They're stealing from customers and pocketing the cash for themselves.
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Her son was arrested for allegedly pocketing a million bucks.
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The average athletic director was pocketing more than $25,258 annually.
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Local bankers demand "consulting fees" when extending loans, pocketing the cash.
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The leagues don't really mind, because they're pocketing the money anyway.
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It specifically mentions sewing thread, pocketing fabric and narrow elastic bands.
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It opened ahead of expectations, pocketing $27 million from 2,442 theaters.
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Officials initially accused Mr. Freidman of pocketing more than $30 million.
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Belarus then re-exports some of those goods, pocketing the associated charges.
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Upper income earners are pocketing a disproportional amount of the economy's gains.
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They can then return the shares to the owner, pocketing the difference.
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"They will just go later after pocketing some money," Mr. Konczal said.
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It was heavily criticized for pocketing tips meant for its delivery workers.
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Several custodians have settled charges of pocketing excessive amounts from foreign-exchange dealings.
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Andreessen Horowitz is pocketing a huge win in the $7.5 billion GitHub acquisition.
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Pocketing the breakup fee and moving on beats getting into a bidding war.
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She also dismisses the fact Graham failed a polygraph test about pocketing money.
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Kano's governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, was filmed last year pocketing stacks of hundred-dollar bills.
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Arrest affidavits alleged that clients typically paid $250 for sex, with King pocketing $50.
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A24's comedic drama landed at No. 7, pocketing $2.4 million from 409 venues.
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Instead, they blamed middlemen for pocketing discounts instead of passing them along to patients.
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DoorDash is still pocketing workers' tips, almost a month after it promised to stop
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Fox is pocketing up to $5.6 million for a 30-second commercial this weekend.
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In effect, owners of common stock are pocketing a higher portion of economic output.
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In 2016 Bolivia sold 25 tonnes of lithium carbonate to China, pocketing a princely $208,000.
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SHERIFF WHO BOUGHT BEACH HOUSE AFTER POCKETING $750G FROM INMATE FOOD FUND GETS VOTED OUT
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My first year, I booked $511,000, pocketing half of that as my income pre-expenses.
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My first year, I booked $10,4, pocketing half of that as my income pre-expenses.
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At least they'll know you're not pocketing cash in place of their well-meaning present.
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They then charge fees for accessing quotes and make a profit by pocketing the difference.
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Minus the lawyer's fees, Uber drivers in the suit will end up pocketing $163 each.
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I absolutely believe they are still pocketing our tips, and I'm not the only one.
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Boahen also accused Mahama of pocketing money from the U.S. in exchange for the transfer.
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It saw a 22 percent increase in ticket sales, pocketing $22017 million from 211,21.65 screens.
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He ended up pocketing about $3.5 million from the project, a Texas Tribune investigation discovered.
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Last year he walked off with a special award at the LVMH Prize, pocketing €150,000.
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Downsizing means selling the current home to buy a cheaper one and pocketing the difference.
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But it didn't leave empty handed, pocketing the $1 billion breakup fee for its efforts.
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She even starts turning them into fancy slideshows, and pocketing extra money from the added clicks.
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Hankerson was arrested in June for pocketing taxes that the restaurant had taken in from customers.
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Who knows, you may just find yourself pocketing an extra $21 to $24 dollars a week.
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In 290, the Rockefeller family mortgaged the property for $221 billion, pocketing an estimated $873 million.
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Sarah, pocketing the ID, returns the wallet to Perkins' table just in time, and she and Mrs.
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State prosecutors charged Freidman last year with pocketing $5 million in state taxes on taxis he managed.
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The homeless woman left the restaurant, but instead of pocketing the loot and running ... she stuck around.
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The company makes money by pocketing a commission from insurance company plans, featured on Stride Health's platform.
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Yet despite pocketing money to which it is not legally entitled, the industry claims it's been cheated.
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Short sellers borrow and sell shares and, when prices fall, buy and return them, pocketing the difference.
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Subsidised fertiliser intended for smallholders has often been resold at market rates with middlemen pocketing the profit.
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So, you could argue, they are getting Whole Foods for free, and pocketing $1.9 billion as well.
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Instead of pocketing his winnings and hunting his next big target, Mr. Ackman made a tactical mistake.
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The public prosecutor's office accused Mr. Glas, 48, of pocketing $13.5 million from Odebrecht through his uncle.
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They also accused her of hiring two legal assistants with the aim of pocketing their salaries. Mrs.
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Once again, Pyongyang is following its tried and true diplomatic playbook of pocketing concessions and stalling for time.
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He got $20k in chips and he was in and out in 12 minutes ... pocketing $1500 in winnings.
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Freidman pleaded guilty Tuesday to pocketing $5 million in passenger fees that were supposed to fund public transportation.
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A report from the right-leaning Free Beacon accused her of pocketing $2 million from her recount fund.
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Yes, but: The Obama administration enacted the labor regulation to prevent employers from seizing and pocketing servers' tips.
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TMZ broke the story ... producers first set their sights on Katy Perry, who will be pocketing $25 mil.
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A normal commander in chief would not be pocketing checks from foreign governments and their lobbyists in Washington.
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The fund then buys the shares back at a later date and returns them, hopefully pocketing a profit.
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The public prosecutor's office accused him of pocketing a roughly $13.5-million bribe from Odebrecht via his uncle.
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If Washington is watching, that is one more example of Germany pocketing its trade bounties without any qualms.
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But the attorneys general argue nothing in the rule prevents employers from simply pocketing gratuities as additional profit.
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While walking around the gallery's hardwood floors and pocketing things, you half-expect an alarm to go off.
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In Ecuador, a former vice president was given a six-year sentence for pocketing millions from the company.
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The 29-year-old American also topped the PGA Tour money list, pocketing $9.68 million in prize money.
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"I just picked up a volunteer," the candidate said, pocketing the paper as he stepped from the train.
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It also ensures the organizer is actually buying tickets, rather than just pocketing his or her coworkers' cash.
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Hungary in particular has loaded up on EU cash, pocketing €213bn ($22008bn) a year, some 24% of its GDP.
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JESSE LIVERMORE earned his reputation as a talented speculator by pocketing a tidy sum during the Panic of 1907.
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But banking stocks retreated following strong gains recently, with some investors pocketing gains after major leaders released their results.
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Among the findings, officials and domestic suppliers appear to have been falsifying local procurement statistics and pocketing government payments.
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Then, about 10 months later, in an adjacent town, another youth sports volunteer was convicted of pocketing almost $35,000.
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After her afterparties she curates a unique songwriting environment, pocketing oddball collaborators and throwing them in her cocktail shaker.
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Short sellers borrow shares in the hope of buying them back at a cheaper price and pocketing the difference.
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The breakdown: She collected a $517,500 salary while pocketing a $280,260 bonus and $3.6 million worth of stock options.
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One issue, an employee we spoke with said, is that other employees are pocketing the hand sanitizer for themselves.
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They sold borrowed shares in anticipation of buying them back later at a lower price and pocketing the difference.
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If that wasn't enough, the team, called Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHT), will now be pocketing $3 million dollars.
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By 5:103 that night, he was at the Chase Bank on Flatbush Avenue pocketing the $1,000, prosecutors said.
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Just as they expected, the Chinese, the Japanese and the Germans are pocketing increasing surpluses on their U.S. trades.
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When he was pocketing his parents' money in '86, Giannulli was selling volleyball shorts out of his Balboa Island garage.
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Despite China's licensing blackout, Tencent remained as the largest publicly listed gaming firm in 2049, pocketing $19.73 billion in revenue.
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She earned $500 for being in the Top 5 and, after getting the most votes, she's pocketing an extra $2,500!
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Some operate on a contingency-fee basis: their sole remuneration comes from pocketing a percentage of any arrears they recover.
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He suggests the two of them start a scam on the warehouse company by fudging the inventory, then pocketing merchandise.
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Criticizing a boss doesn't count for much when you're still pocketing a check at the end of every pay cycle.
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They criticized middlemen, including pharma's favorite target, pharmacy benefit managers, for pocketing discounts instead of passing them along to patients.
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He tore open the package near a dumpster behind the store, pocketing the stuffed animal, and headed toward the train.
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The Kazdas didn't know their advisers were pocketing almost 10 percent in commissions by aggressively selling them inappropriate investment products.
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Instead of giving these savings to patient, though, PBMs are pocketing substantial profits while running community pharmacies out of business.
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If so, said Smith, Bourke would have been pocketing the difference — a not uncommon practice at the company, workers said.
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"Tiger was great today," he said after pocketing the first prize of $1.89 million and becoming Italy's first major winner.
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They used one and rented out the other for $73 a month, pocketing $310 after taxes and the garage fee.
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Some financial "advisers" are really salespeople who make money by steering clients toward expensive financial products and then pocketing commissions.
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Children are pocketing an average of $30 a week in allowance — enough to rack up around $1,93 in a year.
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He has been charged with pocketing profits and avoiding losses of more than $40 million in shares of Dean Foods.
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Two doctors run their Alabama pain clinics like heartless pill mills-illegally prescribing opioids while destroying lives and pocketing millions.
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Candidates can't do the equivalent of pocketing campaign money or using it to pay for personal things like divorce lawyers.
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A page called NTD Television pulled this same trick yesterday—pocketing an easy 7.6 million views—and gave credit to CONTENTbible.
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The companies will split the revenue from the deal, pocketing some cash every time you accidentally tap an ad while scrolling.
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Amed Rosario is paying dividends this month after pocketing the New York Mets' largest international signing bonus over five years ago.
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Pocketing glass doors lead straight to a sprawling backyard ... with 2 reflecting pools, a 10-person spa and a fire pit.
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Cotswold still handles pocketing business for many U.S. brands, part of a diverse portfolio that includes making fabrics for culinary apparel.
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After years of conducting unconstitutional oil sales and pocketing the revenue, the Kurdistan Regional Government is on the verge of bankruptcy.
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One possible intermediate step, then, would be to ask the store managers to remind people that pocketing donations is against policy.
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Four weeks on, prosecutors have 35 suspects, mostly for pick pocketing and robbery while just three are suspected of sexual crimes.
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In those restaurants, tips can still only be shared among busboys, hostesses, and other workers who are pocketing $2.13 an hour.
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He has a 60-year lease on the building, and not pocketing profits for a few years is hardly a sacrifice.
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The same goes for the next in line of succession, Eunício Oliveira, the Senate chief also facing investigation for pocketing bribes.
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Adding insult to injury, not only are companies increasing share buybacks, some are firing Americans while pocketing significant tax-cut savings.
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Case in point: After a Times article revealed DoorDash's practice of pocketing tips from delivery workers, the company changed its policy.
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Case in point: After a Times article revealed DoorDash's practice of pocketing tips from delivery workers, the company changed its policy.
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The leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood organization, Milagro Sala, is in prison for allegedly pocketing millions earmarked for social housing.
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She can store power when it's cheap and use it (or sell it to the utility) when it's expensive, pocketing the difference.
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At the same time, companies are doing a pretty bang-up job of pocketing the economic expansions' rewards as cold, hard profit.
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According to the new report, Cardi's former manager (whose real name is Klenord Raphael) was allegedly pocketing money the star was making.
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North Korea has promised disarmament again and again over the past 30 years, only to renege each time after pocketing generous inducements.
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But there are great inequalities, with the top 10% of earners pocketing nearly $80,000 and the bottom tenth making less than $27,000.
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Does she love to know that her firm is pocketing $1 billion for a technology that was acquired from Merck in 2007?
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Police say Bradford aroused suspicions within the organization last month that she was pocketing money and gift cards being sent to Safyre.
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The bottom line: Short sellers borrow stock with the intention of buying it later at a lower price and pocketing the difference.
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The couple is further accused of pocketing more than $100,000 which the children's parents wired from South Korea to cover their needs.
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Donald Trump is the guy who took advantage of the hard and honest labor of his partners while pocketing glory and profits.
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Mixing her powerful game with sliced backhands to slow down Muguruza, Mladenovic was in the driving seat after pocketing the first set.
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They had been pocketing all of our loot as well as the Dead Kennedys, for which they had distribution rights in Canada.
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Universal's "The Grinch" continues to bring back solid returns, pocketing another $11.5 million this weekend for a domestic total of $239 million.
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In a blog post, he wrote that banks end up pocketing gains from a stock's first-day gains, instead of the company.
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Hillary Clinton had nothing to do with it, and the implication that McCabe's wife was just pocketing Clinton money directly is absurd.
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Instead he forged receipts and eventually was convicted of pocketing more than $100,000 in a theft he called payback for the abuse.
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He had put notorious gangster Paul Massey's "Salford Lads" firm in charge of the doors and they'd allegedly started pocketing the takings.
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In a handful of earnings calls, some individual retailers have even admitted to pocketing millions of dollars from the Durbin price controls.
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Schock has been accused of pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in reimbursements after submitting false mileage reports following a POLITICO report.
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These are ideal conditions for banks, which take in deposits and make loans, pocketing the difference in interest rates on the products.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have sold their Bel-Air mansion and are in the process of pocketing a fortune ... TMZ has learned.
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That's money they're taking straight from consumers by pocketing the rebates they squeeze from manufacturers and the rapacious clawbacks they demand from pharmacies.
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It would start in October by pocketing 2.5 billion euros in taxes from about 700 public Catalan firms that currently goes to Madrid.
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In other words, Americans are working for the tax collector for three and a half months, before ever pocketing a dime for themselves.
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One of America's biggest food delivery service was revealed to be effectively pocketing tips customers gave its workers as thanks for good service.
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All of these practices see industry players pocketing profits, while consumers are caught in the middle, dealing with escalating out-of-pocket costs.
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The goal is money and power, both for the individual politicians pocketing fossil fuel donations and for this imperialist nation as a whole.
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Suddenly, Saikawa — who ordered the investigation into his former mentor — finds himself in the spotlight and standing accused of pocketing excess pay, too.
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He and three others go on trial Monday in federal court in Manhattan, charged with pocketing bribes from companies looking for state contracts.
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The 23-team 22019 season had a $22019 million prize pool, with the San Francisco Shock pocketing $20173 million as season playoff champions.
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He repeatedly refused to look at the picture on ITV reporter Joe Pike's phone before pocketing his phone and continuing with the interview.
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Juice WRLD signed with Interscope Records in 2018, pocketing $3 million in the deal and quickly exploding from bedroom rapper to professional status.
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Short sellers seek to profit by borrowing shares in hopes of buying them back at a lower price later and pocketing the difference.
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The sixth installment of the Tom Cruise spy series remains No. 1 at the box office, pocketing $124 million in North America to date.
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The officers are accused of stopping people -- some of whom were not even suspected of any crimes -- and seizing their money and pocketing it.
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The high-yielding currency is popular among carry traders, who invest in it using funds borrowed in low interest rate currencies, pocketing the difference.
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Between 2012 and 2017, the duo allegedly skimmed $478,588 from their lunchrooms, pocketing cash students were spending on undercooked pizza or whatever every day.
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A former Colombian senator who admitted pocketing an Odebrecht bribe claims, without proof, that $1m went to President Juan Manuel Santos's campaign in 2014.
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Die-hard fans will likely feel they got their money's worth, and pocketing boatloads (or U-boat loads) of money is a virtual certainty.
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While interesting to see, FEEX doesn't break down how much of those fees are for managing the fund or shady advisors pocketing my gains.
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Ellen sold half a floor in the Beverly West condo complex in West L.A. She's pocketing $5,850,000 which sounds great, but here's the rub.
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Apple will end up pocketing some extra cash from the money that flows through that app, and enjoy being on Amazon's dominant ecommerce platform.
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Short sellers profit by borrowing shares of a company to sell, then buying them back after the price has fallen and pocketing the difference.
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If the basic pattern holds up — with Democrats pocketing Clinton's gains and the GOP not consolidating Trump's — they are well positioned for the future.
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Forecasters are more optimistic now about the effects of tax cuts on economic growth, they but don't see workers pocketing much of the windfall.
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Former George W. Bush, for example, made millions off of at least 200 speeches, pocketing between $21625,2900 to $220006,2202 per appearance, after leaving office.
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Since its inception, however, hospitals have learned to game the system, pocketing the rebates as profits instead of utilizing the discounts for patient care.
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Slight pocketing around the gums was observed in 54 percent of the kids, although it was more often found in boys than in girls.
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One Schlumberger source said a PDVSA unit and Bohai Drilling Service, a unit of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), were pocketing some of the contracts.
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Short-sellers aim to profit by selling borrowed shares in the hope of buying them back later at a lower price and pocketing the difference.
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But instead of pocketing his earnings — an impressive $5,860 in just two hours — Andrew had a different plan in mind, according to The Index-Journal.
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"I often tell my clients that it's easier to save money for another goal when you're not used to pocketing the extra cash," Pearson says.
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It accuses dozens of lawmakers, officials and businessmen of inflating the cost of an identity-card scheme from $215m to $385m, and pocketing the proceeds.
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So why can't you spray your iPhone with this remarkable material and never have to worry about accidentally pocketing it with a set of keys?
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"Life Itself," a tear-jerker from "This Is Us" creator Dan Fogelman, didn't even crack the top 10, pocketing just $2788 million from 239,2197 screens.
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Then there's Martha Stewart, who D.L. notes went to jail for illegally pocketing around $40,000, she was sentenced to 5 months in prison in 2004.
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For a moment, it seemed like the food delivery app DoorDash would get away largely unscathed over allegations that it was pocketing its workers' tips.
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Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin who came under scrutiny for pocketing money from an inmate food fund to buy a home in Orange Beach, Ala.
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Their coverage could get weaker, and there's no guarantee that employers will actually boost employees' wages with the cost savings, rather than simply pocketing them.
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Last night, the pick-pocketing Houston Rockets took on the Clippers, wagging Chris Paul in their face, but it wasn't Paul who'd snag the headlines.
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In parts of Italy, the mafia has taken over many migrant detention centers, providing minimal services to migrants while pocketing government aid payments for themselves.
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Pocketing extra money: Uber's "upfront pricing" has been controversial among drivers who feel their earnings should be calculated based on higher fares when they occur.
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Officials in America have indirectly accused Najib Razak (pictured), the prime minister, of pocketing some of the missing money, along with his stepson and others.
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In July 2017, Sindiso Magaqa was ambushed by gunmen and murdered after accusing A.N.C. officials of pocketing millions of dollars intended for a building renovation.
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Short-sellers borrow shares and immediately sell them, betting the price will fall before they buy back the shares and return them, pocketing the difference.
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It mostly raises funds to pay for more robocalls, which are used to raise more funds, with the owner of the group pocketing the difference.
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But the insurer that oversees her drug plan, Humana, is pocketing hundreds of dollars every time she fills her prescription from Amgen, which makes Enbrel.
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The prospect of pocketing free money from your bank might be just the push you need to finally open a high-yield savings account, though.
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Admirers and activists praised her stand — but few noted the fact that she had built a financial cushion by pocketing big checks the years before.
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The sixth installment of the Tom Cruise spy series "Mission: Impossible – Fallout" remains atop the box office, pocketing $124 million in North America to date.
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The data has been largely unknown to investors who have wondered how much money the company is actually pocketing at the end of the day.
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Most lawsuits are quickly settled, with the visually impaired plaintiffs earning a few hundred dollars per lawsuit and their lawyers pocketing thousands in legal fees.
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Leganes, who in 2016 were promoted to the top flight for the first time ever, earned the smallest amount of all the teams, pocketing 39.3 million.
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Short sellers borrow stock for a fee, then sell and agree to repurchase at a later date in hopes of pocketing a profit after shares fall.
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In December, a Salvadoran judge ordered Mr. Flores to stand trial on charges of pocketing $5 million personally and disbursing $10 million to his party's coffers.
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"Bleakest quotes: "Planned Parenthood has amassed a Third Reich-style death count completely legally and while pocketing half a billion dollars a year to do so.
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Commodities like iPhones are also popular -- criminals will buy them in bulk with dirty money and sell them at a steep discount, pocketing the clean money.
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A woman who was a symbol of the fight against the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta was found guilty of pocketing funds she received for a women's support group.
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Dana Carvey, the "expert in residence" of this new competition series, guides aspiring celebrity impressionists through a series of improv games, with the winner pocketing $10,000.
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Besides her numerous runway appearances and magazine shoots, much of Kendall's pocketing from her hefty contracts with brands like Estée Lauder, Adidas, Longchamp and Calvin Klein.
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We care about the bottom-dollar amount you end up spending, since — presuming you're a kind patron — we'll be pocketing 20% of whatever that amount is.
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It would struggle to top Anbang's offer without destroying value for its shareholders, and pocketing the breakup fee and moving on beats entering a bidding war.
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In fact, he was just pocketing the money and occasionally mollifying his more irate victims by sending them cases he had bought from other wine stores.
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One could almost imagine the duke strolling the grounds of his chateau outside Paris and pocketing a leaf as a memento of a brilliant fall day.
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Sources with knowledge of the deals tell us Nicki's getting $125,000 to host Monday night's finale and Gucci Mane's pocketing $100k to host Saturday night's bash.
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Ward herself said she dealt with people spreading her nudes for free, slut-shaming, and accusations of her pocketing the donations after her first fund fundrasier.
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Google has become a global advertising behemoth, pocketing billions of dollars every year from brands promoting their goods through the company's search engine and on YouTube.
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When an event sells out, these spare tickets are offered at the same price as the final release tier, with the event promoter pocketing the difference.
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BC just announced a gig for next Monday at the Ace of Diamonds in West Hollywood and we're told she'll be pocketing $10k for hosting the night.
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There is no prospect of him toning down his rhetoric and pocketing the grateful majority of Americans who consider their personal finances to be "good" or "excellent".
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Rather than pretending she is "crazy," Aladdin uses his pickpocketing skills to "give" the merchant Jasmine's bracelet, while actually pocketing it and giving it back to her.
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Though the find was certainly a large chunk of change, Kimes said she never even considered pocketing the cash, as it would go against her moral code.
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So as players see record deals, experts also said it is important to remember that means the owners are pocketing a significant amount of money as well.
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In Zambia, studies have found that a third of subsidised fertiliser never reaches the intended beneficiaries, and is probably resold commercially, with crooked middlemen pocketing the subsidy.
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And for Mr Najib, who was accused by America's Department of Justice of personally pocketing $681m looted from a Malaysian government agency, it is a welcome comeuppance.
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In Almaty, too, police complain to dissidents that they are ordered to do the dirty work, such as arresting protesters, while their bosses are busy pocketing bribes.
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Ron Goldman's father is demanding O.J. Simpson get before a judge ASAP ... because he's concerned Simpson is pocketing cash he owes to the Goldman and Brown families.
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Short-sellers borrow shares for a fee and sell them into the market, in the hope of repurchasing them at a lower price and pocketing the difference.
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After all, the Justice Department can tell me how many pick-pocketing crimes there were last year but not how many people were killed by illegal aliens.
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Ritchie Torres, a council member from the Bronx, is currently drafting a bill that would legally force apps to tell customers if they are pocketing worker's tips.
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And a set of high flying bankers and lawyers shouldn't be able to turn a blind eye to injustice while pocketing the profits with no questions asked.
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This meant erecting buildings and bridges across the Philippines (pocketing some of the budget) and also buying a handful of towers in Manhattan (the Woolworth among them).
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At the peak of the problem a few years ago, an estimated 40% of teachers in the province were "ghosts", pocketing a salary and not turning up.
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The difference here is that candidates can now focus on that $3 trillion in giveaways to the wealthy, while pocketing the unwise deductions Republicans already swept away.
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They used a risky strategy — short-selling — in which they sold borrowed shares in anticipation of buying them back, at a lower price, and pocketing the difference.
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Russell Wilson and Ciara are pocketing their babysitter dough tonight -- no need for one when you have to attend a Hollywood event that's actually for the kids.
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After accusing party officials of pocketing millions in the failed refurbishment of a historic building, Mr. Magaqa and two of his allies were killed in rapid succession.
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Although he was acquitted at home, he was extradited to the United States, where he admitted to pocketing $2.5 million in bribes from Taiwan for diplomatic recognition.
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That&aposs not to mention all the harassment and criticism she&aposs faced on social media, from people slut-shaming her to accusing her of pocketing donations.
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New data shows a scandalous fact — over 20 percent of co-pays exceeded actual total drug costs, with the PBMs pocketing the difference off of naïve patients.
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And that's where the U.S. is going to fight an unyielding negotiating mandate with a trade block pocketing last year a $170 billion surplus on American goods trade.
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"By not pocketing this money ourselves we can focus on providing the best service possible to you and not on making more money from denying claims," Carlsen said.
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He said it was a case of the "yin-and-yang" payments prevalent in the film business: reporting a low salary for taxation and pocketing a larger sum.
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A diplomatic source in Seoul told Reuters, citing North Korean officials, Han was purged last year after being accused of spying for the United States and pocketing funds.
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But he has already amassed a fortune, pocketing millions in pay and tapping into the far more lucrative money pot for CEOs through pension benefits and stock options.
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The recent protests were in part triggered by public outrage over the July 10 arrests of two former administration officials charged by U.S. officials with pocketing federal money.
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Jay Valencia was Faber's first opponent and succumbed to the much-vaunted guillotine choke of the California Kid in just 82 seconds—pocketing Faber $500 for his victory.
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But the growth among existing players is expanding, with a handful of pot companies now pocketing anywhere from $30 million or $40 million in annual revenue, Troy said.
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Saguto was charged with seizing businesses under dubious circumstances, appointing relatives to serve as administrators, and pocketing the businesses' earnings or distributing them among colleagues, family, and friends.
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The fund hopes to buy the shares back at a later date for a cheaper price before returning them to the original owner, pocketing the difference minus fees.
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Both forces have been plagued by corruption, poor leadership, desertions and "ghost soldiers" — the practice by some commanders of producing inflated strength numbers and pocketing the extra salaries.
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I also thought about pocketing a Foie Crispy Treat, and I would have gotten away with it because everybody else at the table thought they were too weird.
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Short-sellers borrow shares and immediately sell them, betting the price will fall before they buy back the shares and return them to the lender, pocketing the margin.
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Starting next month, PayPal will begin pocketing the initial 2.9 percent commission fee sellers forfeit during a transaction even when the seller is refunding a customer in full.
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Schwab, for example, will pay you a meager 0.06 to 0.45 percent of your assets, while investing it at roughly 2.65 percent, and pocketing the difference, he said.
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More logical, I thought, was to put money into something that'd return gradually, avoiding crashes and still pocketing bitcoins that could be sold at the most opportune time.
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Pharmacists say large pharmacy benefit management (PBM) firms that handle benefit clams for millions of Americans are pocketing the difference, while those firms say pharmacists themselves are being greedy.
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Industry executives believe TV programmers will expect Facebook to shell out advance payments for multiple-year deals, which Facebook would recoup by pocketing some of the channels' subscription fees.
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However, with Japanese companies releasing their annual results later this week and ahead of the 10-day Golden Week holiday, investors are pocketing profits from recent gainers, they said.
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A student pocketing less than $20,000 from a school stipend, typical of those in graduate programs, would have suddenly found themselves paying taxes on $50,000 or $60,000 in income.
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After initially telling reporters that pocketing the tip was a "glitch," Instacart announced it would change its payment policy in February, so that tips would be separate from payment.
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He is now on trial in a separate case for allegedly instigating abuses of office by other public servants, and is under investigation on suspicion of pocketing EU funds.
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An Alabama sheriff who admitted to pocketing more than $28503,22019 in public funds intended to feed inmates is selling the beach house he bought less than a year ago.
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Hospitals quickly realized they could buy drugs at a discount and then sell them to insured patients who are not poor at the full price, thereby pocketing the difference.
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The number of high earners, or those pocketing a million euros or more a year, increased from 13,178 in 2013 to 3,865 in 2014, with 2,926 based in Britain.
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It's been almost a month since DoorDash, the leading food delivery app in the US, finally caved to public pressure and announced it would stop pocketing its workers' tips.
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A donation is made to a college, while a bribe is paid to an employee who, in effect, is stealing an admissions slot, hawking it and pocketing the proceeds.
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The tens of millions of dollars the N.F.L. is pocketing for its betting data is ultimately small change compared to the $15 billion in revenue it earned last year.
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D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine brought charges against DoorDash on Tuesday, accusing the company of pocketing tips meant for workers and misleading customers about where their money was going.
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Now two sisters are accused of allegedly pocketing $478,000 in cash from New Canaan Public Schools -- a scam that authorities say dates to 2013, CNN affiliate News 12 reported.
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Companies tend to pass on the cost of taxes to consumers, while pocketing any tax savings, when there are only a few businesses in the industry and limited competition.
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The lawyer is also accused of filing fraudulent tax returns for his businesses, lying on his personal income taxes, and pocketing payroll taxes that had been withheld from his employees.
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The news comes just under one month after a lawsuit in Los Angeles claims Uber shortchanged drivers by calculating two different fares for drivers and riders and pocketing the difference.
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Revamped pay policies should prevent a repeat of the injustice of bankers taking public money while pocketing huge pay-packets—in 2009 staff at the five biggest banks trousered $114bn.
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The seven officers, members of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force, were accused of stopping people -- some of whom were not suspected of any crimes -- seizing their money, and pocketing it.
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Instead, they were simply allowed to choose between giving the receiver $0.10, and getting the same amount themselves (the altruistic option), or sending $0.09 and pocketing $0.20 (the selfish option).
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She was under investigation in Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and elsewhere on suspicion of pocketing bribes and participating in money-laundering schemes related to selling telecommunications licenses in Uzbekistan.
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She was accused of pocketing proceeds from a government charity drive, and in 1976 was ousted in another coup — ostensibly to revive an economy depleted by the Peróns' populist policies.
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The RFI from CMS would create more transparency in this process, shedding a light on system actors pocketing these discounts rather than passing them along to patients who need them.
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The prosecution alleges that the men regularly under-represented the proceeds from the sales in the IOR books, pocketing the difference between the actual price and the amount officially recorded.
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The world number one looked like he would cruise to an easy win after pocketing the first two sets but the Georgian stepped up his game to take the third.
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According to the docs, Wyatt is pocketing $150,000 in base pay, and has a chance to earn another $350k depending on how well the sequel does at the box office.
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Democrats later blocked most of the rule from going into effect in March, by adding a provision into the omnibus spending bill that would prevent employers from pocketing the tips.
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The cost of assembling a bridge across such difficult waters is so high and the deadline so tight that some analysts believe there is little leeway for pocketing construction funds.
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The former CEO is now serving an 11-year jail term following his 2018 conviction for pocketing nearly $1 million in bribes from a contractor in the Car Wash scandal.
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Jacobs sold the painting on behalf of Michael Schulhof — the former president of Sony Pictures — but did not disclose the painting's true sale price, pocketing $1 million in the process.
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Trump is directly pocketing what could easily amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in direct payments from the Treasury, while simultaneously claiming to be serving for free.
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Lately, pocketing a 290 percent to 210 percent return owning cash is better than the performance of popular core bond funds that track the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.
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Previous investigations have found that some hospitals are pocketing the savings and failing to use that money to provide charity care for their communities, as the program had originally intended.
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In the anticorruption commission's first case in December, prosecutors accused five former legislators of pocketing money from a special development fund that deputies can tap to spend in their districts.
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The provision in the spending bill would prevent employers from pocketing the tips, but would not stop them from pooling tips earned by servers to share with non-tipped employees.
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Then they brought him back at a much lower cap hit, even though he'll end up pocketing the same amount of money—just with some of it laundered through Colorado.
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Rio de Janeiro has a high incidence of crime, including pick-pocketing and armed robberies that can happen at any place and at any time, a U.S. State Department advisory said.
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The Australian Open prize money increased by 10 percent this year to A$55 million ($43.82 million) with the winners of the men's and women's singles titles pocketing A$4 million.
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It settled a 2014 dispute with Microsoft over patents used in Skype, pocketing $24 million in the process, and made $200 million from the Redmond-based company via a 2010 case.
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Conor, baby mama Dee Devlin and his son, C.M., Jr., hung with family members aboard a yacht he can more than afford after pocketing around $100 mil for Floyd Mayweather fight.
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The music industry was built from "race records" with artists like Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington and John Lee Hooker making labels rich, but only themselves pocketing a fraction of the money.
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We must break this cycle of North Korea pocketing the concession, negotiating in bad faith for months or years, while all the while they build up their nuclear weapons or missiles.
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He also sold and borrowed money against his WeWork stock, bought commercial buildings and then leased those building back to his own company, WeWork, pocketing millions of dollars of We's money.
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The cap was introduced in 22014 after public anger against bankers pocketing large bonuses at a time of austerity and after taxpayers had to bail out lenders in the financial crisis.
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MILAN (Reuters) - South Korean iceman Chung Hyeon doused the fire of Russian Andrey Rublev to win the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals on Saturday — pocketing a $254,230 check in the process.
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But once again—with a lack of imagination that equated fundraising with pocketing checks in Park Avenue living rooms—the media failed to appreciate this new-fangled gizmo called the internet.
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Some university employees were receiving grants from the school to attend classes, while also receiving tuition remission, the investigation found, earning more money than their education cost and pocketing the difference.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that it would investigate Sprint for pocketing tens of millions of dollars in subsidies meant to help low-income households get cellular and broadband service.
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Banking giant HSBC had the next largest pay disparity, with new chief executive John Flint pocketing 4.6 million pounds last year - 118 times as much as its median paid employee in Britain.
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Avenatti, 48, is charged in Southern California with filing bogus tax returns to fraudulently obtain $4 million in loans from a Mississippi bank and pocketing $1.6 million that belonged to a client.
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Michael Ferro, Tronc's former chairman, had exited the company earlier this year—after pocketing $15 million—but has since re-appeared to push for a cash dividend that would benefit him personally.
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Banking giant HSBC had the next largest pay disparity, with new chief executive John Flint pocketing 21 million pounds last year - 20.7694 times as much as its median paid employee in Britain.
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At that time, there weren't regulations prohibiting people from pocketing antiquities found on their own land, so the ancient tokens were placed on the mantel of Santa's sprawling home, where they remained.
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According to the prosecution, she'd prescribed $1.6 million worth of Subsys while pocketing payments of $83,20143 from Insys for speaking engagements that frequently consisted of nothing more than going out to dinner.
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But the most direct affront came last month, after the attorney general's new corruption unit, working with the panel, charged five legislators with pocketing money intended for social projects in their constituencies.
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When we got back, the fire had been extinguished, but my brother had accused a few of the firemen of pocketing some jewelry and smashing some framed family pictures on the floor.
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Sellers found it hard to ascertain whether they were receiving a fair price, for instance, and how much of it a broker was pocketing, the federal Government Accountability Office reported in 2010.
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Another Petrobras employee who supported sticking by Seaview, Jorge de Oliveira Rodrigues, was charged by prosecutors in December for money laundering and pocketing bribes in connection to the alleged oil trading scheme.
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Traders buy food and other goods from abroad at the official rate and sell them at the unofficial one, pocketing vast profits; others make equally large sums by smuggling out heavily subsidized fuel.
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Italian bank UniCredit surged 13.5 percent, the top STOXX 600 riser, after it successfully placed 10 percent of its online broker FinecoBank at 5.40 euros per share, pocketing 328 million euros ($363 million).
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Two years after he resigned as prime minister in 1974, following accusations of dodgy property deals, he was arrested for pocketing $1.8m in bribes ($8.7m today) from America's Lockheed Corporation, a defence contractor.
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The amount of money that Mr. da Silva is accused of receiving in the form of an apartment upgrade pales in comparison with what others have been accused of pocketing in recent years.
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In a short sale, the investor is selling borrowed shares to try to make a profit if the share values go down, pocketing the price difference when he returns the shares he borrowed.
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Eduardo Cunha, the conservative speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, is also facing a trial at the Supreme Court on charges of pocketing millions of dollars of bribes in the Petrobras scheme.
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People who came across some of the cash reportedly turned it into police instead of pocketing it, as picking up money that someone dropped is considered theft in South Korea, according to Buzzfeed.
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They're making $1 billion and they're pocketing $1 billion and they're not doing any of this sort of stuff that the Kochs are doing or that Soros or Gates or Zuckerberg are doing.
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Both cavities and pocketing that can signal gum disease were associated with thickening of walls of the carotid arteries, blood vessels in the neck that carry blood from the heart to the brain.
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At the time, Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for Manhattan, alleged Ashe "sold himself and the global institution he led" by pocketing more than $1 million in bribes to finance a luxury spending spree.
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The FBI announced Thursday that almost 50 current and former Georgia Department of Corrections officers were indicted for allegedly pocketing bribes in exchange for helping sneak contraband into prisons, as the Washington Post reports.
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But the bank is still in the sights of short sellers, who borrow stock in order to sell it, with the aim of buying it back at a cheaper price and pocketing the profit.
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Yo Gotti just got slapped with a whopping $6.6 MILLION default judgment in a North Carolina court ... and it's all because the rapper blew off a recording session with another artist after pocketing $20,000.
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Here are some of the other highlights of the national health spending data: Total out-of-pocketing spending — which includes what Americans spent on deductibles, copays, coinsurance and uncovered services — increased 3.9% in 2016.
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Eduardo Cunha, the conservative speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, is also facing a trial at the Supreme Court on a charge of pocketing millions of dollars of bribes in the Petrobras scheme.
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An academic paper on their situation published in the Equal Rights Review in 2011 described them as being perceived as "violent, knife-carrying, pick-pocketing criminals", which sums up how many people see them.
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She's also startled by Mr. Akhmedov's campaign to keep her from pocketing one cent of his $22016 billion fortune, most of which he earned selling his stake in a Siberian energy company called Northgas.
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Still, the developments of Manafort's court filing Tuesday and the assertions Wednesday about the oligarchs confirm that Manafort had an interest in pocketing cash from a foreign country while he led Donald Trump's campaign.
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In a company blog post on Thursday, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu gave a timeline and more details about when and how the company will change its pay model to stop effectively pocketing workers' tips.
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"All of her behavior has been exposed," said Chen Yiran, a former close friend who accused Sheng Xue of pocketing a $100 donation and profiting from aiding "fake refugees" for kickbacks like a television.
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She's also startled by Mr. Akhmedov's campaign to keep her from pocketing one cent of his $20163 billion fortune, most of which he earned selling his stake in a Siberian energy company called Northgas.
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The government has been selling off debt held by government entities, including accounts receivable, for a pittance of what it is worth, the officials said, pocketing the cash and leaving Venezuela's finances in shambles.
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An investigation found last year that some university employees were receiving grants from the school to attend classes while also receiving tuition remission, earning more money than their education cost and pocketing the difference.
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So not only does Uber have a history of failing to adequately address complaints about the service's safety problems, the company's purportedly profited off its own lack of security by pocketing this "safety" fee.
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His unpopular government unexpectedly swept to victory in Sunday's regional vote, pocketing 18 of 23 states in the midst of a debilitating economic crisis that has millions skipping meals as soaring inflation destroys salaries.
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James Podolske Jr., of Panama City, Florida, who was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday, was also charged with soliciting donations for a charity and pocketing some of the money, the department said.
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The Chinese ignored the advice, kept pocketing the benefits of open access to U.S. markets and free technology transfers, accumulating $3.1 trillion of foreign reserves (at the last count) and steadily growing net foreign assets.
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He had arranged for Ikuenobe to be snatched by a group of asma boys as soon as he stepped outside, pocketing the money in exchange for passing him into the hands of a violent militia.
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The short-seller borrows the securities from a bondholder and then sells them, hoping they can be bought back later at a lower price and returned to the original owner, pocketing the difference as profit.
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The 74-year-old Democrat was once one of the most powerful politicians in New York state until his 2015 conviction for pocketing millions in fees from a cancer researcher and a real estate developer.
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Samih Battikhi, ran the G.I.D. from 1995 to 2000 and was convicted of being part of a scheme to obtain bank loans of around $600 million for fake government contracts and pocketing about $25 million.
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This means that hospitals are buying up smaller practices and clinics, maximizing the "spread" off them, and pocketing the money saved — with no accountability to make them increase care for those who need it most.
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We got the "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" rapper who had just flown to L.A. from Dubai, where he was detained for allegedly pocketing $80k from a concert promoter and then bailed on 2 gigs.
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Kay Ivey (R) on Wednesday ended a state policy that gave funding to feed prison inmates directly to sheriffs, following backlash over officials pocketing thousands of dollars in excess funds for their own personal use.
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Their introduction proceeded along a suitably measured trajectory and avoided cheap tricks — Jon bonding with a dragon, say, or Dany muttering "there's something familiar about you …" — unless you count Jon pocketing his resurrection trump card.
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Once, Jack Benny, whose character was known for frugality and selfishness, got a huge laugh by glancing down at the baseball he was supposed to be first-pitching, pocketing it, and walking off the field.
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Though many patients send the money on to the providers, they said, others might realize they're onto a bonanza, pocketing the money and ducking and dodging every time a doctor or medical office reaches out.
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Before the crash, the markets were driven by the "carry trade", with investors tending to borrow in currencies with very low rates and invest the proceeds in countries with higher rates, pocketing the difference, or carry.
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But that doesn't mean they didn't have to give back, along the lines of a U.N. report last fall that accused Kim Jong Un's government of pocketing $1.2 billion to $2.3 billion from citizens working abroad.
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Their career opportunities are among the best, thanks in part to one of the largest alumni networks in the world; 97% of students find a job within three months of graduation, pocketing a 72% pay bump.
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But the planned series of transactions that total $3.85 billion is subject to Inalum pocketing a special permit for the mine, which requires clearance on environmental matters relating to its tailings disposal, and other regulatory issues.
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More recently, state and federal investigations, lawsuits and press reports have unveiled widespread and consistent efforts by these colleges to maximize student enrollment while pocketing the federal financial aid dollars that the students bring with them.
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Male managers received on average almost 47 percent more bonus payments but the gulf widened to 83 percent for chief executives, with men pocketing nearly 1503,000 pounds ($120,000) a year in bonuses against women's 15,000 pounds.
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Mr. Collor de Mello resurrected his political career and is among the senators trying Ms. Rousseff, despite being under investigation over claims of pocketing huge bribes in the graft scandal around the national oil company, Petrobras.
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Carrefour said on Saturday that Plassat, who stepped down in July 2017 after five years in charge, would not trigger a clause that would see him pocketing nearly 4 million euros for not joining a competitor.
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More recently, he is facing claims of pocketing large bribes in the Petrobras scandal, remaining at the helm of the Senate thanks in part to the special judicial standing afforded to him and Mr. da Silva.
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Within weeks, Mr. Pelletiere snapped up seven properties in areas hit by Harvey, all at a steep discount from their pre-storm values, pocketing sizable gains while some of his neighbors were grappling with financial ruin.
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In a traditional short sale, investors borrow stock in the open market and sell it, hoping they can later replace the borrowed shares with new ones purchased at a lower price, pocketing the difference as profit.
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But phasing out Social Security taxes over time and giving workers the option to continue investing that money tax free in retirement accounts like a 401(k) or simply pocketing that cash is fairer for everyone.
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Apps including Uber Eats, Deliveroo, DoorDash, and Foodora are notorious for pocketing tips, refusing to compensate workers for injuries, and systematically refusing to recognize workers as employees as a way of circumventing the costs of benefits.
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Florists have reported wires pocketing up to 40% of a given order, leaving the fulfilling florist to cover the cost of flowers, vase, add ons, labor and delivery and hope that there's some profit left over.
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Instead of that, China continues to flood American markets with its goods and services, pocketing a gigantic $375 billion surplus on American trades and apparently paying no attention to Washington's warnings over the last two years.
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Banks and securities firms will also take comfort from the fact that while deal volumes slumped in the region, they earned 24 percent more in fees on them, pocketing $4.4 billion, according to Thomson Reuters estimates.
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Earlier this month, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta told members of Congress that they would have to change the law to stop employers from pocketing tips, because his agency doesn't have the legal authority to do so.
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According to the report, an associate of Mr. West's began negotiating with Mr. Plein's team for a seven-figure performance fee without Mr. West's knowledge, forging his signature on an official document and pocketing the advance.
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Japan has been increasingly concerned about the forthcoming trade negotiations with the U.S., and could have been venting some of its displeasure by selling Treasury securities while pocketing a $56 billion surplus on its American goods trades.
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The timing of this lawsuit could not come at a worse time for Uber: the company has been under fire for pocketing an unfair share of its drivers' wages, and for cases of rape and sexual assault.
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Image: Andrew Burton (Getty Images)One of the major instigators to the opioid crisis is looking to sell its own drug to save people from deadly overdoses—but the company swears it won't be pocketing the profits.
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Publishers can choose to sell their own ads into the app and keep all of the generated revenue, but many have reportedly elected instead to get Apple to do the deals for them, pocketing just 70 percent.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)At this point, the promise of a device with a tablet-sized screen that folds to the size of a smartphone for easy pocketing is starting to sound too good to be true.
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Campaign officials have said the money paid to Mr. Parscale's company in the past was for employee salaries, and they have insisted that Mr. Parscale is not pocketing a percentage of either donations or the ad buys.
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The investigation: UAW leaders appear to be playing hardball, in part, to show rank-and-file members they are going to the mat for them amid charges that some union bosses were allegedly pocketing union training funds.
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Beyond Meat's stock is also a favorite target of short sellers, who borrow the stock and sell it with the hopes of buying it back at a lower price and pocketing the difference when they return the shares.
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Not only will a designer skirt likely last longer, but because it's designer, I can resell it after years of use, occasionally even pocketing a profit as if I'm getting paid to wear designer clothing for three years.
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New York's Department of Financial Services on Wednesday filed civil charges against the National Rifle Association (NRA), claiming the gun rights organization offered insurance to members without a license to do so while pocketing some of their premiums.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has prosecuted a former bank executive and several aides and employees accused of pocketing 6 trillion dong ($264 million), police said on Wednesday, as the country intensifies a crackdown on fraud in the banking sector.
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"That's a matter for the Supreme Federal Tribunal to decide," Mr. Temer said, referring to Mr. Cunha's trial at Brazil's highest court on charges of pocketing as much as $6.53 million in bribes in the scheme around Petrobras.
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Specifically, the SEC determined that from 2010 to 2012, Chin would hide the prices Goldman had paid for some securities and then in turn sell those securities to clients at a higher price, with Goldman pocketing the difference.
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The company initially promised to review its approach to tipping late last month in response to immense pressure both from the public and DoorDash drivers over its policy of pocketing customer tips to cover base pay for deliveries.
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Jacobsen wasn't a criminal mastermind, and his shady setup wasn't super-complicated—it basically just involved pocketing tiny game pieces—but he was still sentenced to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay $12.5 million in restitution.
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The protests started after an investigation found last year that some university employees were receiving grants from the school to attend classes while also receiving tuition remission, earning more money than their education cost and pocketing the difference.
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The regulation, which reverses an Obama-era rule that clarified tips are the property of workers who earn them, was lambasted by Democrats and labor rights groups for not including any safeguard to stop employers from pocketing tips.
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Britain has among the world's toughest rules on banker pay, introduced following public and political anger over lenders being bailed out by taxpayers in the crisis and bankers pocketing big payouts at a time of austerity for many people.
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According to RedSeer, a consultancy, by 2015 some 20-30% of all e-commerce sales were to middlemen who were buying heavily discounted merchandise from the big companies and selling it on nearer its full price, pocketing the difference.
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Other charges against Schock include allegedly submitting inaccurate expense reports while in Congress, pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in reimbursement cash and then subsequently lying on his tax returns by not including it as part of his income.
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Memo From Israel JERUSALEM — He and his family have been accused of improprieties as strange as trying to palm off their used lawn furniture to the prime minister's residence, and as serious as pocketing illegal contributions from foreign donors.
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The group that has masterminded several foiled bomb plots on Western-bound airliners and claimed credit for the Charlie Hebdo magazine attack in Paris last year was pocketing around $2 million a day in customs revenues from the port.
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" He also ribbed first baseman Anthony Rizzo for immediately pocketing the ball from the final out of the World Series-clinching game, and joked that he and retired catcher David Ross have both been on a "yearlong retirement party.
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The greenback was down 0.2 percent, allowing emerging currencies that have been battered by worries about a growing U.S.-China trade spat some breathing space, with investors short the rand pocketing profits after the fall to near 7-month trough.
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Similar allegations of app operators pocketing money intended for workers have long dogged companies like Uber, which in 2017 agreed to reimburse tens of millions of dollars to NYC drivers after it admitted it miscalculated commissions to its own benefit.
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The inside is lined with microfiber to not scratch the glass back of the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR. If you're worried about dirt showing, definitely go with the black one because the white one looks gross after pocketing.
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France's National Front, the most mature of all the populist parties, has already extended its constituency from small businesses to blue-collar workers, pocketing districts that were once dominated by the left and now extending its appeal to public-sector workers.
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But of course that begs the question: how does it make money, and without those usual stipulations, is Apple not simply banking on users falling into debt and pocketing the insurance money they're forced to pay for years to come?
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From news of a Vogue staffer pocketing over $52,000 of an editor's money to the all-lady extension of the Ocean's movie franchise, there is something fascinating about hearing of people, particularly women, enacting crazy schemes to pull a profit.
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To be sure, May was speaking to her own party faithful while staking her claim to the so-called "center ground" of British politics by pocketing policies and rhetoric from rivals such as Labour and the United Kingdom Independence Party.
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Apple Card doesn't represent the largest revenue opportunity of services Apple has planned — that distinction goes to the advertising and TV programs, according to Bernstein — but the card could wind up being some of the easiest cash Apple ends up pocketing.
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Filed on Monday in a Manhattan federal court, the lawsuit accused the world's biggest custody bank of charging customers more than the actual costs of converting American Depository Receipt (ADR) cash distributions into dollars and pocketing the inflated amount as revenue.
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Shorting a stock means that you&aposre betting it&aposs going to fall by borrowing the stock, selling it on the open market, and then — if the share price drops — returning those shares to the seller and pocketing the difference.
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In fact, he warned of even potentially more dire consequences should market dislocations and another spike in rates upset the carry trades institutions employ, where lower-yielding currencies are used to buy those with higher yields, with investors pocketing the difference.
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Now is the time to find out if Kim is serious about denuclearization and other measures that could lead to genuine peace, not to avoid confrontation in hopes that Pyongyang will abandon its habit of pocketing concessions and then demanding more.
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That pales in comparison to the tens of millions the uber-wealthy and the likes of Kushner, Cohn and Mnuchin are going to be pocketing due to the policies they endorsed for these bills, and which Republicans in Congress pushed through.
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"I want Washington to work for family farmers again, not just for the agribusiness executives pocketing multi-million dollar bonuses or the Wall Street traders sitting at their desks speculating on the price of commodities," Warren said in the statement.
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Investigators have declined to comment on the case, but critics say the transactions, typically made around payday, could reflect an illegal but common practice in Brazil: hiring "ghost" or no-show employees and then pocketing large portions of their salaries.
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If this cannot be achieved and North Korea wants to put off getting rid of its nukes to some undefined point in the future – pocketing concessions before it does anything or very little – President Trump should give a one-word answer: no.
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Speculators, anticipating a rout, swooped in and began betting that VW's price would fall further by using a risky short-selling strategy in which investors sell borrowed shares in anticipation of buying them back later, at a lower price, and pocketing the difference.
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A so-called 'short' trade involves borrowing the stock of a company from a long-term shareholder such a pension fund and selling it into the market, hoping you can buy it back later at a cheaper price, pocketing the difference minus fees.
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" One anonymous Uber driver confirmed the scam to the Herald, saying that drivers have "been doing it for a long time" and that "many people don't review their emails or credit card statements, so the drivers wind up pocketing the $80 or $150.
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Critics have raised many questions about Mnuchin's financial dealings, from a lawsuit over pocketing profits in the Bernie Madoff case to his suspiciously quiet exit from the Hollywood production company Relativity Media just before it took huge losses and filed for bankruptcy.
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And what would Hugh Hewitt say on radio if it was later revealed that the advisor took over $6900,2628 from companies linked to Vladimir Putin's Russia, in addition to pocketing more than $28503,22019 from moonlighting as a lobbyist tied to the Turkish government?
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Ask a woman about her first foray into the wide world of beauty, and she'll probably tell you a story about pocketing one of her mom's lipsticks or sitting and watching a big sister paint her eyelids blue before a school dance.
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It seems that in the event of a Remain vote on June 23rd, Downing Street will delay its much-heralded "reconciliation reshuffle" until after the summer, to prevent MPs and ministers from pocketing their preferments and immediately opening fire on the prime minister.
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The rule does not apply to workers who make less than a full minimum wage and use tips to supplement their pay, but labor groups said there was nothing in the regulation to stop employers from pocketing a portion of employees' tips.
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But behind closed doors, the authorities say, Mr. Oei, a prominent immigration consultant and philanthropist, ran an elaborate fraud scheme, pocketing nearly $783 million from investors, including many Chinese citizens led to believe their investment would help them secure permanent residency in Canada.
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Her anger and guilt over her mother's death tie into the show's overall mood, a simmering anguish in which the ecstatic promise of South Africa's liberation under Nelson Mandela has ebbed into stasis and corruption, with former heroes now busily pocketing bribes.
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In June 2000, after pocketing $85033 million from the South's president for the privilege of making a pilgrimage to Pyongyang for a summit meeting, Kim Jong Il, the second hereditary ruler and father of the current despot, turned to charming the United States.
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The sight of a recent government minister — who, as chancellor, presided over extremely harsh austerity measures for the rest of us — pocketing $2 million a year to do six jobs simultaneously, each part time, does not feel likely to improve trust in democracy.
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On-demand startups like Uber and Postmates have spawned countless lawsuits from workers claiming they've been misclassified and underpaid, while platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk have become infamous for pocketing 20 percent fees on microtasks that pay an average wage of $2 per hour.
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By doing this, Samsung will be able to either increase the screen size and keep the S8's phone dimensions the same (or roughly the same) as the S7, or shrink the device's dimensions (specifically, the height, for better pocketing and one-handed use).
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had accused Mr. Valvani of pocketing tens of millions of dollars in illicit gains in Visium's Balanced fund based on information about coming Food and Drug Administration approvals for a generic version of a drug that helps prevent blood clots.
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The hedge fund trade involves borrowing a stock from a long-term holder such as a pension scheme and selling it into the market in an expectation that the price will fall before you buy it back and return it, pocketing the difference as profit.
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Short-sellers borrow stock and sell it into the market in hopes of buying it back at a lower price later and pocketing the difference, creating a market for securities lending by fund firms who split revenue from the activity with their own investors.
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While investors and policymakers increasingly frown on the concentration of powers, data suggests shareholders are not necessarily suffering worse returns as a result, and French chairmen/CEOs are not on average pocketing higher pay packages, a Reuters analysis of corporate performance and pay shows.
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Not only does this fail to address the problem of repeat flooding; it also raises the possibility that homeowners who live on prime parcels — along coastlines, for instance — could then turn around and sell their property for more money, pocketing a windfall at taxpayer expense.
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They buy dollars for 26 or 1003 afghanis and sell them for 2100 or 2000, pocketing the tiny buy/sell spread, out of which they have to pay the rent on their market stalls, often just a glass-topped pushcart stuffed with ragged notes.
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Rather than spending it on a flight home to Brandon, Mississippi, "Minshew got thrifty, pocketing the money and hitching a ride with a few Brandon-bound buddies who'd made the trip to San Antonio to watch him play," the Spokesman-Review reported this year.
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As Ramona, Lopez is in charge of making sure this scheme — wherein a bunch of former strippers swindle money away from rich men — makes it off the ground and keeps them out of trouble so they can keep pocketing thousands of dollars every night.
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Instead of pocketing the full savings, however, Material also gives you the option to donate some of it to one of two charities: City Harvest, an NYC food bank, and RAICES, a non-profit offering legal aid and services to immigrants at the U.S. border.
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While Trump assailed "middlemen," an apparent reference to health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), for pocketing negotiated rebates on drugs rather than passing savings to consumers, the proposal discussed on Monday appears to see them as part of the solution to high prices.
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President Xi Jinping came to Florida in early April to meet Trump and convince him that a "win-win cooperation" was much better than intractable frictions in dealing with decades of Washington's neglect while the Chinese were pocketing trillions of dollars from U.S. trade transactions.
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Less than 10 minutes into my Captain Marvel screening, I could feel myself hip-pocketing Carol's hilarious dialogue for later quoting, eating up her effortlessly cool (but not too cool) demeanor, and positioning her in my head as the obvious leader for the Avengers.
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Rio de Janeiro prosecutors who were investigating the case have declined to comment, but critics say the transactions, typically made around payday, could reflect an illegal but common practice in Brazil: hiring "ghost" or no-show employees and then pocketing large portions of their salaries.
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The criminal allegations against Kelley focus on his former document-tracking business for title companies during real estate sales and refinancing transactions in which he is accused of pocketing roughly $3 million in fees that should have been returned to borrowers from at least 2003 to 2008.
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According to Steve Barnard, the president of the produce company, the three employees stole partial pallets and boxes of avocados and then sold them from the back door of the company's distribution center, pocketing the cash for themselves and selling $50 boxes for a mere $20–$30.
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Instead of pocketing the 103 percent or more that's customarily left on a bill, that cash is pooled between wait staff on a shift, their base pay (usually around NIS 20, about $5, per hour) deducted by their boss, and the remainder divvied up between them.
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Near the time of the shutdown, Brensten was facing accusations from the Education Approval Board that the school was "pocketing financial aid money and drumming up bogus reasons to drop students," decreasing levels of education and support staff for students, and not delivering the program as promised.
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Hildebrand. Kirchner had killed himself by then, and Hildebrand, notwithstanding his own part-Jewish ancestry and modernist affiliations, had been hired as one of Hitler's private art dealers, gobbling up stolen and other works to glorify the Führer while surreptitiously pocketing what he liked for himself.
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President Enrique Peña Nieto, who is limited to a single term by law, has led a government many Mexicans now equate with corruption — one that awarded government contracts to cronies and turned a blind eye to governors now accused of pocketing tens of millions of dollars.
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A U.S. appeals court on Monday said a former employee of a tutoring service in New Jersey whose whistleblower complaint led to the conviction of a company executive for pocketing government money is not entitled to a share of the $1.5 million the executive paid in restitution.
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Conventional wisdom holds that you should negotiate your salary when you apply for a job, since that usually won't hurt your chances of landing an offer as long as you remain likable, and pocketing a few extra thousand dollars every year can add up as you get older.
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SPX is getting crushed to a degree not seen since the financial crisis a decade ago - the index is down 21.5 percent in the last three months - a trader who took a flyer on volatility early this year could be pocketing a profit of 70 percent or more.
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If a later story needs the heart-shaped herb, all it'll take is a single shot of one of those attendants quietly pocketing some seeds, or Shuri revealing that, of course, she created a seed library for the plant as it's Wakanda's second-most valuable resource after vibranium.
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Lilly will continue selling Humalog at its regular price to the insurers and employers who want to keep pocketing the large discounts, or rebates, they receive for purchasing brand-name drugs, while also making available a cheaper version to patients who pay for their insulin out of pocket.
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The prosecution also accused Mr. Marshall of grand larceny for giving himself a raise for managing his mother's finances, and for pocketing a $2 million commission when he sold a Childe Hassam painting belonging to his mother for $10 million after persuading her that she needed the money.
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Asked about instances of harassment and intimidation by the police that some Rohingya had described, Mr. Ishfaque said: "We act against these people because they are a group of thieves," noting that crimes like pick-pocketing and robbery in the surrounding area were mostly committed by the Rohingya.
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There were toys everywhere, puzzle pieces communing with cereal flakes under the table, and a pink knit blanket on the hardwood floor which she presently swooped down on with furious efficiency (pocketing the cell phone at last) and folded as they approached the door leading into the next room.
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Afterpay added that co-founders Anthony Eisen and Nick Molnar do not intend to sell any more shares in the next financial year after a filing to the Australian Stock Exchange revealed that the co-founders sold shares the day before AUSTRAC's announcement, pocketing about A$47 million each.
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Representatives Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and Katherine Clark of Massachusetts said the legislation is necessary to prevent employers from pocketing tips under a U.S. Labor Department proposal to allow businesses to pool the tips made by servers and other workers and share them with untipped employees like cooks and dishwashers.
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Net profit in April-June more than tripled from a year earlier to 443 million euros after Banco BPM reorganised its consumer credit joint-venture with Credit Agricole and set up a bad loan partnership with Elliott-owned Credito Fondiario - pocketing more than 330 million euros from the two deals.
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WASHINGTON — A former top broker in Puerto Rico for the Swiss banking giant UBS was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Tuesday, months after he pleaded guilty to criminal bank fraud for pocketing $343 million in commissions in a scheme that saw many investors lose their life savings.
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The Tupac Estate, Tom Petty's ex-wife, Hole and countless others involved in the most epic songs in history are suing Universal Music Group, claiming UMG screwed them out of more than $100 million by secretly pocketing money it got after a fire destroyed hundreds of thousands of master recordings.
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After "career shoplifter" Jacobia Grimes was arrested in December for allegedly pocketing $31 worth of candy at a local store, the district attorney boosted the low-level theft to a full fledged felony charge that could put him behind bars for 20 years to life, the New Orleans Advocate reports.
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As president, Trump has put a pharmaceutical executive in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS is changing regulations to better fit the needs of pharmaceutical companies, and Trump is personally pocketing club membership fees from people with business before the federal government, including the CEO of Allergan.
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During the 73s, revelations also emerged about the "Magdalene Laundries," institutions run by Catholic nuns that forced at least 27,2500 "fallen women" — former sex workers or those who had children out of wedlock — into slave labor conditions, pocketing the profits for the church, throughout the early and mid-2000th century.
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Meanwhile, Iran — the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, which remains unapologetically hostile to the United States and our interests — is pocketing billions of dollars in benefits from the Iran deal, supporting Hezbollah and advancing its ballistic missile program, which threatens our forward deployed troops, our allies like Israel and ultimately our homeland.
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Why it matters: With 21 million inhabitants, 70% of whom do not have access to "drinkable, piped water," Lagos is Africa's most populous city and an embodiment of how modern-day governments have turned to privatization as a means of solving their water shortage crises — while pocketing some extra cash in the process.
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Back then, investigators also trained their sights on John Riley, then the mayor and accused—among other misdeeds—of pocketing a $5,000 bribe from Alberto San Pedro, a local businessman whom Miami media outlets dubbed the "Great Corrupter" after secret tape recordings of him name-dropping the politicians he allegedly paid off went public.
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I decided to put Seamless/Grubhub to the test by downloading Uber Eats, the second-most-used delivery app in my city, and using it for a week (I didn&apost download DoorDash because it&aposs disproportionately small in New York, and also because the company was pocketing delivery workers&apos tips until recently).
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Three former colleagues of Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossTrump administration delays penalty on Huawei for another 90 days WaPo calls Trump admin 'another threat' to endangered species Recession fears surge as stock markets plunge MORE are suing him and his former company for allegedly pocketing millions in improper fees he had charged to clients, Forbes reports.
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So you think the employers have basically won the negotiation — are pocketing more of the gains, giving them to shareholders taking them out as profits, taking them out as compensation for executives, possibly reinvesting them in the business, they do other things too — but you think it would be good to shift some of that toward workers.
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And it's why former national security adviser Michael Flynn, one of the first members Trump appointed to his Cabinet, decided to attend a 2015 gala for the Russian propaganda arm RT, pocketing tens of thousands of dollars along the way—and touching down in Moscow at the same time as a greedy cohort from the NRA.
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Merritt spent on "lavish vacations and a Porsche" using funds stolen between 932 and 2017 from clients to whom he lied, saying he was pursuing their legal claims even after he'd settled their lawsuits by forging their signatures on settlement checks and pocketing the money himself, according to a statement from the office of Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds.
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John's 100 day report card is predictable ... F, F, F, F, F. As for Obama pocketing $400k for a Wall St. speech, Legend doesn't think there's anything wrong with it ... because you can be against Wall St. corruption and not generally against Wall St. Safe to say ... Legend has written Trump off not just for 100 days, but for 4 years.
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" Khan isn't the only person Trump angered in the U.K. before he even touched down: Trump continued tweeting after he landed in the U.K, first claiming his trade war with China is pocketing the U.S. billions and then lamenting the fact that CNN was the only thing available to watch on TV. "After watching it for a short while, I turned it off.
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Facebook wants customers to buy and watch pay TV on Facebook Facebook is talking to pay TV channels including HBO, Showtime and Starz about a proposal to sell those companies' streaming TV services on Facebook, Peter Kafka reports: Industry executives believe TV programmers will expect Facebook to shell out advance payments for multiple-year deals, which Facebook would recoup by pocketing some of the channels' subscription fees.
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But I could also be talking about Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's ambulance chaser of a lawyer who took just these types of meetings with telecom giant AT&T and pharmaceutical firm Novartis before pocketing as much as $1.8 million into the same shell company coffers out of which he paid off a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair with the president.
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Indeed, in the wake of the financial crisis, financial experts began warning us that the mutual-fund industry—the industry that used the pooled investments of many people to buy shares of a large number of companies, in order to make safe, long term gains—was actually just a sort of waiting room for money, with fund managers pocketing a fortune, and investors only seeing a tiny fraction of what they expected.
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VIENNA, March 18 (Reuters) - Austrian financial markets regulator FMA banned short-selling on the Vienna stock exchange on Wednesday for a month to shield the equities market from volatility, after Austrian shares lost around half their value this year due to the coronavirus crisis Short selling is a tactic used to bet that a stock will fall in price, with an investor borrowing shares in the hopes of buying them back later at a lower price and pocketing the difference.
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The group's education task force, which visited seven cities since last October to hear from supporters and opponents, released a major report on Wednesday that concluded that "changing school governance by creating ever more charter schools is not a panacea": There are indeed some excellent charter schools.... However, we also heard about the many poor charter schools that fail to serve children with the greatest needs, offer suboptimal education, and engage in financial mismanagement, sometimes pocketing public money to make a profit for private citizens.
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Attorney Alan DershowitzAlan Morton Dershowitz'Emotion' from Trump's legal team wins presidential plaudits The Senate should reject Dershowitz argument on Johnson impeachment Barr wrote 2018 memo contradicting Trump's claim that abuse of power is not impeachable MORE said Friday night that he will not be pocketing any money for his work on President TrumpDonald John TrumpMnuchin knocks Greta Thunberg's activism: Study economics and then 'come back' to us The Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 85033 of Senate impeachment trial MORE's impeachment defense team.
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Whether that would mean pocketing a cut of concessions sales, giving priority promotion berths on its apps to specific films, or marketing services that might enhance a night out at the movies (like discounts for ride-hail services or specials at nearby restaurants), the key to MoviePass's success was expected to roughly mimic the one that's powered magazines for a long time: Get a huge number of people to subscribe at a very low cost, and then convince advertisers and partners to pay you for access to those customers.
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The changes are part of what Facebook says are still "early experiments" in its efforts to reduce the presence of fake news on the service, and for now they're rolling out only to a small percentage of Facebook users in the U.S. The experiments include: a new tool that let users flag posts specifically as fake news, labels that show when a story has been marked as "disputed" by a third-party fact-checking organization, changes to the News Feed algorithm, and a crackdown on spammers who spread fake news with the intention of pocketing ad revenue.
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Patty MurrayPatricia (Patty) Lynn MurrayOvernight Health Care: Planned Parenthood to leave federal family planning program absent court action | Democrats demand Trump withdraw rule on transgender health | Cummings, Sanders investigate three drug companies for 'obstructing' probe Democrats demand Trump officials withdraw rule on transgender health The Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate MORE (D-Wash.) reached the deal with Labor Secretary Alexander AcostaAlex Alexander AcostaFeds face mounting pressure over Epstein's death Sasse calls on DOJ to 'rip up' Epstein nonprosecution deal to bring 'co-conspirators to justice' FBI searches Jeffrey Epstein's home in Virgin Islands MORE to add a rider in the bill that amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to prevent employers, managers or supervisors from pocketing workers' tips regardless of whether they earn gratuities on top of a full minimum wage.
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