Sentences with phrase «for false accounting»

The quartet of parliamentarians were charged with 13 charges under section 17 of the Theft Act 1968 for false accounting.

Former Labour MP Elliot Morley has been jailed for 16 months for false accounting over his parliamentary expenses.

Scunthorpe MP Elliot Morley has been charged with two offences under section 17 of the Theft Act 1968 for false accounting.

On the contrary, the bank executive most responsible for the false accounts debacle departed from Wells back in 2016 with a tidy $ 67 million in severance pay.

Not exact matches

Essentially, Stumpf's argument is that he accepts responsibility for the scandal, but that senior executives did not create a culture that encouraged the type of behavior that led to employees opening 2 million false accounts.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

He calls the story of massive switching by iPhone fans every year a «false narrative,» noting that the fourth quarter — when Apple's new phones typically are on sale — accounted for just 26 % of customer defections the past few years.

Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.

Wells Fargo asked a Federal District Court to block a class - action suit after its false account scandal, a common practice for companies.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

He acknowledged obstructing justice by creating a false cover story to blame his brother Bing Wang, who resides in rural China, for the insider trading and ownership of the Unicorn account.

I am so sorry that you have been told / taught such awful things about Jesus, but whether or not you believe He is fully man and also fully God, there is more than enough proof historically and in present scripture to show that labeling Him as a mysogonist and an advocate for murder is a drastically false account of who He is and what He stood for.

That is, if Wilson's purely functionalist explanation of religion were to become widely accepted by religious people, it would then be rendered false» for the adaptive features of religions depend, on Wilson's account, upon religious people thinking it false that their religions are best understood as adaptive social organisms.

He says Hes got the facts... I doubt It and im sure the had the standard 24 hour clock format or the ability to account for daylight savings time was a part of everyday culture... I see this is one last shot at fame for an 89 year old FALSE PROPHET

orse than these fallacies is that Beck's theory fails to account for the majority of false abuse allegations.

Teesside Crown Court heard that did not prevent him from posting on a new account a false apology for being a «white Christian who has values for life».

And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.

I suspect that such sentiment accounts for much of the theologically naive approval of Dr. Benke's participation within LCMS circles, but it distracts us from the real issues, from the life or death question which we must finally face: How does a Christian presence distinguish itself from the false gods at such an event?

What's wrong with being glad that a false prophet, a man that stuffed his bank account with righteous dollar bills, a man who preyed on weak minded people for his own financial benefit and the chance to stroke his own ego, was nearly killed?

A person may be irresponsible, of course, in the sense that he lacks the true qualifications of a self, but if he has freedom or the ability to answer he may be morally irresponsible in the sense that he refuses to give account to those to whom he owes an answer for common goods, or in the sense that he offers a false account for the things entrusted to him.

Sometimes Christian believers themselves are responsible for giving a false impression or deficient account of their faith, and indeed they may give scandal to others that create barriers to belief.

On the other hand, by taking account in Critique et Religion of previous attempts at synthesis, he allows for the point about what may already be considered as dismissed and for the elimination of a certain number of false ideas which would compromise the research to which his books invite us.

An account of the day Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile: «There was ham salad for lunch, a shower of rain at 5.15 pm, a gusting wind, a false start, and then history... It is 60 years today since that iconic moment on the crunchy, uneven, gravel track at Iffley Road, Oxford... Bannister was 25, a medical student, and he was running in the annual Amateur Athletic Association v Oxford University Athletic Club match.»

The report claims hackers posed as Feyenoord in an email and gave Lazio the details for the false bank account they set up, which has ended up costing the club dearly.

Haigh resigned as Managing Director of the Elland Road club last year, and has now been accused of some staggering cases of fraud, involving printing false invoices for large sums of money to be transferred into his bank account from various companies that Gulf Finance House (GFH) had done business with.

He also repeated the false claim, first made by his Vice President that some GHc 7 billion had not been accounted for by the NDC administration.

The LibDem accounts (for understandable reasons of party cohesion) are over-spun; some are false.

Dell Smitherman, a former Local 1199SEIU political director, filed petitions with 4,000 signatures — four times the number required to get on the ballot — to take on Sampson, who was indicted for allegedly stealing from housing escrow accounts and making false statements.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo cast blame on the state comptroller for not catching the false titles, but also said that any discussion of reforming the lulu system should account for the lawmakers» $ 79,500 salary.

He allegedly devised false memo lines for each payment to escape detection, endorsed the checks to himself, and cashed these checks or deposited them into his personal bank account.

Gajewski forged documents for false expenses to support checks, which he deposited into his personal bank account.

It said it was also false that a fresh N25 billion loan was applied for; saying that; «the only fresh loan taken by the government of Fayose was the N10 billion grant from the Excess Crude Account, which was released to all States for capital projects, N2.8 billion requested from Wema Bank to pay State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) counterpart fund out of which N1 billion has been accessed and N600 million for MDGs counterpart fund, which has been repaid.»

Eric Illsley, the MP for Barnsley Central, has just pleaded guilty to all three charges of false accounting relating to more than # 14,000 of his parliamentary expenses claims, reports the BBC.

Today the Crown Prosecution Service has announced that Lord Taylor Taylor has been charged with six counts of false accounting under the Theft Act, relating to claims for more than # 11,000 overnight subsistence and mileage.

But in the IPCC's own report into the incident, issued on Tuesday, the police watchdog called for a panel to determine whether the officers had given a false account after a transcript showed that Mitchell had outlined in some detail the circumstances of the Downing Street incident.

The MP, who was due to stand trial at Southwark crown court, today changed his plea to guilty, admitting three charges of false accounting relating to claims for repairs, utility bills, council tax and house maintenance between 2005 and 2008.

Nick Clegg has said that Andrew Mitchell is right to feel «pretty sore» about his treatment at the hands of three police officers who called for him to resign as chief whip last year after allegedly providing a false account of a meeting.

Accuracy — sourcing or redistributing false information from social media without sufficient fact verification — was the most frequently raised topic and accounted for 17.8 percent of the total sentences studied.

Adjustments made to alpha levels (e.g., Bonferroni correction) or other procedure used to account for multiple testing (e.g., false discovery rate control) should be reported.

NRC Handelsblad today reports that investigators are trying to establish whether Stapel defrauded the government by collecting grant money for research he did not carry out and made false statements in his accounts of how the money was spent.

Simons is working with the U.S. Geological Survey — in charge of the amphibian monitoring — to account for these false positives, and to better train the volunteers — so they don't write down «chorus frog» [Chorus Frog sound] when all there really was were pickerel frogs.

After accounting for false positive events, we infer the presence of 955 (2002 - 2003) and 386 (2007) events we identified as flares.

A promising exoplanet candidate w... ▽ More As is the case for all techniques involved in the research for exoplanets, direct imaging has to take into account the probability of so - called astrophysical false positives, which are phenomena that mimic the signature of objects we are seeking.

You must adjust the data to take account of this, or they may give you the false impression that competition raises the demand for high - aptitude teachers.

One process for creating the necessary conditions is reported in From Fear to Facebook, the first - person account of one California principal who endured a series of false starts to finally arrive at a place where students in his school were maximizing their use of laptops and participatory technologies without the constant distractions of misuse (Levinson, 2010).

We think of sock - puppet reviews as those written by someone using multiple accounts set up under false names for the purposes of generating numerous positive reviews of his own work, or scathing reviews of a competitor's work.

To mask the truth, Lanzana and Masanko sent false customer account statements and false tax documents to their clients and also posted false monthly account statements to their companies» websites showing balances in excess of $ 800,000 for a forex trading account that, of course, did not exist.

It is possible to apply for a payday loan without committing identity theft but still provide false or doctored information such as fake checking account documents or employer information to be verified using known false contacts.