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In the days and weeks after the 2020 election, partisans across the country used lies and deceit to try to defraud the American people and steal the White House.

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In 2003, the company was found to have defrauded Medicare and had to pay $1.7 billion, then the largest fine in U.S. history.

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She was arrested two years later on charges she defrauded the bank by misstating the amount of customers the startup had and was convicted in March.

Campbell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy to defraud and commit offenses against the U.S. government.

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Those clemencies came on top of the commutation awarded last month to George Santos, the disgraced former New York congressman found guilty of defrauding donors and lying to the House of Representatives.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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