Sentences with phrase «used junket»

In 2013, Mother Jones reported that Rossotrudnichestvo was under investigation by the FBI for using junkets to recruit American assets for Russian intelligence.

They are scared of competition and the Sen. Dems use their junket to Puerto Rico next month to vacation instead of working to solve the high rate of unemployment and substandard education in their communities.

Not exact matches

About 90 percent of North Korea's trade is with China, and Chinese junket operators are well equipped to use the formal banking sector and informal financial networks created by the Chinese traders and small businessmen who've crisscrossed the world for 1,000 years, says Andrew Klebanow, a senior partner at Global Market Advisors LLC in Las Vegas.

A Chinese crypto firm has caught the ire of many junket operators after announcing that its digital coin may be used for transactions in Macau casinos.

Somehow I used to work full - time, have a photography gig almost every weekend, blog on a consistent basis, travel several times a year for blogging junkets and conferences, and manage to build a few websites.

They must have been aware that there's been a history of having these blogger junkets blow up in a very ugly way (especially this year, I think there's some social unrest behind a lot of the rage about these junkets), and, given that they've been boycotted for over 30 years, they must have known that, you know, activists use the Internet.

«On the marketing side, we're using Mexican publicity, the premiere there and junkets to leverage our efforts here,» said Pantelion's Edward Allen.

Mostly it seems I'm just at the Four Seasons,» she says, laughing during yet another visit to the Beverly Hills hotel so often used for movie junkets.

Imagine how much Onah could have used the opportunities that come with a traditional theatrical release (or even a half - hearted Netflix release)-- including press junkets, advance screenings, audience - awareness campaigns from clips and trailers, etc. — to showcase his filmmaking story, like every director of every studio movie has ever had the privilege of doing, whether their film was good or not.

Many of the wealthiest corporations in the world are members of ALEC, which uses its vast resources to shower state politicians across the country with expensive gifts, high - priced dinners at fancy restaurants, and vacation junkets at exotic resorts.

During the housing bubble, consumers used home equity borrowing to pay for everything from boats and gambling junkets (clearly bad) to cars and kitchen renovations (not so bad).