scheme
Example Sentences
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Minnesota was a pioneer in using federal Medicaid dollars to pay for other forms of social assistance such as housing, which is the locus of several fraud schemes.
That scheme brought more than $20 billion into the banking system.
From Barron's
Also, the additional quota bidding of 300MW in February under the Feed-in-Tariff, a scheme that allows users to generate their own electricity to sell to the grid, may support Malaysia’s green targets.
But when tragic circumstances cut short his money-making scheme, Skipton tries to sell dubious art to an equally suspect Italian count.
They said they had uncovered an extensive scheme to take kickbacks and influence state-owned companies including state nuclear energy firm Enerhoatom.
From BBC
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