Sentences with phrase «fee awards schemes»
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware On Wednesday, I blogged about high entry fee awards schemes.
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The scheme provided SILVER with two different streams of unlawful income: (i) approximately $ 700,000 in kickbacks SILVER received by steering two real estate developers with business before the state legislature to a law firm with which he was associated, and (ii) more than $ 3 million in asbestos client referral fees SILVER received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg.
Discussing awards schemes open for self - published authors, Ross said that there are manyf schemes starting up that are «problematic» as they are simply «money - making schemes» that charge high entry fees, ahve self - appointed judges and «offer nothing in the way of anything useful.»
The Better Business Bureau, one of the country's best known consumer watchdog groups, is being accused by business owners of running a «pay for play» scheme in which A plus ratings are awarded to those who pay membership fees, and F ratings used to punish those who don't.
These include a variety of increases in award prices, a new variable scheme to replace Standard awards and new redeposit fee rules.
To encourage suits under this scheme, the defendant would be required to pay a fixed $ 10,000 award to the named plaintiff as well as the plaintiff's attorney's fees.