Sentences with phrase «as false accounting»

A project that is yet to be built and will begin operating in three years» time might not be considered to be offsetting carbon that is emitted in the current year, and could even be branded as false accounting.

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«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

«Defendants and their co-conspirators also obtained, and attempted to obtain, false identification documents to use as proof of identity in connection with maintaining accounts and purchasing advertisements on social media sites,» the indictment says.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

This work also reduces the distribution of content that violates our policies, since fake accounts often distribute deceptive material, such as false news, hoaxes, and misinformation.

Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.

Among the methods listed in the document were jamming phones, computers and email accounts and masquerading as an enemy in a «false flag» operation.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment outlined the efforts of the Kremlin - linked Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency, which spread false stories and propaganda using thousands of accounts.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Some far - fetched examples might be fraud, some sort of US asset freeze / repatriation, false accounting, improper checks and balances or insurances as it cuts costs to keep its TER down, moneys not properly segregated between account owners, computer error...

There is no limit to membership here and the false sense of scarcity has been created to convince you to open an account as soon as possible.

I am so sorry that you have been told / taught such awful things about Jesus, but whether or not you believe He is fully man and also fully God, there is more than enough proof historically and in present scripture to show that labeling Him as a mysogonist and an advocate for murder is a drastically false account of who He is and what He stood for.

That is, if Wilson's purely functionalist explanation of religion were to become widely accepted by religious people, it would then be rendered false» for the adaptive features of religions depend, on Wilson's account, upon religious people thinking it false that their religions are best understood as adaptive social organisms.

You claimed science proves the Bible wrong as to Joshua's account of the moon and sun stopping which is false and can not be supported by science (including Newton's law which you interjected)

This is combined with an alarming tendency to make sweeping statements such as; «New Testament scholars sometimes say that the Gospel accounts of the appearances of the risen Christ are false and his followers did not intentionally claim to be eye - witnesses to his resurrection», without references to back it up.

And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.

The account written in the Torah is verifiable, because if, after that experience, one child had asked his parents if they had been there, and the parents had said no, then the account in the Torah would be exposed as being false.

On the other hand, by taking account in Critique et Religion of previous attempts at synthesis, he allows for the point about what may already be considered as dismissed and for the elimination of a certain number of false ideas which would compromise the research to which his books invite us.

I notice you conveneiently did not refute the inaccurate flood account «covering the whole earth» which has been proven false as well as not commenting on 40,000 year old cave paintings in Spain.

The report claims hackers posed as Feyenoord in an email and gave Lazio the details for the false bank account they set up, which has ended up costing the club dearly.

Haigh resigned as Managing Director of the Elland Road club last year, and has now been accused of some staggering cases of fraud, involving printing false invoices for large sums of money to be transferred into his bank account from various companies that Gulf Finance House (GFH) had done business with.

The home secretary John Reid has been accused of presenting a false choice between security and liberty, as he urged his international counterparts to rewrite human rights law to take the threat of terrorism into account.

- this is false, as there was prededent - she wasn't the first secretary to not use a government email account.

«That you Mohammed Ahmed Katun while serving as an Assistant Director, Pension Department of the Office of Head of Service of the Federation on or about the 14th day of August, 2009 within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, obtained by false pretences and with intent to defraud various sums of money amounting in the aggregate to N24, 660,675.00 (Twenty Four Million, Six Hundred and Sixty Thousand, Six Hundred and Seventy Five Naira only) from the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Pension Account held by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation of Nigeria through fraudulent payments described as collective allowances into your bank account maintained with Ecobank Nigeria Limited (former Oceanic International Bank Plc) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.Account held by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation of Nigeria through fraudulent payments described as collective allowances into your bank account maintained with Ecobank Nigeria Limited (former Oceanic International Bank Plc) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.account maintained with Ecobank Nigeria Limited (former Oceanic International Bank Plc) and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.»

Nick Clegg has said that Andrew Mitchell is right to feel «pretty sore» about his treatment at the hands of three police officers who called for him to resign as chief whip last year after allegedly providing a false account of a meeting.

As Gowers wrote on his blog, Polymath may be «the first fully documented account of how a serious [math] research problem was solved, complete with false starts, dead ends, etcetera.»

Specifically, Fattah is alleged to have misused $ 600,000 of a $ 1 million campaign loan by creating what the department describes as «sham contracts and false entries in accounting records, tax returns, and campaign finance disclosure statements.»

After accounting for false positive events, we infer the presence of 955 (2002 - 2003) and 386 (2007) events we identified as flares.

A promising exoplanet candidate w... ▽ More As is the case for all techniques involved in the research for exoplanets, direct imaging has to take into account the probability of so - called astrophysical false positives, which are phenomena that mimic the signature of objects we are seeking.

Gold Membership Trolling, also known as «Gold Account Trolling», is an online prank that involves posting a fabricated image to raise the false notion Shemale Escort Anny Gold in THESSALONI - AnnyGold in Greece.

The app's highly curated member database is double checked to avoid false information, and has LinkedIn account data as a prerequisite.

We think of sock - puppet reviews as those written by someone using multiple accounts set up under false names for the purposes of generating numerous positive reviews of his own work, or scathing reviews of a competitor's work.

It is possible to apply for a payday loan without committing identity theft but still provide false or doctored information such as fake checking account documents or employer information to be verified using known false contacts.

Prohibited acts.A credit services organization, a salesperson, agent, or representative of a credit services organization, or an independent contractor who sells or attempts to sell the services of a credit services organization shall not: (1) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration before completing performance of all services, other than those described in subdivision (2) of this section, which the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer unless the credit services organization has obtained a surety bond or established and maintained a surety account as provided in section 45 - 805; (2) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration for obtaining or attempting to obtain an extension of credit that the credit services organization has agreed to obtain for the buyer before the extension of credit is obtained; (3) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is substantially the same as that available to the general public; (4) Make or use a false or misleading representation in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization, including (a) guaranteeing to erase bad credit or words to that effect unless the representation clearly discloses that this can be done only if the credit history is inaccurate or obsolete and (b) guaranteeing an extension of credit regardless of the person's previous credit problem or credit history unless the representation clearly discloses the eligibility requirements for obtaining an extension of credit; (5) Engage, directly or indirectly, in a fraudulent or deceptive act, practice, or course of business in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; (6) Make or advise a buyer to make a statement with respect to a buyer's credit worthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity that is false or misleading or that should be known by the exercise of reasonable care to be false or misleading to a consumer reporting agency or to a person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit; or (7) Advertise or cause to be advertised, in any manner whatsoever, the services of a credit services organization without filing a registration statement with the Secretary of State under section 45 - 806 unless otherwise provided by the Credit Services Organization Act.

Regulators said the financial giant sold false debts to third - party collectors, including accounts with unlawfully obtained judgments, inaccurate balances, and paid - off balances — as well as selling debts that were owed by borrowers who are now dead.

«Twenty - five percent (25 %) of the credit reports surveyed contained serious errors that could result in the denial of credit, such as false delinquencies or accounts that did not belong to the consumer»

One of his opponents criticized the idea on camera prior to the election, commenting there was no such thing as a completely safe investment account — an idea that's both true and false at exactly the same time.

Sure, they have witness accounts, so that's something at least... But there have been just as many cases where just a single false accusation is enough to ruin someone's career I've actually had one ex who labeled me a rapist after 1 year of consensual sex.

-- whose relentless tick - tock presence comprises not only a visual metronome but also the false sense that we are experiencing the passage of time as linear, as complete, as fully accounted for.

On the other hand, it does not explicitly take into account the specific patterns of natural variability caused by winds or currents that can masquerade as a false global signal (as described above).

The DOE proposal suggests that now - retired coal plants were crucial to the grid's operation during the polar vortex, a false accounting which elides the fact that coal stockpiles froze during the vortex, and wind energy, efficiency and demand response were instrumental to keeping the lights on then, as

The DOE proposal suggests that now - retired coal plants were crucial to the grid's operation during the polar vortex, a false accounting which elides the fact that coal stockpiles froze during the vortex, and wind energy, efficiency and demand response were instrumental to keeping the lights on then, as noted by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

In its argument for the existence of CAGW, Working Group 1 employs the negated law as a false premise thusly arriving at the conclusion that CAGW is proved when it is not proved on account of the false premise.

Also, whether your own statements on Facebook were true, false or neither (e.g. statements of opinion) is irrelevant to the culpability or liability of the people providing the tip to your employer, so long as their description of your posts made to the employer were substantially accurate or to the extent that they were inaccurate were accompanied by a means by which the employer could determine what you actually said without relying on their second hand account.

She has significant expertise handling, fraud, false accounting, bribery / corruption, money laundering and terrorism matters as well as acting in relation to market abuse, disclosure and listing obligations for listed companies.

CASL was intended to protect people from receiving unsolicited commercial electronic messages via email, social networking accounts and text messages, as well as to combat false representations of products and services promoted online.

In the same vein, it must be clear from the context of the statement that the person making it intended it to be received as a truthful account and not a mere parody or satire which was intended to be understood as false.

With experience litigating both criminal and civil trials as well as appeals, Alan represents clients in matters such as pharmaceutical and medical device (criminal and civil investigations), False Claims Act litigation, antitrust cartel investigations, and tax and accounting fraud investigations.

Therefore, the High Court passed undertakings by which traders committed not to «create the false impression that the consumer has already won, will win or will on doing a particular act win, a prize or equivalent benefit, when in fact taking any action recommended by the [trader] in relation to claiming the prize or other equivalent benefit is subject to the consumer paying money or incurring a cost which is either: (a) a substantial proportion of the unit cost to the defendant of the provision to the consumer of the thing described as a prize or other equivalent benefit; or (b) in the case of a charge stated to be for delivery and insurance, used by the defendant to finance in whole or in part its acquisition, handling or other cost of the making available of that thing, other than the actual cost of its delivery to the consumer and insurance (if any) in transit» (account rendered by the CJEU in C - 428 / 11 at para 20, emphasis added).