obvious fraud

Having looked over the numbers myself, I don't see any evidence of obvious fraud.

Oh, the whole thing is shot through with such obvious fraud, and yet I tremble for the safety of my son.

However, the film revealed obvious fraud on the part of the medium and her cabinet assistant.

"It is only the unbelieving who believe so easily in obvious frauds.

The first part of their investigative process, which is used to detect obvious fraud, is kept a secret from the public.

The Savant was an obvious fraud who had built up his reputation by stepping on the backs of others.

The PRI converted that particular election into an obvious fraud.

There are many blatantly obvious frauds, some of a grand scale, where there has been no action taken to prosecute those responsible.

The Federal Trade Commission's rules prohibit list brokers from selling to companies engaged in obvious frauds.

Despite the obvious fraud, they signed new contracts with their new names, allowing themselves to evade Bischoff's firings.

She was both amused and impressed by General Funkhauser, for he was an obvious fraud but one determined to please his new American masters.

When the PRI declared its candidate the winner after huge and obvious fraud, Cárdenas responded with calm rather than violence.

"Rod Hull", a recurring character who claims to be the genuine Rod Hull but is in fact an obvious fraud.

If widened to include less obvious frauds in insurance, tax evasion and financial dealings, the costs rise to £52 billion, or 9 per cent of gross national product.

Two obvious frauds compete for the Russian throne in exile, but they want to be crowned with the real Crown of the Russian emperors!

Nebel's show featured the gamut of positions on flying saucers, hosting the most obvious frauds as well as the most ironclad skeptics.

In addition, if ESP and PK exist, then a solid core of truth is established behind all the obvious fraud and flummery of spiritualism.

Defenders of Vinson & Elkins argue that the rules at issue in those cases involved obvious fraud, while the issues surrounding the Enron work turned on judgment calls based on incomplete information.

Great doubt, however, was felt as to their genuineness, and Dobrovský, by pronouncing the latter manuscript (also known as The Judgment of Libuše), to be an obvious fraud, confirmed the suspicion.

In response to a survey which predicted that 72% of voters would oppose the measure, a spokesman called the poll "an obvious fraud", saying that pollsters deliberately worded questions to prejudice respondents against the initiative.

The all-American claim that You Can Be Anything You Want To Be is an obvious fraud, but while Jimmy Connors is on court, you can believe it.

I generally frown on obvious fraud committed in front of one's children, but capitulated to this plan out of my fear that the kids would soon complain that they had been detached from the mother ship ("for nothing good!"

The L.A. Times reported that in a review of state and local records it was discovered that independent audits of public agencies in California frequently failed to recognize and note cases of questionable mismanagement and obvious fraud.

This led to further searching and the discovery that an executor of her husband's estate (the executor was an officer of the same bank) had excluded dozens of pieces of land from the formal accounting of the estate -an obvious fraud.

The S.E.C. says that the fraud was easier to pull off because CUC officials knew which subsidiaries would be audited, and therefore hid the most obvious frauds in subsidiaries that they knew the auditors would not look at.