Sentences with phrase «of fraud committed»

«Reported cases of fraud committed by real estate brokers and agents in Québec are very rare,» says Paul Mayer, chairman of the board of the Fonds d'indemnisation du courtage immobilier.

Researched, Investigated, and determined types of fraud committed by parties involved with the loan.

It is a form of fraud committed against the people who donate to the rescue group thinking they are helping to «save» or «rescue» an animal in need.

RG: I think there was a warning that should have been heeded that came as a result of the exposure of the fraud committed by the South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang in 2004.

The 40 - year - old man from Oslo is wanted by Norwegian and Swiss police for spectacular acts of fraud committed the last ten years.

Few would disagree with the Attorney General's contention that, before the introduction of the Fraud Act 2006 (FrA 2006), deception offences were «too precise, overlapping and outmoded to give effective coverage over the breadth of frauds committed today» (speech to Annual Financial Crime Conference, 15 November 2005).

Not exact matches

Shares in Sino - Forest, a TSX - listed company that operates forestry plantations in China, have plummeted 68 % since a research firm issued an extensive report on Thursday accusing the company of committing a fraud of «stratospheric» proportions.

Due to rising concerns about the use of stolen biometric identifiers to commit identity fraud, the vote wasn't even close.

If a client seeks their lawyer's advice on a matter that could be illegal or expose them to criminal liability, and the client uses the advice to commit a crime or act of fraud, the attorney could be asked to testify against their client.

The same applies if the attorney is the one accused of committing a crime or fraud as part of their work for the client.

Baratov pleaded guilty in November to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse and eight counts of aggravated identity theft.

Often, that translates to employees on the front lines stealing patient medical data or client social security numbers, which can then be sold on the black market or used to commit fraud like collecting someone else's social security benefits, opening new credit card accounts in another's name, or applying for health insurance by assuming the identity of someone else.

According to a report from Bloomberg, Greebel was convicted of conspiring to commit wire fraud and securities fraud.

He was convicted of two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud — although the jury acquitted him of five other counts.

It's worth asking how someone could commit nearly a billion dollars of fraud and now just lose control of her company.

Potter, Colpitts and Clarke each face single counts of market fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud affecting the public market, and two counts of fraud involving more than $ 5,000.

Tomasz Chmielarz, 33, pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark, N.J., to charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and related activity related to computers and e-mail, while Devin McArthur, 27, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Many of us routinely commit, participate in and enable fraud, Murphy's research indicates.

The FBI raided Cohen's office and hotel room earlier this month as part of a criminal investigation into whether Cohen violated campaign finance laws or committed bank fraud, The Washington Post reported.

And how many of them are the starched - collar crooks who commit securities fraud?

All the defendants were charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the US; the IRA and two defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud; and the IRA and four defendants were charged with aggravated identity theft.

Joseph «Chip» Skowron III, a former FrontPoint portfolio manager, plead guilty today to a single count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and to obstruct a SEC investigation.

I wasn't cheering because I have it in for Duhaime (who has been charged with — but not convicted of — fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and the use of false documents in association with an SNC project to redevelop the massive McGill University Health Centre).

«We will continue to vigorously police conduct involving distributed ledger technology and ensure that bad actors who commit fraud in this space are held accountable,» Lara S. Mehraban, Associate Regional Director of the SEC's New York Regional Office said in the statement.

Pitino offered a statement on Tuesday, saying that «these third - party schemes, initiated by a few bad actors, operated to commit a fraud on the impacted universities and basketball programs, including the University of Louisville.»

«The people who operate Bitcoin would, of course, be prohibited from committing fraud but the people should be able to have competition whether it is a basket of commodities or crypto - currencies - it should be perfectly legal.»

«As alleged, top executives of Insys Therapeutics, Inc. paid kickbacks and committed fraud to sell a highly potent and addictive opioid that can lead to abuse and life threatening respiratory depression,» said Harold Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Boston field division, in a statement.

You've surely seen that operators of an ICO were recently arrested for committing fraud in association with a project to offer a debit card.

The document says the cases involving Netanyahu deal with «a suspicion of committing crimes of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.»

«Criminals use U.S. shell companies to commit financial fraud, drug trafficking, even terrorist financing, in part because our states don't require anyone to name the owners of the companies they form,» Levin said in an email to Reuters.

In all, the TSSB said that R2B committed fraud, failed to disclose the basis for how it calculates the value of the coins it is issuing, and furthermore, must immediately cease and desist from offering securities in the state pursuant to the Texas Securities Act.

Enterprise liability, by contrast, places the responsibility of proceeding against the wrongful agents with the firm, and thus with the very agents (and their close associates) most likely to have committed fraud.

In November, the FBI charged Brooklyn businessman Maksim Zaslavskiy with securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud for allegedly bilking investors out of $ 300,000 through an ICO scam called REcoin which he claimed was «the first - ever cryptocurrency backed by real estate.»

The Ranbaxy debacle crossed a crucial threshold in the fall of 2004, when a senior company executive disclosed to a subcommittee of the Board of Directors that the company had committed a massive and ongoing fraud, and that over 200 drug products in more than 40 countries had been submitted to regulators with elements of fabricated data.

The expansion of the board is at the heart of the lawsuit: Benchmark says Kalanick committed fraud by pitching a board expansion while not informing them of the true crises the company was managing under his leadership.

On their motion for summary judgment, defendants argued that plaintiffs had not satisfied the loss causation requirement of Section 10 (b) because plaintiffs» losses were not caused by the revelation that First Solar had committed fraud.

In recent years, defendants in Section 10 (b) actions in the Ninth Circuit have routinely cited to the Metzler line of cases to support an argument that loss causation is absent in any case where losses were sustained prior to the market learning the fact that defendants had committed fraud.

B.C. Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair called on the RCMP on Monday, Dec. 9 to launch an investigation into Tim Hortons in light of serious allegations of theft and fraud committed against employees who are Temporary Foreign Workers.

The district court in First Solar ultimately applied the standard from the Daou line of cases and held that plaintiffs did not need to show that the market reacted to the fact that First Solar had committed fraud in order to satisfy the loss causation requirement.

That is, to satisfy the loss causation requirement, a plaintiff need not point to a revelation that the defendants committed fraud, but rather only to a revelation of the facts concealed by the fraud.

Click on any group of JPMC customers in the roulette wheel and you will see how much JPMC has been forced to pay that group to settle claims that JPMC committed fraud or violations of law, just in the last five years.

They were also accused of failing to appropriately disclose their foreign work and foreign assets, and of committing tax, financial, and bank fraud crimes, some of which took place as recently as last year.

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In the province of Québec, Québec's securities regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), administers a compensation fund (the Fonds d'indemnisation des services financiers) which can compensate victims for losses resulting from fraud where the fraud is committed during the distribution of financial products or services.

That means more than a third of the surveyed bitcoin investors are planning to commit blatant tax fraud.

(Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison in January for securities fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, and a forfeiture order authorized the government to seize a Picasso painting and the sole copy of Wu Tang Clan's «Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.»)

Actually at least in PA, studies have shown that hunting down the few cases of fraud (a very small percent) is actually more costly then ignoring it, and would hit the people who actually need it more then the 0.5 - 1 % who may be committing fraud.

Plenty of hucksters and marketers of «belief» claim education and knowledge, but commit intellectual fraud and dishonesty to make their points.

They commit acts of violence in the name of God (nutjob anti-abortion groups), commit acts of fraud in the name of God, use God's name for political gain, and then turn their backs on the core principles of Jesus — caring for one another, compassion, helping those less fortunate, giving of yourself to do good, to make things better.

'' [The Christians] were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reas semble to partake of food — but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.»