The move, initially proposed by standards commissioner John Lyon, would shed light on «rectification» arrangements which saw MPs investigated for minor misuse of expenses escape «naming and shaming» if
they repaid the money claimed.
Not exact matches
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday he
repaid his personal lawyer for hush
money given to porn actress Stormy Daniels after
claiming previously he didn't know about the payments.
President Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday he
repaid his personal lawyer for hush
money given to porn actress Stormy Daniels after
claiming previously he didn't know about the payments.
Rudy Giuliani
claimed that President Trump
repaid his Michael Cohen for a $ 130,000 hush
money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels
WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday he
repaid his personal lawyer for hush
money given to porn actress Stormy Daniels after
claiming previously he didn't know about the...
President acknowledged shortly before the event that he
repaid his personal lawyer for hush
money paid to Stormy Daniels despite previously
claiming he was unaware of the arrangement
Thursday's event comes hours after Trump acknowledged in a tweet he
repaid his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for hush
money given to the porn actress after previously
claiming he didn't know about the payments.
After they were approached yesterday, three Conservative MPs announced that they would be
repaying money they had
claimed to maintain or heat private swimming pools at their second homes.
Response: The former Welsh secretary admitted that he had made the duplicate
claim by mistake and had
repaid the
money in full.
MPs have now
repaid nearly # 500,000 in expenses
money claimed since 2003, the Parliamentary authorities have said.
It is expected Mr McNulty, who
claimed # 60,000 towards a second home in which his parents lived, will be asked to
repay some
money and apologise to Parliament.
The renewed turmoil came amid fresh revelations over expenses, with the Northern Ireland minister, Paul Goggins, forced to promise to
repay money after admitting he had a flatmate in the London home against which he
claimed expenses.
They were allowed within the rules but he agreed to
repay the
money after talking to the Conservative Party scrutiny panel set up to investigate suspect
claims.
Beckett was seen as tainted by the expenses row after public fury at her gardening
claims, but five potential candidates - including Bercow, who
repaid more than # 1,400 he said he had wrongly
claimed on office costs - have returned
money.
«The trust feels that if a mistake has been made and that
money has been
claimed by the trust in error, then it of course has to be
repaid.»
This is due to the fact that all of the borrower's assets work as a guarantee of any debt as the lender can always take legal action to
claim his
money and if the borrower fails to
repay the loan, the judge may rule the sell of any asset to
repay the debt.
The property being used as collateral is then sold and the
money obtained from the sell is used to
repay the loan plus any damages and the remaining can be
claimed by the previous owner or by the other creditors.
Unfortunately, while not an epidemic problem, it's no secret that a small number of borrowers fraudulently
claim their down payments as «gifts,» even though they fully intend to
repay the
money.
Second, it can be of great help to the injured client if the attorney takes on these expenses with no risk to the client; that is, if the attorney advances the case expenses and agrees that the attorney will only be
repaid these expenses if there is a settlement or court award and
money is paid on the legal
claim.
Often, directors of a company will personally guarantee
monies borrowed by that company from a bank, so that if the borrower does not
repay the bank, the bank will be able to
claim the
monies owed from the directors instead.
However, read strictly, the filing of expense
claims as a Senator or other public official is done in the person's official capacity, and
repaying money wrongly
claimed as an expense would be «in respect of» that act.