conspiring

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Sanberg pleaded guilty in October to the federal charges of conspiring to bilk investors out of $248 million for portraying the now-defunct Aspiration as a “socially-conscious and sustainable banking services and investment products” firm.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Mack originally pleaded not guilty to the US charges on conspiring to kill a US national, but changed her plea after the prosecutors offered to ask for a shorter sentence.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

WASHINGTON—A former Federal Reserve official was found not guilty Tuesday of conspiring to share confidential central-bank information with Chinese intelligence officers, capping a case that featured spycraft, online seduction and a blackmail scam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

You wake up and feel a little off — maybe it’s sadness, maybe it’s excitement, maybe it’s burnout, maybe it’s just the weather and your inbox conspiring against you.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2026

Tolstoy, of course, as an omniscient narrator, also provides a running commentary, establishing what it was that the combatants were all, willy-nilly, conspiring to bring about.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton