Sentences with phrase «of shell company»

«Through various methods, scam artists manage to accumulate large positions in the free trading shares of the shell company.

I have no hard evidence of that fact such as a written contract, but it seems that the circumstantial evidence would be enough to lead any reasonable person to conclude that you have the Rockland GOP acting as the CIA with certain individuals in the role of a shell company handler.

One, in the name of the shell company, Essential Consultants, sought to move the suit to federal court from Los Angeles Superior Court, where Ms. Clifford filed the suit.

When Mr. Cohen brought a temporary restraining order seeking to silence Ms. Clifford in late February, he did so on behalf of a shell company he used to pay her through, not on behalf of Mr. Trump.

As such, by limiting the currently available data as contained within the new law would make harder the already tedious «sifting through often - byzantine layers of shell companies and nominee shareholders to identify the true owners of certain assets,» and the ability for third parties to add information to the public sphere and marketplace of ideas is unnecessarily curtailed.

While Denmark and Slovenia have increased transparency around company ownership, Eurodad says that similar efforts have been curtailed in Luxembourg and Germany, which have sanctioned use of shell companies, trusts, holdings and foundations that can help obscure the source of assets and cash.

The key issue mentioned within transparency was the use of shell companies by MNCs to manipulate expenses and profits to avoid tax.

Instead, the developer and his associates gave with astonishing frequency using dozens of shell companies, exploiting a loophole in campaign finance laws that allowed them to give exponentially more to candidates than they would otherwise be permitted as individuals.

Basically, any manufacturer or company that would like to market a product that contains wireless capabilities over here in the US will need to send in the relevant files to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), although some companies like Amazon prefer to go on the quiet by sneaking its products quietly to the FCC database through the names of shell companies, rather than their own, in order to minimize the amount of potential attention and hopefully, be able to spring a surprise to the market — and their competitors at the same time.

The massive cache of leaked documents demonstrates how hidden ownership of shell companies can facilitate corruption, tax dodging and possibly worse.

Global Witness, and the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Action Centre, revealed earlier this year the web of shell companies, including ones from the UK and Austria, that lay behind Yanukovich's former presidential palace.

He went on to state: «It was when the Court realized Plaintiffs engaged their cloak of shell companies and fraud that the Court went to battlestations.»

In breach of duty, the defendants failed to advise the claimants that the valuation of the shell companies upon flotation was critical, wrongly advised them that the maximum loss to be suffered in the film scheme was the initial investment, and failed to advise them that there was a significant risk that the schemes would successfully be challenged by HMRC.

The rise of patent trolls, which are a target of the proposed law, can be traced in no small part to Intellectual Ventures, which has armed thousands of shell companies with old patents in recent years.

Intellectual Ventures, a firm that has spawned thousands of shell companies to pursue patent lawsuits, is starting a political action committee that could influence this year's midterm elections.

Goodlatte says this will ensure that patent trolls can not hide behind a web of shell companies to avoid accountability for bringing frivolous litigation;

An excellent study by Tom Ewing and Robin Feldman called «The Giants Among Us» attempts to map out Intellectual Ventures» thousands of shell companies to great difficulty and incomplete success.

Cambridge Analytica officials were recorded saying they have used a web of shell companies to disguise their activities in elections in Mexico, Malaysia and Brazil, among various countries where they have worked to sway election outcomes.

Investments held by the president's ultra-wealthy advisers are buried in layers of shell companies, creating vast opportunities for conflicts while minimizing transparency.

For example, a shadowy collection of shell companies has been blanketing the nation with letters demanding that companies pay them $ 1000 per employee for the privilege of using standard office technology like scanners and email.

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«Patent trolls have complex structures, with thousands of shell companies.

This troll hides behind an alphabet soup of shell companies and sends demand letters to small businesses all over the country demanding $ 1,000 per employee for the privilege of using scanners and email.

The use of shell companies by criminals to make all - cash real estate purchases served as the impetus for FinCEN's Geographic Targeting Orders that require certain U.S. title insurance companies to report beneficial ownership information on legal entities used to purchase certain high - end residential real estate.

The use of shell companies in all - cash real estate purchases is an attractive tactic for criminals seeking to conceal their identities, and launder large sums of money — ALL while escaping scrutiny of the traditional anti-money laundering protections in place in financed real estate transactions.

The Chinese owner of a A$ 39m Sydney mansion was forced to sell up earlier this year after it was revealed the property had been bought illegally through a string of shell companies.

Not exact matches

That explains why Restaurant Brands International (RBI), the Oakville, Ont. - based parent company of Tim Hortons and Burger King, will shell out US$ 1.8 billion in cash to acquire Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, an American fried chicken chain.

Foreigners are coming in and buying up property with anonymous shell companies and some of that is perfectly legitimate but some of it is clearly money laundering and corrupt officials and other people using their cash to park it in property and making it impossible for the people who live there to afford it.

Also, let's not forget that Google recently purchased Waze for $ 1.1 billion, reaffirming the company's willigness to shell out large amounts of cash to boost its local division.

But he has a «pattern» of using shell companies to purchase homes «in all - cash deals,» as WNYC has reported, and then transferring those properties into his name for no money and taking out large mortgages against them.

Hundreds of thousands of offshore entities and shell companies connected to over 200 countries and territories appear in the papers.

The scion of the famed Lundin Group, which controls almost $ 12 billion in mining company assets, placed Lamb in charge of Lucara, a non-producing shell company.

It was opened partly in response to a n examination by The New York Times of condominiums at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan whose ownership is hidden behind shell companies, according to the people with knowledge of the case.

Supporters of the Senate's SOPA, lead by Hollywood, shelled out $ 118 million to support the draft legislation, eight times the measly $ 14 million contributed by opponents of the bill (which were mostly tech companies), according to campaign - finance tracking website MapLight.

So an inspector came out to the phony, empty office, but instead of turning the group down for having no security in place, or arousing suspicion about the obvious potential that the business was a shell company, he issued a license on the spot for a small amount of radioactive material.

Meanwhile, Nike leads the list of companies reporting quarterly earnings in a week where Americans will be shelling out to stock up on candy for the Easter holiday.

The past couple of years has seen a spate of Chinese companies going public through reverse takeovers — a somewhat murky process in which a private firm purchases a shell company that already trades on a foreign exchange.

After taking control of the company, Shefler reportedly sold off the rights to the Stoli brand to a shell company he had established, and continued exporting Stoli products.

Still there are advantages for companies that can shell out that kind of cash.

However, the entities incorporated by CASPERSEN (the «Fake Funds») were merely shell companies created by CASPERSEN solely for the purpose of perpetrating his fraud scheme, and were in no way affiliated with or authorized by the Legitimate Funds.

So when Daren Metropoulos bought the 12 - bedroom house in 2016, it was the private equity firm Rizvi — through a shell company called «Mansion Holdings» — on the other side of the $ 100 million deal, according to the public records.

One of the companies listed among the shell corporations in the Panamanian records apparently supplied fuel for the aircraft that the Syrian government used to bomb and kill thousands of its own citizens, the ICIJ says.

When you're the head of a company and you're shelling out a good portion of money towards employee compensation, it seems counter-intuitive to give time off and regain responsibilities that you had hired for.

That means they can «fail fast,» testing products with the rapidity of a tech company, and tap e-commerce and digital advertising instead of breaking into bricks and mortar and shelling out millions for TV ads.

Some UK shell companies under offshore control may be skirting new rules which were designed to clamp down on corruption and tax evasion by forcing businesses to reveal their true owners, a Reuters analysis of corporate filings shows.

Of 300 offshore shell companies identified by Reuters, 22 would typically have been required to have published the beneficial ownership information by now because their reporting dates fell in the weeks since July 1, when the rules came into force.

The leak led to a series of high - profile scandals, including the resignation of the Prime Minister of Iceland after it was alleged he had hidden millions of dollars - worth of investments in an offshore shell company.

«One of the methods that was used was fake individuals and shell companies had taken mortgages on some of these properties, and for all of them they had produced fake insurance and title insurance,» he said.

Instead of paying up front, the company would shell out $ 5.5 - million per year for 35 years.

In 2005, the SEC adopted new rules designed to prevent pump - and - dump schemes by requiring shells to release financial records of acquired companies immediately after a merger.