Sam got another 2 years tagged on to the 20-year sentence for his charade.
That helped keep the charade going until news of Fastow's off-the-books paychecks emerged in 2001.
He described the legal battle with IBRC, the former Anglo Irish Bank, as a 'charade'.
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At a recent conference in Qatar, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine's president, tried to stop the charade.
To make matters worse, we'd already been warned that this charade was about to happen.
According to the report, the SEC started the whole charade by delegating its authority over accounting principles back in 1938.
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For the charade to continue, borrowers pretended they could pay and lenders pretended that they would be paid.
Robert DeNiro plays a spin doctor who hires Dustin Hoffman (as a Hollywood producer) to oversee the charade.
It's difficult to get very engaged by the charade of interplay in which these children are supposedly engaged.
But for the two authors of the charade, Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak, it was only the beginning.
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Assuming this gesture was not part of the charade, he needn't have bothered.
We engage in charade after charade which legitimize union control of the schools.
The habitual doctoring of books and records, the fictitious trades, the phantom accounts were the core of the charade.
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After which, the blindfold was to be put back on and the whole charade repeated for the return journey back to the London studio.
Still, the very fact that Mr Ben Ali is going through the charade suggests that he is responding to pressure for change.
They are begging you to look beyond the two party charade and to a future that can be created by the people.
We should end the charade that says there is a "local" phone business and that it is separate from the "interstate" phone business.
If you get to feeling like a flayed deer, use the international language of charade to bring it down a notch or two.
Mr Justice McCloskey held earlier this year that those responsible for the loan assignment were "indulging in an orchestrated, elaborate and illicit charade".
Myanmar went through a similar charade once before, in the 1990s.
Public announcements of such deals are something of a charade.
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One of the reasons banks may have been willing to go along with the charade was the need to fulfill their quotas when it came to boosting SME lending.
These guys specialize in designing incentives, long-term this, short-term that, stock options, retirement, supplemental retirement, non-qualified whatever which is all part of the charade that must be acted out.
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Their main goal is to preserve the charade that she is a potential leader: Miss Megawati appeals to ordinary Indonesians because she is the daughter of Sukarno, Indonesia's first president.
That got him small, dark roles (he beat up Elvis Presley in King Creole, took a shot at Audrey Hepburn in Charade) until Wilder and Simon put him above the title.
Once again, Congress failed to stop the annual charade of scheduled Medicare physician payment cuts and short-term patches, which spends more taxpayer money to perpetuate a policy everyone agrees is fatally flawed.
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Hiring still takes too long, promotions come fast and easy with time on the job, and all but a handful of employees are rated fully satisfactory or better in the annual appraisal charade.
Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant whose elaborate charade as a member of the fabled Rockefeller oil family unraveled when he was arrested, is charged in the murder of John Sohus, who disappeared in 1985.
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