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Other evidence suggests the company's accounting system helps it hide a pattern of activities that might be described as criminogenic, including those Cayman Islands brass-plate subsidiaries (like the one used to do business in Iran) and the lawsuit by former employees alleging the accounting fraud goes much deeper.

Charlie Cray: What if "Daddy Warbucks" Came Clean? 2008

• Her brass-plate front company Brewster Jennings was closed down on the day that Novak's mentioned her name & job in his widely-syndicated column.

Who Killed Julius Caesar? 2007

CHARLIE CRAY, CENTER FOR CORPORATE POLICY: You know, Benedict Arnold, tax trader companies are the ones that set up, you know, brass-plate shell companies.

CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2007 2007

The biggest impediment to an old-school Iraqi dis-information campaign about Iran being close to having nuclear capabilities would be Valerie Wilson and the brass-plate counter-proliferation company she worked with; all burned years ago.

Firedoglake » And The Reason Was….??? 2006

In the great temple of Benares, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass-plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee.

Recursive Functions Odifreddi, Piergiorgio 2005

A brass-plate embellished the great porte-cochère: “Pensionnat de Demoiselles” was the inscription; and beneath, a name, “Madame Beck.”

Villette 2003

The brass-plate, as all the world knows, is the badge of the non-producer -- the parasite, the middleman, agent, call him what you will -- the man who wears a tall hat and black coat, and who lives in

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

He came at length to the offices of Messrs. Mossa and Mack, whose brass-plate bore the legend that the gentry in questions were solicitors, and that they also had a business in London.

The Crimson Blind

They were headed by two fellows of commanding stature and appearance; though little differing from the others, except that one wore a necklace of small bones; and the other, suspended from his neck by a cord and resting on his breast, a small brass-plate of a crescent shape, on which his name was engraved.

Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro

The brass-plate coal merchant, of course, receives a commission for his agency, which is just so much loss to the consumer.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832 Various