fraud
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Before his murder trial, Field admitted burglary and fraud offences connected with relationships he had formed with Farquhar and his neighbour, fellow pensioner Ann Moore-Martin, to persuade them to change their wills.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Jamie Mejarus, the civil attorney representing five surrogates suing Xuan and Zhang for fraud, has alleged in court filings that the couple also presented an attorney of their choosing to the mothers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Bankman-Fried is serving a 25-year prison sentence after being convicted of fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The cable network reported that the operation was linked to a criminal fraud investigation concerning immigration paperwork submitted on behalf of the Somali-born congresswoman by her late father when she was a child.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Therefore, the Mississippi as Father-God-Moses-Daddy-Phallus-Pops is an altogether false motif begun, I would imagine, by that dreary fraud, Mark Twain.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Now they crowdsource questions about when the beds will come and how they will work and argue over which medbed whistleblowers are real and which are frauds.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The FBI handles international cyber frauds and cross-border financial crimes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
A congressional review in 1952 found that hundreds had been frauds.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Nowadays, it’s mostly a financial crime, with industry publications documenting a dozen or more alleged frauds in some years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Harsnett had been much influenced by Reginald Scot, and had set out to prove that cases of supposed demonic possession were in fact deliberate frauds.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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A Web of Lies
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