Sentences with phrase «fraud allegations at»

Not exact matches

After allegations of phone hacking, fraud and general nastiness surfaced at its highly - profitable News of the World newspaper, the company decided that the best way to starve the scandal of oxygen was to shutter the 168 - year - old muckraking juggernaut.

The letter made several allegations of fraud at Silvercorp — most importantly, that its reported profit of US$ 66 million in 2010 was a lie and it had instead lost half a million dollars, plus that its reserve estimates were exaggerated.

He fears that the shorts will keep hounding Silvercorp, possibly at the urging of complicit hedge funds, unless it can demonstrate its innocence of the fraud allegations in court.

The Justice Department and Swiss authorities are currently investigating allegations of fraud and money laundering at Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund.

North Bay Village, a normally quiet Miami - Dade city of about 7,000 residents, is now home to a political firestorm over allegations of voter fraud and blackmail linked to its at - large commissioner.

The scope of the Tar Heels» fraud would be tough to match, but throughout Division I college sports, there have been many allegations that athletes are steered into easier classes, even at schools traditionally known for academic excellence, like Stanford and Northwestern.

The government adviser hired to get 120,000 «problem families» back to work resigned yesterday amid allegations of fraud at her firm.

«I am sure that Members on both sides of the House are concerned when they read of allegations of electoral fraud, including those alleged to have taken place at elections this year.

The court dismissed fraud allegations, but Martins pursued a line - by - line review of petitions, from Nassau, Suffolk and Queens, that were still being scrutinized at the time Suozzi withdrew them.

«We are appealing to the National Executive Committee of our great Party to have the elections held at Ningo Prampram Constituency investigated thoroughly, and if the allegations against Samuel Nartey George are proven, annul the results of the elections and punish him severely for perpetuating such electoral fraud in his bid to short change the will of the people of Ningo Prampram Constituency and bring the NDC Party into disrepute.»

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's embattled government won at least 17 of the 23 states in Sunday's gubernatorial elections, results that prompted allegations of fraud from the opposition coalition.

A federal grand jury voted to indict former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today on fraud and extortion charges, the allegations at the center of his arrest last month.

Eight people have been arrested at the company over allegations of fraud relating to offices in Slough, Berkshire.

He said the statements falsely implicated him in fraud at AIG, and suggested he was «removed» or «thrown out» by the insurer's board because of his role, among other allegations.

Allegations surrounding the signing of Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior of FC Barcelona (shown here, left, tackling Jose Sosa of Club Atletico de Madrid on May 17 in Barcelona) are at the heart of tax fraud charges against the storied soccer club.

But upon learning of allegations and charges of academic fraud and other abuses at charter schools in Florida that are managed by Newpoint Education Partners — a company that hopes to open two charter schools in Wake and New Hanover counties — the Board indicated Wednesday that they are likely to temporarily put the brakes on allowing that charter management company to do business in North Carolina, a decision that will be determined in a final vote Thursday.

An Education Funding Agency (EFA) report reveals allegations of financial irregularities and even possible fraud at Kings Science Academy in Bradford.

But now, as we move to the next level of accountability, this reform «miracle» is being called into question by discrepancies leading to allegations of fraud in dropout reporting as well as the preliminary results of the new, more rigorous, Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, which, depending on your perspective, reflect either a lack of true student achievement progress in many areas or a backsliding in progress previously reported.Recently, this debate was sharpened with the release of the results in five major U. S. cities of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, in which Houston participated on a voluntary basis, and the results were mixed at best.

The Education Funding Agency (EFA) investigated allegations of fraud and irregularity at Park View Education Trust (PVET) and Park View School.

In other words, we're looking not only at allegations of fraud but also the strong suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud, with is itself a felony.

I was curious about the background of one of the panel members at the Guardian's «Climategate» debate, Doug Keenan, who made very critical remarks about the Muir Russell & Oxburgh reviews of the CRU hacking incident, and found that he had made formal allegations of research fraud against Professor Wei - Chyung Wang of SUNY - Albany and Phil Jones.

Denialists would be frothing at the mouth and screaming from the hills making allegations of «fraud» and «lies» without any legitimate evidence to support their claims....

He also has substantial experience of cases relating to the gold mining industry: see e.g. Jenington International Inc v. Kanat Assaubayev [2010] EWHC 2351 (Ch) referred to above, a major fraud case relating to the gold mining industry in Kazakhstan involving allegations of fraudulent statements in relation to production and infrastructure works at the mining sites.

These are serious allegations which «stop just short of fraud»: Hamilton v. Sutherland, [1992] 5 W.W.R. 151 at 163 (B.C.C.A.).

At Deans & Lyons, LLP, our business litigation attorneys in Dallas and Houston represent plaintiffs and defendants in disputes involving allegations of business fraud.

At the Hartford law offices of Rome McGuigan, P.C., our Connecticut attorneys have been helping professionals successfully defend against fraud allegations for more than 35 years.

North Shore Ventures Ltd v Anstead Holdings Inc and Ors [2010] EWHC 1485 (Ch); [2011] EWCA Civ 230; and [2012] EWCA Civ 11: Acting for high net worth Russian individuals in the High Court and Court of Appeal defending a multi-party action valued at $ 55 million in respect of the alleged breaches of a loan agreement, allegations of fraud, enforcement of personal guarantees, freezing injunctions and the disclosure of trust documents.

At trial, the court found that the bank had fabricated information to support its allegation of fraud.

Our Medicare Fraud Defense Attorneys at Whittel & Melton can offer guidance on how to protect yourself from Medicare fraud allegations and the laundry list of punishments that come along with it.

At other times, entities may self - initiate internal investigations to evaluate and manage crisis situations, such as whistleblower allegations, fraud or financial reporting issues.

At trial, allegations of this unrestrained child and numerous insinuations of workers» compensation fraud were made.

l When the case involves an allegation of serious fraud or dishonesty, generally conclusions on such issues ought to be reached at trial, caution ought to be exercised before giving summary judgment in a case of that nature (Wrexham Associated Football Club v Crucialmove Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 237, [2006] All ER (D) 199 (Mar)-RRB-.

Within the first three years of practice, Jeff orally argued a case before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, successfully defended a large healthcare corporation from serious fraud allegations with a team at trial and obtained a large recovery for consumers in a statewide class action.

In Pearson, Lord Halsbury appeared to have thought that such a rule existed in saying, at p 356: «The action is based on the allegation of fraud, and no subtlety of language, no craft or machinery in the form of contract, can estop a person who complains that he has been defrauded from having that question of fact submitted to a jury.»

Tenet: $ 8.1 million; January 2004 Two whistleblowers responsible for having told the FBI they believed physicians at a Tenet hospital in Redding, Calif., were performing unnecessary cardiac procedures, shared a reward of $ 8.1 million, their percentage of a $ 54 million settlement — a record amount for a fraud allegation involving a single hospital, according to Modern Healthcare.

The court ruled that the question of the Purchaser's English - language proficiency at the time of closing was a question that the trial court needed to resolve in order to evaluate the Purchaser's fraud allegations.