Sentences with phrase «by shell companies»

A program initiated by the U.S. Treasury is rooting out shady real estate purchases made by shell companies linked to potential criminals — and brokers can help.

The Park Laurel condo and the Beverly Hills home were owned by shell companies connected to Mr. Low's family before being transferred to shell companies tied to Mr. Aziz.

A condo at 23 East 22nd Street was purchased for $ 4.5 million in 2014 by a shell company called Cricklewood One Madison L.L.C. that listed Ai Swan Loo as its authorized signer, public records show.

The concept of an ex-CIA agent turned blue - collar guy trying to make a living but getting duped by a shell company and having to fight for the survival of he and his daughter seemed very interesting.

Its patent troll adventure started in May last year when it was sued by a shell company called Lumen View.

Not exact matches

It was opened partly in response to a n examination by The New York Times of condominiums at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan whose ownership is hidden behind shell companies, according to the people with knowledge of the case.

Supporters of the Senate's SOPA, lead by Hollywood, shelled out $ 118 million to support the draft legislation, eight times the measly $ 14 million contributed by opponents of the bill (which were mostly tech companies), according to campaign - finance tracking website MapLight.

However, the entities incorporated by CASPERSEN (the «Fake Funds») were merely shell companies created by CASPERSEN solely for the purpose of perpetrating his fraud scheme, and were in no way affiliated with or authorized by the Legitimate Funds.

Some UK shell companies under offshore control may be skirting new rules which were designed to clamp down on corruption and tax evasion by forcing businesses to reveal their true owners, a Reuters analysis of corporate filings shows.

Of 300 offshore shell companies identified by Reuters, 22 would typically have been required to have published the beneficial ownership information by now because their reporting dates fell in the weeks since July 1, when the rules came into force.

In 2005, the SEC adopted new rules designed to prevent pump - and - dump schemes by requiring shells to release financial records of acquired companies immediately after a merger.

First reported on by the CBC, the letter contained a string of major — and unsubstantiated — allegations, including that the company had been used to funnel money through shell companies to the Gadhafi family.

Unlike the 1980s vintage, these shells are created by experienced management teams that hope to acquire a private company and take it public using a process called a reverse merger.

The politician, Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat, was implicated in a scandal as a result of those leaked documents, which referred to shell companies set up by him and two other senior politicians in his administration.

This is a process in which companies enter an American exchange not by an initial public offering but by acquiring a shell company that is already publicly traded on the exchange.

Like paper - only shells, which enable the secrecy - minded to hide real ownership of assets, shelf companies are set up by firms like Wyoming Corporate Services, then left «on the shelf» to season for years.

The condo, then worth $ 1.65 million, was paid for under cover of a Panamanian shell company, according to a 1986 lawsuit filed in the U.S. by the Haitian government.)

He was introduced to a company called the «Go Public Institute,» operated by Michael Fearnow, which had a suitable shell called Desert Gateway.

In other words, Waymo is now alleging that Otto was only ever a shell company set up by Levandowski and acquired by Uber as a vehicle for gaining intellectual property stolen from Waymo.

Leading Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker was called a «liar» and a «fraud» by two rivals as the billionaire businessman's ties to secret offshore shell companies became the focus of the final forum of the campaign Wednesday night.

In 2010, a Senate committee investigating corrupt money moving into the country drew attention to a shell company used by the sister of the president of Gabon to buy a $ 2 million residence in Manhattan, and to an L.L.C. used by the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea to purchase a $ 30 million home in Malibu, Calif..

As of the moment, the company's popularity rests largely on hype fueled by celebrities such as Katy Perry and Ashton Kutcher shelling out the money for tickets on its first flight, rather than on actual achievement.

The firm is reportedly owned by two charities, both named Cihang, and controls a web of 16 listed entities and many more private shell companies.

As such, by limiting the currently available data as contained within the new law would make harder the already tedious «sifting through often - byzantine layers of shell companies and nominee shareholders to identify the true owners of certain assets,» and the ability for third parties to add information to the public sphere and marketplace of ideas is unnecessarily curtailed.

Apollo Power (formerly SolarPaint) became active on the stock exchange just over two months ago, after completing the merger of its solar energy activity (which has yet to generate revenue) into stock market shell company Or City Holdings, formerly controlled by Inbal Or.

The Prime Minister said London's property market must not be providing «a safe haven for corrupt money» used by «anonymous shell companies.»

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How much does an insurance company have to shell out after some years have gone by for treating fecal and / or urinary incontinence or prolapses in these women with their marathon labours and untreated perineal tears?

Through a secretive shell company, Michael Cohen, the president's personal lawyer, was paid by major corporations and a law firm for help navigating Washington in the Trump era after being shut out of a hoped - for top job with the administration.

The key issue mentioned within transparency was the use of shell companies by MNCs to manipulate expenses and profits to avoid tax.

In the other, Percoco is charged with taking $ 35,000 in bribes from the Syracuse based COR development company, paid through a shell company set up by another former Cuomo associate, lobbyist Todd Howe, who has already pled guilty to eight felonies and is expected to be a star witness in the trial.

He may have committed fraud and money laundering by using shell companies to buy property, including a Trump Tower apartment.

A SARs report by Spitzer's bank had allegedly touched off a federal investigation that revealed the governor patronized hookers peddled by an international criminal ring who laundered payments through shell companies.

Bernstein shows how shell companies operate, how they allow the super-wealthy and celebrities to escape taxes, and how they provide cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe.

Lipsky would then request Kruger take an official action in return for placing part of his fees into an account with what prosecutors described as a «shell company» nominally run by Turano.

Companies, unions and others with issues before governments and their agencies shelled out $ 240 million in lobbying fees in 2017, down $ 2.6 million from 2016, according to figures released by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Until tax havens are required to publish public registers showing who really profits from shell companies, the corruption and tax dodging revealed by the Panama Papers will continue undisturbed and millions of people in both the UK and the world's poorest countries will pay the price.

Prosecutors say the Syracuse developers paid Percoco bribes through a «shell company» set up by lobbyist Todd Howe.

Prosecutors say the alleged bribes were funneled to Percoco through a shell company controlled by Howe, the lobbyist.

Those bribes at times came through an intermediary, bank accounts and a shell company set up by Howe, a lawyer and lobbyist who first met Percoco and Cuomo while working for the future governor's father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Wills» then took a large chunk of that money by funneling it through his campaign which paid a «shell company named «Micro Targeting» $ 11,500 purportedly for the translation and distribution of campaign literature,» prosecutors said.

Through a secretive shell company, Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, was paid by major corporations for help navigating Washington in the Trump era.

This bizarre legal loophole allows essentially unlimited contributions to state political campaigns by allowing people to make contributions via an unlimited number of Limited Liability Corporations, or shell companies.

He is also accused of getting COR Development to funnel $ 35,000 in payoffs to him through a shell company set up by Howe, then performing official favors that included securing the release of $ 14 million in previously awarded state funds and scoring a «substantial raise» for Aiello's son, who worked in the Executive Chamber.

The Syracuse developers are accused of paying Percoco bribes, through a «shell company» set up by disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe, in three alleged schemes.

Percoco and Aiello were found guilty of using a «shell company» set up by disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe to funnel payments from Cor to Percoco in exchange for Percoco's influence in state government.

Prosecutors said Cor paid bribes to Percoco through a «shell company» set up by lobbyist Todd Howe, in exchange for favors in state government.

The bribes at times came through an intermediary, bank accounts and a shell company set up by Todd Howe, a lobbyist who first met Percoco and Cuomo while working for the future governor's father, Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Former top governor's aide Joseph Percoco is accused of accepting bribes from three business executives through a «shell company» set up by Howe.

The State is considering allowing private companies to begin drilling for natural gas in upstate New York, while the City is shelling out more than $ 630 million between now and 2017 on «filtration avoidance» by protecting the Cat / Del watershed, where 90 % of our water comes from.