scheme
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Critics have called the government orders, which came with very little explanation, a de facto licensing scheme.
From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026
The profit makes the alleged scheme “one of the largest documented cases of insider trading in recent memory,” Susquehanna said in the lawsuit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
Bannon entered a guilty plea in a Manhattan court to a first degree scheme to defraud charge and received a sentence of conditional discharge for three years.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026
In the 1990s, John Bennett and his New Era Philanthropy, a Ponzi scheme, bilked an ex-U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
He confessed that he participated in Booth’s earlier scheme to kidnap the president, but he denied involvement in, or knowledge of, the assassination plot.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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