When the case eventually went to trial, it was considered the largest tax fraud prosecution in U.S. history (well, after this one fell apart).
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Such Fund shall be used to pay for expenses and training relating to the investigation and prosecution of cases involving fraud, unfair and deceptive acts and practices, and other illegal conduct related to financial services or state consumer protection laws.
The investigation led to HMRC's first prosecution for film tax relief fraud.
Executives who make spectacularly bad decisions can only be subjected to criminal prosecution if they engage in fraud or deliberately close their eyes to it.
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Ms. Brune's client, Matthew Tannin, and his Bear colleague Ralph Cioffi were acquitted of securities fraud in the only major financial-crisis prosecution in 2009, without taking the stand.
The registered owner of the BMW, Takia Walker, 29, was arrested and charged with insurance fraud Sunday night but authorities have deferred the prosecution of her case pending further investigation.
If they confess by Apr. 15, and rat out the promoters who helped them, the IRS won't recommend them for prosecution or hit them with the civil fraud penalty--equal to 75% of the evaded tax.
Ottilie in 2010, accusing them of defamation and malicious prosecution for accusing him of participating in the fraud that brought down Peregrine in 2002.
You can try for small penalties, but once outside the program, the IRS may assess the civil fraud penalty, information return penalties or even pursue criminal prosecution (although that has evidently not happened to anyone yet).
Fraud investigations have tended to peter out before getting near a prosecution.
Some proponents of more aggressive enforcement against executives point to court rulings that have permitted the prosecution of company officials who should have known that fraud was occurring on their watch.
More recently, dozens of Cuban Medicare fraud fugitives in the U.S. have tried to escape prosecution by returning to the island.
The EFF said it hoped to reform the Computer Fraud and Misuse Act in the wake of Mr Swartz's prosecution and subsequent suicide.
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This would be like the FBI including the management of a company being investigated for securities fraud in internal FBI briefings before a decision is even made whether prosecution is warranted.
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First, as mentioned, the prosecution of Mr. Reynolds does not involve the type of fraud and false claims that are becoming rather typical in the emerging world of health care RICO.
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Hale, who was sentenced Monday to 28 months in prison for mail fraud and conspiracy following a plea agreement, is the key witness for the prosecution.
And he lambasted ex-Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow , the key prosecution witness who'd already pleaded guilty to wire and securities fraud in 2004, and accepted ten years in the hoosegow.
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She had been investigated for fraud by Hong Kong's anti-corruption watchdog, which had recommended a prosecution.
Deutsche Bank struck a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in Manhattan to resolve a federal tax shelter fraud investigation.
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Others may decide to risk detection by the IRS and the imposition of substantial penalties, including the civil fraud penalty, numerous foreign information return penalties, and the potential risk of criminal prosecution.
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Koenig, in turn, was a crucial prosecution witness who had pleaded guilty in August 2004 to aiding and abetting securities fraud.
The bank agreed to pay the fines to the Financial Services Authority, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Department of Justice, entering into a deferred prosecution agreement in the U.S. related to one count of wire fraud.
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The three-term prime minister faces trial on tax fraud charges after Italy's top court struck down an immunity law that shielded him from prosecution.
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Past and future witnesses for the prosecution have and will continue to corroborate Fastow's assertion that the two executives ordered the fraud.
But the very nature of insider trading fraud laws, and the dragnet techniques used by U.S. Attorneys, will likely result in the prosecution, even conviction and incarceration, of some innocents.
Even if he escapes prosecution in Florida, he faces a federal trial this spring on 61 counts of tax evasion, mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, extortion, money-laundering and conspiracy.
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