Shortly after Donaghy pleaded guilty to two felony charges stemming from a scheme in which he gambled on games he officiated, Commissioner David Stern appointed Lawrence Pedowitz, a former federal prosecutor, to conduct the investigation.
[World Business, Section W.] Two Plead Guilty in WorldCom Case Two former WorldCom executives pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from a scheme to hide $7 billion in expenses that forced the company into bankruptcy protection.
Over coffee in a St . Petersburghotel, Gordon was describing to me how he had been working for years, through numerous channels, to find a settlement that would allow Mogilevich to travel internationally without first standing trial in the United States on a range of RICO, fraud, and money laundering charges stemming from a scheme that he allegedly masterminded in the mid-nineteen-nineties.
Four executives at the day-trading firm of A. B. Watley were arraigned in the United States District Court in Brooklyn yesterday on conspiracy and securities fraud charges stemming from a scheme to reap profits after eavesdropping on confidential conversations between stockbrokers and their clients.
Despite the long recitation of facts and history, the result was rather simple: Mr. Magnitsky and Mr. Browder had been found guilty of large-scale tax evasion stemming from a scheme in which they fraudulently claimed benefits available to companies that employed workers with disabilities.
The settlement stemmed from a scheme in which Wells Fargo bankers opened as many as 2 million fake accounts in the names of existing retail customers or nonexistent persons in efforts to meet unrealistic sales goals imposed from above.
The charges stem from a scheme in which Ronald Calderon allegedly solicited and accepted nearly $100,000 in cash bribes, as well as gourmet meals and golf outings, in exchange for his influence as a lawmaker.
The British case stems from a dubious cash rebate scheme that operated in the United States for several years before it filed for bankruptcy in Manhattan in late 2005, leaving its 30,000 creditors with $160 million in claims against the scheme's British founders.
The efficiency of this method stems from a hierarchical multiscale modeling scheme, in which the constitutive response of subcell regions, smaller than a representative volume element (RVE), are determined using micromechanics; the resulting constitutive parameters then act as inputs to finite element simulations of the RVE, from which damping properties are extracted.
