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Police officers had arrested her solicitor husband Andrew over allegations he was defrauding clients - and were searching the family home the couple shared with their two children.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Prosecutors say Davis had been threatening to go to the FBI with information that Gumrukcu was defrauding him in a multimillion-dollar oil deal that Gumrukcu and his brother had entered into with Davis in 2015.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2022

“I had a very real gut feeling that this was defrauding students and taxpayers,” Brogger said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2021

The big difference here is that Wells Fargo was defrauding itself—via incentives it gave its own employees to treat Wells Fargo the way many companies treat their customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 20, 2016

I looked upon him as a cheat; and I knew the humiliation and shame of a woman whose husband was defrauding his employers.

From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia