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• v  engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together
  They conspired to overthrow the government
• v  act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose
  The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall

• cabal
• complot
• conjure
• machinate
• collude

News & Articles

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• Ontario Must Crack "Code of Silence" Among Correctional Officers Involved in Use of Excessive Force: Ombudsman
  TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - June 11, 2013) - Ontario Ombudsman André Marin today called on the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services to crack the pervasive "code of silence" under which some guards in the province's correctional institutions use excessive force against inmates and conspire to cover it up.
  June 11, 2013 - Marketwire
• Ghana’s Ex-Airport Security Chief Caught in Heroin Sting
  A former security official at Ghana’s main international airport faces a possible life sentence after federal prosecutors in New York charged him with using his position to conspire to import heroin into the U.S.
  June 6, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg in msnbc.com
  Because Skilling's misconduct entailed no bribe or kickback,Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in the majority opinion, "he did not conspire to commit honest-services fraud under our confined construction" of the law.
• Abraham Foxman in USA Today
  If Ms. Regan did make the charge that a Jewish cabal was conspiring against her, she clearly stepped over the line by employing the age-old anti-Semitic canard that Jews conspire against non-Jews,ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said....
• Ronnie Flanagan in Reuters UK
  It's definitely nice to win again (in America). Nobody likes negative questions when you try to be positive all the time. You get into contention. Sometimes you don't finish off. It could be a lot different, things, you know, conspire to do... Lee Westwood http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Westwood&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFNf7vNReHvJotkq7mcn0rx4EICEg Irish Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2010/0615/1224272516631.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFLEeUsnms-WScxrQ8xSAOv_EBecA Jun 14, 2010 21486 29145 constable Of course, as chief constable, I have to take responsibility for the shortcomings that the judge highlighted," Flanagan said.