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He persuades one of his colleagues to help him with information on the bogus company behind the drug traffic.

Next, he got in with a set of rogues and lent himself to a little bogus company promoting.

The authorities introduced a fake bill in the legislature that was supposed to give a bogus company the right to issue industrial bonds.

Five people were convicted in a conspiracy involving a bogus company that said it had created a self-chilling beverage can.

The forming of a bogus company is illegal only if prosecutors can show it was part of a fraud conspiracy.

'The funds are currently being invested in our bogus companies; their value will fall dramatically over the next six months.'

He promptly sent the hearing minutes to the city's district attorneys to pursue criminal cases and filed suit to dissolve the three bogus companies.

Mr Packham says the organisation was highly sophisticated, using bogus companies and false names and addresses.

Although the customers never know it, those bogus companies became the final insurers to everything from high schools to health spas to county governments to major corporations.

The sites, for example, offer better credit scores by hitching customers to a stranger's credit card, or providing them pay stubs from a bogus company.

She said there was always one bogus company that became the "burn" company, meaning that it was supposed to bear the tax liability.

This is a part of organised crime in Europe which involves bogus companies taking money from people and from small and medium-sized businesses over the Internet.

People in Europe are involved in scams and bogus companies that are lending and giving money to Africa and they have to be stopped.

Court records filed by Federal prosecutors detail a vast web of bogus companies and identities that they believe Mr. Frankel used to perpetuate the fraud.

Learn more about identity theft scam artists offering bogus discount cards and find information for what to do if you have been contacted by a bogus company.

He said that both had admitted that ELS was a bogus company and that they had been involved in a scheme to collect fees from people.

In the investigation agents set up a bogus company in Purcellville, Va., about 50 miles from Washington, that arranged hunts for customers, bringing guides and hunters together.

Other loans were arranged for bogus companies, which he set up in order to circumvent Federal limits on how much a savings and loan institute could lend to one individual, officials said.

In 2003, federal agents approached the legislator posing as representatives of E-Cycle, a bogus company supposedly based out of Atlanta that disposed of outdated electronic equipment.

Most often, fraudsters will use stolen credit card information to pay for posting their job opportunities on legitimate sites, as well as paying for the hosting of a bogus company's site.

The agents also said that Mr. Royer told them at the time that he was interested in exposing corporate fraud because he had once lost a large investment in a bogus company.

Among those indicted was State Senator John N. Ford, one of the most powerful politicians in Memphis, who was charged with extorting $55,000 from a bogus company created by the bureau.

So, after spending several months doing more traditional forms of research in archives and libraries, Mr. Kernaghan and his colleagues, Barbara Briggs and Jack McKay, formed a bogus company.

I felt inspired myself, and announced, "You know, a guy named Robert tried to get-Solace to help him setup a bogus company, that would make nonexistent hot dog rolls and fleece all the investors."

Both houses of the California Legislature passed the laws intended to benefit the bogus companies before the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed the Governor that the legislation grew out of a sting operation.