Bad judgment and poor management are not fraud, even when they lead to the demise of a once venerable financial institution.
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Deloitte advisers did not report fraud indicators at Kabul Bank to USAID, and the mission did not have a policy requiring contractors and grantees to report indications of fraud in host-government institutions or possible problems that could reasonably be considered to be of foreign policy interest to USAID and the U.S. Government.
He also may turn about to be, if not a fraud, then less than truthful.
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We're not talking fraud here, though there's plenty of that going around, too.
Or if not a fraud, at least helped along by a significant boost.
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It advises severe sanctions on companies that do not report fraud and detailed guidance for the auditing of business "empires".
The items on this list suggest that there were significant lapses in good management (accompanied by lapses in good regulation), if not outright fraud.
Many financeers say that as long as they did not commit actual fraud, they should not be punished for bending rules no one was bothering to enforce.
They can move quickly as rivals that had not settled fraud charges, racing to the markets to raise capital by selling their stock or bonds, the Times noted.
Voter registration fraud is not the same as voter fraud, in which individuals attempt to fraudulently cast ballots.
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This may not ultimately affect enforcement priorities, given that perception matters and a greater enforcement focus on financial statement fraud does not necessarily depend on an increase in fraud.
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There is no good way to measure these issues because, among other things, there is no way to know (1) how many people committed securities fraud without being detected, and (2) how many people did not commit securities fraud because they were afraid of being caught.
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He said Rove had complained that Iglesias had not pursued voter fraud cases aggressively enough.
There may not be any fraud at all, but it does raise questions.
Congress needs to comprehend an essential truth: The SEC should be fighting fraud not reading letters and drafting and re-drafting rules.
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The Commission does not deny that fraud occurs, but it says the scale is minute - around 0.09% of the total budget.
This is not a simple fraud case but a much wider conspiracy.
By requiring the portals themselves to register with both the SEC and a self-regulatory organization (likely FINRA), lawmakers have ensured the portals will have to adhere to a higher standard which should help to limit (but will not eliminate) fraud.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has imposed enormous costs on businesses, particularly small ones, yet these paperwork burdens have not prevented corporate fraud. (And this bureaucratic delight didn't ban corporate executives from lucratively backdating stock options, thereby generating huge gains with virtually no risk.) Those intent on wrongdoing will easily find ways around paper barriers.
David Burnham, a co-director of TRAC, told The Huffington Post that the fall-off in financial fraud prosecutions most likely does not reflect a fall-off in financial fraud itself.
Surrey Police could not confirm whether the accounts belonged to Mr al-Hilli himself and stressed the fraud charges were not linked to the murder investigation.
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But Mr Fujimori's people are insisting that it should not include any discussion of the question of electoral fraud, and it may not take place.
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But the fraud could not be proved because of an absence of easily-accessible data.
Organizations that want to combat fraud need not wait until the summer for a solution.
Then last week, the younger Mr. Roth was arrested and pleaded not guilty to insurance fraud.
He pleaded not guilty to insurance fraud, falsely reporting an incident and conspiracy at his arraignment.
Their statement does not use the word fraud, but neither does it say free and fair.
He has pleaded not guilty of the fraud that led to the energy-trader's collapse.
Fraud is not a capital offence, after all, and executives can usually afford a good lawyer.
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