Sentence examples for scheme dates from inspiring English sources

Although Madoff's scheme dates back to at least the early nineteen-nineties, we understand little about the genesis of his criminal operation.

The federal complaint asserts that Bank of New York Mellon's alleged scheme dates back to 2000, so the potential civil penalty could total billions of dollars if the bank is found to have defrauded its customers.

The scheme dated to 1990, seven years after Ms. Crundwell began working for Dixon, population 15,733.

The US justice department described his alleged crimes as "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" in scale, orchestrated through an alleged $50bn Ponzi scheme dating back to the 1980s.

The company has set aside £24m to cover potential historical corporation tax on the scheme, dating back to 2005, arising from the taxman's investigation.

Rao resigned as party chief that September, and the following year he was charged with corruption and bribery in an alleged vote-buying scheme dating from 1993.

They uncovered a scheme dating back to 1996, finding, among other things, copies of written crane operator's exams at Nu-Way's office in Copiague, N.Y., prosecutors said.

Investigators believe they were part of a scheme, dating back at least a decade, in which school districts listed lawyers working as contractors as "employees," allowing them to receive full health insurance and pension benefits accorded to state employees.

A federal judge yesterday dismissed three lawsuits against Sotheby's and Christie's by buyers at foreign auctions who said they had been cheated in a price-fixing scheme dating back to 1992.

The fine came on top of another steep bill: its $50 million portion of a $512 million payment to settle claims that Sotheby's and Christie's had cheated buyers and sellers in a price-fixing scheme dating back to 1992.

A Brooklyn money manager was arrested on Tuesday and charged with swindling hundreds of investors, including many retirees, out of $40 million in what prosecutors called a "classic Ponzi scheme" dating to the 1970s.