Sentences with phrase «with loan shark»

Some nonprofit organizations make small loans to people in need, and are highly preferable to dealing with a loan shark.

A drunk and a gambler, he doesn't seem to have anything going on in his life beyond his decrepit Brooklyn house, his battered convertible Reliant K - car (complete with wood paneling) and playing the horses at Belmont Park — mostly poorly, which is why he's perpetually strapped for cash, with a loan shark (Terrence Howard) circling.

In more ways than one, Wahlberg's character rolls the dice with a loan shark, his mother, and one of his students — more a love interest than a mentee.

Meanwhile, a mysterious woman meets with a loan shark and asks for 10 million yen.

Bettors taking a simple contrarian strategy have likely made a killing while square public bettors are probably in deep with loan sharks... hoping that their kneecaps survive to see another day.

On the contrary, many of those leading the opposition to payday lending have first - hand experience with these loan sharks:

Payday lenders, while not having any collateral requirements, in most cases may be compared with loan sharks, as the interest rates they charge are hundred times more than the interest rates banks charge their customers.

Because they don't have time to adjust to that new reality and does that make things worse»cause now we're all dealing with loan sharks and they break your legs if you don't pay and that's probably worse than what we got now.

Anybody who charges you over 60 % can be charged under the criminal code with loan sharking.

Not exact matches

After testing beta versions with friends, they launched their student loan payment app ChangEd in April 2017 and also took their idea to a January 2018 episode of «Shark Tank,» where they received an offer from Mark Cuban.

In the study, farmers are becoming more indebted because of the expensive inputs in GM farming coupled with high interests from financiers and loan sharks.

He had gone to jail on March 16, 1985, the day a jury of nine women and three men in U.S. District Court in Tampa found him guilty of racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering (including loan - sharking), extortion and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute it.

And while the ethnic background of those committing crimes involving gambling, loan sharking, drug dealing and prostitution has changed over the decades, a recent bust by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Westchester District Attorney Anthony Scarpino was old school, with the arrest of 10 people who all had ties to the Lucchese crime family.

Before he can fight any bulls, however, Jonny must defeat El Joto, a local loan shark who, years ago, forced Jonny's father to pay him with a prized family heirloom — a pair of bronzed bull testicles.

Unusual and uneven tale of an unattractive small time loan shark and his trouble with women.

Though wealthy from the money that he has culled via loan - sharking, Geremia is a thoroughly miserable wretch, driven into the throes of destruction by his own incredible selfishness and his obsessive infatuation with a beautiful local girl, Rosalba (Laura Chiatta), whom he meets when asked to assist with her wedding.

Originally written by James Toback (Two Girls and a Guy) and starring James Caan, this 2014 version, scripted by William Monahan (The Departed), stars Mark Wahlberg as an English professor and a high - stakes gambler who is trying to balance his relationship with his mother (Jessica Lange) and a student (Brie Larson) as he gets involved with a gangster played by The Wire's Michael Kenneth Williams and a loan shark played by John Goodman.

After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.

2014 Directed by Rupert Wyatt Starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Michael K. Williams, Brie Larson, Jessica Lange, and George Kennedy Synopsis: A literature college professor and high stakes gambler runs afoul of a loan shark and his bodyguard - like gangsters while he has an affair with one of his students.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp — all Thomas Pynchon.

Cooped up in his apartment in a rough Cape Town neighborhood, he is heavily indebted to a loan shark named Emmie with the clock ticking for him and his girlfriend Pam to pay the money back.

But when Jill learns the Harmons are moving and taking her only friend with them — she kidnaps Laila kick - starting an outlandish cat - and - mouse adventure as the Harmons enlist a slick P.I., take off in hot pursuit through the desert of New Mexico, pop into a love commune, confront a gun - wielding loan shark and conquer their fear of parenthood all in this madcap adventure!

Turning the tables on loan shark Shondor Birns (Christopher Walken) and allying himself with gangster John Nardi (Vincent D'Onofrio), Greene stops taking orders from the mafia and pursues his own power.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists... Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp - all Thomas Pynchon.

Will he win it at a casino, get it from his feisty mother (the underused Jessica Lange), deal with notorious loan shark Frank (images of a shirtless John Goodman will haunt me for days), or just tap out?

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998): A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed - growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.

After falling into debt with a Korean mobster (Alvin Lee), and then borrowing money from nefarious loan shark Neville Baraka (Michael K. Williams) that he promptly loses on the blackjack table while trying to win back what he owes, Jim is given seven days to pay or else.

He used to borrow money from John Petty (Willem Dafoe), a local loan shark with a bad reputation, but Russell would covertly pay back his brother's debt.

His vice gets him in deep with a series of unsavory loan sharks (Alvin Ing, Michael Kenneth Williams and John Goodman), borrowing money from each purportedly to pay off debt to the others, only to flit it all away at blackjack and roulette tables, seemingly just because he can.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists, Inherent Vice is part surf noir, part psychedelic romp - all Thomas Pynchon.

Just a tip, though: If your high school basketball movie has multiple sets of loan sharks attending the climactic playoff game, you're probably dealing with too many characters.

He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank (John Goodman), a loan shark with a paternal interest in Bennett's future.

Given seven days to come up with $ 260,000, Jim half - heartedly seeks the help of yet another low - life loan shark (John Goodman), but doesn't seem to mind very much whether he lives or dies - until he falls in love with one of his students, a beautiful young writer played by Brie Larson.

The new film by oft - controversial Korean auteur Kim Ki - Duk is a melodrama about a brutal collector for a loan shark and his odd relationship with his mother.

They stated that there are not many law firms that work with «loan sharks» like Navient Private Student Loans.

Because unscrupulous loan sharks sometimes pose as payday lenders on the Internet, make sure you check the accreditation or license of any payday lender you want to deal with.

He does not support federal meddling with higher education; for instance, he commented, «We need to get the federal government out of the loan shark business and instead refocused on building a strong economy.»

Previous payment size (i.e. paying mininum payment only) has nothing to do with it — that's a verifiable lie that Chase is telling to make their loan - shark maneuvering seem somehow more ethical.

I have tried loan sharks but I was leary with them.

We take pride in the trust we share with our customers, so we don't feel the need to track everybody down like a loan shark.

I have borrower who have never missed a payment on their 8.99 % adjustable rate mortgage but are struggling to keep up with a credit card that was defaulted to 29.9 % interest because the bank changed the due date, and now because they are struggling to make payments on a credit card with an interest rate that would make the toughest «Loan Shark» blush, their score eliminates them from the very program that could save their home.

Enticed by the thrill of online football betting and casinos, the sales manager, who wanted to be known only as Mr Ang, borrowed from multiple registered moneylenders to feed his gambling habit as well as to cover debts with moneylenders and even loan sharks.

HSBC, after lowing my limit on one card raised my interest rate to 30 % on my other card with them — due to my «debt to limit ratio» Even a loan shark on the street plays fairer than these guys.

How do you avoid the greedy loan sharks and work with an honest, ethical mortgage professional who is worthy of a Veteran's business?

Government loan sharking with judicial muscle collecting.

The reality of both of these concerns is things like loan sharks praying on family members when they are broke and vulnerable or fighting for acknowledgement of your credibility and hard work when undermined with sexist comments.

WITH NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!!! The Banks and Wall Street Sharks did a lot of rotten things to get their selves in that place, and they get bailed out, no questions?!!!! But, what GM is asking for a Bridge Loan.

Because the loan sharks are well aware that folks who feel the financial squeeze of being out of work or waiting on a hearing date or settlement are easy pray for high risk loans with outrageous interest rates.