Sentences with phrase «cheated out of millions»

Regina (Newton) returns home from vacation to find her husband Charlie murdered and three violent strangers claiming Charlie cheated them out of millions.

Sen. Jack Martins, a Long Island Republican who received nearly $ 38,000 from the catering industry, is pushing a bill to squash lawsuits from restaurant workers who claim they were cheated out of millions in tips.

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The class action suit contends that Microsoft cheated the plaintiffs represented — roughly 8,630 women engineers and IT specialists — out of 518 promotions and between $ 100 million and $ 238 million in pay between 2011 and 2016.

Both metropolitan areas have said, for example, that short term rentals procured through Airbnb and VRBO are essentially against the law, as they cheat cities out of millions of dollars of tax revenues, but also because they aren't regulated the way hotels are, and could be fire traps or have other safety considerations about which hapless customers are not likely to be aware.

A U.S. judge approved the lawsuit, which claims that an artist was cheated out of possibly millions of dollars from the sale of the brand's pet toys she designed.

Federal jurors in Philadelphia in January 2008 convicted Crim and two associates in a plot to have investors use phony trusts to cheat the IRS out of roughly $ 10 million in tax revenue.

Instead, millions of people through the centuries have cunningly «sought little by little to cheat God out of Christianity, and have succeeded in making Christianity exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.»

i agree andy but its not just the 4 years of hard work that should be taken into account, firstly the fai hav missed out on millions at a time where money is already tight, and more importantly the fact that given, kilbane, o shea, dunne, duff, whelan and keane may be too old when the next one comes around and for a professional footballer to hav a chance to represent his country on the biggest stage of all taken away in this manner is cruel, there can be no argument against technology when there is so much at stake as for henry being labelled a cheat i do not agree as it came at him so quick and although he in fact handled it twice i do not believe it was pre-meditated like maradonnas effort or that disgusting dive by anelka at 0 - 1... can any1 who watched the game live please tell me how lass diarra stayed on the pitch let alone avoided a yellow??

I'm guessing it would be mostly women who would do that; women seek divorce much more than men do, fewer women don't have custody (2.4 million out of 8.6 million single moms, but that's approaching the number of single dads, 2.6 million) and they seem to face less public scrutiny or at least less outrage than cheating men do.

«These technology contracts represent wholesale mismanagement on multiple levels, basically cheating taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars,» Stringer said.

ALBANY — The state during the first half of 2017 recovered a combined $ 5.3 million that thousands of employees on public works projects were cheated out of by their private employers, the Daily News has learned.

The state during the first half of 2017 recovered a combined $ 5.3 million that thousands of employees on public works projects were cheated out of by their private employers.

Tens of thousands of people cheat the state out of an estimated $ 150 million every year through unemployment insurance fraud, including prison inmates, people who were on overseas vacations when they applied for benefits and people who had «off the books» jobs but claimed to be jobless.

First up is the news that Britain's biggest bank HSBC, helped cheat the Treasury out of millions of pounds of tax while Conservative peer and former trade minister Stephen Green was at the helm.

But it wasn't until April, when a state investigation found NYRA officials knowingly cheated bettors out of $ 8.5 million by failing to reduce the legally set track «take - out,» that the effort was successful.

The guy who shamed himself out of office for cheating on his wife with prostitutes competing against the dude he once sued for getting his friends to craft him an absurd $ 140 million compensation package.

NEW YORK (AP / WCBS 880)-- A political operative who worked on the election bids of prominent New York Republicans was convicted Friday of cheating Mayor Michael Bloomberg out of $ 1.1 million, ending a case that has put a spotlight on the billionaire mayor and the inner workings of his campaigns.

Thirty - three underpaid workers did ironwork at 11 city schools and the Queens Museum New York, NY — On Monday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer presented checks to immigrant workers who were cheated out of nearly $ 1 million in wages -LSB-...]

Today the Albuquerque Democrat stands accused, along with three others, in an alleged scheme to cheat the state out of more than $ 4 million in the construction of the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court House.

Nojay was sued in 2014 by a Cambodian dentist who claimed that the assemblyman cheated her out of $ 1 million.

«New Yorkers are literally getting cheated out of tens of millions of dollars in public space — and the city is willfully choosing to do nothing about it,» Stringer said.

This is an insider's view, with people doing their jobs and cheating their consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in hotel conference rooms, on the golf course, and over a cup of coffee in indifferent tones that suggest they might as well be small - talking about their latest golf game or how their family is doing.

Three years later, she was cheated out of nearly a million euros by a known conman whom she was intending to cast in a film.

This is the proposal aggressively pushed by a governor who is billions of dollars behind the state's constitutional obligation to fund public schools equitably, who continues to use accounting tricks to cheat school districts out of millions of dollars owed under the already inadequate funding in the state budget, who has restricted districts from increasing revenue locally without a super-majority, and then has the nerve to blame strangled school districts for not raising test scores.

The D.C. school system has already had to pay out millions of dollars to teachers illegally fired by Rhee, and once the test score cheating scandals have been resolved, there will be certainly be many more.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A financial advisor and a racecar driver have been convicted in New York of cheating National Hockey League players and other victims out of millions of dollars.

[40] In 2009, a deal that Gagosian Gallery had struck to buy $ 3 million in gold bricks for Burden's work One Ton, One Kilo [41] was frozen when it turned out that the bricks had been acquired from a Houston - based company owned by financier Allen Stanford, who was later charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission [42] and sentenced to 110 years [43] in prison for cheating investors out of more than $ 7 billion over 20 years in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history.

This afternoon, Bloomberg reports that Dreier was charged by federal prosecutors with attempting to cheat hedge funds out of more than $ 100 million.

Recently Mr. Sinins obtained a $ 20 million verdict on behalf of five workers who claimed that a co-worker cheated them out of their share of a Mega Millions lottery jackpot.

This judgement follows several years of divorce proceedings between the couple, where the wife, a City energy trader earning # 10.5 million in bonuses in five years, finally found out her husband was cheating during the initial divorce proceedings in 2015.

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Some of us have committed rape, beaten children, tattooed swastikas on our bodies, abused animals, bilked the government out of millions of tax dollars, lied under oath, cheated on previous spouses, dishonored our fathers and mothers, failed to keep the Sabbath holy, mowed down pedestrians in our SUVs while intoxicated, coveted our neighbor's stuff, gotten ourselves put on death row, sold military secrets to the Chinese, urinated in public places, beaten up people who looked or sounded different than us, but we're straight.