Sentences with phrase «from loan sharks»

Put the fictional Liberty City (featured on New York City), the single - player story goes after a war veteran, Niko Bellic and his effort to escape his past at the same time as under pressure from loan sharks and mob bosses.
Sure, your garden - variety lender does not have the power to garnish your wages or levy your bank account, but all creditors from loan sharks to credit unions and cable companies are interested in one thing: collecting as much as they can from debtors, as soon as they can.
Hoyes says that apart from loan sharks, payday loans are the most expensive form of borrowing.
Nicola sets up a plan that seems doomed from the start — she tricks Guy into giving her tens of thousands of pounds so that she can save Keith from loan sharks.
Based on my experience «borrowing» from the IRS, I'd rather borrow from a loan shark.
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.
«Impastor» is about a cannabis - smoking man, who poses as a homosexual pastor in a small town to try and hide from a loan shark.
It's a comedy about «a struggling nightclub owner who after amassing a large debt from a loan shark, sets out to win a long - running celebrity death pool by attempting to kill Hasselhoff.»
Don't borrow money from a loan shark under any circumstances.
Using a payday lender is like borrowing from a loan shark; the lenders won't break your bones, but they will cause pain.
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne takes place before the events of Mega Man Legends, and turns comical antagonist Tron Bonne into the protagonist, as she tries to raise enough money to save her brothers from a loan shark.

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In the business world, taking investments too early or from unsophisticated investors can be the equivalent of borrowing money from a Vegas loan shark.
After testing beta versions with friends, they launched their student loan payment app ChangEd in April 2017 and also took their idea to a January 2018 episode of «Shark Tank,» where they received an offer from Mark Cuban.
GM corn is very expensive, and to avail of the very steep price, farmers are forced to borrow money from lenders and loan sharks to finance their farming.»
In the study, farmers are becoming more indebted because of the expensive inputs in GM farming coupled with high interests from financiers and loan sharks.
Leading and participating in individual campaigns, from the living wage to library closures to campaigns against legal loan sharks.
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.
«This wicked bedroom tax is going to rip neighbour from neighbour, force vulnerable people to food banks and loan sharks, and end up costing Britain more than it saves as tenants are forced to go homeless or move into the expensive private rented sector,» shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said.
Though wealthy from the money that he has culled via loan - sharking, Geremia is a thoroughly miserable wretch, driven into the throes of destruction by his own incredible selfishness and his obsessive infatuation with a beautiful local girl, Rosalba (Laura Chiatta), whom he meets when asked to assist with her wedding.
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.
Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami loan shark who's sent to Los Angeles to collect on a gambling debt from film producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman).
How about finding out if you'll ever get out from under your kitten debt to that loan shark demon, Teeth?
Although he inherited the shop from his father, he never saw it as anything special, so when he faces the prospect on the bank foreclosing on it due to unpaid bills, he sells the place to a local loan - shark.
SYNOPSIS: Lit professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark.
He's so self - centered that when the doormat girl fish who loves him from afar (Renee Zellweger) loans Oscar an antique pearl to pay off 5,000 clams in loan - shark debt, he takes the money to the racetrack and loses it all on a long - shot seahorse.
Turning the tables on loan shark Shondor Birns (Christopher Walken) and allying himself with gangster John Nardi (Vincent D'Onofrio), Greene stops taking orders from the mafia and pursues his own power.
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?
After falling into debt with a Korean mobster (Alvin Lee), and then borrowing money from nefarious loan shark Neville Baraka (Michael K. Williams) that he promptly loses on the blackjack table while trying to win back what he owes, Jim is given seven days to pay or else.
He used to borrow money from John Petty (Willem Dafoe), a local loan shark with a bad reputation, but Russell would covertly pay back his brother's debt.
His vice gets him in deep with a series of unsavory loan sharks (Alvin Ing, Michael Kenneth Williams and John Goodman), borrowing money from each purportedly to pay off debt to the others, only to flit it all away at blackjack and roulette tables, seemingly just because he can.
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».
So, if your credit record is not too good, these two ways are your best bet to get cash fast from an online loan shark.
Taking a Cash Advance from a credit card company is like going to a very polite, but determined loan shark.
The book also talks about the various debts «solutions» that certain people make just to survive the month — getting loans from car deeds, loan sharks, at work, etc..
I have borrower who have never missed a payment on their 8.99 % adjustable rate mortgage but are struggling to keep up with a credit card that was defaulted to 29.9 % interest because the bank changed the due date, and now because they are struggling to make payments on a credit card with an interest rate that would make the toughest «Loan Shark» blush, their score eliminates them from the very program that could save their home.
Enticed by the thrill of online football betting and casinos, the sales manager, who wanted to be known only as Mr Ang, borrowed from multiple registered moneylenders to feed his gambling habit as well as to cover debts with moneylenders and even loan sharks.
There is a confidential hotline you can ring if you have borrowed from, or wish to report, a loan shark.
The NJ Higher Education Assistance Authority is referred to as a «state - sanctioned loan - sharking» organization from bankruptcy lawyers.
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 coffee blend includes beans that Carmichael is obtaining from Haitian sources that, he says, sidestep predatory loan sharks and middlemen who have hampered the climb out of poverty by Haitian coffee growers.
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