and parking space...." The affirmative misstatement alleged toward that end was the claim, made in the mailed answer, that Wright had PBRG's permission to live in the building. Viewing the scheme in this way, a jury could conclude that the mailed answer furthered the scheme.
The third element is that the defendant(s) knew about the alleged scheme and, therefore, could have had the requisite intent to defraud. Chawla and Wright each claim that, to the extent that any such scheme existed, he did not know about it. Chawla asserts that there was no evidence that he knew of Wright's eviction, though he knew that Wright was in the apartment and that Teitelman was helping him with legal issues. Wright similarly points to the lack of evidence that he knewJapan has 512,000 fewer people this year than last, according to an estimate released on Tuesday by the country’s welfare ministry. That’s a drop of more than the entire population of the city of Atlanta.

The numbers are the latest sign of Japan’s increasing demographic challenges.

Births in the country — which are expected to drop below 900,000 this year — are at their lowest figure since 1874, when the population was about 70 percent smaller than its current 124 million.

The total number of deaths, on the other hand, is increasing. This year, the figure is expected to reach almost 1.4 million, the highest level since the end of World War II, a rise driven by the country’s increasingly elderly population.

That gap between births and deaths has put Japan in