Sentences with phrase «gained by fraud»

Second, the person must have known that the property was stolen or gained by fraud.

Sometimes the penalty is a fine that is commensurate with the amount that was gained by the fraud; it can be more than that amount, too.

Fraudulent is defined as:» (1) Engaging in fraud; deceitfu l; (2) characterized by, constituting, or gained by fraud: fraudulent business practices.»

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The bitcoin blockchain contemplated and coded responses to the fraud triangle whereby incentive, justification, and opportunity to screw the other party in a transaction cost more than could be gained by behaving badly.

Same thing with the bible — many gospels were rightly left out, because they were found to be frauds used for social gain by crooked writers many years later, and not written by the actual apostles or their scribes, as they had claimed.

The whole story of gas chambers and crematoria is pure fiction, a gigantic hoax, a myth, a vicious fraud invented by World Jewry in order to gain financial reparations from Germany and global sympathy for the state of Israel.

To the extent permitted by law, we will disclose your information to government authorities or third parties if: (a) required to do so by law, or in response to a subpoena or court order; (b) we believe in our sole discretion that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect against fraud, to protect the property or other rights of us or other users, third parties or the public at large; or (c) we believe that you have abused the Sites or the Applications by using them to attack other systems or to gain unauthorized access to any other system, to engage in spamming or otherwise to violate applicable laws.

New York is among the of states rebuffing efforts by President Donald Trump's administration to gain access to voter registration information, all part of a stated effort to root out fraud.

A federal appeals court in New York is hearing a challenge by former clients of Bernard Madoff's fraud on how a trustee is calculating gains and losses.

To judge by Donald Trump's claims of voter fraud in the US, and the government's plans for voter ID trials in the UK next year, you might gain the impression that our democratic system is being widely abused.

A romance scam occurs when a stranger pretends romantic intentions, gains the affection of victims, and then uses that goodwill to gain access to their victims» money, bank accounts, credit cards, passports, email accounts, and / or national identification numbers or by getting the victims to commit financial fraud on their behalf.

The TD Canada Trust Fraud Prevention Month Poll, conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion, a division of Vision Critical, surveyed adult Canadians with debit and credit cards to gain a better understanding of Canadians» concerns over fraud.

Since there is little fraud relative to the amount of money they are taking in, and it can often be detected using statistical analysis, they don't really stand to gain that much by reducing it through these methods.

If you think a company director is defrauding investors by using company funds for personal gain, you can report it to your local police or major fraud squad in your state.

What brings this clusterpuckery to the level of fraud - the purposeful and deliberate criminal misrepresentation of facts in pursuit of a pecuniary gain at the expense of other people, which could not have been achieved without telling lies - is the fact that the breach of method was manifestly not inadvertent, but had been undertaken by the investigators during the course of data - gathering, with the overt objective of misrepresenting the truth shared by those investigators among the raters in a manifestly contrived scheme of duplicity.

«We still meet the belief... that vaccination is a gigantic fraud deliberately perpetuated for the sake of gain... The opposition to vaccination... still retains the «all or none» quality of primitive behaviour and, like many emotional reactions, is supported by a wealth of argument which the person reacting honestly believes to be the logical foundation of his behaviour.»

«There appears to have been money gained by... Al Gore... as a consequence of this deception, so it's fraud.»

Our experiences and surmises are remarkably similar: you think Dr. Bengtsson did what he did upon realizing he'd endangered his reputation and with it exposed himself to increased opposition from those who would now realize what he stands for; that he understood better how his free choice would impact his ability to gain the respectability of being published by respectable publishers; that he figured out the grant opportunities gained by open alliance with the tax - free «educational charity» that has a surprising amount of money for media campaigns and spectacle would not balance the grants he'd lose from people who consider association with a transparent tax fraud scheme a bad thing; and, ultimately that he had betrayed the trust of his valued colleagues by exposing them to such scandal.

And the state attorneys general have also gained more visibility in recent years by taking on tobacco, corporations like Microsoft (for antitrust violations) and Wall Street firms for fraud.

While seeking her readers» thoughts on the subject, Edmond explains the reasons for this policy: (a) Best Buy chooses vendors based on the quality and value of the product / service that ultimately is the best for its customers, and does not want there to be even the slightest suggestion that decisions are influenced by personal gain on the part of an employee; and (b) Best Buy believes that «fraud and corruption begin small and at the edges of a business relationship.»

The firm's litigation team aimed to help its client gain control of the investment by pursuing twin civil and criminal claims against the investors, enlisting the help of forensic accountants and court - appointed experts to provide evidence of the fraud.

Although the essence of criminal fraud is deception for financial gain, deceptive advertising is more commonly addressed by consumer protection laws.

Driven by UBIC's unique AI technology KIBIT ™, Lit i View ® enables companies to proactively and predictively assess fraud, data leakage and pre-crime events alongside the e-Discovery lifecycle and gain a deep understanding of their data.

She has also gained legal experience by working in the Isle of Man and Hong Kong on commercial fraud and private client matters.

First, a person charged with this offence must be in possession of property that was (or was partly) gained by theft, fraud, or any other crime.

As the concept has gained market traction in recent months, the ICO model has been hailed by some as a novel way for startups to raise funds, while critics have argued it exposes investors to the potential for fraud in a regulatory gray area.