scheme
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Cumming was named Baltimore’s inspector general in 2018 by then-Mayor Catherine Pugh, who later went to prison for a criminal scheme in which she illegally profited from the sale of self-published children’s books.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Najib's defense lawyers blamed Low and dubbed him the mastermind of the scheme.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
In one example of how the alleged scheme worked, Peng submitted scores for an Innive bid in mid-February 2018, giving Innive the higher score, which led to a contract, the lawsuit states.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelensky's former right-hand man Andriy Yermak appeared in a Kyiv court on Tuesday, after he was named by Ukraine's two anti-corruption agencies as a suspect in a money-laundering scheme.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
In such a scheme, William was an oddity—a man who already did desk work but found it too stressful.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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