Sentences with phrase «scheme funded by»

With thousands of empty buildings in the city, living standards are at rock bottom and crime rates are up — and a # 30 - million scheme funded by the Stoke - on - Trent Council and the government hopes to get things moving.

The project, at an EXKAL manufacturing facility in Navarra, northern Spain, is supported by the STORY programme, a scheme funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework.

Richard Cordray, Director of the CFPB, issued the following statement: «Tens of thousands of Corinthian students were harmed by the predatory lending scheme funded by Aequitas, turning dreams of higher education into a nightmare.

Healthy Schools London is an awards scheme funded by the Mayor of London that supports and recognises school achievements in pupil health and well - being.

Healthy Schools London is an awards scheme funded by the Mayor of London that supports and recognises school achievements in pupil health and wellbeing.

The Levelling was developed and commissioned under the iFeatures scheme - the low budget filmmaking scheme funded by Creative England, the BFI and BBC Films.

The scheme, which provides grants for heating and insulation improvements for low - income households, will be replaced by a new scheme funded by a levy on energy bills — adding to the burden of rising energy bills for those least able to afford them.

Not exact matches

New York's Gagosian Gallery and Jeff Koons were sued by a collector who accused gallery founder Larry Gagosian and the artist of scheming to exploit demand for his works and using «inappropriate and highly questionable practices» to fund extravagant lifestyles.

Mining - focused private equity firm Resource Capital Funds is seeking to privatise engineering and construction contractor Ausenco by way of a scheme of arrangement.

Authorities said Platinum operated «like a Ponzi scheme» by using new money to fund redemptions by earlier investors, which were referred to internally as «Hail Mary time.»

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

However, the entities incorporated by CASPERSEN (the «Fake Funds») were merely shell companies created by CASPERSEN solely for the purpose of perpetrating his fraud scheme, and were in no way affiliated with or authorized by the Legitimate Funds.

Rather, CASPERSEN operated a Ponzi - like scheme in which he misappropriated investor funds from the Fake Fund Accounts and converted them to his own use and use by others, including by using investor funds to meet CASPERSEN's periodic interest payment commitments to earlier investors.

When Chris Johnson sought to expand his food company, which sells private - label meats and dry goods, by purchasing a competitor in 1999, he had to devise an inventive funding scheme.

The schemes detailed in the suit included having Retrophin «enter into sham consulting agreements» through which the company paid investors who were «defrauded» by Shkreli's hedge fund.

Immigrants» money was originally administered by provincially managed venture capital funds; before recent reforms, some of it went to dubious or fraudulent schemes.

a scheme to defraud investors and potential investors in MSMB Healthcare by inducing them to invest in MSMB Healthcare through material misrepresentations and omissions about, inter alia, the prior performance of the fund, its assets under management and existing liabilities; and then by preventing redemptions by the investors through material misrepresentations and omissions about, inter alia, the performance of the fund and the misappropriation by SHKRELI and others of fund assets; and

The Medisave is a national savings scheme administered by the government - run Central Provident Fund Board that involves mandatory monthly savings, taken from our salary, and compulsory contributions made by employers.

Other investor funds solicited by Simmons were used by the owner of the Hedge Fund in the Ponzi - like scheme to make payments to prior Hedge Fund investors, Berman said.

Other investor funds solicited by Simmons were used by the owner of the Hedge Fund in the Ponzi - like scheme to...

Herbalife Ltd. won dismissal of a lawsuit by a shareholder who said he lost money after hedge - fund manager William Ackman accused the nutrition company of being a pyramid scheme.

The schemes, allegedly executed over a five - year period, involved defrauding investors in two hedge funds founded by Shkreli.

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In Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. McDonnell et al., the CFTC alleged that the defendants violated the CEA by operating a fraudulent scheme involving virtual currency trading and misappropriating investor funds.3 The primary issue before the court was whether the CFTC had standing to sue the defendants under the CEA.

The problem was macroeconomic in character, but the bank insurance scheme was only for 1 % of deposits — under conditions where the country's main three banks all were driven under by the combination of bad or outright kleptocratic management and Britain's freezing of Icelandic funds in the aftermath of the Icesave collapse.

I parted ways with the Catholic Church in the 1960's over things like Purgatory (the best fund raising scheme ever invented), intercession with God by Mary and a pantheon of saints, Vatican supremacy, original sin, overly ritualized worship, confession, communion.

There is no need to shrug and assume that current government - funded schemes of sex education or vague imitations of them are the only way forward: Catholic schools are popular and highly - regarded by the public in general in Britain and in a stand - off between them and officialdom the latter might find it had fewer allies than it imagines.

In recent years that paradigm and the scheme of political morality that follows from it have come under critical scrutiny, and it would be unfortunate if in our eagerness to fund particular programs we would disregard the lessons suggested by that scrutiny.

The scheme has been funded by a $ 10 million contingent disaster finance credit line from the InsuResilience Investment Fund.

Many students supported by this scheme are working within these funded research programs, whilst others work on projects independent to MLA programs.

Henry Corbally, Glanbia chairman, said it was acutely conscious of the challenging weather faced by suppliers and they were looking at options to add to their fixed milk price scheme and the MilkFlex loan fund.

Under the NSW scheme, schools and charities will be encouraged to raise funds by collecting containers for cash, likely to be set at a 10c rebate.

In 1999, the Crawford Fund expanded its agricultural training scheme with the appointment of a New South Wales Committee chaired by Australia's former Minister for Primary Industry and Energy, the Hon John Kerin.

We hope to avoid this by securing additional funding so that we can continue this scheme for years to come.

Much has been written about this «rob - parents - to - help - kids» scheme, including the compelling essay by Raj Patel that I posted last week, and today's blog post by New York Times food writer Mark Bittman, which proposes a soda tax to fund the bill.

Commenting on the publication today by the FSA of its further consultation on the funding of the Financial Services Compensation scheme Adrian Coles, Director General of the Building Societies Association said: «It is very disappointing to see the FSA proposing a U-turn on a key part of its original proposals.

Amid the plans for 84 new road schemes are plans to spend # 300 million on an «environmental fund to mitigate carbon emission (sic) and reduce the number of people affected by serious noise.»

The deal, set up by former mayor Ken Livingstone, is due to end in August this year and Mr Johnson claimed the half - price bus and tram fares for those on income support funded by the scheme would continue to be honoured.

The scheme will work by home buyers paying a minimum 5 % deposit on their new home, the homebuilder contributing 3.5 % of the purchase price to an indemnity fund and the Government chipping in a further amount, likely to be 5.5 %.

«Mayor Boris Johnson must improve air quality by prioritising funding for measures that will get Londoners driving less and walking, cycling and using public transport more - and scrap traffic generating schemes like new road crossings over the river Thames.»

A funding scheme to funnel money to Democratic Senate candidates in the Hudson Valley in 2014 is now the focus of a federal investigation by the U.S. Attorney, Preet Bharara.

May is spending some of his earnings - recently boosted by a Queen tour of the United States - on funding a badger and cattle vaccination scheme, which it is hoped could end the need for culling altogether.

The party also advocates the substitution of council tax by a land - value tax; extra funding for the NHS and public transport; the scrapping of road - building schemes; massive investment in renewable energy; a radical reduction in carbon dioxide emissions; and opposition to GM crop initiatives and fracking.

The scheme was announced in February 2008, and funds could be sought by councils, police, primary care trusts and voluntary bodies.

He pointed out that just in the last couple of days, there was another example of failure in the current system of oversight when U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged a former portfolio manager in the state's pension fund, which is overseen by the state comptroller, with running a bribery scheme.

Primed by # 860m of Treasury funding, the scheme could increase investment in green heat technologies by a massive # 7.5 bn by 2020, transforming the way we heat our homes and businesses.

The scheme failed to deliver the flexibility regional economies need to become more competitive the evidence, based on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) at Bristol University, shows.

The scheme, which is funded by National Grid and community interest company Affordable Warmth Solutions will be administered by NEA.

The # 99M scheme has been awarded # 50M of funding from the Government and works will be carried out by Carillion Construction.

The grant scheme was established by the coalition in late 2011 «to enable the development of local funds to address infrastructure constraints, and promote economic growth and the delivery of jobs and houses».