fraud
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He also has been ordered by an arbitrator to pay $1.34 billion to Laguna Beach real estate mogul Mohammad Honarkar in a separate civil fraud case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Among the company’s biggest customers was Enron, the energy company that infamously filed for bankruptcy in 2001 after widespread internal fraud was uncovered.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
It began with a whistleblower inside Guggenheim Investments, the firm’s asset management arm, about possible accounting fraud in a Middle-East financing deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
One of the women and the man in his 50s were also being held on suspicion of bribery and fraud by failing to disclose.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It looked at her and trilled one word: fraud.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
A congressional review in 1952 found that hundreds had been frauds.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Nowadays, it’s mostly a financial crime, with industry publications documenting a dozen or more alleged frauds in some years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
The idea is to get people meeting in person as quickly as possible because online dating has become a minefield littered with deception and frauds.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
While revalidating providers won’t uncover all frauds, it could “deter criminal actors from continuing their fraud schemes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Harsnett had been much influenced by Reginald Scot, and had set out to prove that cases of supposed demonic possession were in fact deliberate frauds.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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A Web of Lies
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