Sentences with phrase «under false pretences»

The VC was arraigned on nine counts, including fraud, obtaining money under false pretences, abuse of office and felony, while the Bursar was on arraigned on two counts of corruption.
He also reportedly carted away the phone of the best man under false pretences of safekeeping it.
It is of course a scandal but one which some have become immune to, so long has this weed been around the club, poncing HUGE AND SCANDALOUSLY UNEARNED WAGES under false pretences.
Mourinho said the injury would prevent Jones from playing against Newcastle United on Saturday and suggested rival clubs had withdrawn their players from international duty under false pretences.
Commentators have focused on the «# 350 million per week» message delivered by Vote Leave, as evidence that the referendum was held under false pretences.
«He told us he would not support it... He gained our endorsement under false pretences
In my constituency, a group of people gained access to my shared office building under false pretences and filmed themselves protesting outside the door of my office, in an incident that has been reported to the police.
The Association fingered the Project Coordinator of West Africa Afforestation Project in the state, Mr. Weluche Umez of extorting unsuspecting members of the union under false Pretence.
But after joy for his supporters at the news, they quickly turned to anger — accusing it of «social exclusion» and signing up new members under false pretences.
According to an investigation into the CJP scandal published in the internationally circulated weekly Science, the paper was submitted under false pretences.
If the woman he is dating is looking for a relationship and he is not, he has the integrity not to mislead her and lets her go before intimacy under false pretence.
Those expecting more examples of the comedy on display in the trailer may be shocked to discover they've been lured into the cinema under false pretences.
You're harming the people buying your book under false pretences.
Either way, this is likely a copyright troll that's going around and taking down Nintendo fan works under false pretences.
The disciplinary panel ruling by chair Mary Louise Dickson and rounded out by Ross Earnshaw and Sarah Walker found on a balance of probabilities that Savone had engaged in professional misconduct when he assisted in dishonest conduct of clients in obtaining mortgage proceeds under false pretences in that he abdicated his responsibility to review and check that statements of adjustment properly reflected the 12 transactions in question.
In Jones v University of Warwick [2003] EWCA Civ 151, the insurer's agents obtained damning video evidence by trespassing under false pretences.
Rather, the (perceived) scandal is that Bitmain may have been blocking and stalling a widely popular upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol under a false pretence.
EFCC Arraigns Man for Fraud The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today arraigned one Bolaji Quadri (aka Philip Coffert) before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court on a 6 - count charge of forgery and obtaining money under false pretence.
Patently, both are picking up wages under false pretences, encouraged to do so and unquestioned by Wenger.
«We don't break the law at Project Veritas — what we do is right on the line of legality,» said O'Keefe, who in 2010 pleaded guilty to charges related to entering the offices of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D - Louisiana, under false pretences.
The MP also revealed that he had been forced to have a police presence at his constituency surgeries last weekend after a group of people accessed his office building «under false pretences and filmed themselves protesting outside the door of my office».
Kpordzih has also been charged with defrauding the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Digitech Construction, Prince Darron Obasa, of GHc 200,000 under false pretence, as well as issuing...
One of the charges read, «That you, Jules Suinner, on or about the 13th day of July 2015, in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to obtain money under false pretences, conspired with ICT Aid Foundation Cooperative Society (still at large) and others (still at large) to fraudulently impersonate officials of Greenview Development Nigeria Limited.»
The suspect was arraigned on Monday at the Igbosere Magistrate's Court on four counts of obtaining money under false pretences and stealing.
The accused persons were arraigned on nine charges bordering on obtaining money under false pretences, abuse of office, misappropriation of funds and conspiracy to steal N156, 984,455.33 belonging to FUTA.
The EFCC Lagos Zonal Office had reportedly arrested the suspects who were National Diploma students for alleged offences bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money under false pretences and possession of forged documents.
The answer is it can't, so therefore if Greenpeace are asking for money to «solve» this (non --RRB- problem, they are committing deliberate fraud — gaining monies under false pretences.
Yet people are pouring out of these places due to the stupid actions of a few who are bent on destruction and war, most of it under some false pretence of religion.
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