Sentences with phrase «property under false pretenses»

In January of this year, two PETA employees, fully backed by PETAâ $ ™ s Newkirk and a highly - paid legal team, stood trial on 24 felony counts, including 21 counts of animal cruelty and obtaining property under false pretenses (lying to the shelters PETA adopted dogs and cats from, then euthanizing the animals rather then finding homes for them.)

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The disclosure in Sunday's Post about the property's ownership proves the mosque's developers «have been operating under false pretenses,» he said.

18 U.S.C. § 1343 provides: «Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.»

RECA says that among other things, Wolf failed to disclose his direct interest in a property, failed to disclose his recent involvement in the purchase of a property, failed to recommend his clients obtain independent legal advice, provided his clients with false and misleading information and obtained money from his clients under false pretenses.