Sentence examples for systematically defrauded from inspiring English sources

Officials said the firm, operating for several years in Manhattan and Brooklyn, systematically defrauded consumers across the nation.

The criminal complaint said Mr. Eberhard systematically defrauded clients by using his discretionary authority to make voluminous trades in mutual funds that carry high fees and are generally regarded as unsuitable securities for active trading.

On top of proposals in Congress and the states' efforts, a wave of class-action lawsuits has been filed against managed care plans, based on claims that the plans have systematically defrauded and shortchanged patients by limiting care.

Critics see it as the rotten fruit of a jobs-for-votes culture that, nurtured by the organized crime that is endemic in southern Italy, has systematically defrauded the state while failing its citizens, leaving Calabria geographically and economically isolated.

It revolves around Bear Stearns & Company, the failing investment bank acquired by JPMorgan Chase in a government-brokered fire sale in 2008, and contends that, from 2005 through 2007, Bear Stearns systematically defrauded investors who bought mortgage securities packaged by the investment bank and its mortgage-lending unit.

In 2000, the Hospital Corporation of America agreed to pay $745 million to settle civil charges that it systematically defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and other federally-funded health programs.

Last year in London the estate of the British figurative painter Francis Bacon charged his gallery, Marlborough International Fine Art, with systematically defrauding it.

His wife, Tana, said in evidence that the discovery that her father and brother were "systematically defrauding" her husband was "extremely distressing".

From Al Capone on, it's generally been accepted that if you set out to systematically defraud the Internal Revenue Service, a jail cell is your likely destination.

The head of the Gosaibi family accused Sanea of opening the bank — which was called the International Banking Corporation, or T.I.B.C. — without his consent, and of systematically defrauding the family and the bank's customers.

The international art gallery that was at the center of one of the art world's most spectacular scandals -- the plundering of the estate of Mark Rothko -- was accused in court papers in London yesterday of cheating a second prominent artist, the British figurative painter Francis Bacon, and systematically defrauding him and his heir.