The word pecuniary has appeared in six articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 6 in “Argentina’s Most Powerful Politician Found Guilty of Fraud” by Natalie Alcoba and Ana Lankes:
A panel of three judges in Buenos Aires, the capital, rendered the verdict on a public broadcast after a three-year trial in which Mrs. Kirchner was accused of steering hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded contracts to a business associate to build roads in Patagonia, on the tip of South America.
The panel found her not guilty of a second charge of directing an “illicit association” that oversaw that kickbacks scheme.
“We are certain” the ruling said, that “an extraordinary fraudulent maneuver took place that harmed the pecuniary interests of the national public administration under the terms and conditions established by criminal law.”
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