The government countered that the crooks' operation, which included the armored-car service, routinely commingled customers' money.
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So the crooks have moved on, using the identities of all sorts of living folks.
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The crooks perpetrated their fraud during the time of record-high oil prices in 2008.
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Legitimate Chinese entrepreneurs may not want to deal with firms like that, but the crooks will pony up.
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As financial services firms have tightened up, the crooks have started targeting the bank and credit-card accounts of individuals instead.
When the outcry catches up with them, the crooks simply move to another office in another state and resume their predatory ways.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said it "called time on the crooks".
The crooks are numerous and smart, the regulators few and outgunned.
The derivative debacle in 2008 did not involve retail investors, but it likely is the most massive fraud in history, yet the crooks that perpetrated the frauds will likely never be brought to justice.
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On valve horns, however, different crooks are built into the instrument, and the (three) valves make it possible to engage the crooks while playing, greatly expanding the range of notes available at any one time.
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But if that's the case then those for whom it should be toughest should be the tax crooks living in our midst who refuse to pay their share for the society we all live in.
At a time when countless ordinary Britons have been badly squeezed by economic austerity, the charlatans and outright crooks of the City have continued to award themselves outrageous pay packages.
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So next time Donald Duck traps the thugs, or 007 eliminates the villain, we should also allow ourselves to feel a slight sense of grief and sympathy for the ugly crooks, who might have achieved so much more in life had mother nature made them just that little bit more pleasing to our eye.
The Nomura affair confirmed that crooks, the rich and the powerful (and often a combination of all three) make money from the stockmarket.
While the transparency helped raise the quality of trade execution, crooks used the false comfort of oversight as a way to market companies that had no value.
But one former congressional aide, Cass Weiland, a deeply experienced investigator into such matters, suspects that the amount that securities crooks and con men currently rake in approaches what the underworld reaps from illicit drug dealings.
But they also set the stage for crooks who want to part us with our money.
None of this impedes the few real crooks who are willing to boldly certify their own lies.
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The book is The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever by Alan Sepinwall.
The president of Uefa has hit out at "bandits and crooks" for the escalation of Ukrainian hotel prices ahead of the Euro 2012 football championships.
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West Berlin's shop-window prosperity was bought at the price of gross corruption, as crooks and opportunists competed for the lavish West German subsidies.
But more and more vulnerabilities are being detected by shady hackers who auction their exploits off to the highest-bidding crooks.
For example, Rhett Crooks is the owner of a precision tooling manufacturer in Vandergift, Pennsylvania that recently turned around and is rehiring.
Busting crooks on the high seas is next to impossible, so member countries devised a plan to nail overfishers at the point of sale at docks and airports.
"You can still have crooks cooking the books in smaller companies, but it's easier to comprehend their financial statements, so it's easier to uncover it, " says Yokosawa, who specializes in small caps.
What many in Mr Berlusconi's ruling majority appear not to realise is that the free-movement directive, which came into force two years ago, gives EU citizens (beggars and crooks included) essentially the same rights as locals.
Later, Sergeant Carolyn Crooks revealed to the Old Bailey that she had bought clothes and two mobile phones for the girl - but denied that they were inducements in return for evidence.
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