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Frauds have involved the animals being moved, or double counted, or put to graze in someone else’s land.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Blanche directed the DOJ’s Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit to “cease cryptocurrency enforcement,” and disbanded the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, “effective immediately.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

You had complained to its Department of Consumer Frauds and Protection, and they did not receive a response from the company.

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

Dan Davies is a managing director at Frontline Analysts and the author of “Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

His whole life, indeed, had been but one series of Crimes, one calendar of Frauds, one tissue of Lies.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus