(v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.
Example Sentences:
(1) The men are accused of running a near decade-long conspiracy during their time at the firm and are being charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, violations of the Clean Air Act, and wire fraud, the US attorney general Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday.
(2) A small number of contactless transactions could be made before the card is blocked However, the figure could understate the true level of losses as many customers are unaware that they can still be defrauded after reporting a card as stolen or lost.
(3) Barcelona have previously said of Bartomeu: “He made it clear that it has never been his intention, nor that of the club’s executives, to aim to defraud the national tax office.” Rosell resigned as president in January 2014, saying: “An unfair and reckless accusation of misappropriation has resulted in a lawsuit against me in the Audiencia Nacional [the high court].
(4) Then, earlier this month, a tentative legal settlement was reached that required Frey and his American publisher, Doubleday, to provide refunds to readers who felt they were defrauded in buying a book classified as memoir.
(5) Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo are contesting fraud charges in which the two are accused of defrauding Saatchi and Lawson of more than £300,000 while working for the celebrity couple.
(6) Prosecutors have cleared Messi of wrongdoing but are seeking an 18-month prison sentence for his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, for allegedly defrauding Spain’s tax office of €4m (now £3m) in unpaid taxes from 2007-09.
(7) NAF’s lawsuit accuses the group of conspiracy to defraud.
(8) The traces left on the body to all intents and purposes embrace a cultural "cul de sac" which risks being defrauded of most of its content by a lack of those propedeutics elements which painstaking reflection is capable of affording us.
(9) As an unsecured lender it is liable for this type of fraud – our defrauded customers have chargeback rights for any losses they face."
(10) Romania supports and applies measures to fight abuses of any kind, and the Romanian authorities condemn any attempts to defraud the existing national systems.
(11) Cohen said Trump and his university never defrauded anyone.
(12) The public admission by the man who led France's fight against tax evasion that he secretly defrauded the taxman and was "caught in a spiral of lies" is a huge embarrassment for Hollande, who promised that his government would be beyond reproach after the corruption allegations that dogged previous French administrations.
(13) The real division in Britain is not between London and the north, Scotland and Wales or the old and young, but between Johnson, Gove and Farage and the voters they defrauded.
(14) Disputes over what name to give the Blue Peter kitten are nothing compared to GMTV defrauding viewers of up to £35m in falsified phone-in competitions.
(15) Hayes, 35, a former UBS and Citigroup yen derivatives trader, was convicted of eight counts of conspiracy to defraud.
(16) In 2010 a family of Afghan immigrants accused Yaar, in a civil court in California, of defrauding them.
(17) Twelve Inland Revenue officials have already been convicted of fraud, corruption, conspiracy to defraud and drug trafficking.
(18) The plaintiffs, two Afghan-born brothers, Jamal and Ajmal Staneckzai, claim he "tricked, defrauded and deceived" them over the 2001 purchase of a house in Fresno, California.
(19) The length and complexity of international supply chains were key to customers being defrauded.
(20) Police have yet to recover the millions of pounds he defrauded from investors, which may explain why he has been able avoid the authorities for so long.
Forger
Definition:
(n. & v. t.) One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
(n. & v. t.) Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.
Example Sentences:
(1) To recap, the budget deficit is reducing at pre-cut projections, the national debt is increasing at an accelerated pace, we are printing money with the enthusiasm of crack-addicted forgers, we are selling anything that is not nailed down and still have a rising overall tax burden while spending less and less on public services.
(2) Forgers in the Middle East are offering fake Syrian passports for as little as $250, days after it emerged that one of the Paris bombers may have entered Europe using false Syrian paperwork.
(3) In its early days the Bank's biggest security challenge was forgers altering the value of a note, for instance from £10 to £20, rather than attempting to replicate the note itself.
(4) A second forger in Duhok says he can procure a passport, allegedly with the help of a Syrian embassy official, within four days – for a premium price of $2,500.
(5) Although the forgers' methods vary, there are a few common mistakes that should ring alarm bells.
(6) He's adept at assuming and shedding a succession of identities and even sexual preferences, expert in technological matters, au fait with the forgers and gunsmiths of the continental underworld, and yet quite uninvolved in the political and military ructions that have prompted his employers, a cadre of right-wing French military officers, to seek his skills.
(7) Wild patterns dance, perspective shifts, all to fool the forger.
(8) He was, though, a phrasemaker - as well as an idea-forger - of brilliance, and many of his terms, such as "the original position" and "veil of ignorance", have become part of the language.
(9) He has nearly 40 years experience as a security expert for US law enforcement agencies, having switched sides when he was eventually caught by the FBI after spending half his teenage years on the run as a confidence trickster, imposter, cheque forger and escape artist in the 1960s.
(10) It is very easy.” Concern over burgeoning trade in fake and stolen Syrian passports Read more The revelations came as Serbian officials claimed that as many as eight asylum seekers entered Europe this year with similar passport details as ”Ahmad Almohammad”, the suspected pseudonym of one of the Paris suspects, leading to suspicions that all of them might have bought passports from the same forger in the Middle East.