scheme
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Now, amid suits and countersuits among the lender bank, investors, a bankruptcy trustee and McClain’s family, details of the alleged Ponzi scheme are coming out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
“At some point it moved from a cattle scheme to a money scheme.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
The Attorney General's Office is considering whether Digwa's sentence should be referred to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme after receiving multiple requests.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Sanchez denied having any links to the alleged scheme as he attended an EU summit with Balkan leaders in Montenegro on Friday.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
In short, the Quaker petition for an end of the slave trade was really a stalking horse for a more radical and thoroughgoing scheme to end the institution of slavery itself.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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