Sentences with phrase «by 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.

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.

He calls the story of massive switching by iPhone fans every year a «false narrative,» noting that the fourth quarter — when Apple's new phones typically are on sale — accounted for just 26 % of customer defections the past few years.

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.

My point here is this, don't allow yourself to be lulled into a false sense of security by the promises of simple accounting software.

He acknowledged obstructing justice by creating a false cover story to blame his brother Bing Wang, who resides in rural China, for the insider trading and ownership of the Unicorn account.

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.

They were upset about land, and by creating this community, it gave them power... I can easily see historically how through the nature of man this religion formed... but, if one holds the Bible to be the account of the one true God and He speciifically states the word is God... and then goes on to say there will be false prophets... there you have it.

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)

By one account, the demons, the false chimeras, and the rest were real creatures banished by the coming of the Word; by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seeinBy one account, the demons, the false chimeras, and the rest were real creatures banished by the coming of the Word; by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seeinby the coming of the Word; by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seeinby the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seeinby a new philosophy, a better way of seeing.

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.

In this age of Twitter there were also the usual fake agents accounts popping up with false information, which was lapped up by the gullible fans, who then repeated the lies on sites like JustArsenal.

He also repeated the false claim, first made by his Vice President that some GHc 7 billion had not been accounted for by the NDC administration.

With a real debt of 6,800 billion, and that ignores bailing out the 50 % of the population with less than 5,000 in savings, its the real problem in the UK, caused by reckless spending and false accounting.

Since 2008, Talk of the Sound has published many, many reports on arrests and criminal convictions of school district employees, documentation (paper records, audio recordings and video tapes) demonstrating false statements by district administrators and school board members and accounts of all manner of unethical and illegal behavior of persons associated with the City School District of New Rochelle.

Tinubu, who was also a reviewer of the book was said to have been jolted by what he considered to be a false account of what actually transpired in the journey to have the APC defeat the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party government at the centre.

It said it was also false that a fresh N25 billion loan was applied for; saying that; «the only fresh loan taken by the government of Fayose was the N10 billion grant from the Excess Crude Account, which was released to all States for capital projects, N2.8 billion requested from Wema Bank to pay State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) counterpart fund out of which N1 billion has been accessed and N600 million for MDGs counterpart fund, which has been repaid.»

«Eric Illsley sentenced to a year in jail after his guilty plea to false accounting over his expenses Main A by - election is now due to take place in Leicester South»

«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.»

A false tweet from a hacked account owned by the Associated Press (AP) in 2013 sent financial markets into a tailspin.

NRC Handelsblad today reports that investigators are trying to establish whether Stapel defrauded the government by collecting grant money for research he did not carry out and made false statements in his accounts of how the money was spent.

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.»

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The local government of Hawaii did respond and get the false alarm shut down, but it took at least 40 mins by some accounts.

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.

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If you don't have a false bottom on your account and want to limit the number of transactions, it's a good idea to consider limiting the use of your debit card by withdrawing a large quantity of cash at the beginning of the month for use throughout the month.

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.

Some consumers are under the false impression that if credit is closed by the consumer it impacts them less than when the creditor closes the account.

A lot of traders get a false sense of hope by adding additional funds to their trading accounts or by just thinking that «this time will be different».

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«After refusing to engage in a dialogue, the protestors increased their aggressive techniques, by distributing further false information about us on anonymous social media accounts and bullying and threatening our staff and presenters, including people who are themselves part of vulnerable communities,» Owens wrote.

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).

If we were able to statistically model societal inaction on climate change, what proportion of the variance would be accounted for by the disinformation efforts of skeptics and false balance by journalists?

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.

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.

On no account should one be lulled into a false sense of security by the Court of Appeal decision in Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 19, which I wrote about in an earlier article.

The first defendant commissioner was investigating suspected conspiracy to defraud, false accounting and money laundering offences in the transfer activity of professional football players at the club managed by the first claimant and other clubs.

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).

However, in a speech by Alun Milford in March 2016, [46] he made it very clear that the SFO will view «false» or «exaggerated» claims to privilege as unco - operative, and notwithstanding his acknowledgement that a claim may be well founded, where a company discloses details of witness accounts it will be viewed as a significant mark of co-operation.

The announcement follows an SFO investigation into allegations of false accounting by Tesco Stores to inflate profits by # 263m.

The government's avowed determination to eradicate myths about supposedly true victim behaviour, in spite of there being no UK research evidence of a negative impact by such myths on the conviction rate, makes a stark contrast with their apparent insouciance about the potentially negative impact on the conviction rate as a cumulative result of potential jurors reading lurid media accounts of the exposure of false rape claims.

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Berlusconi is accused in the other two trials of tax fraud, false accounting and embezzlement in the acquisition of television rights by his Mediaset broadcasting empire.

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An all - too - familiar pet peeve for those who dutifully line up to get the newest and most promising flagship phone from a company: software and OS updates that take too long to reach customers, all the while becoming riddled with delays, snags, snafus and false promises that account to the disappointment companies incur by withholding release of updates.

The new Cyber Unit was launched by the SEC in September to focus on problems like ICO fraud, «misconduct» on the dark web, hacks aimed at stealing nonpublic information, intrusions into retail brokerage accounts, market manipulation schemes involving «false information spread through electronic and social media,» and cyber threats to market infrastructure like trading platform.

McLeod says Fortune's account of her time at Schwab is «false» but declines to offer any specifics, noting that she is bound by a confidentiality agreement with the company.

Steve Thomas, Franchise Manager for Lew Geffen Sotheby's International Realty in False Bay and Noordhoek, says: «Ironically, Cape Town's market strength is being boosted by the ever - growing number of upcountry investors who now account for up to 30 % of buyers in the most sought - after areas, with sales peaking during the summer holiday season.

Any records you have of clients» Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, and credit card information could be used by the unscrupulous to embezzle money or even create false identities for criminal purposes.