Sentences with phrase «for illegal money»

He also further talked about the use of cryptocurrencies for illegal money laundering practices.

However, since Rousseff's impeachment, it is an ally in Temer's coalition and its lawyers are arguing that he was not responsible for the illegal money.

The Dec. 20 sentencing of Charlie Shrem, one of the digital currency's most vocal cheerleaders as vice-chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and chief executive of an exchange called BitInstant, to two years in prison for illegal money transfers doesn't help.

Not exact matches

The «Mad Money» host predicted that because of recent scandals, Wells Fargo might hesitate to show meaningful growth in its report for fear of regulators thinking it is using illegal tactics again.

(Before the rule change, it was illegal for private businesses to advertise that they were raising money in the U.S.)

Before today, it was illegal for any startup to publicly advertise that it was seeking to raise money.

Likewise, there is no auction record for 50.44 Bitcoins seized by the Secret Service in 2014 from a couple who ran an illegal drug and money - changing site under the name «JumboMonkeyBiscuit.»

«SoulCycle's expiration dates rob customers of their money, creating illegal profits for SoulCycle.»

This digital - currency trading platform provided an online black market for money laundering of illegal drugs, weapons and human trafficking and other nefarious offerings.

Instead, the code says that employees «are expected to be vigilant in ensuring» that company money isn't used for illegal or improper purposes.

This gap could be used for money laundering, or other illegal activity.

CNN Money reports that the officers discovered the illegal items when the driver had been pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt.

Those policies don't clearly outline what types of videos can be used to make ad money, but they do point out that YouTube wouldn't be liable for any illegal activity from the video owner.

When Helman was raising money for Realty Mogul's seed round in March, it was illegal to advertise that it was seeking funding on the company Twitter feed or Facebook page.

The exploratory research study, intended to advise authorities going forward, concluded that it was likely that the virtual currency had been used for illegal activities, including money laundering.

According to Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission who also appeared on 60 Minutes, the money may very well constitute «a coordinated, illegal, «in - kind» contribution by Cohen for the purpose of influencing the election.»

The document also notes the central bank's concern that these digital assets could be used for illegal purposes, including money laundering and the support of terrorism.

This makes Bitcoins a potentially good choice for tax evasion, money laundering and other illegal activities.

He said the bank is concerned bitcoin might be used for fraud or other illegal activities like terrorism, money laundering, prostitution, drug trafficking.

Due to its anonymity and untraceabilitiy, it is used for criminal activities such as laundering money, buying and selling illegal goods and services and transferring money to support criminal or terror activities.

While predatory pricing technically remains illegal, it is extremely difficult to win predatory pricing claims because courts now require proof that the alleged predator would be able to raise prices and recoup its losses.405 Revising predatory pricing doctrine to reflect the economics of platform markets, where firms can sink money for years given unlimited investor backing, would require abandoning the recoupment requirement in cases of below - cost pricing by dominant platforms.

«We have simply noted in conversation with Mr. de Voogd that without the registration required by the Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Act, offering financial service could be grounds for criminal proceedings for illegal economic activity, which is a standard practice for, say, pawnshops.

«We have simply noted in conversation with Mr de Voogd that without the registration required by the Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Act, offering financial service could be grounds for criminal proceedings for illegal economic activity.»

Amidst growing fear of Bitcoin and other digital currencies being used for illegal purposes, such as money laundering, the Europol has recently set up a group meant to combat the process with the help of bitcoin.

Ashley Judd says she wants Harvey Weinstein to be «held accountable» for «illegal conduct» that caused her to lose money, status, prestige and power in her career; Weinstein denies her allegations.

And it notes the European Central Bank's (ECB) report «Virtual Currency Schemes» (October 2012) worrying that «virtual currency schemes -LSB-...] could represent a challenge for public authorities, given the legal uncertainty surrounding these schemes, as they can be used by criminals, fraudsters and money launderers to perform their illegal activities.»

To circumvent the law (gambling is illegal in China) people were using play money poker sites to set up real money games using play money in exchange for fiat currency transactions away from the tables.

While the bullish case for gold is directly contrary to the interests of the financial establishment generally, it is of extreme interest and benefit to the subset of the establishment that has made more than $ 1,000,000,000,000.00 in illegal profits over the past forty years by rigging the gold market, and that wishes to steal as much additional money as they can get away with.

Wang also pleaded guilty to money laundering for transferring the illegal proceeds from Unicorn's account to an account of a new shell company he controlled.

Any government money that goes for private religious activities or purposes is illegal and should be dealt with wherever it is found.

Wake up America why we are letting Peter King and people like him to waste time and money on non issues they should be working to solve the real problems facing this country JOBS LOSSES, OUT SOURCEING, BUDGET DEFICIET, BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES, UN JUST FOREIGN POLICY, SOCIAL SECURITY, LABOUR UNION PROBLEMS, JOB SECURITY for those who have any jobs left, bringing our troops home from UNJUST and ILLEGAL WARS, KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, OIL COMPANIES making billions of unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to solve.

They need to «make money,» which is their expression for doing something illegal.

And the truth of the matter, most slugs making noise about abortion are only concerned with tax money being used, which in of itself clearly shows they do not know anything about the law, and the use of tax funds for abortion, because it is already illegal.

Unless you're doing something labeled «illegal,» you can put your idea for making money out there to compete with everybody else's idea for making money and see if your idea is strong / fit enough to actually make money.

From throwing money defaced with words such as «love» away on Wall Street, to helping nuns pour blood on battleships, or handing out food to the homeless in a park (an illegal act in his city, Philadelphia), Claiborne's Christianity is not for the squeamish, but it has inspired many outside of the Church to take another look at the faith.

I am asked to declare that I have not injected myself or been injected with illegal drugs, whether I have ever been given money or drugs for sex, whether I have had anal or oral sex with a man, or without a condom.

Then you have the illegal immigrants who keep using our taxpayer money for their anchor babies.

Slumlord and Cuomo campaign finance chairman Andrew Farkas was caught red - handed taking nearly $ 8 million in illegal kickbacks using tax money earmarked for the maintenance of federal housing projects.

As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers.»

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), passed by Congress in the early 1970s, had made it a federal offense for PACs to accept money from corporations, and Viacom — the corporate owner of Colbert's network — feared that it would face accusations of making illegal in - kind contributions should ColbertPAC become a fully functioning money - raising PAC.

It's illegal for a campaign to pay the candidate money.

But you can not register a guy from the street who pays you (and additionally if the flat is state owned, collecting money from somebody for living there would be totally illegal income).

Last Friday, when this reporter went to the said facility for the «Justice for All programme», uncountable number of visitors who came to the facility to visit some of the inmates were asked to fill the visitors» pass, after which a prison officer, wearing an African print, was seen supervising the illegal exercise of collecting the money from the visitors.

You see, this government knows what's coming down the road is a situation where there is so much scarcity (caused by the looting of trillions of public money & illegal wars ordered by the bankers) so it wanted to have in place some «tougher» crowd / internet control measures for when we're all marching & protesting against these criminals.

«As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers,» Mr. Bharara said in a statement.

Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), Wednesday failed to appear at the federal high court, Abuja, where his trial for money laundering and illegal possession of firearms was scheduled to go on.

While technically the money side of social welfare is indeed not payable to illegal aliens, (1) They still get an incredibly costly (to taxpayers) set of benefits such as free public school education for their kids; law - and - order which is a public good; and medical care in ER facilities who have to treat everyone, with or without insurance.

You could argue the detention itself is a form of harm, and that the refugees should be allowed to enter the USA proper, but courts have generally held that you can compensate people for illegal detention with money.

Under sparsely enforced New York election laws, it is illegal for a donor to «earmark» donations to a PAC, with the understanding that money will be passed from one committee to another.

It is illegal, however, for the party committees to agree with donors in advance that the money is destined for individual campaigns, a process referred to as earmarking the donations.