract disputes and petty frauds.

Brought up in families marked by financial hardship and troubled relationships, 13-year-old Anna and Francesca were exposed daily to violence, exploitation, petty crimes, fraud, death on the job, and sexism and had to negotiate the power and dangers of their blossoming beauty.

Since Guido's Order-Order blog went live in 2004, it has exposed MPs' petty expenses fraud, forced Peter Hain to resign from his cabinet post over undeclared campaign donations and, most spectacularly, brought down Damian McBride, Gordon Brown's political enforcer, in the Smeargate affair.

And now, in the latest complication, court records reveal that Mr. Streets, who set the value for the negatives and is handling the related sales, is a convicted felon with a criminal record for petty theft and fraud in Louisiana and Kentucky.

On Thursday, when she appeared in Brooklyn Criminal Court on that charge, she was arrested again and charged with grand larceny, petty larceny and fraud in connection with other cases, as part of an investigation by the city's Department of Investigation and the Police Department.