Sentences with phrase «of illegal payment»

The record - breaking # 14bn claim was brought against MasterCard in September, on behalf of 46 million British debit and credit card holders over the company's charging of illegal payment fees.

Bank accounts carry more potentially traceable information than any other facet of an illegal payments system, even more than phone records.

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.

Deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers told the Leveson inquiry a «culture of illegal payments» existed at the Murdoch - owned tabloid which saw one individual receive over # 80,000.

Not exact matches

(Two lawmakers were convicted of receiving illegal payments.)

«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.

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.

He saw an internally circulated spreadsheet detailing illegal payments the company made to various levels of government.

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.

In the case of Ira Rubin, he had a payment processing empire that worked on behalf of many different industries, all of which were engaged in illegal conduct,» said James Davis, an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission.

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.

The Enquirer never published a story about the alleged affair, and Common Cause asserts that if the payment was intended to keep Ms. McDougal quiet, it would be an illegal coordinated expenditure by a company on behalf of the Trump campaign.

For years, the cryptocurrency has been the payment method of choice for people buying and selling drugs and other illegal items on the dark net.

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.

January 22, 2018: The campaign finance and anti-corruption watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice asking them to «determine whether the payment was made by the Trump Organization or some other corporation or individual, which would additionally make it an illegal in - kind contribution to the campaign.»

In its complaints, the group said a $ 150,000 payment in August 2016 from the parent company of the National Enquirer to Karen McDougal was intended to «buy and bury» the story of her affair with Trump and amounted to an illegal, in - kind contribution to Trump's presidential campaign.

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.

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.

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.

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.

US official: «Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA» http://t.co/dg6cA23GWj — Rob Harris (@RobHarris) May 27, 2015

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.

Part of this is undoubtedly of his own making — he was expelled from football after making an illegal payment to himself from the club's funds.

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.

Silver is accused of using his political position to gain over $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks and bribery payments in schemes involving cancer patients and two major real estate firms.

The payment Cohen made to her is now the subject of complaints to the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission, alleging that it was an illegal campaign contribution.

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.

The former Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, who is now facing a jail term, drew on one of those funds to make illegal payments to a cancer researcher who also recommended clients to Silver's law firm.

Anthony Seminerio pled guilty to charges of corruption, having disguised illegal payments from

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.

[6][7] Illegal means of gaining information used included hacking the private voicemail accounts on mobile phones, hacking into computers, making false statements to officials, entrapment, blackmail, burglaries, theft of mobile phones and making payments to public officials.

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.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is now facing a jail term, drew on one of those funds to make illegal payments to a cancer researcher who also recommended clients to Silver's law firm.

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.»

Prosecutors allege that Silver had an «undisclosed interest» in helping Glenwood Management and that Silver was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal payments.

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

He was also alleged to have used public funds to finance private expenses, while engaging in illegal payment of allowances to the university's council members.

(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.

When the validity of Rosenthal's «consulting» arrangement with the Housing Authority was questioned, Rosenthal and Meissner submitted a falsified, backdated contract in an effort to cover the illegal retirement payments.

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.

And the payment of placement fees to a middleman is not illegal unless prosecutors can prove it is a de facto bribe.

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.

Daramola was also said to have allegedly used public funds to finance private expenses, while engaging in illegal payment of allowances to the university's council members.

Critics say the city's payments to restore Reliant workers are a giveaway of taxpayer funds and possibly illegal.

ALBANY — A judge dropped one of the extortion charges against a former top adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, noting that some of the alleged illegal payments received by the ex-official, Joseph Percoco, came while he was off the state payroll.

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.