Sentences with phrase «illegal payments for»

The CFPB also moved against two realty brokerage firms — Re / Max Gold Coast of Ventura, Calif., and Keller Williams Mid-Willamette of Corvallis, Ore. — for allegedly accepting illegal payments for referrals from Prospect.

On Thursday January 22, 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Maryland Attorney General fined two banks for illegal payments for referrals under the guise of marketing and other agreements under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA).

The government says Mr. Silver received illegal payments for using his influence to benefit Glenwood, a privately held firm that is also one of the state's largest contributors to political campaigns.

At Mr. Silver's trial, the government presented evidence that prosecutors said showed he had orchestrated two schemes through which he obtained nearly $ 4 million in illegal payments for taking official actions that benefited a prominent cancer researcher, Dr. Robert N. Taub, at Columbia University, and two New York real estate development firms.

According to a January 31, 2017 press release from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Keller Williams Realty Mid-Willamette (a.k.a., Willamette Legacy, LLC) accepted illegal payments for referring mortgage customers to Prospect Mortgage, LLC, which was also penalized by federal officials.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

And while the Canadian and American systems provide exemptions for payments permitted or required under the laws of the foreign country, Britain's legislation prohibits any payment that would be illegal in the U.K., including facilitation payments.

If we don't want it to become the preferred payment system for purchasing recreational drugs, prohibited sexual material or your favorite illegal good, it can be redesigned.

Because payments with it are essentially impossible to trace, a lot of its use case has been for buying and selling drugs and weapons and carrying out other illegal transactions.

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Those trying to make the campaign - finance violation stick should thank Giuliani for helping clarify that the payment was related to the campaign, and thus potentially illegal.

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.

The deal about this kind of services is that they only convert bitcoin into rubles and execute payments by using the national Russian currency and so there are no reasons for the Russian government to consider it illegal.

Not only is free assistance available through your student loan servicer, many times taking payment for debt relief services before providing help is illegal.

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.

Reports from state - owned media sources in China on January 19, 2018, indicate that a circular, titled «Notice Concerning the Self - examination and Rectification of Providing Payment Services for Illegal Virtual Currency Transactions,» was released online.

If true, the payment for arguably a campaign - related expense (silencing a porn star days before the election) could constitute an illegal loan to the campaign by Michael Cohen and an unreported expenditure by Trump.

But it's easy to imagine a scenario in which banks based in the mainland are told it's illegal to participate in processing payments of salaries for Puerto Rico's police officers because Puerto Rico's bondholders have not yet been paid.

Trump is already facing a complaint from the watchdog group Common Cause, which argues that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's payment of $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump may have been an illegal campaign contribution.

But if it is a payment for their work then it's illegal to discriminate against someone who chooses to use their paid benefit for something you or your Church disagree with.

Pitino was first placed on administrative leave, then fired by Louisville on Oct. 16 amid an FBI investigation involving corruption and alleged illegal payments to recruit Brian Bowen, who was cleared by the FBI but will not play for the Cardinals this season.

When Sir Henry Norris took over Woolwich Arsenal in 1910, from his personal wealth he paid off the clubs significant debts, paid for the building of Highbury stadium, appointed Herbert Chapman, backed him financially and was eventually banned from football for life while at Arsenal because of illegal payments to players.

Silver also had and received payment for «no - show» jobs, but they too — weren't technically illegal.

John Marriotta, the former president of the company, had had two out of four convictions overturned; and E. Robert Wallach's conviction for receiving illegal payments was also reversed.

Is it illegal for US citizens to accept payments (from foreign private concerns) for shilling political opinions they don't personally hold?

The 13 Russians who were indicted were not charged with accepting payments for illegal campaign ads (which is not to say that they didn't do it).

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke for the first time since news broke that his former close associate is under federal investigation for possibly taking illegal payments from developers working on state economic development projects.

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.»

Deliberations began on Tuesday morning after a three - week trial in which prosecutors sought to prove that Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, had obtained nearly $ 4 million in illegal payments in exchange for taking official actions that benefited a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.

«American and Danish companies find it difficult to do business in Ghana because of the demand for illegal payments, `

(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.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit tossed out Silver's 2015 conviction last month on charges that he used his assembly post to enrich himself by obtaining illegal payments from two entities he helped steer state funds into.

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.

At that session, a bill was rejected and then committed an illegal act by delaying payments,» said Art Schuermann, an attorney for the New York School Administrators Association.

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.»

David A. Paterson in the final months of his administration sent a «notice of claim» in 2010 when the Senecas withheld casino payments because of what it called illegal competition in an exclusivity zone of casinos carved out for the tribe.

to split the wide - ranging corruption case into two trials — one that would center on alleged illegal payments to Joseph Percoco, a former top aide for Governor Andrew Cuomo, and another that would center on certain upstate development deals connected to the Buffalo Billion that were administered by a nonprofit affiliate of SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

The government says that in a second scheme, Mr. Silver obtained about $ 700,000 in illegal payments through the law firm Goldberg & Iryami in exchange for having the two developers send the law firm certain tax business.

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.

Sheldon Silver — the former New York State Assembly speaker accused of receiving illegal payments from real estate developers and others in exchange for political support — had his 2015 corruption conviction overturned Thursday.

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.»

«COR's attempt in June 2016 to negotiate a check purportedly issued by the defendant, dated December 28, 2015, was knowingly and legally a vacant, illegal and ineffective act, purporting to demand payment for a non-existent debt,» the lawyers wrote.

No refund is possible under any circumstances, except for illegal use of a means of payment.

«PayPal's worst fear was always that their payment systems would be used for illegal underage erotica and illegal underage pornography,» says Coker.

Plus, the bank had set up the illegal late fees for some borrowers even when payments were made on time.

Illegal weapons, drugs, and stolen payment card information are a few examples of the material that can be found for sale.

Not only is free assistance available through your student loan servicer, many times taking payment for debt relief services before providing help is illegal.

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