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Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa's ex-wife accuses him in a million dollar lawsuit of committing adultery with ex-NYC Councilwoman and current Queens BP candidate Melinda Katz and funneling money to her during their marriage.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
Two Italian banks have proposed a deal to settle shareholder lawsuits as they try to raise billions of dollars to cover bad loans.
The use of dubious billion - dollar lawsuits to apply pressure on Alfa's partners — filed in remote regions of Russia by obscure private shareholders whose interests somehow overlapped perfectly with Alfa's — became a favorite calling card.
Billion - dollar lawsuits, in - your - face anti-smoking campaigns and rigid marketing restrictions have reduced the number of smokers to six million.
The move, which Denton confirmed on Monday via Twitter, will temporarily prevent Hulk Hogan, the professional wrestler whose real name is Terry Bollea, from collecting millions of dollars in damages he was awarded from Denton in an invasion - of - privacy lawsuit in May.
The lawsuits said the alleged offenses were committed over a four - year period and involved multiple individuals, including Malaysian officials and their associates, who conspired to fraudulently divert billions of dollars from 1MDB.
The largest U.S. student loan servicer, Navient (navi), cheated borrowers out of billions of dollars, often by deceiving them about repayment options and their legal rights, the U.S. consumer financial watchdog said on Wednesday as it announced a lawsuit against the company.
The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.
Thiel, who cofounded PayPal and sits on Facebook's board of directors, provided millions of dollars for Hogan's lawsuit and is apparently funding other cases.
«In the 50 years since the advent of modern day class action lawsuits, plaintiffs» lawyers have made millions of dollars in fees from these suits while consumers often receive little benefit,» the chamber said in a statement.
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.
«State attorneys general told five of the nation's largest banks on Tuesday they face a potential liability of at least $ 17 billion in civil lawsuits if a settlement isn't reached to address improper foreclosure practices» a «figure [that] doesn't cover additional billions of dollars in potential claims from federal agencies,» the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
The decision could help investors in several lawsuits in Manhattan seeking to hold banks liable for billions of dollars in damages for alleged price - fixing in U.S. Treasuries, commodities, currencies, derivatives and other rates.
Someone has to benefit from the tide of lawsuits coming at opioid manufacturers — particularly if drugmakers pay out a multibillion - dollar settlement.
The company «seems to believe» that the lawsuit should be pursued by individuals, not as a group, because «damages could amount to billions of dollars,» U.S. District Judge James Donato wrote in the ruling.
The trove of internal e-mails and employee interviews, filed as part of a lawsuit by one of the investors in the securities, offers a fresh glimpse into Wall Street's mortgage machine, which churned out billions of dollars of securities that later imploded.
In January, the CFPB dropped another lawsuit against four online payday lenders that allegedly stole millions of dollars from consumers» bank accounts to pay debts they didn't owe.
According to a United States lawsuit filed in July, hundreds of millions of dollars of the absconded funds were moved through bank accounts in Singapore and elsewhere.
Second is the fact that it went to the Trump Foundation — which came under scrutiny during the presidential campaign for its shady practices, specifically documents that showed Trump pulled about a quarter of a million dollars from the foundation's budget to settle lawsuits related to his business.
The attack has likely sharply lowered the price Avid Life could muster in any sale of assets, assuming it could find a buyer willing to take on a company facing several multi-million dollars lawsuits and the challenge of rebuilding a computer network that has been so badly infiltrated.
A New York City advocacy group for low - income and minority residents filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall for what it says are illegal and exploitative tactics that have cost the two named plaintiffs thousands of dollars in penalty fees it contends they shouldn't have had to pay.
In the intervening six years, Uber was busy dismantling the global taxi industry, brawling with regulators and politicians, fending off employment lawsuits, exploring self - driving car technologies, and raising billions of dollars.
: A new class - action lawsuit against Facebook for complaints of privacy violations is a «multibillion - dollar threat,» Bloomberg News writes.
Deutsche Bank to pay $ 6 mln to ex-exec over tradesDeutsche Bank AG agreed to pay former executive Colin Fan roughly $ 6 million to settle a lawsuit he filed over trades that bank lawyers concluded improperly earned him millions of dollars, according to people familiar with the settlement.
Corporations spend billions of dollars to attract and manage diversity both internally and externally, yet they still face discrimination lawsuits, and the leadership ranks of the business world remain predominantly white and male.
• The fiduciary rule: This will go into effect June 9 and requires anyone working with retirement dollars to act in the best interest of the client at all times, and be able to prove it, or face possibility of a lawsuit.
«The minor tweaks to CETA's investor - state provisions do nothing to stop foreign corporations from using the threat of billion dollar lawsuits to prevent governments from enacting socially or environmentally responsible measures,» said Larry Brown, co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.
«The minor tweaks to CETA's investor - state provisions do nothing to stop foreign corporations from using the threat of billion dollar lawsuits to prevent -LSB-...]
The company has a long history with lawsuits and paying billions of dollars in compensation.
A class - action lawsuit means the Facebook could be sued by millions of US users and the damages would cost the company billions of dollars if the company loses the case.
Shervin Pishevar, one of Kalanick's closest allies and a former board observer at the company, previously had promised a lawsuit for tens of billions of dollars should the proposal on voting changes be approved.
If we can get him to settle a class action lawsuit for offending all 300 million of it, we could win a dollar each!
And not to mention a man, that has a huge financial incentive to win a lawsuit for millions of dollars.»
And when she wins her civil rights lawsuit and is awarded millions of dollars, I'm sure the residents that tore it down will LOVE paying the special assessment all residents will be subjected to.
I do not believe and I can guarantee you that A) I've NEVER molested a child or person... unlike the Priests and other members of the cloth as you see lawsuits on an almost daily basis B) Help my fellow man with no questions asked or expectation of return C) Bilk millions of dollars from people who have so little all in the name of a God, then buy lavish homes and cars like they're owed it.
The inappropriate conduct of many priests, the emotional stress on the victims and the resultant billion dollars in lawsuits.
Since 2001, the LVPD and LVMPD has had to pay out $ 7.303 million dollars in settlements, restitution, and fines because of activities in their departments, 2 officers have been arrested, and they've had 5 lawsuits brought against them.
And then Julius Erving alone did what nine years of lawsuits and million - dollar bidding wars couldn't do: he merged the ABA and the NBA in 1976.
he is not in Ireland and is not a US citizen so that will definitely work against him.plus he sent 5 people to the hospital and could face at least 5 multi-million dollar lawsuits and 5 order of protections meaning he can in no way try to contact the 5 named or else violate his bond... his career is over and they will have his jail cell waiting for him...
the felonies alone can be up to 11 years... he will face up to 5 multi-million dollar lawsuits for the 5 that had to go to the hospital.he also has 5 orders of protection meaning he can in no way reach out to the 5 named or he violates his bond.when convicted he will be deported from the states and have visa problems in most countries as he will have a criminal record... now the incident at Bellator will come back to haunt his as it shows his thug mentality which may be ok in Ireland but not the rest of the world.
When my wife informed me when I visited that night I located the person in charge and told them that if they had of circumcised mt son that day they would have been slapped with a 1 Million Dollar lawsuit within 48 hours naming the Royal Brisbane Hospital and the pediatric surgeon as respondents.
The Cook County state's attorney's office filed a civil lawsuit last May that alleged Park District officials improperly obtained their offices, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.
But with the N.F.L. agreeing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit brought by about 5,000 former players who said the league hid from them the dangers of repeated hits to the head, a backpedaling league has corrected its lingo and hastily amended its methodology.
Look at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, and the court settlement there and the fact that to this day we still are owed billions and billions of dollars in education funding.
Schneiderman's critics accuse him of wasting taxpayer dollars on publicly funded lawsuits and investigations for political purposes.
A lawsuit filed by state AG Eric Schneiderman's office is seeking damages in the millions of dollars against those convicted in the dumping of 40,000 tons of contaminated debris at Roberto Clemente Park in Brentwood, Long Island.
New York hedge fund Alden Global Capital siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from one of America's largest news chains, a new lawsuit charges, damaging local news organizations to finance insider investment deals.
The lawsuit, against BP Plc, Chevron Corp, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, follows similar lawsuits filed last year by San Francisco and other California cities seeking billions of dollars in damages from rising sea levels due to climate impacts.
«The advocates who were so verbal and litigious during my tenure as a spokeswoman for city government are now so completely in bed with these failing leaders, they don't dare do the same negative press or file lawsuits which cost city taxpayers millions of dollars,» she wrote.
Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans, a Newsday review of public records shows.