#defraud

Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈misskitty.art@bsky.brid.gy
2026-02-05

... charge of #scheme to #defraud, avoiding further jail time by receiving a sentence of conditional discharge. #Contempt of #Congress Case: Separately, Bannon was convicted in 2022 of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating ...

Zeitgeisty Aphorismszeitgeisty
2025-04-13

In making there is more moving than .

Zeitgeisty Aphorismszeitgeisty
2025-04-11

Making is more opposed to moving than to .

Joseph Lim :mastodon:joseph11lim
2024-12-14


pay $650m to settle case
"Prosecutors said McKinsey provided advice to “turbocharge” sales. It was charged w conspiring to misbrand a & obstruction of .. former snr partner at McKinsey agreed to plead to for destroying .. Purdue pleaded guilty in 2020 to covering widespread misconduct including conspiring to US officials & pay "
bangkokpost.com/world/2919450/

2024-10-24

As part of the #election-related investigation, #Trump was indicted by a #federal #GrandJury in August 2023 on four #criminal counts, including #conspiracy to #defraud the #UnitedStates; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; #obstruction of & attempting to obstruct an official proceeding; & conspiracy against #rights.

#ElectionSubversion #ElectionInterference #FakeElectors #Jan6 #Insurrection #law #USpol #HarrisWalz2024

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2024-08-09

Matthew Isaac Knoot,
a 38-year-old man from Tennessee,
has been charged for
💥helping #North #Korea fund its weapons of mass destruction program.

Knoot allegedly helped #trick and #defraud US media, tech, and finance companies.

🔥They believed they were hiring a US citizen
– Andrew M., ❗️whose identity was, in fact, stolen. ❗️

The scheme caused firms hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.

Knoot has allegedly been running a complex scheme for years,
👉funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to foreign actors, namely, #North #Korea.

He helped 🔸trick American and British companies into hiring IT workers from North Korea.🔸

Knoot assisted them in using a ♦️stolen identity to pose as a US citizen♦️,
🔹hosted company laptops at his residences, 🔹downloaded and installed software without authorization on such laptops to facilitate access and perpetuate the deception,
🔹and conspired to ♦️launder payments for the remote IT work, ♦️including to accounts tied to North Korean and Chinese actors,” the Department of Justice said.

In an attempt to avoid sanctions and get funds for its weapons of mass destruction program, ⭐️North Korea has been dispatching thousands of IT workers overseas for years.

⚠️The US warns that this is a growing threat, and companies should remain vigilant when hiring remote IT workers.

🔥North Koreans use “pseudonymous email, social media, payment platform and online job site accounts,
as well as false websites, proxy computers, and witting and unwitting third parties located in the United States and elsewhere.”

One such worker earns up to $300,000 a year, which means ❌hundreds of millions of dollars are flowing to the regime every year.

💥Entities such as the North Korean Ministry of Defense collect the money to fund their weapon programs.

cybernews.com/cybercrime/lapto

2024-07-26

The ease with which #foreign students can #defraud the #American #college acceptance and #scholarship system....

youtu.be/rYb4JNGShOM?si=bleVU8

2024-06-22

@jeffowski

The #Iranian revolution 1978-1979 was initially, 1977, student protests opposing Pahlavi, the ruling elite following a #USA and #UK instigated #coup to support Anglo-Iranian #Oil Company (#AIOC, now #BritishPetroleum #BP) to continue to #defraud the government of #Iran.

Which led to the revolution which led to many negative outcomes and sequelæ.

All respects to M Flood, but all broad generalizations are wrong.

2024-05-29

Prosecutors believe the readback should include the part of Pecker’s #testimony about directing #DylanHoward to notify other employees of The #NationalEnquirer they should bring any stories about #Trump to him. #Pecker also testified that he told Howard that the Enquirer employees would have to speak to #MichaelCohen about the arrangement.

Justice Merchan notes that in the same section Pecker testified he told Howard to keep it secret — goes to #intent to #defraud.

#TrumpTrial #criminal #law

2024-05-29

Justice #Merchan explains that #intent to #defraud means that a person’s conscious objective is to do so, but does not require advanced planning.

The defendant must intend that the conduct be performed to prevent or promote the election of a person through unlawful means.

Intent to defraud needn’t be an intent to defraud any particular person or entity & can extend beyond economic concerns.

#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial

2024-05-28

#Steinglass says that #Trump’s #intent to #defraud could not be any clearer, arguing that Trump could have simply paid #StormyDaniels himself, but instead devised an elaborate scheme to pay Daniels secretly that required the involvement of at least 10 other people. “Everything Mr. Trump & his cohorts did in this case was cloaked in lies,” Steinglass says, adding, “The name of the game was concealment, & all roads lead to the man who benefited the most, Donald Trump.”

#criminal #law #TrumpTrial

2024-05-28

Steinglass shows Trump’s filing w/the federal government’s Office of Government #Ethics in May 2018 that revealed #Trump had made a payment to #MichaelCohen. The filing came days after #RudyGiuliani said on #FoxNews that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the #StormyDaniels payment.

#Blanche cited this same filing as #evidence that Trump had no #intent to #defraud.

“The defendant didn’t actually pay a lawyer, he paid a porn star by funneling money through a lawyer” Steinglass says.

#TrumpTrial

2024-05-28

#Blanche argues there was no #intent by #Trump to #defraud — a #legal concept at the heart of the case. Every time Blanche says the phrase “intent to defraud,” the judge looks at him — but so far, Justice #Merchan has not interrupted him.

Blanche argues the prosecution must show that Trump “caused” the false records. He’s correct about the wording in NY’s #FalseRecords #Law, but “caused” is not a super high bar.

#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference

2024-05-28

#Blanche is focusing on the 34 docs that led to the 34 #felony charges. He sounded as if he was getting close to making a #legal argument about “intent to defraud.” The #jurors would have to find that #Trump acted w/ #intent to #defraud when he directed the falsification of the docs in order to find him #guilty.

Justice #Merchan appeared to glare at Blanche as he came close to commenting on the #law. But the defense lawyer moved away & the judge said nothing.

#criminal #TrumpTrial

2024-05-11

"We may have broken rules … but we did not cheat." — Jim Calhoun, Connecticut basketball coach — — — #JimCalhoun #quote #quotes #quip #snarky #humor #humorous #rules #cheat #regulations #con #deceive #defraud

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