Another method of defraudation consisted in false accounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

The traveller by land was strictly confined to the prescribed highway of travel, every deviation from which was regarded as a defraudation of the customs and was punished by confiscation of goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)] Reference

Examples of such as were arraigned or tried for peculation, or defraudation of the commonwealth, were Marcus Curius for intercepting the money of the Samnites, Salinator for the unequal division of spoils to his soldiers, Marcus Posthumius for cheating the commonwealth by a feigned shipwreck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference

"For the latter part of the power of the prerogative, or that whereby they are the supreme judicatory of this nation, and of the provinces of the same, the cognizances of crimes against the majesty of the people, such as high treason, as also of peculation, that is, robbery of the treasury, or defraudation of the commonwealth, appertains to this tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference

Well, I quickly discovered that many people in the neighborhood were not happy at all with the project, and that as far as the zoning issue is concerned, the developers used a bit of ... oh, I can't decide which word best expresses it, so I asked thesaurus.com for some suggestions pick your favorite: bamboozlement, beguilement, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceptiveness, defraudation, dissimulation, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, insincerity, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, sophism, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear and loathing in Trinity Park] Reference