Sentences with phrase «real estate schemes»

Sometimes straw buyers are willing participants in real estate schemes, with criminal intent or not, but it's always illegal.

Fraudulent real estate schemes and the red flags associated with such schemes are numerous and evolving.

Summary: Disbarred attorney Domenick Crispino was sentenced to 11 to 22 years in prison for numerous real estate schemes that profited over...

The bill arrived in the House containing some rare charter school accountability measures such as preventing operators from profiting off of third party real estate schemes.

Reverse legislation allowing charter school developers and managers personal enrichment through third party real estate schemes.

«Bullet to the Head,» based on the French graphic novel «Du plomb dans la tête» and adapted by Alessandro Camon, is standard - issue in its writing (enough with the real estate schemes and a desired flash drive!)

«Silver's case is factually almost nothing like McDonnell; there is no question that Silver took a number of official acts — most obviously, passing legislation and approving state grants and tax - exempt financing — as part of a quid pro quo in the Mesothelioma and Real Estate Schemes,» Judge Caproni wrote.

It alleges that Gates and Manafort lied to lenders about their finances and concocted a real estate scheme so they would have more liquidity.

Silver is also accused of getting more than $ 700,000 in a real estate scheme — he pocketed referral fees from law firms that did tax work for wealthy developers, which Silver sent their way, prosecutors said.

And, «Seven reasons you know Silver is guilty of the real estate scheme.»

The Federal Trade Commission said David Del Dotto of Modesto and his wife, Yolanda, have settled charges that they deceptively represented features of their «Cash Flow System,» a get - rich - quick real estate scheme sold to thousands of consumers on televised infomercials.

Not exact matches

(Unlike Reddit's upvoting and downvoting scheme, which boosts top comments literally to the top of a page, tweets are generally given the same amount of real estate on the screen, regardless of content.

One of Trump's real - estate advisers in the early 2000s, the Russia - born businessman Felix Sater, was accused nearly two decades ago of being a co-conspirator in a $ 40 million fraud and money laundering scheme involving four Mafia families.

When your screen real - estate is fingerprint - sized, picking the right colour scheme is more important than ever

Such risks may explain in part why other real estate crowdfunders like Equidy, RealtyMogul, RealtyShares and PassiveFlow.com don't appear interested in involving owner - occupants in their equity - share schemes.

The recent stock market and real estate bubbles are much like pyramid schemes in the sense that what is bidding up stock and property prices is an exponential inflow of new money from pension plans and mutual funds (for shares) and bank credit (for real estate).

In other words, they're going to keep a ponzi scheme going much like the real estate bubble.

Real estate investing is NOT a get rich quick scheme, but it is a great way to build wealth.

You make a very important point here --» Real estate investing is NOT a get rich quick scheme».

Spain's investment visa also drives Chinese interest in real estate and the scheme captured US$ 768million in new investment in its first 15 months.

VK: To some degree, a real estate bubble is like a Ponzi scheme.

Keller Williams Realty Mid-Willamette, a real estate brokerage located in Corvallis, Oregon, has been penalized and fined by a federal financial watchdog for participating in what has been called an illegal kickback scheme.

Jeff clearly knows his stuff and makes clear that real estate investing is long term wealth building and not the «get rich quick» scheme that a lot of people may think it is.

The real estate broker, who is also close to former Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, pleaded guilty in October to a $ 50 million mortgage - fraud scheme.

Lawyer James Branden told the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that when Boyland was convicted in 2014 of overlapping schemes to take cash from undercover agents to help them with a carnival permit and a real estate project, the judge gave jurors too broad a definition of the type of promised acts that the Supreme Court says would be a crime.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as speaker to induce real estate developers with «business for the state» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

Mr. Silver stands accused of two schemes in which Mr. Bharara alleges he used his position as Assembly speaker to rake in more than $ 6 million, which he presented as legitimately earned income for representing or referring clients in real estate or asbestos legal dealings.

In a swaggering press conference at his offices in Manhattan, Mr. Bharara detailed two alleged extortion schemes Mr. Silver undertook to enrich himself: one involving an unidentified doctor handling asbestos cases, who was not charged with a crime after cooperating with the U.S. attorney's office, and another with a small, politically - connected real estate law firm that also avoided charges in this complaint.

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.

In another alleged scheme, Silver was accused of accepting bribes in exchange for enacting tax breaks that helped a Manhattan real estate firm.

The second scheme alleges Silver urged major real estate developers, including Glenwood Management, the state's sveltest political donor, to hire Goldberg & Iryami for tax certiorari work.

Prosecutors said they schemed to use the former senate leader's influence with the real estate industry to obtain no - show jobs for his son.

Approximately $ 700,000 came in «undisclosed bribes and kickbacks» from a scheme in which Mr. Silver used his influence as Assembly Speaker to «induce real estate developers with business before the State» to use a real estate law firm run by an attorney who previously worked as Mr. Silver's counsel in the Assembly, and which paid Mr. Silver for the referrals.

«Today's sentence holds accountable this defendant who tried to profit from Brooklyn's booming real estate market by developing this fraudulent scheme to illegally speed up work on properties and violate required safety protocols,» Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement.

But the Times, collectively, has never demonstrated the will or interest to examine Atlantic Yards in anything close to the proportion demanded by one of the biggest real - estate schemes in the history of the city.

Silver, 71, was charged with honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering stemming from schemes in which he used his leadership position to benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers in exchange for cash.

Other schemes involved kickbacks from a legal firm specializing in tax law, and favors to the real estate industry in the form of favorable tax laws.

In another alleged scheme, Silver received $ 700,000 from the law firm Goldberg & Iryami for pushing two major real - estate developers to use their services.

In one of three alleged schemes, prosecutors said that the two men solicited bribes from Charles Dorego, a real estate executive at Glenwood Management, who directed $ 20,000 check for title insurance work to the younger Skelos, at a time when the company was lobbying for housing and rent - related legislation that was crucial to its business.

The former Speaker faces up to 12 years in prison for two criminal schemes, one of which involved real estate developers.

An undercover FBI agent posed as a corrupt real estate developer as part of the federal government's investigation into the alleged bribery scheme.

At Mr. Silver's trial, the government presented evidence that prosecutors said showed he had orchestrated two schemes through which he obtained nearly $ 4 million in illegal payments for taking official actions that benefited a prominent cancer researcher, Dr. Robert N. Taub, at Columbia University, and two New York real estate development firms.

The charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering stemmed from schemes by which he obtained nearly $ 4 million in exchange for using his position to help benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.

The FBI agent's invented real estate developer was also involved in another piece of the scheme in Spring Valley, N.Y., along with a «confidential witness» who has not been identified, prosecutors said.

Halloran also agreed to steer up to $ 80,000 in City Council funds to the FBI's posed real estate developer, in exchange for the developer's participation in the scheme, prosecutors said.

The complaint against them describes a scheme to extort payments through a real estate developer and an environmental company.

Silver's lawyers also claimed there wasn't enough evidence to even consider charges related to a second alleged scheme, in which Silver steered a real estate company to a friend's law firm, also in exchange for fees, Defense attorneys say the parties involved had no idea Silver was even collecting the money.

Prosecutors in the Sheldon Silver corruption case called two key players, including an official with Glenwood Management, to the stand today to answer questions about the former Assembly speaker's alleged involvement in a real - estate kickback scheme.

The wells of real estate company largesse are drying up for politicians and political organizations, following corruption allegations against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver involving bribery and kickback schemes.

It's unclear exactly how the no - show job, and the malpractice insurer, fit in to the larger scheme outlined by both Mr. Bharara and in the indictment — which focuses the elder Mr. Skelos directing a real estate development company and environmental technology company to steer business to his son in exchange for favorable treatment in Albany.