Sentences with phrase «fund lavish lifestyles»
Over the next two years, a federal investigation revealed that top union leaders had siphoned away dues to fund their lavish lifestyles.
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As a federal prosecutor representing Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens, and as Acting Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles, as well as drug kingpins and other major felons.
«Surely we should be fighting corruption in the world, not feeding it with fat contracts that filch the earnings of British taxpayers to fund the lavish lifestyles of sleazy Chinese elites.»
I am so happy to live in a country where the Public Enemy (PE) Mafia can get away with Legalized Bustouts (LBOs) to fund their lavish lifestyles, multi-million dollar yachts, private airplanes and SHTF bolt holes in New Zealand.
«These so - called charities took advantage of the generosity of others to fund their lavish lifestyles.»
Juarez was accused of using the money to fund a lavish lifestyle and provide jobs for his former wife and children.
Mohammed appealed to Nigerians not to allow those who had been funding their lavish lifestyles and encouraging corruption, to the detriment of ordinary citizens and without bothering about national interest.
Espada faces a federal trial in October on charges he misused Medicaid funds to fund a lavish lifestyle.
MANHATTAN — A former Department of Education computer consultant ripped off nearly $ 4 million from city schools to fund a lavish lifestyle — the latest in a string of black marks for city contractors, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Granted, that's not going to fund a lavish lifestyle.
For some borrowers, excess student loan money is being used to fund a lavish lifestyle and the excess of youth, without regard to the future and what may come.
Social Security retirement benefits are not intended to fund a lavish lifestyle.
She was seeking a settlement to fund her lavish lifestyle and shopping habit.
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«Ms. Conlin betrayed the trust of NARAL's supporters and donors by using charitable funds to finance her lavish lifestyle,» said the Attorney General's Charities Bureau Chief Jason Lilien.
A former employee of the Staten Island District Attorney pleaded guilty to stealing from the office nearly half a million dollars meant for purchasing office supplies and instead using the funds to bankroll a lavish lifestyle.
This week also saw closing arguments in the corruption trial of Pedro Espada, Jr., the former state senate majority leader accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a publicly funded healthcare system in order to finance his lavish personal lifestyle.
The AG says the stolen money was used to fund a «lavish lifestyle,» including high - end clothing, furs, jewelry, and cruises.
During the Skeloses» four - week trial, prosecutors alleged that Dean turned his statehouse office into a «cash cow» to fund Adam's lavish Long Island lifestyle, including a $ 675,000 house with a pool in Rockville Centre.
Just a day after state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed suit against State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada for «looting» his taxpayer - backed Soundview Health Clinic for more than $ 14 million to fund his own lavish lifestyle, state and federal authorities appeared at the facility with criminal search warrants.
Espada stands accused by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of using Soundview's accounts as his personal ATM, and is said to have used up to $ 14 million of its money to fund his political campaigns and lavish lifestyle.
Whether it's the fact that successful people don't have as much time as they used to due to business commitments, or the modern day Kardashian culture that's led to more and more young people expecting a lavish lifestyle without the means to fund it, it seems that Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies are here to stay.
Bureaucratic elitist hypocrites using other - people's - money to fund their lavish «carbon» intensive gabfests to protest against «carbon», demanding everyone else curb their lifestyles.
Their lavish lifestyle in Vancouver was funded through the husband's business interests in a company in South Korea as well as through the sale of numerous properties in South Korea.