Sentences with phrase «payment of prosecution»

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On top of the risk of federal prosecution, IRS targeting and asset seizure, cannabis entrepreneurs have to cope with the hazards of conducting a business that deals mostly in cash, since a majority of traditional financial institutions — banks, credit card issuers, and payment transaction companies — won't provide services to the industry.

[210] Later on the same day, giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, former director of public prosecutions Lord MacDonald stated that it took him «three to five minutes» to decide that the same emails contained in the file passed to Harbottle & Lewis contained «blindingly obvious» evidence of corrupt payments to police officers, which had to be immediately passed to the Metropolitan Police.

Nana Ato Dadzie, lawyer for the former Attorney General, Betty Mould Iddrissu, has dismissed calls for her prosecution for role in the payment of fifty - one million cedis to businessman Alfred Woyome.

«If government does not exempt child victims of rape or defilement from the compulsory payment of N5000 for obtaining medical reports from hospitals as evidence for prosecution, perpetrators of these evil and criminal acts would continue to escape justice and such acts would continue to increase in our society,» she said.

(EFCC Press Release) The trial of a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Azibaola Robert, his wife, Stella and their company, One Plus Holdings, continued before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 with a prosecution witness, David Nkpe, telling the court how some individuals and companies were alleged to have received payment from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, without contract or approvals.

The documents which were tendered through the second prosecution witness, Mr. Ochoga Peter Esuh, who was a Cashier at the Benue State Government House certified true copies of memo to the executive governor (Suswam), payment receipts, payment vouchers of the N450 million and a letter to the Commissioner of finance, under Suswam's administration, Omadachi Oklobia in respect of the money.

The prosecution alleges that Mr. Silver steered state grants to mesothelioma research to Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital in exchange for a doctor there, Dr. Robert Taub, referring patients to a law firm that sues on behalf of such patients, Weitz & Luxenberg, where Mr. Silver was of counsel and received lucrative payments for referring clients with asbestos cases.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is on trial accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate business developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's a star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

The Law Society issued proceedings in the High Court this week against the MoJ's decision to slash payment for defence lawyers — it confirmed in October 2017 that it would reduce the maximum number of pages of prosecution evidence that lawyers can claim for from 10,000 to 6,000.

His practice focuses on open source and patent prosecution and client counseling in a variety of fields including computer software, video games, virtual worlds, social media, virtual reality and 3 - D imaging, augmented reality, social networks, mobile advertising and mobile payments, medical devices, among others.

Prosecution of several False Claims Act claims with Jim Reed against companies bilking the federal treasury of millions of dollars by presenting false claims for payment to the Federal Government.

Referring to this «solution» in its March 2012 report on the UK's implementation of its anti-bribery convention, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) commented acidly that: «Taken together, these factors imply that a company could continue making facilitation payments while avoiding prosecution if certain conditions were met.»

Such payment goes to offset the cost of investigation, prosecution and those other costs associated with the proceedings flowing from a charge.

That successful representative plaintiffs (or more accurately, their lawyers) should not recoup the significant expenses of certification is not an obvious boon for access to justice, especially when one considers that such payments are often used to help fund the prosecution of the action going forward.

Watson v HMCTS National Taxing Team [2012] EWHC 2865 (Admin)(3 October 2012) Acted for the National Taxing Team in this Divisional Court challenge to its approach to calculating a payment pursuant to an order under s. 16 of the Prosecution of Offenders Act.

Furthermore, starting from 1 January 2018, issuing, trading and using illegal means of payment, including bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, may be subject to prosecution, as amended to the penal code of Vietnam in 2017.

«From January 1, 2018, the act of issuing, supplying or using illegal means of payment may be subject to prosecution in accordance with the provisions of Article 206 of the Penal Code 2015,» according to the bank's announcement.

The main risk of gambling online in a country where it's illegal is not the criminal prosecution, but losing money when the gambling site or payment service is shut down unexpectedly.