Sentences with phrase «by shady deals»

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Along with the cheap fabrication of art, there was a smattering of drug use, one - night stands, shady financial deals and egos run amok by artists who would jump on stage, flip on a switch and «praise the Lord,» often giving canned speeches between songs that drove soccer moms to the merch table to pick up an album so their kids could have «positive role models.»

The report — which outlined how some de Blasio administration officials were complicit in the shady deal — noted how DOI's probe was «hindered» by the city's Law Department refusal to hand over documents or allow access to City Hall computers.

The probe of the controversial sale of a Lower East Side AIDS care facility has now been joined by the state attorney general's office, amid new allegations the nursing home behind the shady deal blatantly lied to the community.

The presidency, according to a high level source at the Flagstaff House, is now awaiting the outcome of separate investigations by the Bureau of National Investigation, EOCO, National Security, and the Ghana Police Service into some suspected shady deals involving Mr Boateng Aidoo and his companies to determine the way forward.

De Blasio is facing several investigations by state and federal authorities, including probes into his fund - raising, the NYPD and a shady Lower East Side land deal.

Demonstrators cited several shady deals exposed by The Post, including allegations that the Toll Brothers development company — which gave $ 50,000 to Mayor de Blasio's Campaign for One New York — was allowed to build above height limits in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

The comptroller's report comes on the heels of a separate probe by the city's Department of Investigation, which concluded that top city officials knew or should have known about the shady land deal — and worked to stop it.

It's a moral conflict expertly conveyed by Ejiofor, who, whether delivering stern lessons to his police officer student and friend Joe (Max Martini) or dealing with a host of shady businessmen (including Mamet regulars Rickey Jay and Joe Mantegna), smartly expresses his character's staunch conviction with hints of sorrow born from the recognition that devotion to his «code of the warrior» and its rituals inevitably means pain for himself and those he cares about.

Forced into a shady drug deal by her unscrupulous boyfriend, Lucy soon finds herself in a dingy holding cell in Taipei with a dangerous and unstable new drug sewn into her stomach, forced into servitude as a drug mule by a Korean kingpin (Choi Min - sik of

Turns out the development is a hazardous natural disaster waiting to happen.which was only built because of a shady land deal bartered by a crooked Congressman Long (John Goodman).

The always - topical documentary category is likely to keep its crown as the newsiest bracket at the Oscars by nominating not one, but two features about Syria — festival favorite City of Ghosts, acquired by Amazon in a $ 2 million deal, and Last Men in Aleppo, winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize — as well as Icarus, an investigation into Russia's shady doping program (which should get a boost from the news that Russia has been banned from the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics), and Jane, a lyrical look at pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall, who spent years battling a scientific community that refused to take her seriously.

Authors should monitor posts by A.C. Crispin, Victoria Strauss, and Richard White to Writer Beware (r) who's main job is to expose scams and shady deals foisted upon unsuspecting authors.

US financial watchdog the SEC has frozen $ 27m in what it believes are ill - gotten gains generated by a shady cryptocurrency deal.

Thousands lost their savings in the collapse of shady banks, part of a broader economic system plagued by insider dealing, mismanagement and inefficiency.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Saved a client from total wipeout by advising him to completely bail out of a shady company's stock just in time for its collapse in the stock market • Implemented a series of risk management procedures, which reduced client loss by 56 % • Researched a particularly lucrative shares deal which brought both company and clients a benefit of 71 % on their investments • Successfully trained 52 traders to handle clients» accounts, all of whom are now operating independently within the company

Half of real estate is learning how to deal with the punches, and I guarantee some contractors will piss you off by doing shady work, or being late with work, so there is more to come!