Sentences with phrase «personal piggy»

There's ample evidence Ablyazov used the lender like his personal piggy bank, Rakishev said.

They treat client trust accounts as their personal piggy banks, facilitate multi-million-dollar frauds and drain retirement savings of the elderly.

While most shamed executives fall from grace in the way that Ebbers and Dunlap did — namely, by fudging earnings to make their corporate stewardship seem laudable — Kozlowski just went on ahead and pretended his company was his own personal piggy bank.

Prosecutors say common themes run through many of the political corruption cases: lack of transparency on a politician's outside employment, nonprofits staffed by cronies and used as personal piggy banks, greed and above - the - law arrogance.

Huntley, 74, admitted using the Parents Information Network as a personal piggy bank from 2005 to 2008, embezzling taxpayer funds she had earmarked to increase parental involvement in the city public school system.

Mr. Espada used the network as a «personal piggy bank,» the suit said, to pay for expenses over the last five years like $ 20,000 worth of takeout sushi and $ 50,000 to maintain a Bronx apartment where opponents have asserted that he does not live.

``... he was in fact deeply aware of the investigations and allegations of Hiram Monserrate's use of LIBRE as his own personal piggy bank — well before his self - righteous, faux - indignant, and self - serving statement of today,» Shapiro said.

If you use a charity as your own personal piggy bank, you will face serious consequences, including jail time.»

[74] Ball had often accused the Senator of using the office as his «personal piggy bank.»

The state pension fund isn't the personal piggy bank of politicians OR labor leaders.

We need to take bold and aggressive action now to both establish confidence in government and send a clear message to any elected official who believes that government service was designed to be their personal piggy bank,» said Legislator Day.

While city rules don't require reimbursement, city Comptroller Scott Stringer has contributed $ 1,702.02 from his campaign fund and personal piggy bank to cover the cost of using his government SUV on noncity business since taking office in January 2014, his office said.

Prosecutors have vowed that if there is a mistrial, they'd retry Espada on charges that he used his Bronx health - care nonprofit as a personal piggy bank, sources said.

Prosecutors say Fonvil and co-defendant Jermika Depas used camp funds as a personal piggy bank, creating a $ 8,000 slush fund.

Scott Reif, a spokesperson for the Senate Republican Campaign Committee said «It's galling that while taking in over $ 1 million in taxpayer funding, Ali Boak's non-profit functioned as her personal piggy bank.

«By unlawfully stealing money from a nonprofit that was designed to deliver critical services for children and seniors, this criminal scheme turned a charity into a personal piggy bank.»

«The taxpayer's dollars and the state budget is not the leader's own personal piggy bank.

«The defendant used two publicly funded Bronx organizations like his personal piggy bank, diverting more than a half million dollars earmarked for services for needy New Yorkers in little over eight years,» the AG said.

Last month, it filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Manhattan, accusing him of using Retrophin as a personal piggy bank to pay back angry investors in his hedge fund.

Most, or 88 %, of the CEOs reached into their own personal piggy banks for seed money, and more than a third of them turned to their cofounders for funds.

Not exact matches

This great club is now just a rich yanks piggy bank and an increasingly deluded Frenchman's personal project.

Some politicians used their campaign treasuries as piggy banks for personal expenses, the commission's investigators found, and bank records showed that lawmakers had failed to report some donations and expenditures altogether.

Opening arguments began this week in the federal corruption trial of Pedro Espada, Jr., and his son Pedro Gautier Espada, who are accused of using the Soundview Healthcare Network as «their own taxpayer - funded piggy bank» by funneling more than $ 500,000 from the organization and spending it on cars, spa treatments, and other personal luxuries.

It wasn't enough for longtime Independence Party activist and ex-state committee member Frank Morano to quit the party and publicly lambaste it on his way out the door, now he's trying to get the organization investigated by the Board of Elections, claiming its coffers have served as a sort of piggy bank for the personal interests of its leaders.

The Bronx non-profit Regional Aid for Interim Needs also made out well, getting an earmark of $ 171,000, despite Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's finding last year that the group's management used taxpayer dollars as a personal «piggy bank.»

You can also use «Thing» cards which will bring objects into the battle that can severely change the course of the battle to your favour (my personal favourite at the time of writing this review is the breakdancing piggy bank).

The problem here is that this models an index investor with nerves of steel and no personal needs along the way to raid the piggy - bank.

You can also use «Thing» cards which will bring objects into the battle that can severely change the course of the battle to your favour (my personal favourite at the time of writing this review is the breakdancing piggy bank).

, just by looking at your own personal, hypocritical, do - as - I - say - not - as - I - do, carbon - piggy excesses.

Someone futzing with my lights is one thing, but using the a wireless lightbulb to piggy back into my personal computer or wireless network is a completely different beast.

A dilution of responsibility then takes place; one loses control of one's personal contractual promise of fiducuary responsibility in favour of one's trusting client in the name of piggy - backed profits, or, as I like to label it... greed.