Sentences with phrase «illegal profits»

Sex trafficking [alone] generates $ 99 billion in illegal profits.

Specifically, that means stealing data — personal and business facts and figures that can be used to generate illegal profits.

Still, the connection between illegal profits from animal trafficking and terror is not one that's often been drawn.

«From loansharking and illegal gambling, to credit card and health care fraud, and even firearms trafficking, today's mafia is fully diversified in its boundless search for illegal profits,» Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

In a seven - count indictment in Manhattan Federal Court yesterday, Goberdhan was charged with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, and six counts of bank fraud, in which he made hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal profits by working with corrupt officers of GuyAmerican Funding, a mortgage brokerage in Jamaica, Queens.

Financial scandals have taken off during the last decade, with the new frauds yielding billions of dollars worth of illegal profit.

The criminal case follows a Sept. 18 order by a federal judge in Texas that Shavers and his company pay a total of $ 40.7 million comprising illegal profit, interest and fines in a related U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil lawsuit.

They along with a Florida man, Timothy Livingston, 30, were arrested in December in connection with several alleged computer hacking and illegal spamming schemes that targeted multiple companies and generated illegal profits exceeding $ 2 million.

«SoulCycle's expiration dates rob customers of their money, creating illegal profits for SoulCycle.»

While the bullish case for gold is directly contrary to the interests of the financial establishment generally, it is of extreme interest and benefit to the subset of the establishment that has made more than $ 1,000,000,000,000.00 in illegal profits over the past forty years by rigging the gold market, and that wishes to steal as much additional money as they can get away with.

Disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Silver's $ 70,000 a year pension was also taken into account was ordered to fork over $ 5.3 million in illegal profits on top of a $ 1.75 million fine.

We urge Congress to enact legislation which targets those who abuse the Internet ecosystem and reap illegal profits by stealing the intellectual property (IP) of America's innovative and creative industries.

SCOTLAND Yard detectives have warned how virtual currencies like Bitcoin are being exploited by criminals to buy drugs and guns and launder illegal profits.

Corporal Brent Hill of the Ontario Division of RCMP's National Chemical Diversion Program says, «Where there is easy illegal profit to be made, there is organized crime, and organized crime is gaining a steady foothold into the clandestine lab business.

CVM does not have legal authority to impose the disgorgement of illegal profits, even though fines may be fixed at an amount that neutralises the economic gain obtained from violations.

The criminal case follows a Sept. 18 order by a federal judge in Texas that Shavers give up $ 40.7 million comprising illegal profit, interest and fines in a related U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil lawsuit.

«From loansharking and illegal gambling, to credit card and health care fraud, and even firearms trafficking, today's mafia is fully diversified in its boundless search for illegal profits.

As an example, in December 2012, FINMA disgorged 59 million Swiss Francs in illegal profits (estimate) in an investigation into price fixing brought against a large international bank.

This forces the price - attacked longs to dump their losing positions, enabling the shorts to cover at an illegal profit.

The black gangs see that the Mexican gangs are taking over the streets and the illegal profits that flow with drug dealing.

The class action seeks damages «for the purchase of e-books, an injunction against pricing e-books with the agency model and forfeiture of the illegal profits received by the defendants as a result of their anti-competitive conduct which could total tens of millions of dollars.»

This issue has become a source of worry for traders as some brokers try to undercut them to make an illegal profit.

As a rule, illegal profits have to be disgorged.

The illegal profit subscale described the most severe ethical transgressions, and for both men and women, the secure participants were less apt than the other participants to report a willingness to transgress.