Sentences with phrase «shell company»

Patent trolls tend to operate in secret behind a web of shell companies.

When they do file patents, it is through shell companies, as to not give any indication on what they are planning to release.

There are currently over 1,400 reporting shell companies in existence.

Because trolls use shell companies with very few assets to sue, the bond requirement is an important one that would require patent trolls to put their money where their mouth is.

Many trolls hide behind shell companies and effectively secretly collect their resulting payday.

It was high volume, low cost and so they were going to pump out these anonymous shell companies and make them available to a wider audience.

In 2015, de Blasio did impose new disclosure requirements for shell companies buying or selling property in the city.

Hundreds of thousands of offshore entities and shell companies connected to over 200 countries and territories appear in the papers.

Often patent trolls set up shell companies whose only assets are the patents, which means they have no real revenues or assets.

Because shell company patent trolls don't make anything themselves, they generally have nothing to lose.

In order to obtain more instructions, some medical agencies have been listing numerous shell companies.

Not to mention the several shell companies surrounding the project.

If you don't understand what shell companies are, here's everything you need to know.

There is no need for offshore accounts or expensive shell companies.

Alternative investment strategies, including reverse mergers and shell company transactions.

The company appeared to be some sort of shell company.

It is a troll looking for money using shell companies and scare tactics to get people to settle.

Patent trolls often hide behind shell companies, and this shell game allows the actual parties who benefit from settlements to remain secret the whole time.

A program initiated by the U.S. Treasury is rooting out shady real estate purchases made by shell companies linked to potential criminals — and brokers can help.

The politician, Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat, was implicated in a scandal as a result of those leaked documents, which referred to shell companies set up by him and two other senior politicians in his administration.

Of 300 offshore shell companies identified by Reuters, 22 would typically have been required to have published the beneficial ownership information by now because their reporting dates fell in the weeks since July 1, when the rules came into force.

(Luckey later reportedly donated $ 100,000 to Trump's inauguration fund through shell companies named after Chrono Trigger references.)

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.

Medco has been removing many shell companies from the database.

The trolling problem, which involves shell companies using old patents to extort everyone from major companies to small app developers, has become especially acute in recent years.

Government it will require buyers of luxury homes in Los Angeles to reveal their identities when laying out cash to purchase homes through secretive shell companies.

The borrowers were shell companies controlled by Ablyazov, the judges concluded.

In some cases, the names of shell companies operating the bank accounts mimicked the names of the rightful beneficiaries.

Likewise, those same people found a way to take any division that was hemorrhaging money — which was nearly every division, really — and shift those debts into shell companies whose «profits» would not show up on Enron's bottom line.

As of this writing, no lawsuits — here in the US or in the UK — were found to have been filed by CIG or any of its many shell companies which sprung up around the project.

As a result of the false and fraudulent representations made by CASPERSEN, investors wired a total of approximately $ 38.5 million to shell company bank accounts controlled by CASPERSEN.

And as far as the stock prices go... its amazing what one can accomplish when one purchases one's own stock via shell companies when it comes to falsely inflating ones stock prices.

This was the same shell company Cohen used to pay $ 130,000 in hush money to Daniels.

Daredevil investigates the criminal underworld while law partner Foggy Nelson and secretary Karen Page investigate Wilson Fisk's shell company holdings.

Many shell companies would be incorporated in B.C. and would then be listed on over-the-counter markets in the United States, which are minimally regulated.

Patent trolls, who are often shell companies with few employees and documents, face a much lower discovery burden.

The share price of stock exchange shell company Fantasy Network (TASE: FNTS) shot up 44 % yesterday on especially lively turnover of some NIS 8 million, without any announcement from the company, which has no activity.

> be WashPo > accuse corp of being shell company > Send email, wait 7 minute > «Messages left with Luckey and his attorney were not returned»

Some UK shell companies under offshore control may be skirting new rules which were designed to clamp down on corruption and tax evasion by forcing businesses to reveal their true owners, a Reuters analysis of corporate filings shows.

Then one of Cline's board members — a venture capitalist who also ran a SPAC — told him about CEA Acquisition, a public shell company based in Tampa that was trading on the OTC Bulletin Board.

Currently, corrupt foreign politicians — as well as tax evaders, fraudsters and terrorists — can legally mask their identities and their assets behind anonymous U.S. shell companies in order to open secret bank accounts to stash their ill - gotten gains.

The condo, then worth $ 1.65 million, was paid for under cover of a Panamanian shell company, according to a 1986 lawsuit filed in the U.S. by the Haitian government.)

The common theme is the difficulty of compliance in a world of faceless shell companies.

Leading Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker was called a «liar» and a «fraud» by two rivals as the billionaire businessman's ties to secret offshore shell companies became the focus of the final forum of the campaign Wednesday night.

Shrem, previously one of the most prominent financiers on the Israeli capital market, has recently reinvented himself as a key player in the stock market shell company industry.

Back in London, Mr Cameron has repeatedly requested the OTs and CDs create public registers of who is really behind their myriad shell companies.

Bernstein shows how shell companies operate, how they allow the super-wealthy and celebrities to escape taxes, and how they provide cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe.