Sentences with phrase «for false statement»

«I hereby tender an unreserved and sincere apology to the Management of the College of Education, Gidan Waya, His Excellency the Governor of Kaduna State and the Kaduna State Government, and also to the people of Southern Kaduna and the Fulani community and also VANGUARD newspapers whose source was my driver for the false statement by my driver which I also publicized believing same to be true,» Maikori said in a statement on February 5.

In that sense, it's not unlike the legal test for a false statement, which requires a «willful disregard» for the truth.

He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of destroying evidence and eight years for each false statement count.

If a new report truly is a false statement of fact that causes harm to someone's reputation, and if the news reporter has no actual factual basis for the factual claim, the First Amendment does permit the courts to impose both civil and criminal liability for the false statements, with civil suits brought by someone who is harmed and criminal liability enforced by the government.

(b) The offeror understands that any inaccurate data provided to the Department of Transportation may subject the offeror, its subcontractors, its employees, or its representatives to: (1) prosecution for false statements pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1001 and / or; (2) enforcement action for false claims or statements pursuant to the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, 31 U.S.C. 3801 - 3812 and 49 CFR Part 31 and / or; (3) termination for default under any contract resulting from its offer and / or; (4) debarment or suspension.

So they needed to call out Jones for false statements.

The applicant is an officer who was charged with fraud under the National Defence Act for false statements related to expenses.

Canada v. Guindon, 2013 FCA 153 (35519) Under s. 163.2 of the Income Tax Act in the amount of $ 546,747, for false statements she made in the context of a charitable donation program, the Minister took the position Ms. Guindon participated in, assented to or acquiesced in the making of 135 tax receipts she knew, or would reasonably be expected to have known, constituted false statements that could be used by participants in the donation program to claim an unwarranted tax credit under the Income Tax Act.

(c) Factual error, content defamatory of official reputation, or both, are insufficient to warrant an award of damages for false statements unless «actual malice» — knowledge that statements are false or in reckless disregard of the truth — is alleged and proved.

The court found that the false statements made by Bowers on the disclosure statements could amount to fraud because they had agreed to allow the relocation company to share the statements with interested buyers and agreed to indemnify the relocation company for any false statements made by them in their disclosure statements.

Not exact matches

In particular, the complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that (1) the trials for GED - 0301 suffered from fatal design defects, such that GED - 0301 had failed to demonstrate meaningful clinical efficacy; (2) the growth of Otezla sales had dramatically slowed during Celgene's third fiscal quarter of 2017; and (3) the clinical and nonclinical pharmacology data in Celgene's new drug application («NDA») for Ozanimod were insufficient to permit a complete review by the FDA, which resulted in the FDA issuing a refusal to file letter to Celgene regarding the NDA.

National Public Radio, for example, said this week that it has chosen not to use the word «lie» in reference to the false or inaccurate statements that President Trump makes because the intent behind those statements can not be known.

In other words, they argue that you can only call a statement a lie if you know for a fact that the person who said it knew it was false — and that they did so in a deliberate attempt to deceive or mislead their audience.

Trump and his top aides have said the changes won't cut taxes for the highest earners, statements that are demonstrably false.

Flynn has been under investigation for a wide range of allegations, including lobbying work on behalf of Turkey, but the fact that he was charged only with a single count of false statements suggests he is cooperating with Mueller's investigation in exchange for leniency.

Ackman also said he could not be certain if people working for Global Strategy Group had not made false statements.

The IG's report accused Shulkin's chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, of potential criminal conduct by making false statements and altering a document so that the VA could «improperly» pay for Shulkin's wife to travel to with him, at a cost to taxpayers of $ 4,312.

The 67 - year - old lawyer served in the Bush administration from 2001 to 2005, but resigned after he was indicted by a grand jury on five counts for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to the FBI.

The CEO is suing HP for $ 150 million in damages accusing the company of making false and negligent statement about him.

Austin was eventually kicked off the football team while two other UNC football players were suspended for receiving illegal benefits and initially making false statements during the investigations.

In response to Fortune «s request for comment, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung sent a campaign statement saying, «These outlandish, unsubstantiated, and totally false claims fabricated by publicity hungry, opportunistic, disgruntled former employees, have no merit whatsoever.»

In a terse decision, Judge Gregory A. Presnell of the United States District Court in Orlando rejected the former workers» arguments that Disney and the two contractors had colluded to make false statements when they applied for temporary visas, known as H - 1B, for the foreign replacements.

I am writing in connection with the false and defamatory statements you and your client, Stephanie Clifford a.k.a. Stormy Daniels, made on 60 Minutes this evening regarding Mr. Cohen, namely that he was responsible for an alleged thug who supposedly visited Ms. Clifford, while she was with her daughter, and made an alleged threat to Ms. Clifford.

A lawyer for Melania Trump said news organizations had made «false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an «escort» in the 1990s.»

In an email, the lawyer, Charles J. Harder, said Ms. Trump, the wife of Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, «has placed several news organizations on notice of her legal claims against them, including Daily Mail among others, for making false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an «escort» in the 1990s.»

Giuliani's statements open Trump up to new liability for campaign finance violations and potentially for submitting a false financial disclosure form.

He could also face censure or even disbarment for making Daniels sign a false statement denying the affair under the New York Lawyer's Code of Professional Responsibility, which states, «In the representation of a client, a lawyer shall not... Knowingly make a false statement of law or fact.»

Accordingly, notwithstanding receipt of the IRS private letter ruling and / or opinions of counsel or other external tax advisors, the IRS could determine that the distribution and certain related transactions should be treated as taxable transactions for U.S. federal income tax purposes if it determines that any of the facts, assumptions, representations, statements or undertakings that were included in the request for the IRS private letter ruling or on which any opinion was based are false or have been violated.

In re HP Securities Litigation consists of two consolidated putative class actions filed on November 26 and 30, 2012 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleging, among other things, that from August 19, 2011 to November 20, 2012, the defendants violated Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Exchange Act by concealing material information and making false statements related to Parent's acquisition of Autonomy and the financial performance of Parent's enterprise services business.

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.

The New York Insurance Law defines a «misrepresentation» as a false statement «as to past or present fact, made to the [insurance company] by, or by the authority of, the applicant for insurance or the prospective insured, at or before the making of the insurance contract as an inducement to the making thereof.»

The regulator said this form of fraud is easier to implement than ever before, with mobile chat groups and internet message boards becoming the go - to method for disseminating false or misleading statements about a particular asset.

He was charged for making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.

As the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Comey prosecuted Stewart in 2003 for making false statements to federal investigators, among other charges, related to a stock trading case.

In a statement, it wrote that «any allegations of disregard for consumers who need these lifesaving drugs, government officials, regulators or any other of our valued stakeholders are patently false and wholly inconsistent with the company's culture, mission and track record of delivering access to medicine.»

The Trump adviser in question is George Papadopoulos — a foreign policy adviser to the campaign who, it was revealed in a document unsealed Monday, had been arrested back in July for making false statements to the FBI, and now appears to have made a deal to cooperate with Mueller's probe into Russian interference.

3) Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chair, was indicted in October in Washington, DC on charges of conspiracy, money laundering, false statements, and failure to disclose foreign assets — all related to his work for Ukrainian politicians before he joined the Trump campaign.

Token issuers who make misleading statements may be liable for breach of contract, false advertising, and fraudulent or negligent inducement, to name just a few claims.

The exchange then asked the company for more details in order to ensure there were no misleading or false statements.

Unfortunately in the modern world it is all too common for people to make outrageous statements which can easily be checked and discovered to be entirely false.

The statement that seminary buildings are built on public school property or in any manner paid for by government funds is totally false.

But taken in an exclusive sense the statement would be false; for this self - communication does not take place only in the sacraments and the liturgy.

I use the word limitations rather than mistakes, for none of the biographer's statements seems to me false.2 What I miss in the book is awareness of some intellectual advances during the century or more between the end of Darwin's career and the publication of this biography.

Writing for The Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick acknowledged that the Pope said appropriate things at Yad Vashem and the Wailing Wall but added that «his statements ring hollow and false in light of his actions.»

So then Mark made no mistake, while he thus wrote down some things as he remembered them; for he made it his one care not to omit anything that he heard, or to set down any false statement therein.

He maintained that for a statement to be either true or false — and thus, for it to have any meaning at all — it must be verifiable.

It would be possible in itself to do that, without asserting anything totally false thereby, because nothing would have been asserted excepted that «there is nothing but being», and that «regarding absolutely anything that can be thought of, at least some statement can be made, common to and valid for all beings».

According to the statement from U.S. attorney, Thornton diverted funds for personal use by submitting false vendor invoices and personal expense bills to be reimbursed by the school.

God is a fool if he thinks you are either with him or against him... that is truly a false, ignorant statement by men.I am not against any gods, I simply do not believe they exist, so I can not be for or against.

But, of course, we can not say that Christian values (or virtues) are better than, for example, Kurtz's «democratic secular humanist values» unless we believe ethical statements are factual statements and are either true or false.