fraud
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Law enforcement and companies have stepped up efforts to counter the fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Any director pointing their camera at Holmes — before or after she was convicted of fraud for her bogus Theranos blood-testing device — won’t capture the whole truth.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
More than half also managed health services, protected them from fraud and handled investing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
The news comes after years of fighting on behalf of her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were jailed in 2023 for tax evasion and bank fraud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
I felt like a fraud, acting as the ship’s doctor, but I was the closest thing we had to medically trained personnel.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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
Then, investors grew alarmed by several high-profile defaults caused by alleged frauds, and by loans made to software companies at risk of disruption by artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Banks have been grappling with a surge in scams and frauds driven by sophisticated criminal operations located in parts of Southeast Asia and Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
A congressional review in 1952 found that hundreds had been frauds.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
The professionals made no secret of their disdain for the amateurs, whom they regarded as annoyances, cranks, or frauds.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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