Sentences with phrase «by illegal business»

Members of Congress have introduced legislation to destroy the CFPB, even though the bureau has provided financial justice for over 29 million consumers harmed by illegal business practices.

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Running illegal gambling operations, including recruiting people for foreign gaming junkets, was their main business, according to previously unreported court documents in China obtained by Bloomberg Markets as well as interviews with family members and former business partners.

Apparently it doesn't matter to Donald Trump that many businesses and citizens are outraged by his views about illegal immigrants.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

A study by the Business Software Alliance and IDC found that in 2009 China used the equivalent of US$ 7.6 - billion worth of illegal software, an increase of US$ 900 million over the year previous.

«As alleged, Ross William Ulbricht operated Silk Road — a global illegal cyber business designed to broker criminal transactions — protected by a presumed anonymity and motivated by profit.

The «key issue,» Mason says, «is whether the Department of Labor reproposal will, like the original proposal, render illegal the means by which low - and middle - income individuals and small businesses receive their investment assistance.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Of course there are instances where an anti-competitive business combination constructed as an ancillary restraint will survive antitrust tests, but this situation with the three incumbent consumer credit repositories looks like an illegal attempt to stifle competition — namely FICO — and create a vertical monopoly atop the existing horizontal data franchise shared by the three firms.

After all the recognition of the unlawful country has caused or forced by terror the wide immigrations of Jews from all over the world in to Israel and those stayed behind were and are still forced to pay an annual share in support of this country's illegal wars and who ever refuses to support will have to face unwanted bad business or accidents?

For Hispanics (and possibly even for Asians — among whom Romney did even worse than among Hispanics), the message was that Romney's love for business owners was exceeded only by contempt for immigrants (legal and illegal).

It is illegal for a business to make a claim, by words or images, that goods were grown, produced or made in a particular country when this was not the case.

Make it illegal for health insurance companies and businesses to offer family plan medical insurance but give seperate and unequal medical insurance to the spouse in the family plan by method of a spousal carve out.

«The choice for Republicans is clear: they can keep Richard Hanna, who votes to raise taxes, to extend U.S. debt to economically dangerous levels by voting with Obama, Reid and Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling while bankrupting our nation, or they can choose a commonsense Republican like me who has a proven record of voting to reduce taxes, voting against the implementation of Obamacare in New York, votes against funding an illegal database (including ammunition database) against legal gun owners, voting against increasing our debt ceiling in New York and supports countless initiatives to reduce the burdens of government red tape on individuals and small businesses, including family farms,» Tenney said.

Edwin said: «It is therefore appalling that BUA Group in the midst of these overwhelming facts will still want the public to believe that Dangote Group is after its business when in actual fact BUA has been the one mining illegally in Dangote Mining Lease and attacking its officials without any justification... The crocodile tears being shed by BUA in its cry for help and open letter to the President is most laughable and a total distraction from BUA's continuous illegal activities within Dangote's ML 2541 aimed at depleting and exhausting the limestone reserves in order to sabotage Dangote Group's legitimate investment.»

The NYT's Michael Barbaro follows his in - depth piece on Trump's empire (the facts of which he declined to debate with The Donald on CNBC) with a report that AG Eric Schneiderman is investigating whether a for - profit school founded by Trump has engaged in illegal business practices.

Asawase MP Muntaka Mubarak was the first to blow the whistle on what he viewed as illegal charges imposed on the businesses by the trade ministry.

Hundreds of Nassau businesses have filed lawsuits against the county in state court, contending hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines imposed on them by the county assessor are excessive and illegal.

Find out more about the measures being introduced by the government to tackle illegal working and how your business can prevent the exploitation of migrant workers at the CIOB's annual conference on 24 November, 2015 in London.

Chris will be joined by Home Office representatives who will give delegates detailed advice and practical examples of how to protect their businesses, projects and limit the abuse of illegal migrant workers.

ALBANY — Since the announcement of a deal to end their alliance with a renegade faction of Democrats, Senate Republicans are preparing to run against «ultra-liberal New York City radicals» who are working to empower «illegal immigrants» and stifle business, according to a set of talking points obtained by Capital that was distributed to Republican senators.

Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, told the Commons an email from Cook to Mark Prisk, the business minister, claimed that the loan — agreed by the last government — was «possibly illegal» under EU law.

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In Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), Kohn's subjects include a plastic surgeon whose practice is dominated by the victims of kidnappers who lost their ears to their captors; a political figure who uses his frog ranch as a cover for illegal business operations which have made him a multi-millionaire; and an auto customizer whose specialty is bullet - proofing luxury cars.

Cut to Chicago, home of the worldwide headquarters for the Engyne Corp., and if you guessed Engyne is headed by a megalomaniacal sociopath and is conducting all sorts of unethical, illegal and potentially catastrophic business, congratulations on having seen other movies, my friend!

Synopsis: In this riveting behind - the - scenes look at big business in the 1980's, an ambitious young stockbroker (Charlie Sheen) is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage when he is seduced by the power, status and financial wizardry of Wall Street legend Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas in his Oscar winning performance).

He runs an illegal business poisoning trees in the woods, yet appears to be a boss who is well - liked by the African - American laborers he picks up every morning in his pickup truck.

This «continuation» stuff is out of control Calling these 1967 cars and charging ludicrous prices for what are new imposters is misleading and borders on illegal With new chassis and power trains and «lifted» VINs they are still newly produced complete cars that do not meet current safety and EPA / CARB rules and are thus not to be sold by any company or business as complete cars

The owner of the store at Kunming though justified by saying all that they sell are original Apple products at Apple prices, has already got a business license and is not doing anything illegal.

The trouble caused by alcohol and illegal business is a theme that runs throughout the story.

Here's what it is: an illegal act by our country's highest valued business.

And publishers decided to fight back: not by reimagining the book business with new, innovative, profitable roles for themselves, but by marching in lockstep behind the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a baldly illegal and ultimately futile strategy to wield collusive power to save the past and block the future.

Online gambling, despite being a massive $ 28 billion business by one 2008 estimate, is entirely illegal.

It is not unusual (or illegal) for officers or employees of a business entity to be loaned money by the company they work for, so something of this nature wouldn't be an issue with regulatory agencies.

Let's put these puppy mills out of business by shutting down the illegal operators.

«Gibson has ceased acquisitions of wood species from Madagascar and recognizes its duty under the U.S. Lacey Act to guard against the acquisition of wood of illegal origin by verifying the circumstances of its harvest and export, which is good for American business and American consumers.»

Though the activists have attempted — falsely and improperly — to convey the impression that it is somehow illegal, immoral or damaging to the planet to vote for the Republican party's candidate in the forthcoming presidential election because he disagrees with the totalitarian position on the climate question that they espouse with such religious fervor and such disregard for science, in truth it is not the business of scientists to abuse the authority of their white lab - coats by collectively suggesting that «Science» demands the voters should or should not cast their vote in any particular direction.

But other justices also fretted that the millions of illegal downloads cited by the entertainment industry have created a business founded on illegality.

According to Dagne, business lobbyists want to make it illegal to reconstruct products using 3D printers, but consumer groups would argue 3D printing should be permitted for the purpose of repairing products, which is already permitted by the jurisprudence.

A recent critique of the bill by Peter Nowak in Canadian Business caught my attention because it reminded me that it's still illegal to publish a crime comic.

Bribery and other illegal business practices are still being used by companies to secure or retain business, a report on global fraud from Ernst & Young reveals.

Represented a private equity fund established to invest in Israeli businesses in connection with an investigation by the New York AG into illegal «pay to play» payments made by its former managing member.

Colorado's governor last month signed into law an «anti-troll» statute that makes illegal certain patent activities considered by many to be damaging to small businesses.

Advising businesses on the prevention of illegal working and successful reviews against civil penalties imposed by the Home Office.

Most residential leases and most zoning statutes in places zoned residential would not prohibit the use of a premises as a home office used only by the resident and an occasional visitor (assuming that the business activity was not itself illegal like drug dealing, money laundering, loan sharking, prostitution or pimping, etc.).

While the Court does not discount Plaintiffs» claim that, cumulatively, illegal downloading has far - reaching effects on their businesses, the damages awarded in this case are wholly disproportionate to the damages suffered by Plaintiffs.

Suicide, attempted suicide or any intentionally self - inflicted injury of you, a traveling companion, family member or business partner booked to travel with you, while sane or insane; an act of declared or undeclared war; participating in maneuvers or training exercises of an armed service, except while participating in weekend or summer training for the reserve forces of the United States, including the National Guard; riding or driving in races, or speed or endurance competitions or events; mountaineering (engaging in the sport of scaling mountains generally requiring the use of picks, ropes, or other special equipment); participating as a member of a team in an organized sporting competition or participating as a professional in a stunt, athletic or sporting event or competition; participating in skydiving or parachuting, parasailing, hang gliding, bungee cord jumping, extreme skiing, skiing outside marked trails or heli - skiing, mountaineering, any race, speed contests not including any of the regatta races, spelunking or caving, hot air ballooning, or scuba diving if the depth exceeds 120 feet (40 meters) or if you are not certified to dive and a dive master is not present during the dive; piloting or learning to pilot or acting as a member of the crew of any aircraft; being intoxicated or under the influence of any controlled substance unless as administered or prescribed by a legally qualified physician; the commission of or attempt to commit a felony or being engaged in an illegal occupation; normal childbirth or pregnancy (except complications of pregnancy) or voluntarily induced abortion; dental treatment (except as coverage is otherwise specifically provided herein); amounts which exceed the maximum benefit amount for each coverage as shown in the Schedule of Benefits; due to a pre-existing condition, as defined in the plan documents.

It wasn't long before he was indicted by the federal government and was incarcerated for running an unlicensed money transferring business and selling funds from an illegal online drug marketplace.

Real estate has always been an attractive destination to park illegal wealth in India and it still tops the list of businesses that have taken refuge in the virtual world where faceless and stateless cryptocurrencies are traded in exchange for handsome returns, according to brokers contacted by Sputnik.

Prospect Mortgage, LLC, a major mortgage lender, and two real estate brokerages have been ordered by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to pay more than $ 3.5 million in civil penalties and consumer compensation for participating in an «illegal kickback scheme» for mortgage business referrals.