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Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of 4 counts of felony fraud in January 2022 – three counts of wire fraud, and one of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for misleading investors on the biotech company Theranos, a diagnostics company claiming to be able to perform multianalyte clinical chemistry using unsound liquid-handling tech. Company results were ...
Synonyms for charlatan include shyster, quack, or faker. Quack is a reference to quackery or the practice of dubious medicine, including the sale of snake oil , or a person who does not have medical training who purports to provide medical services.
Political cartoon by J. M. Staniforth: Herbert Kitchener attempts to raise £100,000 for a college in Sudan by calling on the name of C. G. Gordon. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust.
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A "fantasist" fraudster who conned an 84-year-old woman out of her £22,000 life savings has been jailed for four years. John Kavanagh, 58, began a relationship with a woman he met online and then ...
The former Instagram influencer known as “ Jay Mazini ” who swindled millions of dollars from online followers and a network of Muslims during the pandemic was sentenced to seven years in ...
In law, fraud is an intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law or criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong. [1]
FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried asks judge for 6.5 or years or less, says public doesn’t know his ‘true’ self. Leo Schwartz. February 28, 2024 at 1:52 AM.