Sentence examples for sham buying from inspiring English sources

In the next case, Berlusconi was found complicit in a large-scale fraud, orchestrated by his company, involving the sham buying and selling of film and television rights through offshore companies in order to cheat the Italian treasury of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of euros, and to create a flow of cash available for Berlusconi's personal use.

For decades American politics have been a sham, elections bought and paid for by special interests and corporations.

None of this appears to have a causal link to reducing corruption or enhancing human rights and democracy – the elections are seen by many as a sham intended to buy superficial legitimacy.

Most recently in July, the trustee, Irving Picard, asserted in a court filing that the brothers deleted emails linking them to the scheme at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC and used sham loans to buy luxury apartments in Manhattan.

Buying into the sham, Senator Klobuchar gave it and Norm Coleman for Senate the appearance of credibility.

There are a limited number of people that you'd want buying you your pillow shams or your rugs".

The proposals would reduce the likelihood that a company that buys a sham tax shelter could avoid paying penalties by saying it had a legal opinion supporting its action.

The kids bought this sham hook, line, and sinker but I found the whole thing terribly creepy.

Buying patterns.

Occasionally, she discovers that clients have embarked on sham divorces, in order to buy property on preferential terms that are available only to unmarried people.

"All they care about - and this is appropriate given that they are in the business of making money - is getting their taxes down, but that doesn't mean that we should buy into their sham argument," he told the BBC's Today programme.