Sentences with phrase «illegal payments as»

Prosecutors said he used a law practice to mask illegal payments as legitimate outside income.

Evidence and testimony showed how some lawmakers can wield their considerable power to extort benefits for themselves or others; how the weak enforcement of lax financial disclosure requirements gives legislators ample opportunity to mask illegal payments as outside income; how moneyed real estate interests spend millions of dollars in campaign contributions to influence legislation; and how power is concentrated in the hands of the so - called three men in a room: the legislative leaders and the governor.

Not exact matches

In January 2013, representatives Elijah Cummings and Henry Waxman reported that emails they received demonstrated that then - Wal - Mart CEO Mike Duke knew as early as 2005 about the alleged illegal payments to Mexican officials to secure construction permits.

«When thought of purely as a payment instrument, it seems more likely to be attractive to those who want to make transactions in the black or illegal economy, rather than everyday transactions,» Governor Philip Lowe said in a speech in Sydney Wednesday.

While once notorious as payment for illegal goods online, thousands of reputable e-commerce businesses are starting to accept BTC as payment, including Etsy vendors, Wordpress, Overstock.com, Amazon.com.

To top off its challenges, the company announced in September that it was looking into certain eyebrow - raising payments made by its employees to various foreign government officials as they could have constituted illegal bribes.

Criminals have used cryptocurrencies and its promise of anonymity as a way to carry out illegal activities like receiving ransom payments and selling banned goods without being caught.

Currently, Bitcoin is still the dominant payment method for illegal goods on the cyber-criminal underground, but as the cryptocurrency's use as a payment system continues to decline, new and more efficient payment channels will take its place.

Cohen's hand was apparently forced by the watchdog group Common Cause, which last month announced it was filing a complaint arguing that Cohen's $ 130,000 payment could be construed as an illegal 2016 campaign contribution.

Coin.mx sold Bitcoins that were used in illegal online transactions and as payment in ransomware attacks.

And as it inches closer to mainstream adoption, the more radical and sometimes illegal uses (such as gambling and ransomware payments) will likely give way market share to uses that have broad appeal (such as machine payments and store of value).

Once the report has been received by the competent authorities, the Indian Government alongside with the Reserve Bank of India, also known as RBI, have responded and said that they will investigate the issue and do their best in order to ensure that the bitcoin payment method is not used for illegal purposes.

As stated in its news release, the CFPB's investigation found that Keller Williams Mid-Willamette (and another company, ReMax Gold Coast) accepted illegal payments for referrals to the aforementioned mortgage company.

Critics of the president have claimed that payments to Karen McDougal, left, and Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, amount to illegal campaign contributions.

The Dolphins at No. 13 overall took a player whose social media accounts had been hacked on draft night and revealed a video of him smoking from a bong, texts implicating he took illegal payments while at Mississippi and a press conference where he admitted both as mistakes.

Thus, while the donation may have been illegal due to the mechanics of the payment (and I'm fine with looking into that), I don't think we should consider the donation itself as particularly significant, as far as impacts on the election.

Lula is under suspicion of receiving illegal payments from companies involved in the corruption scandal of Petrobras, as well as of withholding details of two properties (both largely renovated by corporations investigated in the so - called Car Wash Operation) from the authorities.

Poloncarz added, «This task force will serve as a strong deterrent against local providers» taking advantage of the system and, in instances when we identify waste, fraud or abuse, we now will have the ability to actually recover improper or illegal payments made to these providers.

In addition to serving as a strong deterrent against local providers» taking advantage of the system, in instances when we identify waste, fraud or abuse, we now will have the ability to recover improper or illegal payments made to these providers.

The complaint accuses Kelly of distributing more than $ 750,000 in bribes — $ 474,000 to a lobbyist who acted essentially as a conduit for illegal payments and another $ 287,000 to Joseph Percoco, who is described as Cuomo's «right - hand man.»

(c) False information in registering or voting; penalties Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $ 10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both: Provided, however, That this provision shall be applicable only to general, special, or primary elections held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting or electing any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the United States Senate, Member of the United States House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, or Resident Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Critics of the president have claimed that payments to Karen McDougal, left, and Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, amount to illegal campaign contributions.

Seminerio was indicted in December on charges he set up a fake consulting firm to take in more than $ 1 million in illegal payments from clients who sought his influence as a legislator in Albany.

Prof. Dankofa, among other things, in suit KDH / KAD / 236 / 2018 is praying the court to «declare that the action of the respondents (Kaduna State Government and Kaduna Geographic Information Service, KADGIS) in arrogating to themselves the power to punitively sanction the Applicants (Hunkuyi and his Company, Muna Investment Ltd) property, even if the Applicants were purportedly in default of payment of either ground rent or land use charge or for any other reason constitute a gross violation of Applicant Fundamental Human Right guaranteed under section 43 (1) and 46 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and therefore illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.»

It's also worth noting you can get a mortgage — even as an illegal immigrant — though it does require a significant down payment.

The companies in question charge American borrowers high and often illegal fees for fraudulent services such as loan forgiveness and payment reduction.

However, illegal dumping and payment avoidance issues make unlimited pickup more attractive to municipalities, such as Toledo, that just add the cost to the tax bill.

However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand for wood products, expansion of industrial agriculture, illegal and unplanned forest conversion, conflicts over land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect» forests through «payment for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.

Argentina to appeal decision declaring payment with Bank of New York Mellon Corp. as illegal, Reuters

In the context of such a scheme in Germany which had been negotiated by the social partners as an important element of an overall scheme to eradicate an old age - based payment scheme which was about to become illegal, they held that the protection of the established rights of one category of persons can in general justify a measure restrictive of equality if that restriction does not go beyond what is necessary for that protection.

The argument in the US against the NDA entered into by Stephanie Gregory Clifford, professionally known as Stormy Daniels, Stormy Waters, or just «Stormy», is that the monies promised or paid to her (and the issue of payment is disputed) was or amounted to an illegal campaign donation and this is a criminal act in the US.

However, as this $ 90k payment is illegal, it is almost by definition unethical for a lawyer to facilitate it.

Illegal or improper use of the Internet Banking shall render the User liable for payment of financial charges as decided by Exide Life or will result in suspension of the operations through the payment gateway.

Yet at the same time, illegal black marketplaces with bitcoin being used as a payment method continue to flourish.

Reports have it that digital coins are widely used in the dark web as a form of payment for illegal purchases such as firearms, ammunition, drugs and criminal services.

However, Reuters reported the opposition party is still denouncing the cryptocurrency initiative as an «illegal» ploy for the ruling party to get advance payments on prospective oil sales.

The DFS highlights three areas of particular concern: ensuring payments are processed quickly to build user confidence that money will not «get stuck in a digital black hole»; ensuring virtual currencies do not become the tool of choice for terrorists, drug smugglers, illegal weapons dealers, money launderers, and human traffickers; making sure that the use of bitcoin as an investment is governed properly.

Indian authorities will crackdown on illegal cryptocurrency activities and will discourage the public from using cryptocurrencies as payment methods.

Furthermore, starting from 1 January 2018, issuing, trading and using illegal means of payment, including bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, may be subject to prosecution, as amended to the penal code of Vietnam in 2017.

But while Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies being used in Chechnya as an «innovative payment network» is probably still a long way off, Kadyrov has shown the rest of the world that it is not illegal to buy cryptocurrency in Russia, and in an Islam - dominated part of the country, nonetheless.

In a statement released today, China's National Internet Finance Association (NIFA) asserted that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have become a tool for speculation among investors, while also serving as a payment conduit for illegal fundraising and money laundering.

Bitcoin isn't among them and is ruled as an illegal payment instrument.

«Virtual currency is currently unable to function as a means of payment and it is being used for illegal purposes like money laundering, scams and fraudulent investor operations.

For example, if an individual purchases a home and uses illegal funds as part of the down payment, this would be considered integration.

While the licensees argued that no one had determined that the arrangement was illegal, the Commission found numerous problems with this arrangement, as it artificially inflated the value of the property and overstated the payments made by the Buyer.

«In short, the scheme allowed defendants and participating real estate agents and brokers to camouflage illegal kickbacks and referral fees as sub-license payments.»

The agency alleged that brokers ReMax Gold Coast of Ventura County and Keller Williams Mid-Willamette of Oregon, as well as mortgage servicer Planet Home Lending, accepted illegal kickback payments from Prospect.