illicit scheme

"The illicit scheme enriched the defendant's family to the tune of millions of dollars," said US Attorney Breon Peace.

Vance noted that multiple witnesses had described Trump as a micromanager – contra Blanche’s argument he’d be too busy as president to involve himself in an illicit scheme to falsify business records and evade campaign finance laws – and rebutted the notion that Cohen would drop $130,000 of his own money to buy Daniels’ silence without Trump’s knowledge and consent.

Andrade testified in court that Claudia Díaz continued that illicit scheme when she was put in charge of Venezuela's treasury by President Chávez.

The slurp of a Big-Gulp-size beverage becomes something sinister in this true-crime limited series, which stars Renée Zellweger as a Missouri woman, Pam Hupp, who is implicated in a murder that ultimately reveals a larger illicit scheme.

“Instead of protecting the city-funded nonprofit he once ran, this defendant abused his power, using the nonprofit as a hub for his illicit scheme,” Daniel G. Cort, acting commissioner of the city Department of Investigation, which investigated the case along with federal prosecutors, said in a statement Monday.