as in to accuse
to make a claim of wrongdoing against
the grand jury could indict the mayor for fraud and embezzlement
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Kelsey, 47, served 18 years in the state House and Senate, including as Judiciary Committee chairman before opting not to run for reelection when a federal grand jury indicted him for a campaign finance scheme related to his failed 2016 congressional bid.
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Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Nov. 2025
Four suspects have been federally indicted in connection with the break-ins, and two have been convicted.
—Landon Mion , Brooke Taylor, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Owens was initially indicted on one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices, one count of forgery, four counts of perjury and one count of tampering with physical evidence earlier this year.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
Martinez was indicted on October 10, along with another man, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, on federal charges of impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon — Martinez’s car.
—Reuters, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
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Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Nov. 2025
Four suspects have been federally indicted in connection with the break-ins, and two have been convicted.
—Landon Mion , Brooke Taylor, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Owens was initially indicted on one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices, one count of forgery, four counts of perjury and one count of tampering with physical evidence earlier this year.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
Martinez was indicted on October 10, along with another man, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, on federal charges of impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon — Martinez’s car.
—Reuters, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
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The United States has imposed sanctions on eight North Korean individuals and two entities, accusing them of laundering funds from cybercrime and fraud and channeling them into the North’s nuclear weapons program.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Agents with Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin's office last week arrested two Helena-West Helena residents, one of them an employee with the state Department of Corrections, accused of working together to defraud the state's Medicaid program, a Tuesday news release from Griffin's office states.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Nov. 2025
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So, for me, that was the creation of the Anti-American Speech Committee, which is a government panel essentially designed to prosecute artists for holding views or creating work that resists basically the fascist state that has overtaken the American government.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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He was almost prosecuted for counterfeiting.—
Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Indict.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indict. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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