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The defendants were charged with 45 counts relating to the scheme, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S., wire fraud, and aiding and assisting in preparing false tax returns.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
25 Jan. 2025 -
For her part, MacArthur on Friday focused the prosecution argument on the marquee count in the indictment: the racketeering conspiracy.—
Ray Long,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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The intrigue: Nestlé is going all in on at-home coffee customization, and the Glendale plant will significantly expand its capacity to do so, the company said.—
Jessica Boehm,
Axios,
28 Jan. 2025
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Nickless’ research is impeccable, and her twisty thriller is a chilling story of international intrigue and deception.—
Sandra Dallas,
The Denver Post,
28 Jan. 2025
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Taking control of the Panama Canal was the most popular of Trump’s schemes to expand the U.S., with 46% in favor and 47% in opposition.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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Kya Christian Nelson, 23, and others involved in what prosecutors described as a nationwide scheme, took over homeowners’ Ring security cameras and made fake emergency calls in November 2020, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.—
Julia Marnin,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Jan. 2025
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There is a precedent for such scientific subterfuge.—
Henry A. Kissinger,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Nov. 2024
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In an era rife with conspiracy theories and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps our imagining?—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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Bit by bit, the castle at Elsinore (broodingly rendered by scenic designer Lee Savage) turns into a stage for life-and-death plots and counterplots.—
Don Aucoin,
BostonGlobe.com,
31 July 2019
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There’s something comforting about the normalcy of plot and counterplot, action and intrigue.—
MIKE HALE,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2017
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Everywhere Backpack 22-liter $78 $54 at Lululemon This backpack has a sleek design and thoughtful features.—
Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Jan. 2025
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As usual, an A-list crowd of celebrities came out in droves to witness the new designs from Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
19 Jan. 2025
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In the 1970s, Lowery and his wife bought a 21-acre plot surrounded by Anson County farmland 60 miles south of Charlotte.—
Ames Alexander,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Jan. 2025
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In at least one case, the U.S. intelligence helped thwart an IS plot to attack a religious shrine outside Damascus earlier this month, according to the officials.—
Warren P. Strobel,
arkansasonline.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Calling it his novel is a bit of authorial trickery: Griffin Hurt doesn’t exist.—
Stuart Miller,
Orange County Register,
16 Jan. 2025
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Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
15 Jan. 2025
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