Sentences with phrase «for loan sharking»

By chance, Craig has just run into an old high school pal, Vince (Ethan Embry), who works as a collector for a loan shark and is more than ready to cut corners — among other things — en route to a big score.

The new film by oft - controversial Korean auteur Kim Ki - Duk is a melodrama about a brutal collector for a loan shark and his odd relationship with his mother.

Not exact matches

Barbara Corcoran, known to many as a star on ABC's hit show Shark tank, parlayed a $ 1,000 loan into a five - billion - dollar real estate business and sold it in 2001 for $ 66 million.

As veteran Japan watcher Richard Werner (author of Princes of the Yen) recently described the situation to me, «while Japanese small firms were killed by the continued refusal of banks to expand credit (and many a small firm president was killed by having to sell a kidney to the loan sharks he was forced to resort to), foreign speculators received ample yen funds for a pittance.»

The way Americans continue to pay for these items is by going into loan shark levels of debt.

«Incidents like this gory tale of a young child being murdered to compensate for a missed payment on a loan shark agreement, are sadly common - place.

Conrad believes that Liston became deeply involved in a loan - sharking ring in Las Vegas, as a bill collector, and that he tried to muscle in for a bigger share of the action.

«Food banks, legal loan sharks, Mcjobs, and no hope for the young - this is the tragedy of life for working people in Britain today under the Tories.

John Sentamu, the archbishop of York, voted for the Hollis motion after warning that the tax credit cuts could force low - income families to use loan sharks.

Acting New Rochelle Police Commissioner Joseph Schaller added: «I want to commend members of the New Rochelle Police Department's Special Investigation's Unit, members of the New York State Attorney General's Office and members of the Westchester County District Attorney's Office for their hard work and dedicated efforts in helping to root out illegal gambling and loan - sharking in the City of New Rochelle.»

She praised her local credit union for the work they do to help people get legitimate loans, assisting them in getting away from spiralling debt and loan sharks.

It calls for a clampdown on loan sharks and for more competition in the home credit market, in which the Competition Commission estimates people are overcharged by # 100 million a year.

Geoff Davis should be in hot water for opposing a bipartisan Pentagon - backed bill to cap interest rates on loan sharks («payday loans») that cluster around military bases and prey on our young, financially naive volunteer armed - services personnel.

Unite: MP's bid to tackle loan sharks must not be the last word: time for national inquiry into payday lending

Acting New Rochelle Police Commissioner Joseph F. Schaller said, «I want to commend members of the New Rochelle Police Department's Special Investigation's Unit, members of the New York State Attorney General's Office and members of the Westchester County District Attorney's Office for their hard work and dedicated efforts in helping to root out illegal gambling and loan - sharking in the City of New Rochelle.»

He had to borrow money from a loan shark to pay off his gang, which demanded about $ 2,000 a month for several months to let him go.

Dumb sensors, deadly consequences The old name for the new wave of short - term online lenders is loan sharking.

Also in 1999, he could be seen playing a loan shark who gives Anjelica Huston a hard time in Huston's Agnes Browne.Winstone gained wide international notice for his starring role in 2000's Sexy Beast, holding his own opposite Ben Kingsley, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance.

In this intense and haunting story, a loan shark living an isolated and lonely existence uses brutality to threaten and collect paybacks from desperate borrowers for his moneylender boss.

As a scary loan shark who might cough up cash to get Jim out of his pickle, Goodman elevates the material, showcasing the dark humor that Wyatt was clearly going for.

Meanwhile, a mysterious woman meets with a loan shark and asks for 10 million yen.

Among the eclectic crew of barbers and patrons, Calvin sees that the barbershop is more than a place to get a haircut for the community, but the greedy loan shark doesn't want to give the place back.

Though he's best known for his role as New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's The Sopranos, this crime thriller sees him playing a loan shark turned bar owner who works on the periphery of New York's organized crime scene, safeguarding the dirty money that flows through Brooklyn.

He takes any fight that is thrown his way and moonlights as a debt collector / enforcer for a shady loan shark.

Cooped up in his apartment in a rough Cape Town neighborhood, he is heavily indebted to a loan shark named Emmie with the clock ticking for him and his girlfriend Pam to pay the money back.

Will he win it at a casino, get it from his feisty mother (the underused Jessica Lange), deal with notorious loan shark Frank (images of a shirtless John Goodman will haunt me for days), or just tap out?

Loan shark Frank (a sweaty John Goodman) tells Bennett that he's suicidal, but in fact he's just searching for that one elusive moment of greatness that will give meaning to his life.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998): A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed - growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.

This set - up is ripe for both black comedy and soul - searching drama, and yet writer Steven Knight throws in irrelevant sideroads including a mandated therapist (the wonderful Emma Thompson), a bitter rival (a jagged Matthew Rhys), a couple of randomly violent loan sharks and a precocious little girl.

Jason Statham (War, Crank) stars as Terry Leather, a two - bit car salesman who is being harassed constantly by thugs sent by the local loan shark for payment.

A drunk and a gambler, he doesn't seem to have anything going on in his life beyond his decrepit Brooklyn house, his battered convertible Reliant K - car (complete with wood paneling) and playing the horses at Belmont Park — mostly poorly, which is why he's perpetually strapped for cash, with a loan shark (Terrence Howard) circling.

Jang Ki - yong as Kwang - il made a similarly deep impression on me, somehow making me care even for a violent loan shark, even if it was mostly to mourn for the loving man he could have been under different circumstances.

To make up for it, Scott and co-writer Martin Petit are forced to cook up a stupid, unexplained subplot about David owing a grand to lethal loan sharks, as well as a new pregnancy.

In a depressed Northern town where loan sharks are the only viable source of funding for cash - strapped entrepreneurs, market stall holders Bex (Victoria Smurfit) and Dawn (Joanne Mitchell, Blunt's real - life wife and the film's producer) fall prey to the last resort to finance their achingly modest dream of a tea and cake shop.

Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, in north - east London, told Tes that the companies that profit from financing PFI deals were the «legal loan sharks of the public sector».

Bumping a customer to a higher interest rates for a few mistakes takes the debt into loan shark realms, easily avoided by finding credit card debt relief.

He does not support federal meddling with higher education; for instance, he commented, «We need to get the federal government out of the loan shark business and instead refocused on building a strong economy.»

«Payday lending by any lender — including banks — is an abusive form of loan sharking, rooted in trapping borrowers in unaffordable, high - interest rate loans,» Scott Astrada, federal advocacy director at the Center for Responsible Lending, said in a statement.

For all I know, perhaps you desperately need that next dividend check to pay off your loan shark before he breaks your legs.

18.56 % of borrowers would swim in shark infested waters for one hour, if it meant that they would have no more student loan debt.

One cold December night, he gets handed a job befitting a newcomer to organized crime: go collect this measly 300 grand debt (That's in Yen, mind you... that would have been around $ 2,450 in 1988 or just shy of $ 5k today, adjusting for inflation) from this sad sack of a dude, and deliver the money to the loan shark waiting for it.

The reality of both of these concerns is things like loan sharks praying on family members when they are broke and vulnerable or fighting for acknowledgement of your credibility and hard work when undermined with sexist comments.

The coyote typically «loan sharks» the peasant farmer small amounts of cash during the dry season — when the farmer is profoundly desperate — in exchange for his entire harvest, or for pennies on the dollar.

WITH NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!!! The Banks and Wall Street Sharks did a lot of rotten things to get their selves in that place, and they get bailed out, no questions?!!!! But, what GM is asking for a Bridge Loan.

Because the loan sharks are well aware that folks who feel the financial squeeze of being out of work or waiting on a hearing date or settlement are easy pray for high risk loans with outrageous interest rates.

For most underbanked users, the last resort would be to turn to loan sharks and their extremely predatory interest rates.

Sounds like a license for easier Loan Sharking - but having said that - how many people buying Apple kit are short of a bob or two?

As a note of caution, hard money lenders have an unfortunate reputation for being loan sharks.»