Sentences with phrase «of illegal schemes»

Promoters of illegal schemes single out people in financial strife, retrenched workers and some ethnic communities.

Although English actress Imogen Poots isn't American either, she nearly saves the exercise by bringing a shred of human warmth to her portrayal of a flagrantly unfit mother who drags her 8 - year - old son through a host of illegal schemes in a desperate effort to put a roof over their heads.

He said his office will seek to use the pensions as substitute assets to satisfy any forfeiture judgments they get as a result of their illegal schemes.

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At least 35 companies, among them Anheuser - Busch InBev, BP, and BASF, have been told to pay back taxes of about 700 million euros to Belgium because of their participation in an illegal tax scheme.

«Daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling, and misleading New York consumers... Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.

The Elliotts and Giesbrecht have not been implicated in any illegal dealing — in an interview, Robin Elliott insisted this was the only time they'd ever referred members to an investment and «obviously we're never going to do it again» — but their brand of get - rich - quick seminar has become a fertile recruitment site for investors in a growing number of shady investment schemes.

Jurors in Manhattan federal court on Friday prepared to weigh charges against a Florida software engineer and a New Jersey pastor accused of scheming to help an illegal bitcoin exchange escape scrutiny.

But Apple alleges Qualcomm overcharged it billions of dollars with its «illegal scheme.»

In its October 2012 study, Virtual currency schemes, the European Central Bank concluded that the growth of virtual currencies will continue, and, given the currencies» inherent price instability, lack of close regulation, and risk of illegal uses by anonymous users, the Bank warned that periodic examination of developments would be necessary to reassess risks.

Furthermore, the consent order explained that Prospect Mortgage had designated a specific loan officer (who worked directly out of the Keller Williams Mid-Willamette office but was paid by Prospect) to maintain the illegal kickback scheme.

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.

DiNapoli said his plan would restore oversight by the comptroller over the contracts, and ban the use of nonprofit entities that federal prosecutors say were used to mask the illegal schemes.

«Senator Sampson allegedly stole that money to fund his own ambition to become Brooklyn's top state prosecutor, then engaged in an elaborate obstruction scheme to hide his illegal conduct, going so far as to counsel lies and the hiding of evidence,» she said.

Edward Mangano, 55, of Bethpage, and Venditto, 68, of North Massapequa, are accused of taking bribes in what is also known as an illegal «stream of benefits» scheme while they were in office, prosecutors say.

The state contended that before running for mayor of North Tonawanda, the Army veteran who won a Bronze Star in Afghanistan participated in an illegal scheme to pad his taxpayer - funded salary.

It's important to note that the Senate Democrats were the subject of a very serious criminal referral and remain under investigation for an illegal scheme they hatched with Mayor de Blasio to circumvent the state's campaign finance limits and steal the elections in 2014.»

Her husband is one of the biggest lobbyists in Albany, she used to be a lobbyist, until she went to work for Spitzer and then used her elected office to stop an effort by Farley's son to have the Schenectady County Legislature object to Spitzer's crazy scheme to give illegal aliens drivers licenses.

The grand jury indictment against Ortt involved allegedly false filings of election campaign documents over what Schneiderman said was an illegal scheme intended to make up for a $ 5,000 cut in pay Ortt would get as mayor from posts he held as North Tonawanda city clerk and treasurer.

In the House of Commons yesterday, the prime minister said that «by its very nature, illegal immigration is very difficult to measure», but insisted that policies such as the electronic borders scheme and ID cards would help to address the problem.

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.

As witnesses testified one after another, many of the specific actions involved in the alleged schemes — from receiving legal referral fees to issuing Assembly - sponsored proclamations — were far from illegal.

Defense lawyers for hedge funder Murray Huberfeld — accused of paying ex-NYC prison guards» union head Norman Seabrook illegal bribes — demanded an «evidentiary hearing» to suss out Rechnitz's role in Nissen's alleged Ponzi scheme.

«Theresa May's ideological and unwise decision to ditch the Labour government's scheme immediately she took office as home secretary has left her and her beleaguered successor with no idea how to tackle the most pernicious form of immigration: illegal entry, usually organised by people traffickers,» they wrote.

Several Democrats also said there's widespread speculation that Cuomo had a hand in leaking the board's January memo on Friday — just days after Senate Democrats backed by de Blasio won a major special election on Long Island — that accused de Blasio and his top aides of involvement in an illegal fund - raising scheme to help elect Democrats to the Senate.

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.»

The company is reportedly under investigation by the F.B.I., the F.T.C., and a number of states for operating an illegal pyramid scheme.

They wrote: «Theresa May's ideological and unwise decision to ditch the Labour government's scheme immediately she took office as home secretary has left her and her beleaguered successor with no idea how to tackle the most pernicious form of immigration: illegal entry.

Edward Mangano and Venditto are accused of taking bribes in what is also known as an illegal «stream of benefits» scheme while they were in office, prosecutors say in court papers.

In 2002, federal investigators said Mr. Litwin and dozens of other property owners had received illegal tax breaks arranged by a consultant who was charged with bribing tax assessors in a scheme that cost the city $ 160 million in revenue over four years.

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

Mr Brown was initially hostile to the scheme because of its cost but he became an enthusiastic convert, arguing that it would tackle terrorism, organised crime, illegal immigration and identity fraud.

Straddling the border lands of the Eastern Himalayas between Kachin state in Myanmar and Yunnan province in China the Myanmar snub - nosed monkey has been seriously threated by hunting and wildlife trade, illegal logging and forest destruction linked to hydropower schemes and associated infrastructure development.

A surge in illegal totoaba fishing, undermining of compensation schemes and resistance to the use of the smart fishing gear are all contributing to the vaquita's demise and create the need for a fisheries closure with stringent, year - round enforcement.

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His scheming is dependent on the help of his wife, who becomes increasingly wary of their illegal shenanigans throughout the movie.

When it comes to the Common Core SBAC testing mania, a number of parents from across the state — along with students and teachers — have identified a significant number of school districts that are engaged in immoral, unethical and quite likely illegal efforts to undermine parental rights and bully and abuse children who have been opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing scheme.

But scrutiny of the for - profits continues: «The states have opened another line of attack, with at least 24 attorneys general investigating whether for - profit colleges under their jurisdiction have engaged in false advertising, illegal recruiting practices or predatory loan schemes.»

Reacher later breaking Seth's nose prompts members of the Duncan clan, who are involved in an illegal trafficking scheme, to seek revenge.

The DOJ accuses it of acting as the hub of an illegal price - fixing scheme in early 2010.

Gallivan says CRA has been careful in spending the extra money, adding to the ranks of auditors for large multinational companies, targeting promoters of illegal tax schemes and beefing up the criminal investigation teams with lawyers at the earliest stages.

California's attorney general filed a lawsuit against the schools and its subsidiaries (Heald, Everest College, and WyoTech) in 2013 for a predatory scheme targeting low - income students, and the schools were accused of falsely advertising programs that didn't exist, misleading students about their credits transferring to Cal State, and engaging in illegal debt collection practices.

Many of these schemes are illegal and heavy penalties apply if you participate.

That coupled with the human greed aspect of get rich quick lends to all kinds of scams and illegal schemes duping the public.

The huge drop in price is apparently the result of a Chinese investigation that is accusing the company of being an illegal pyramid scheme.

Some promoters of illegal early access schemes encourage people to withdraw their super to pay debts or transfer the money to a self - managed scheme, pocketing a large commission in the process.

Faced with tough times, such as bank foreclosures and retrenchments, some people might get caught up in illegal schemes to take their money out of super.

For more information, refer to Illegal super schemes - beware of offers to withdraw your super early.

Promoters of illegal super schemes will try to get you to believe that anyone can access their super with their help.

Illegal form of multi-level marketing where you receive benefits for recruiting others to join the scheme.

Of course the amounts involved in these scams should be reason enough to automatically make one suspicious, particularly since the schemes being proposed and the participation being solicited is patently illegal and unethical.