Sentences with phrase «shakedowns by»

There have certainly been other reports of vicious shakedowns by employers.

If one searches for news on LIBOR (= London Interbank Offered Rate, i.e., the rate at which banks lend dollars to each other in the euro - dollar market), they are currently dominated by Deutsche Bank getting slapped with a total fine of $ 775 million for the part it played in manipulating the benchmark rate in collusion with other banks (fine for one count of wire fraud: US$ 150 m.; additional shakedown by US Justice Department: US$ 625 m., the price tag for a deferred prosecution agreement).

«Like I said in 2014, this was a shakedown by Mayor Bill de Blasio on business owners in New York City.»

After his best friend, Joon (Leonardo Nam), a small - time dope dealer, is murdered during a shakedown by gangsters, Sam Kim (Sung Kang) leaves the United States and spends a year in Singapore, trying to sort out his emotions.

In «The Facts of Life,» a seemingly innocent British youth (Jack Watling) is targeted for a shakedown by a beautiful adventuress (Mai Zetterling), while Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne perform their usual brilliant byplay.

Not exact matches

In both cases the explosion was enabled by the growing commoditisation of components but because maintaining an operating system and an app ecosystem, whether on PC or smartphone, is an expensive business, there was a shakedown.

The Olayan Group — which is run by Lubna Olayan, an heiress of magnate Sulaiman Olayan — may already be feeling the effects of the Saudi shakedown.

Equality of opportunity was passé; racial quotas masqueraded under the euphemism of «affirmative action»; King's righteous demand that his children be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin was inverted by race - hustlers and shakedown artists» an inversion subsequently validated by activist judges.

Drew also said that he expected no problems as a result of the State Elections Enforcement Commission's decision, also on Oct. 18, to investigate a complaint by Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst's campaign manager that Drew attempted a «shakedown» when he sent gubernatorial campaign fundraising letters to Middletown city employees in September.

What's most galling is that the Democrats — led by the union - backed Working Families Party, as usual — are trying to present this taxpayer shakedown as reform, using recent Albany and New York City scandals as a false rallying cry.

The bold particulars — $ 4 million in personal gain, a shakedown to turn cancer patients into fee - generating plaintiffs — unfurled over a three week trial as prosecutors led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara painted Silver as a dry, inscrutable, greedy embodiment of Albany's problems.

Brooklyn Democrat Carl Kruger, who's being probed by the FBI in an alleged shakedown scheme, has amassed a $ 2.1 million war chest, the biggest in the Senate, although he hardly needs it to stay in office.

It also flew in the face of repeated predictions by the elder Skelos — including as recently as Wednesday evening — that he and his son would be acquitted of the shakedown scheme.

«This is a shakedown on New York City businesses by Mayor Bill de Blasio,» Murphy said.

Adam Skelos, 35, and his dad, a former state Senate majority leader, 69, saw their December 2015 convictions for a shakedown scam tossed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in September.

Launched in January 2002, the Chikyu is undergoing shakedown cruises, with drilling expected to begin by 2007.

Today's Nintendo eShop news: first screenshots for Lode Runner: Legacy, update on the multiplayer update for Stardew Valley, story trailer for Light Fall, new game by Tomorrow Corporation announced, early screenshot for Bertil Hörberg's next game, teaser for a new game from 13AM Games on Nintendo Switch, Pirate Pop Plus announced for the Nintendo Switch, latest screenshots for Opus: Rocket of Whispers and Witch & Hero III, latest video clips for Yoku's Island Express, Shakedown Hawaii, and Feudal Alloy, latest countdown pic for WorldNeverland — Elnea Kingdom, screenshots for ACA NEOGEO AERO FIGHTERS 3 and Enchanting Mahjong Match, Bit Dungeon + and Caveman Warriors releasing next week in Japan, screenshots for Back in 199564 (now available in Japan), and demo for Wan Nyan Doubutsu Byouin Peto no Oishasan ni Narou!!

Supporting players Ellen Barkin, Fritz Weaver and Dustin Hoffman show up as those impacted by the magic shoes as the plot dives into a real estate shakedown.

It's still happening, as evidenced by news of in - development films like a Harley Quinn spinoff and Booster Gold solo film, but there have been several shakedowns behind the scenes of -LSB-...]

A betrayal leads to a shakedown and rival cops seek to line their pockets by threatening the family with a long stretch inside.

Today's Daily Briefs: latest Nintendo eShop Highlights video, SteamWorld Dig 2 music composed by El Huervo, Wheels of Aurelia sent to lotcheck, latest video clip for Shakedown Hawaii, another update in the works for VOEZ, latest video clip and screenshot for The Unlikely Legend of Rusty Pup, latest devblog post for Hex Gambit, Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas getting a demo, and soundtrack sample for the second chapter of 3Souls!

«We'll install our race engines on Thursday, and consequently we plan to run a limited number of laps during qualifying — a few laps for shakedown and to let the drivers get acclimated, followed by qualifying runs.

Inspired by the 1971 Dodge Shakedown Challenger concept, the package adds an Alpine audio system, white - face gauges and unique asymmetrical black racing exterior stripes.

The rear seats have been removed, too, replaced by a parcel shelf and a roll bar, while a fuel cell and its associated filler sit in the Shakedown's trunk.

CD Projekt isn't the only company to have sent these shakedown letters via its lawyers, with others fingered by torrentfreak.com back in 2012 including Koch, Codemasters, EIDOS, Ubisoft and Kalypso, though it was one of the more ironic, after having made a big deal out of actively avoiding standard industry practices like DRM.

SoHo was home to about 2,000 artists by the early»70s, many of whom had to go as far as Chelsea to get basic groceries and faced police shakedowns as part of failed efforts to clear them out.

If by sustainable you mean financially sustainable, the most intimidating barrier I face in every coffee region and the biggest impediment to sustainability in Haiti, is the presence of «coyotes,» or the exploitative, often violent, coffee shakedown artists.

Australia is rather obviously on a minerals extraction binge, which is one of the reasons it has not been, as yet, so impacted by the global finance shakedown.

Levant was successful in demonstrating that some of his posts, referring to the lawsuit as a «shakedown,» would have been protected by fair comment.

Plaintiff LabMD Inc., a cancer - screening firm, says it went out of business after falling victim to a «shakedown scheme» by a cybersecurity firm that hacked the lab's files — and then reported it to the FTC when it refused to pay for «remediation» services.

In recent months, the strategy of big players in the patent troll space has become clear: head off reform by drawing a distinction between themselves and the small - time shakedown players who have been targeting mom - and - pop coffee shops.

American businesses and consumers deserve better than to be held hostage by threats and shakedowns from patent trolls.

This news comes as all digital tokens continue to grow despite market shakedowns and scares initiated by Chinese regulators.