Sentences with phrase «false statements led»

When it comes to defamation, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant's false statements led to financial loss.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI, the first Trump White House official to make a guilty plea so far in a wide - ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.

On May 3, 2013, the lead plaintiff filed a consolidated complaint alleging that, during that same period, all of the defendants violated Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Exchange Act and SEC Rule 10b - 5 (b) by concealing material information and making false statements related to Parent's acquisition of Autonomy and that certain defendants violated SEC Rule 10b - 5 (a) and (c) by engaging in a «scheme» to defraud investors.

Whitehead notes that «an old established metaphysical system gains a false air of adequate precision from the fact that its words and phrases have passed into current literature» (PR 13), leading to a «false» presumption of descriptive precision that assumes the obvious simplicity of the philosophical statements offered.

That investigation led to Gothard's resignation; however, the IBLP board of directors later found that Gothard had acted inappropriately but not criminally, and it critiqued the women's attorney for «us [ing] the media to propagate false and misleading statements» against current IBLP leaders.

(Jan. 31, 2012) The Humane Society of the United States released undercover videos taken at Oklahoma pig breeding facilities owned by two leading U.S. pork producers and filed legal complaints with the U.S. Securities and Exchange and Federal Trade Commission alleging false and misleading statements about animal care by one of the producers.

Don't lead with the false statement in the headline or the standfirst (the introductory paragraph), and don't succumb to false equivalence («Views on the shape of the Earth differ.»)

«Such statements about an agency that has helped millions of American consumers and achieved fundamental reform in a number of critically important areas of American commerce are categorically false, and should disqualify Mr. Mulvaney from leading the agency, even on an acting basis,» the letter states.

De Blasio defended his embattled NYCHA chair even after it was revealed she made a false statement in sworn testimony about the housing agency's lead scandal, saying: «You don't know she lied.

«Brian Madden held himself out to be an honest insurance broker who gave his clients a false sense of security by leading them to believe their property was protected against potential loss,» Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

The U.S. Attorney's office today announced that Mr. Sampson, who once led the Senate Democrats, is accused of «making false statements to FBI agents about directing members of his Senate staff to take actions to benefit a Brooklyn liquor store in which Sampson secretly held an ownership interest.»

«This decision has been taken following preliminary investigations conducted into the circumstances that led to the arrest of some sixty (60) Ghanaians, who had allegedly attempted to enter Australia by false pretences in the on - going 21st Commonwealth Games,» a statement from the presidency explained.

«This is a tantalizing discovery with a low chance of being a false alarm, but before we can start rewriting the textbooks, we'll need to see more bursts associated with gravitational waves from black hole mergers,» study lead author Valerie Connaughton, of the National Space, Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said in a statement.

The risk of continuing to base the argumentation on emission budgets is that they communicate a false certainty to society and policy makers leading to policies that seem to be based on scientifically derived probabilities, but are really just statements about what is possibly true.

H.L. Mencken also was prophetic in his statements «The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary» and «The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.»

The Heins law firm received a $ 103 million fee for its work as lead counsel in a nationwide class action suit against AOL Time Warner over false and misleading financial statements by AOL.

The problem is that if every overturning of a conviction required the courts to additionally declare the actual innocence of the accused, then (1) the courts would be required to make patently false statements (when actual guilt is clear, but the path to conviction was improper) which would be bad, and (2) the negative consequences of over-applying such a requirement for exoneration would no doubt lead to a serious decrease in the probability of any conviction being overturned on procedural grounds.

In my view, Ms. C's evidence that the accused showed her the Bosnian passport, in the name of Vujicic, at a Toronto hotel on December 24, 2003, is sufficient evidence to permit an inference that the accused was the person who made the false statements in Vienna that led to the issuance of the Canadian visa.

For example, if you were to make a false statement about a coworker that led to them being fired, you could be sued for financial damages.

In accordance with Section 45 of the Insurance Act, 1938, «No policy of life insurance effected before the commencement of this Act shall after the expiry of two years from the date of commencement of this Act and no policy of life insurance effected after the coming into force of this Act shall, after the expiry of two years from the date on which it was effected be called in question by an insurer on the ground that statement made in the proposal or in any report of a medical officer, or referee, or friend of the insured, or in any other document leading to the issue of the policy, was inaccurate or false, unless the insurer shows that such statement was on a material matter or suppressed facts which it was material to disclose and that it was fraudulently made by the policy - holder and that the policy - holder knew at the time of making it that the statement was false or that it suppressed facts which it was material to disclose:

I then began my research on «parental alienation,» which led me into the history of controversy surrounding Gardner and his proposals regarding false allegations of abuse that tore professional psychology apart, creating divisions within professional psychology, including his extremely distasteful professional statements about children's sexuality.

False or misleading statements in your application or profile or on your website or any other profiles or social media may lead to your removal from CPPIL with no refund of any fees paid.