Sentences with phrase «charges against corporations»

Republicans may rage at the CEOs who appear before them, but they haven't given the Justice Department enough funding to pursue criminal charges against corporations and executives who violate the law.

Not exact matches

Under what circumstances is it appropriate to lay criminal charges against a publicly listed corporation for the actions of its employees?

On 15 Feb 2018 the first criminal cartel charges against an Australian corporation were laid, as well as the first criminal cartel charges against individuals.

«This is the first criminal charge laid against a corporation under the criminal cartel provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act,» ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said.

Mr. Dasuki, who was arraigned before Justice Sani Yusuf, alongside a former director of finance at the office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, and a former Group General Manager of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Aminu Kura, and two firms, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Reference Hospital, had on Monday filed for bail after pleading not guilty to the 19 - count charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

«George Amedore has blocked raising the minimum wage, led the charge against fair pay for women and supported corporations that outsource jobs from our community.

CSEA filed improper practice charges with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) against the state Thruway Authority and Canal Corporation.

The development corporations have become more transparent in the face of the filing of corruption charges against Alain Kaloyeros, who directed the two organizations until his indictment last fall.

After criminal charges against Kaloyeros and Percoco were unsealed in September, Cuomo declared the Utica fab — and SUNY Poly's other upstate projects — would be transferred to the Empire State Development corporation.

Bob Megna, a longtime state government hand, told reporters that the Fort Schuyler and Fuller Road management corporations have already been sufficiently reorganized after last year's criminal charges against former SUNY Poly President Alain Kaloyeros and executives at several construction companies.

Bob Megna, president of the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations, told POLITICO that the nonprofit offshoots were doing the best they could and shouldn't be measured against promises made by former SUNY Poly president Alain Kaloyeros, who was forced from his position by state and federal bid - rigging charges.

The first Defendant (Badeh) pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him, while the court relied on Section 478 of the Criminal Justice Act to enter a «not guilty» plea for the second defendant which is a corporation.

If they depreciate in a corporation, that depreciation charge is accounted for against income and it's not a big deal — the company just distributes the cash that it can based on retained earnings which accounts for depreciation expense.

If you charged a non-profit corporation $ 100 (say) and declared that as income and then turned around and made a charitable donation of $ 25, that $ 25 is a charitable donation against the $ 100 income.

Liability coverage does not apply to any assessment charged against you as a member of an association, corporation or community of property owners.

Instead of fighting the charges directly, the company dissolved, pleaded «no contest,» and argued that no assets could be seized to make restitution to the Hawaiian Humane Society because, defense attorney Jason Burks contended, «In a criminal case against a corporation, the sentences are limited to probation, fines and restitution, and then the court can prohibit the corporation from owning animals.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Public Service Company of Oklahoma filed a 23 - page exceptions report Feb. 23 in response to an Oklahoma Corporation Commission administrative law judge's recommendation earlier this month against pre-approval of PSO's request to allow the company to charge ratepayers to help fund the project.

An ethics professor thinks corporations that challenge climate dogma should be charged with a new kind of crime against humanity.

A Fortune 100 corporation in criminal bribery investigations, through the acquittal at federal jury trial of two former executives, with no charges against or settlement by the company

As with prosecutions under the OHSA against a corporation, multiple charges can be commenced against an individual in relation to the same event.

Lessig believes that it is the first to accuse a literary estate of «copyright misuse»; the charge is usually levelled against corporations in patent disputes.

No firms gain more by dragging out litigation than the big firms because they have the clients with the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars of capitalization who can afford, with the help of the taxpayer, to pay the astronomical fees they charge for as long as it takes to take on similar corporations similarly represented, or to squash the little guy (which is why FCT has McCarthy's on retainer and Stewart has Borden's on retainer — the given real estate file / title insurance claim is small potatoes but the title insurers make it dead obvious that if you sue them, you will up against a Big Firm.

Ultimately the corporation hired a contractor to install netting on the owner's balcony and clean the balconies below, and then charged the owner the costs incurred as common expenses chargeable against her unit.

Part 8C, introduced in October 2015, imposes a charge to corporation tax at the rate of 45 % on restitution interest (essentially, compound and other interest awarded against the Crown in claims for restitution of unlawfully levied tax or tax paid under a mistake of law) arising to a company.

$ 1.00 per month per voting unit assessed against condominium corporations — this fee is intended to cover the cost of delivering the above - described services and will be ultimately charged to condominium owners.

In the second case, if certain specific offences are committed (in particular money laundering, corruption in the private or public sectors, criminal organisation, etc), charges can be brought against the company irrespective of the criminal liability of any individual, provided the corporation failed to take all reasonable organisational measures that were required in order to prevent such an offence.

«With fines of half a million or more we will likely see more challenges to the charges brought against a corporation, but I think that's the good news — the deterrent value of fines will certainly come into play and induce developers before they do work to make sure it will not prejudicially affect commercial, aboriginal, or recreational fishers.»

In any case, full compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act duties and requirements should provide organizations and corporations with a strong defence against a charge of criminal negligence.

The appeal judge rejected all of those arguments because the employer was a «substantial corporation» (two facilities with a total of 770 people) that was «within a broader group of companies»; the employer had been found guilty on three charges under the OHSA; it was proper to consider the prior conviction (which was in 2004); and the harm to the injured worker was «devastating»: he was rendered a paraplegic when a robot on which he was doing a «quick fix» pressed against him on his back.

As a business owner, you can protect your personal assets from any liability charges that may be levied against your company by setting it up as an LLC or a corporation.

When you set up your business as an LLC or a corporation, you protect your personal assets from any liability charges that may be levied against your company.

Some new business owners believe that because they set their business up as an LLC or a corporation, they are automatically protected against liability charges.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed its first - ever charges against a Bitcoin investment corporation.

25 DOS 97 Matter of DOS v. Costello - amendment of pleading to conform to the proof; proper business practices; failure to pay judgment; pleadings may be amended to conform to the proof so long as an issue has been fully litigated and is closely enough related to the stated charges that there is no surprise or prejudice to the respondent; broker conducting business under name other than on license demonstrates incompetency; failure by broker to satisfy judgment demonstrates untrustworthiness; broker may be held liable for failure to satisfy judgment against corporation where broker controls the corporation; $ 750 fine and license suspension until judgment satisfied