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A 13-count grand jury indictment in Charlotte was filed Thursday against Greg E. Lindberg of Durham, whom federal prosecutors allege has defrauded thousands of policyholders, news outlets reported.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2023

Australian novelist Richard Flanagan follows 2014’s “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” with “First Person,” in which corporate con man Siegfried Heidl has defrauded banks of $700 million.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2018

Zacchaeus shinnies down the tree and repents, saying that that he will repay anyone he has defrauded “four times as much.”

From Time • Oct. 12, 2015

Whistleblower cases, sometimes known as qui tam cases, are a means for people who believe companies has defrauded the government to file suit.

From Reuters • Aug. 6, 2010

If it were a mere question of money I should let the matter drop; but he has defrauded and deceived me so outrageously that it annoys me.

From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Gaboriau, Émile