Sentences with phrase «illegal fund raising»

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When Helman was raising money for Realty Mogul's seed round in March, it was illegal to advertise that it was seeking funding on the company Twitter feed or Facebook page.

The senator said he is also in favor of legalizing sports betting to raise revenue, claiming organized crime takes in $ 300 billion a year through sports betting, which Avella said is used to fund their illegal activities.

This is what we know: the Electoral Commission is still assessing claims that potentially illegal donations were made; the information commissioner is investigating «possible illegal» use of data; the heads of MI6 and GCHQ have both voiced unprecedented warnings about foreign interference in our democratic systems; the government has refused to elaborate on what these are; one of the leave campaigns has admitted the undeclared support and help of the American hedge fund billionaire who backed Trump; the Crown Prosecution Service is being asked to mount a criminal investigation; and questions have been raised about possible unlawful collaboration between different elements of the leave campaign.

However, Cuomo found nothing illegal on either side (Bruno's flights were OK because he did a few public chores while on fund raising missions) just a whole lot of unethical stuff.

«The choice for Republicans is clear: they can keep Richard Hanna, who votes to raise taxes, to extend U.S. debt to economically dangerous levels by voting with Obama, Reid and Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling while bankrupting our nation, or they can choose a commonsense Republican like me who has a proven record of voting to reduce taxes, voting against the implementation of Obamacare in New York, votes against funding an illegal database (including ammunition database) against legal gun owners, voting against increasing our debt ceiling in New York and supports countless initiatives to reduce the burdens of government red tape on individuals and small businesses, including family farms,» Tenney said.

Congressman Michael Grimm, reportedly under federal investigation after allegations of illegal campaign fund - raising, blew up at and physically threatened a reporter tonight after the president's State of the Union speech, according to NY1.

Furthermore, as long as the renters do nothing illegal, its nobody's business if they use their event to raise funds for whatever.

The simplest and most straight - forward way would be to make it illegal for any member of congress to participate in any fund - raising activities in any way shape or form until 60 days before their election.

While legal, the defense fund raises ethical questions concerning responses in Albany to illegal conduct by those working in government.

Several Democrats also said there's widespread speculation that Cuomo had a hand in leaking the board's January memo on Friday — just days after Senate Democrats backed by de Blasio won a major special election on Long Island — that accused de Blasio and his top aides of involvement in an illegal fund - raising scheme to help elect Democrats to the Senate.

Harendra Singh, a former Queens restaurateur who threw free fund - raisers for the mayor and raised thousands of dollars for him, said the mayor twice took a look - the - other - way approach when he broached the subject of illegal contributions.

The House: Desperate to raise money for their daughter's college fund, the parents (Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler) start an illegal home casino.

We provide funding to train officials for improved enforcement of laws; help local partner groups on the ground with veterinary and shelter care for confiscated animals; raise global awareness of the suffering involved in illegal dog theft, transport and slaughter, including at China's annual Dog Meat Festival in Yulin; expose the horror of subterranean killing pits in Nagaland in India; and work with dog meat farmers in South Korea to transition them to more humane ways of making a living.

However, in practice, it occurs to me that the biggest challenge is that when the insolvent is trapped by the irregularities or even crime, such as: financial fraud, illegal fund - raising, etc, what should be dealt with by the administrator.

Funds invested into investment schemes involving digital tokens are prone to being misused for illegal activities due to the anonymity of transactions, and the ease with which large sums of monies may be raised in a short period of time.

The regulator added that cryptocurrencies currently only trigger potentially harmful side effects such as market manipulation, fraud, heightened speculative trading, illegal practices of capital funds raising, and cybercrimes associated with cryptocurrency theft.

In a statement, the Chinese central bank said that ICOs are «essentially a non-approved illegal open financing behavior, suspected of illegal sale Tokens, illegal securities issuance and illegal fund - raising, financial fraud, pyramid schemes and other criminal activities.»

Both NEO and Qtum conducted the ICO in 2017, and the Chinese regulator on 4 September called the ICO mechanism illegal and urged platforms that carried out ICOs to return the raised funds to investors.

Caixin alleged that the People's Bank of China has concluded that «more than 90 % ICO projects could be violating illegal fundraising or fund fraud laws», alleging that «the percent [age] of projects that [are] actually raising funds for investments is less than 1 %».

In fact, Beijing has come out to say that ICOs are an illegal means of raising funds for a company.China has also made a point to pursue further steps to stop customers from withdrawing bitcoin earlier this year while also letting them resume withdrawals earlier this summer.

If the trading account is frozen, the exchange can no longer continue its operations, otherwise it is easy to involve illegal fund - raising, money - laundering and other criminal activities.

In essence, it is a kind of non-approved illegal open fund raising behavior, suspected of illegal sale tokens, illegal securities issuance and illegal fund - raising, financial fraud, pyramid schemes and other criminal activities.»

Such «layering» can involve a transaction where funds raised through illegal activities are then converted into a bank draft, to pay for a property or mortgage.