And even when they do, prosecution does little but slow fraudulent operations.

The school turned out to be a fraudulent operation.

Most significantly, the fraudulent operations promise big prizes to try to get money in advance from "winners," which is illegal.

The suit did not link American Family Publishers lists to any fraudulent operations.

Threats to cancel AOL service are often a sign of a fraudulent operation.

It is a clear example of the courts ignoring the veil of incorporation where a company is used to conceal a fraudulent operation.

But it involves an offshore fund, the Czech Value Fund, which invested money in a fraudulent operation.

At least 8 of the 36 defendants, who include employees from banks and large supermarket chains accused of aiding the fraudulent operation have already been arrested.

It is to be feared that the introduction of the euro and the enlargement of the EU will create further scope for fraudulent operations.

The American law school is "a mostly fraudulent operation," Campos writes, whose professoriate engages in bogus analysis to justify its existence.

RUNNING these fraudulent operations, it seems, is a way of life for some of the offenders.

But "in reality it was a handful of people in an industrial estate in Perth", who were conducting a complex of fraudulent operations.

We support Federal legislation to establish new standards for sweepstakes marketing to help eliminate fraudulent operations and restore the public's confidence in legitimate free-by-mail sweepstakes.

Prosecutors accused Wedtech, a Bronx military contractor that had benefited from government contracts steered toward minority-owned businesses, of fraudulent operations.

The function of the CHRB is to watch over authorized California horse races to protect the public from fraudulent operations.

And Mr. DeJoria is suing him, along with several other defendants, accusing them of creating a fraudulent operation in place of the promised distribution in China.

Dangerous goods can be more easily detected and made safe, and more clearly targeted investigation of fraudulent operations and prosecution of fraudsters can be carried out.

According to art experts, a combination of major advances in photo-mechanical printing and sharply rising art prices have created fraudulent operations that prey on inexperienced collectors trying to take part in an art boom.

During Tasini's tenure as NWU president, it was discovered that the union's health insurance provider, Employers Mutual Insurance, was a fraudulent operation and had been wrongfully denying claims.

Although no details of the fraudulent operations were provided, they were understood to have involved the diversion of public and private funds, which had been converted into foreign exchange for approved imports, into bank accounts abroad.

The disorder in the accounts became hopeless; fraudulent operations were entered into with impunity, and the financiers were kept in the position of clients by official favours and by generous aid whenever they needed it.

Or was it the other way around-was Paulson part of some fraudulent operation and was watching the mislabeled cases to be sure that there was no evidence, that it would be reported a simple error of labeling?

The state's Commissioner of Social Services, Cesar A. Perales, acknowledged that auditors at his agency, swamped with nearly 9 million Medicaid claim forms a month, can take weeks or months to assemble the paperwork that points to a fraudulent operation.

Worse, millions of dollars are spent each year by states like New York to register and monitor these businesses, to no discernible effect: it takes years to suspend the license of even the most blatantly fraudulent operations, which can continue to use the false reassurance "state licensed."

In retrospect, it can be argued that there was no reason for a company with so much to be issuing so many bonds, and the fact that Parmalat maneuvered to keep Grant Thornton as the auditor for its fraudulent operations should have raised another red flag.