StoneRidge, an institutional investor in Charter, accused the two vendors of participating in a "scheme to defraud" investors and now wants the right to sue them for remediation.
Ms. Hou and Mr. Pan were indicted in April 2012 and charged in an alleged scheme to defraud the city of campaign-matching funds through the use of straw donors.
Stoneridge investors had argued that Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta should be held liable in a complex "scheme to defraud" investors because of an agreement they had with Charter Communications, a cable company.
The charges arose in connection with a scheme to defraud debit-card holders by using stolen bank account information to withdraw money from ATMs. On March 20, 2012, Arakelyan and Vardanyan pleaded guilty.
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Finally, the affidavit alleges that Kendall Myers engaged in a scheme to defraud the State Department and the United States by means of false pretenses and caused the U.S. government to lose property, specifically money in the form of salary payments.
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"Nothing he said would likely subject him to further criminal charges because the statutes expired, and he did not say how it happened nor did he implicate others in a way that would constitute a general scheme to defraud the federal government, " Levenson said.
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Stoneridge investors had argued that Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Scientific-Atlanta should be held liable in a complex "scheme to defraud" investors because of an agreement they had with Charter Communications (nasdaq: CHTR - news - people ), a cable company.
In a case last year, that court said that if a third party engaged in conduct that created a false appearance or furthered a "scheme to defraud, " the third party could be held liable for participation in the scheme, even if it didn't make a statement of guilt or deliberately omitted such a statement.
As the raids spread, the feds accused the firm of a "systematic corporate scheme" to defraud the government.
The Court held that while all "primary actors"--those who were directly part of a scheme (the emphasis is mine) to defraud investors--can be sued for federal securities fraud, the "secondary actors" who aided and abetted the fraud cannot be sued.
Y, this morning and charged him with trying to defraud Zuckerberg and Facebook in a multi-billion dollar scheme that involved filing a bogus lawsuit that claimed Ceglia had once been promised a 50% stake in Facebook.
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