Sentences with phrase «illegal kickbacks for»

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today took action against Prospect Mortgage, LLC, a major mortgage lender, for paying illegal kickbacks for mortgage business referrals.

These companies either made or received payments in the form of illegal kickbacks for mortgage business referrals, which resulted in the CFPB imposing financial penalties, disgorgement and numerous restrictions on business operations.

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Since then, Patti has reunited with her estranged father, was investigated herself for possible illegal kickbacks, got fired from her job at a nonprofit, ate a tarantula on a reality TV show in her husband's place, got her insurance licenses and started her own company selling coverage to business owners, and saw a number of friends desert her.

Keller Williams Realty Mid-Willamette, a real estate brokerage located in Corvallis, Oregon, has been penalized and fined by a federal financial watchdog for participating in what has been called an illegal kickback scheme.

Slumlord and Cuomo campaign finance chairman Andrew Farkas was caught red - handed taking nearly $ 8 million in illegal kickbacks using tax money earmarked for the maintenance of federal housing projects.

Silver returns to federal court tomorrow to listen as prosecutors accuse him for a second time of collecting $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

NEW YORK (AP)-- New York's former assembly speaker returns to federal court Monday to listen as prosecutors accuse him for a second time of collecting $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

Silver returns to federal court Monday April 30, 2018, to listen as prosecutors accuse him for a second time of collecting $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

Silver, 74, is on trial for the second time in three years on charges that he sold his office as one of the three most powerful politicians in the state — along with the Senate majority leader and governor — in exchange for $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks.

A former chief executive of the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan has been charged with receiving about $ 1.4 million in illegal payments in an extortion and kickback scheme carried out between 1996 and 2007.

Prosecutors charge that Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side, traded official actions for $ 3 million in an illegal kickback scheme.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful men in New York politics over the last two decades, was arrested Thursday on federal corruption charges alleging he steered real estate legislation and funneled state medical research funds in return for $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks.

Silver's lawyers argue each of the alleged schemes represents a «routine financial relationship with the entity to which he is allegedly steering business» and does constitute «the sort of «side payment... from a third party» that Skilling requires for a payment to be deemed an illegal bribe or kickback.»

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- New York's former assembly speaker returns to federal court Monday to listen as prosecutors accuse him for a second time of collecting $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

Silver, who resigned from his post as Speaker in February following his arrest for allegedly pocketing millions in illegal kickbacks, had tried to get the suit dismissed, arguing that Bharara created a «media firestorm» that made it so Silver wouldn't stand a chance in front of a jury.

Prosecutors say Silver collected $ 700,000 in illegal kickbacks from law firm Goldberg & Iryami for steering Glenwood's business to it.

There have even been cases in which real estate agents have received illegal kickbacks and fee splitting in return for recommending clients to certain lenders.

Blumenthal is already investigating Hunt Liebert and Bendett & McHugh for complaints related to improper service, illegal practices and allocating work to process servers who fail to serve papers or take kickbacks.

«Illinois lawyer tied to indicted law firm; A Tribune investigation raises questions about fees paid to a Springfield attorney by a high - powered law firm; That firm was indicted last month in California on charges it lured clients with illegal kickbacks»: The Chicago Tribune today contains a lengthy article that begins, «For the last three decades, whenever a major corporation has been accused of cheating its stockholders, the powerhouse New York law firm of Milberg Weiss hasn't been far behind with a class - action lawsuit.»

United States of America, et al. v. AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Inc.: Cohen Milstein represents three former managers of the AHF in a Federal and Florida State Whistleblower Act claims against the nation's largest provider of HIV / AIDS medical care for illegal patient referral kickbacks.

NewDay's payments to the veterans» organization and the coordinating company for these referral activities constituted illegal kickbacks violated Section 8 of RESPA.

Planet Home Lending, a mortgage servicer, received a $ 265k fine for taking illegal kickbacks from Prospect.

Prospect Mortgage, LLC, a major mortgage lender, and two real estate brokerages have been ordered by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to pay more than $ 3.5 million in civil penalties and consumer compensation for participating in an «illegal kickback scheme» for mortgage business referrals.

Keller Williams Realty Mid-Willamette, a real estate brokerage located in Corvallis, Oregon, has been penalized and fined by a federal financial watchdog for participating in what has been called an illegal kickback scheme.

For a business intent on paying illegal kickbacks it is only a matter of performing a cost benefit analysis to determine that it is a profitable proposition to violate the law.

For example, in 2007 First American Title Insurance Company was fined $ 500,000 in Minnesota for operating what the Minnesota Department of Commerce said were «sham title agencies that provided illegal referral kickbacks to local real estate agents, mortgage brokers, developers and other industry players» (click here for the Star Tribune article — article has been removed by Star TribunFor example, in 2007 First American Title Insurance Company was fined $ 500,000 in Minnesota for operating what the Minnesota Department of Commerce said were «sham title agencies that provided illegal referral kickbacks to local real estate agents, mortgage brokers, developers and other industry players» (click here for the Star Tribune article — article has been removed by Star Tribunfor operating what the Minnesota Department of Commerce said were «sham title agencies that provided illegal referral kickbacks to local real estate agents, mortgage brokers, developers and other industry players» (click here for the Star Tribune article — article has been removed by Star Tribunfor the Star Tribune article — article has been removed by Star Tribune).