So, too, is general business fraud (again, though, more of a risk in the smallest segments).
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Eight people charged over an alleged multi-million pound business fraud have appeared in court.
First, the 1995 act, with other attempts to curb shareholder suits, fed the surge in business fraud during the bubble.
Nike had argued that the extension of such business fraud statutes to generic discussions by companies that have more to do with social commentary on issues of public importance than promoting the sale of specific goods and services is to effectively deny First Amendment protections to U.S. businesses.
But from a business perspective fraud is the number one issue.
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Okay, so if you'll recall, TechCrunch's hastily-written complaint alleged that Fusion Garage was guilty of false advertising, breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of a business idea, fraud, and unlawful business practices, all because Fusion Garage essentially took their ball and went home instead merging with Arrington's CrunchPad, Inc.
Regulators and Congress are often sensitive to chasing business (and fraud) abroad with new rules as well as taking business away from small businesses and handing it over to big banks.
The Feds going soft on financial crime makes absolutely no sense, if you take into account the big business of financial fraud over the past 12 years.
They have accused DeArthur and Andrew Allen of stepping beyond the limits of mere business failure into outright fraud and theft.
That means, in appropriate cases, barring CEOs and company business units that committed fraud from working in the same industry or receiving federal program dollars.
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Trial lawyers have progressed too far in diffusing the stark difference between fraud and honest business mistakes.
Mr Berlusconi is on trial for allegedly bribing British lawyer David Mills into providing false testimony in previous trials, and for alleged tax fraud relating to business before he entered politics.
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They have the power to stop fraud in the business of selling the complex credit derivatives, and they have jurisdiction over whether the complex securities sold by the banks met suitability requirements for the investors who bought them.
Greene's only condition in the settlement was that he get an additional 90 days to review all of LB Property's records pertaining to accounts connected to Greene's business interests to check for fraud or misappropriation of funds for which he could make a material fraud claim in arbitration, court documents say.
Fraud is as old as business itself and every industry has experienced it at some point.
Of course, other firms go well beyond soliciting unearned money, incorporating fraud and theft into their business models.
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As the economy revs up, we all let our guard down and some business types enriche themsleves through sleaze and fraud.
Many who have not been convicted of fraud have nevertheless run their business empires with scant regard for the interests of minority shareholders.
Officials said the goal was to root out prospective contractors that have a poor "record of integrity and business ethics, " and to combat fraud and abuse.
"It comes down to what type of security a bank has in place to detect fraud and what the small business did for the hackers to be able to access its accounts, " Mr. Tubin said.
Creditors have sued Gabayzadeh and his business partner, Nourollah Elghanayan , for fraud, alleging they inflated American Tissue's assets to secure financing for paper producers they held separately from American Tissue, leaving American Tissue's lenders with little.
It claimed back VAT on bogus Europe-wide business transactions in a scam known as carousel fraud.
Its Japanese securities business plead guilty to one count of wire fraud tied to rigging Yen Libor.
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"This type of fraud increases the costs of doing business for every American consumer, every day, " US Attorney Paul Fishman said.
The business of investment consulting today is riddled with fraud and conflicts.
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Q-Tech are said to have made a fortune by claiming back VAT on false Europe-wide business transactions in a scam known as carousel fraud.
Barclays, for instance, has good figures on fraud in its credit-card business, but until recently it kept no records on how many times its dealers have breached trading controls.
Rather than excluding an entire pharmaceutical giant for example, which many say is impractical, limit the exclusion to the product or business unit that was the locus of the fraud.
It is no surprise then that scammers are finding it a lucrative area for fraud, said Jonathan Robinson, business development director of NetNames, a company which legitimately registers domain names.
The Justices ruled 5-3 Tuesday that third parties, such as investment banks, accounting firms and suppliers, can be shielded from liability if they engage in business with companies that are involved in securities fraud.
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