Sentences with phrase «of false accounting»

The announcement follows an SFO investigation into allegations of false accounting by Tesco Stores to inflate profits by # 263m.
The MP, who was due to stand trial at Southwark crown court, today changed his plea to guilty, admitting three charges of false accounting relating to claims for repairs, utility bills, council tax and house maintenance between 2005 and 2008.
A 57 - year - old barrister and former Conservative special adviser, Lord Taylor is the second Tory peer to charged with fraud over his parliamentary expenses, after Lord Hanningfield was accused of false accounting in February.
The Crown Prosecution Service announced that the Conservative peer had been charged with six counts of false accounting, and would appear before a Westminster magistrates» court next month.
Today the Crown Prosecution Service has announced that Lord Taylor Taylor has been charged with six counts of false accounting under the Theft Act, relating to claims for more than # 11,000 overnight subsistence and mileage.
Lord Hanningfield was convicted of six counts of false accounting under section 17 of the Theft Act 1968.
She is to appear at Westminster magistrates court on September 19th to face 15 charges of false accounting and six of forgery, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed.
Eric Illsley, the MP for Barnsley Central, has just pleaded guilty to all three charges of false accounting relating to more than # 14,000 of his parliamentary expenses claims, reports the BBC.
Wehner admits that Facebook has increased its estimation of false accounts from 1 percent last quarter to 2 percent to 3 percent this quarter, or 41 million to 62 million monthly active users.

Not exact matches

The Manafort / Gates indictment was unsealed Monday morning, and it contains 12 counts: conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.
We now know that Russian - sponsored trolls used phony accounts and networks of automated «bots» to stoke controversies and seed the news ecosystem with false narratives during the 2016 presidential election.
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Essentially, Stumpf's argument is that he accepts responsibility for the scandal, but that senior executives did not create a culture that encouraged the type of behavior that led to employees opening 2 million false accounts.
«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.
But Woolsey's statements to the Journal and CNN, and the FARA filing now suggest this was either false or a woefully incomplete account of the client and the purpose of Flynn's work — that Flynn was actually advising the Turkish government about the extrajudicial removal of a green card holder from the United States.
The study, highlighted this week in The Atlantic, surveyed the spread of 126,000 news stories, including both true accounts and false «rumor cascades,» on Twitter between September 2006 and December 2016.
According to the indictment, the operatives illegally took social security numbers and birth dates of Americans without their knowledge and created fake means of identification, including false driver's licenses, which allowed them to open and maintain PayPal accounts.
«Defendants and their co-conspirators also obtained, and attempted to obtain, false identification documents to use as proof of identity in connection with maintaining accounts and purchasing advertisements on social media sites,» the indictment says.
He and Manafort had also been charged in October with 12 counts including conspiracy against the US, conspiracy to launder money, being an unregistered agent of a foreign principal, making false and misleading statements, and failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.
While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.
The indictment also cites a number of paid social media ads denigrating Clinton, bought with Russian money funneled through PayPal accounts set up using false U.S. identities.
He calls the story of massive switching by iPhone fans every year a «false narrative,» noting that the fourth quarter — when Apple's new phones typically are on sale — accounted for just 26 % of customer defections the past few years.
This work also reduces the distribution of content that violates our policies, since fake accounts often distribute deceptive material, such as false news, hoaxes, and misinformation.
Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.
Facebook's four - part plan includes combating foreign interference, removing fake accounts, increasing ads transparency, and reducing the spread of false news.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment outlined the efforts of the Kremlin - linked Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency, which spread false stories and propaganda using thousands of accounts.
When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.
Creating millions of fake accounts and bots impersonating real people with real - sounding names and photos, fooling millions with the false impression of consensus.
Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
Some far - fetched examples might be fraud, some sort of US asset freeze / repatriation, false accounting, improper checks and balances or insurances as it cuts costs to keep its TER down, moneys not properly segregated between account owners, computer error...
My point here is this, don't allow yourself to be lulled into a false sense of security by the promises of simple accounting software.
We deployed a number of new tools that we'd developed to find fake accounts who were trying to spread false news, and we got them off before a lot of the discussion around the election.
There is no limit to membership here and the false sense of scarcity has been created to convince you to open an account as soon as possible.
While there are reasons Trump may want to skip an interview — «there is no point in walking in and providing more information to the special counsel and risk the possibility of making false statements» — the president and his team must also take public reaction into account, Ray said.
He acknowledged obstructing justice by creating a false cover story to blame his brother Bing Wang, who resides in rural China, for the insider trading and ownership of the Unicorn account.
I am so sorry that you have been told / taught such awful things about Jesus, but whether or not you believe He is fully man and also fully God, there is more than enough proof historically and in present scripture to show that labeling Him as a mysogonist and an advocate for murder is a drastically false account of who He is and what He stood for.
That is, if Wilson's purely functionalist explanation of religion were to become widely accepted by religious people, it would then be rendered false» for the adaptive features of religions depend, on Wilson's account, upon religious people thinking it false that their religions are best understood as adaptive social organisms.
They were upset about land, and by creating this community, it gave them power... I can easily see historically how through the nature of man this religion formed... but, if one holds the Bible to be the account of the one true God and He speciifically states the word is God... and then goes on to say there will be false prophets... there you have it.
You claimed science proves the Bible wrong as to Joshua's account of the moon and sun stopping which is false and can not be supported by science (including Newton's law which you interjected)
They are not on account of this inherently false; however, since they are the product of a mind incapable of taking all in at a glance, they are necessarily limited in their expression of reality.
By one account, the demons, the false chimeras, and the rest were real creatures banished by the coming of the Word; by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seeing.
He says Hes got the facts... I doubt It and im sure the had the standard 24 hour clock format or the ability to account for daylight savings time was a part of everyday culture... I see this is one last shot at fame for an 89 year old FALSE PROPHET
orse than these fallacies is that Beck's theory fails to account for the majority of false abuse allegations.
However, there is plenty of evidence that the biblical account is false.
This is combined with an alarming tendency to make sweeping statements such as; «New Testament scholars sometimes say that the Gospel accounts of the appearances of the risen Christ are false and his followers did not intentionally claim to be eye - witnesses to his resurrection», without references to back it up.
So when the Flood and the magnetic field is taken into account, it is reasonable to believe that the Assumption of equilibrium is a false one.
Thus false testimony can not at all be reduced to an error in the account of things seen: false testimony is a lie in the heart of the witness.
And now we are back to my question: Why can we see «through» the blatant lies and false accusations and scapegoating violence when we read the account of the crucifixion, but not when we read the rest of the Bible?
Jeremy, you wrote, «Why can we see «through» the blatant lies and false accusations and scapegoating violence when we read the account of the crucifixion, but not when we read the rest of the Bible?»
Following the lead of Archbishop Lefebvre, the clergy of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)-- the ordained members of the Lefebvrist movement — have long claimed that what the Council taught on religious freedom is false because it contradicted settled Catholic teaching — a claim that has more to do with the agitations of post-1789 French politics than with a serious account of the history of Catholic church - state doctrine.
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