Another member of the ring, 28-year-old Anna Chapman, ran an online real-estate business.

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The feds said Offill was a member of a pump-and-dump ring that targeted shares in companies like AVL Global Inc.

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Few epigrams about maintaining a country estate ring as true as one uttered by a member of Hollywood royalty now living in the South of France.

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And he was a member of the Independent Commission on Banking, set up by the chancellor, which recommended that a ring fence be put around the retail banking operations of giant universal banks like Barclays.

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