Sentences with phrase «fraud works as»

This new type of fraud works as follows: A new and previously unknown client or lender contact allegedly from a major bank will ask a lawyer to act on mortgage matter.

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The same applies if the attorney is the one accused of committing a crime or fraud as part of their work for the client.

In spite of their diligence and hard work, these people harbor a fear of being exposed as a fraud.

Tax refund fraud is a growing $ 5 billion a year problem as crooks are getting smarter and the IRS needs to work harder to catch thieves, reports CNBC's Scott Cohn.

If, on the other hand, you're one of the tens of millions of able - bodied Americans who have benefitted from record welfare spending that's not nearly as means - tested or fraud - free as it should have been, it's time to take your hand out of the taxpayers» pockets and get to work.

His previous work has included behavior - based security analytics such as malware detection and insider threat detection, risk - based on - line banking fraud detection, data loss prevention, voice - biometrics security, and speech and language processing.

She has previously worked in digital marketing, as well as risk and fraud.

Prior to founding the website, Melissa Davis worked as an investigative reporter for TheStreet.com, helping to exposure potential fraud.

They were also accused of failing to appropriately disclose their foreign work and foreign assets, and of committing tax, financial, and bank fraud crimes, some of which took place as recently as last year.

This sort of work is difficult and beautiful in its own way, but it is not at all self - evident in the manner of a falling apple or an elliptical planetary orbit, and it is very sensitive to the same sorts of accidental contamination, deliberate fraud, and unconscious bias as the medical and social - scientific studies we have discussed.

The work he was describing in the seminar was, as the Institute's on - line notice said, an attempt to «cut through both sides of the increasingly polarised debate about how the universe was created, with atheistic Darwinians declaring the death of God, whilst anti-Darwinian creationists denounce evolution as fraud.»

Using as evidence its obvious parallels to their 19th century accounts tying the American Indian to Israel's lost tribes, its descriptions of situations, incidents and characters suspiciously like those within Joseph Smith's ken, its echoes of Masonic lore, its Isaiah passages and its bountiful supply of anachronisms, they conclude that the work is not only worthless but a fraud.

Liverpool is not arsenal... its not d drubbing but the style of football on display... barca played like arsenal; trying to work it inside the net with messi and Suarez neutralized with minimum fuss... now, we plan on using Walcott as 9 against them???? only 1 winner there and its sure as fuq not that fraud....

«Milt Williams has a proven track record of fighting fraud as a public servant and in his private sector work.

NYC mayoral candidate Bo Dietl works as a consultant for Digipath Inc., a marijuana lab testing company that has been under investigation by the feds on stock fraud allegations.

For his part, a victorious Mr. Rangel also weighed in on the issue yesterday, issuing a statement to the press declaring, «Although there was no evidence found, I look forward to working with him to uncovering any possibility of voter suppression or fraud, as well as to foster reconciliation and unity across the communities that became divided during the campaign.»

Yesterday, we wrote about Shafran's role in excuse - making for the corrupt and dysfunctional legislature up in Albany, but what wasn't discussed is that Shafran also worked as the goto political spinmaster for Senator Malcolm Smith — the same Senator that was arrested in a statewide FBI corruption probe that alleges he attempted to rig the Mayoral election through fraud and bribes early this morning.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans, a Newsday review of public records shows.

As such, instead of just pointing the finger at Albany for the costs that are out of local control, Poloncarz has long advocated for working to lower the costs we can control — those associated with the waste, fraud and abuse that invariably exists within Medicaid.

As such, instead of just pointing the finger at Albany for costs that are out of local control, Poloncarz has long advocated for working to lower the costs we can control — those associated with the waste, fraud, and abuse that invariably exist within Medicaid.

[1] Her professional experience includes working as an attorney for the New York City Board of Education, the consumer frauds bureau, the New York State Attorneys General Office, working as an executive director of New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus, working as an attorney for the Queens County District Attorneys Office and serving as the Chief of Staff for State Senator Ada Smith.

«Records in our disposal show that some of the beneficiaries of this ill - awarded contracts are brothers, sisters, in - laws and political associates of the Managing Director of NDDC MD, Mr. Nsima Ekere, as well as the cousins, brothers, friends and in - laws to the Executive Director — Projects, including their Aides and relations working in the MD's office who connived in this illegal adventure of fraud.

A Buffalo native who worked as a director at QVC is accused of stealing more than $ 1 million from the company in a fraud scheme that funded his luxury lifestyle, according to an indictment unsealed earlier this month by federal prosecutors in Philadelphia.

Howe, who was a lobbyist who also worked as an adviser to state officials on development projects, has reportedly pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, extortion, and wire fraud, and is cooperating with authorities.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has long advocated for working to lower the costs associated with Medicaid that are within our control — rooting out provider - level waste, fraud and abuse — and the creation of the Office of the Erie County Medicaid Inspector General is the culmination of years of work dating back to his days as Erie County Comptroller.

Just as we protect against crime on our streets, we must also work to defend New Yorkers from cyber threats, ranging from identity theft to consumer fraud to threats to our physical infrastructure.»

Industry initiatives, such as the Insurance Fraud Register, MyLicence that allows insurers to check for any motoring offences, and the work of the Insurance Fraud Bureau and the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department in tackling ghost brokers are helping to reduce the scope for insurance application fraud.»

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans.

Padilla, a US Immigration and Criminal Enforcement official now working in Florida, dismissed involvement by Speaker Heastie in the alleged frauds as «not likely.»

Campana and the Brown brothers were identified a year ago as being among nine Democrats that were persons of interest in the absentee ballot fraud investigation stemming from the city's 2009 Working Families Party primary,

Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, held the powerful post for two decades and was found guilty of fraud, extortion and other charges stemming from schemes through which he received nearly $ 4 million, masking such payments as legitimate outside income and referrals he earned for work as a lawyer.

A ninth defendant, Todd Howe (a lobbyist who had worked for Cuomo as an assistant when Cuomo headed the federal Housing and Urban Development Department and also worked for the governor's father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo), has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion, wire fraud and other charges and is cooperating with investigators.

Thanks to his background as a former Morgan Stanley financial advisor, Minerva also focuses his work on institutional investor and client outreach in order to help clients identify and seek remedies for fraud.

Mr. Schneiderman's call comes after the state's former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested on charges of fraud and extortion by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who alleged that the longtime power broker had used his influence to inappropriately earn attorney referral fees for work he had not done, disguising what amounted as «kickbacks» and «bribes» as legitimate income.

For example, as Comptroller, I issued a report examining Erie County's Medicaid Anti-Fraud Procedures and found, while the County actively worked to prevent waste, fraud and abuse of Medicaid by recipients, we did absolutely nothing when it came to abusive Medicaid providers.

Ambrosino, of North Valley Stream, was indicted in April on charges of wire fraud and failing to pay taxes on money he made working as an attorney for two Nassau County agencies — the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency and the Local Economic Assistance Corp., according to authorities.

With my experience as an investigator, I want to work side by side with our County Executive and District Attorney to continue the crack down on Medicaid fraud and abuse that costs our taxpayers millions of dollars each year.

Nick Confessore reports that John Sampson, the State Senate leader, performed legal work for Edul Ahmad, a Queens real estate broker who was being investigated by state authorities on allegations of fraud and predatory lending, and was disciplined for acting as a notary for the broker after his notary license had expired, according to state documents.

«With Stalin as his ally, he launched a crusade to discredit work in genetics, in part, because proof of the genetic theory of evolution would expose him as a fraud,» Dugatkin and Trut write.

The NAS and Annenberg group identified several ways to change incentives for quality and correction, including rewarding researchers for publishing high - quality work rather than publishing work more often; mentoring young peer - reviewers to increase clarity and quality of editorial responses during the journal publishing process; and using «voluntary withdrawal» and «withdrawal for cause» instead of the blanket «retraction» term, which has negative connotations that can prevent some researchers from taking action when a paper is wrong, but not as a result of fraud or misconduct.

After explaining how olive oil frauds work and their recent history, there will be information provided of what makes a perfect olive oil and how you can determine if it is truly as advertised.

Readers are notified that this is not a blanket endorsement of her work, because she sells health frauds, such as pond scum (algae) as a healthy food item for human beings.

If a dating site required a verification of identity for each member, then the system would work better as frauds (hopefully) would be denied access.

The co-founders of the company, Dan Winchester & Nick Tsinonis, tell us about how scammers target platforms with weak defences, spreading the word amongst other cybercriminals, how the volume of dating fraud has increased, as well as offering some tips on how sites can work to minimise the threat of scammers.

As an expert in combatting online fraud, Bill works closely with a number of industry organisations and the police to stamp out online dating scammers.

As part of the Match service, we have an extensive fraud prevention team that works diligently to identify and investigate any suspicious activity.

Yes, category fraud could be argued here as the film was really Bradley Cooper's character's stories from the oustet, but in the end, it became their story and it's Lawrence's magnetic work that allows that transformation to occur.

Category fraud happens when studios (or labels, in the case of the Grammys) submit work in a category they think they can win, as opposed to the category it actually fits in.

Mazin's script is chock - full of scenarios that have no plausible underpinnings — not in how the corporate world works, not in how police detectives work, and not in how such basic things as credit card agencies and fraud prevention companies operate.

In a bracing new book that might be seen as a capstone to that work, Koretz excoriates our current reliance on high - stakes testing as a fraud — an expensive and harmful intervention that does little to improve the practices it purports to measure, instead feeding a vicious cycle of pointless test prep.