fraud

In Michigan, a judge threw out the criminal case against 15 phony electors, ruling the government failed to present sufficient evidence that they intended to commit fraud.

Sprawling fraud factories have ballooned in war-torn Myanmar's border regions, housing scammers targeting internet users with romance and business cons worth tens of billions of dollars annually.

"If I take money from that sale, I feel like this would almost certainly make me party to fraud."

It’s a cash-starved state blacklisted by the Group of Seven’s Financial Action Task Force and awash in narcotics and money from online fraud.

He said that Mr Lynch had "not only perpetrated an enormous fraud, but lied about it at every stage".