TS: The argument here is that ... who is getting fleeced?
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Farmer was worried they could get fleeced and thrown in prison.
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They should be responsible for paying back the bondholders who were fleeced.
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The government is desperate for cash, so motorists who speed are being fleeced.
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For the financially illiterate, freedom of choice means the freedom to be fleeced.
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We fans get tired of being constantly fleeced on the price of tickets.
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They are lured by grocers with the promise of savings, only to be fleeced.
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He fleeced clients of his investment firm out of as much as $65 billion.
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The best you can do at the rental car counter is not get fleeced.
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Fraudsters have fleeced soldiers and veterans to the tune of $405 million since 2012.
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Trump attained the headlines and optics he desired, but on the substance he got fleeced.
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Most prisoners don't know if they have been fleeced in the first place, Borenstein said.
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Those that do fork over money to see it, however, shouldn't walk away feeling fleeced.
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"I've seen varying estimates of how much money has been fleeced from ransomees," Hileman tells me.
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CabbageTech, which fleeced investors after promising absurd weekly returns, falls within the normal bounds of CFTC's quarry.
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At the time, words like "fleeced" and "pathetic" were used in various reports to describe the transaction.
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Prosecute scammers can also be difficult because the victims often don't want to acknowledge they were fleeced.
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The bottom line is that AT&T fleeced its customers to enrich its executives and its investors.
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In New York, it feels like getting fleeced on whatever was left over when the market closed.
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They were cheated by smugglers and fleeced by armed bandits, and they suffered long stretches of hunger.
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One scheme in Guangxi, known as 1040 Project, was reckoned to have fleeced its targets of 600m yuan.
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Jonathan Schwartz pled guilty to 2 felonies connected to an embezzlement scheme that fleeced Alanis of $4.8 million.
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Are today's enrichment classes truly enriching our children, or are we being fleeced by the child-development-industrial-complex?
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Braintree Payments: Exchanging money online, without being fleeced by fraudsters, is one of the oldest problems on the web.
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Indictment lays out almost $600K in fraud According to the indictment, Turner fleeced 161 GoFundMe donors out of $8003,270.
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And it wasn't a 17 million dollar problem, rather it was about $325 million dollars being fleeced from victims.
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" Kaiser Health News, by Julie Rovner "How middle-class America got fleeced," Bloomberg View, by Noah Smith "You're hired!
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The point with an I.P.O. is to be an insider, not a chump who gets fleeced by the insiders.
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Indians, the thinking went, were uncivilized, incapable of enlightened self-rule and bound to be fleeced by white settlers.
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They hope foreign investors won't have to worry about being fleeced and be able to help build the country's infrastructure.
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You don't have to work on Wall Street to understand the stock market, or know you can be fleeced by it.
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So the surfaces of the huge pie slices are sometimes fleeced with fat gobs, sometimes only stippled with paint by brush.
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Now, LPs are concerned that they're getting fleeced for billions on the back end as SoftBank drives up those investment valuations.
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"People need to know that if they come to France, they can make a fortune and won't get fleeced," Dufourcq said.
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"If an individual "invested in WeWork thinking that it had a valuation of $47 billion," she continued, "you&aposre getting fleeced.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mistakenly suggested that retail investors had access to WeWork, and therefore got "fleeced" by its recent valuation drop.
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All anybody cares about is how much money they have in the bank, and how much you can be fleeced for.
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It is a fact pattern well known to the courts and has led to countless seniors being fleeced of their life savings.
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China manipulates her currency with no fear of reprisal from free traders like Ryan who fear "trade wars" more than being fleeced.
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If an everyday person had invested in WeWork at a $47 billion valuation, that investor would be "getting fleeced" now, she said.
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KELLY: They found that victims of con artists often sing the praises of their victimizers until they realize they have been fleeced.
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Still, when you see Kathy Bates sneak in for the underperforming "Richard Jewell," it's natural to wonder whether J. Lo was fleeced.
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On the 1960s series "Batman," she played the gold-digging Minerva, whose mineral spa fleeced swells by extracting secrets from their brains.
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The health technology company Theranos, which is dissolving in ignominy even as I write this, fleeced wealthy investors of hundreds of millions.
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TMZ broke the story ... Katherine has filed a legal doc claiming Trent has committed elder abuse against her and fleeced her to boot.
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"If you, as an everyday person, "invested in WeWork thinking that it had a valuation of $47 billion," she continued, "you're getting fleeced.
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Plank's son Roger said in an interview on Friday his father was picked to run one operation after warning investors they were being fleeced.
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Because some prices are noticeably inflated, "people tend to minimize what [groceries] they buy online because they think they are getting fleeced," Caine said.
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She was able to lift spirits in describing future possibilities instead of leaving viewers feeling cheated and fleeced by everyone in the top 1%.
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A dark and fearful interpretation of a United States being overtaken by foreigners and fleeced by other nations was the centerpiece of Trump's campaign.
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Rather, it's also about whether or not taxpayers enjoy getting fleeced to pay for a corporate tax break or to subsidize the donor class.
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The investor has suspended business operations after nearly $6 million of its funds reportedly were fleeced, via SS&C, this March, according to a lawsuit.
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But that kind of generosity can't be limitless, and the DOD needs to do more to ensure taxpayers aren't getting fleeced and footing the bill.
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Or buy a used one — we have tips on doing that without getting fleeced, as well as on getting your old phone ready to sell.
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The team fleeced Pittsburgh in a deal for Antonio Brown, the star wide receiver, in which the Raiders gave up just two mid-round picks.
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He wooed CEOs and the wealthy and then, with a smile on his face, fleeced them for cash for rural schools or some other social investment.
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FEMA explains the time it takes to get the money is necessary to fully vet each submission, to avoid fraud, so the U.S. taxpayer doesn't get fleeced.
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Clinton mentioned her father, contrasting her middle-class upbringing with Mr. Trump's gilded childhood and implying that he would have fleeced small-business owners like her dad.
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"Donald Trump views the American public as a bunch of marks waiting to be fleeced," Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People, told The Post.
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In Mr. Trump's depiction, any product made in a foreign country and then sold in the United States amounts to an instance of American workers getting fleeced.
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The Quebec man behind a cryptocurrency scam that fleeced nearly $15 million from investors has been sentenced to two months in jail, CBC/Radio-Canada reported on Friday.
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LONDON — In recent history as narrated by President Trump, the United States has been fleeced and humiliated by savvier nations unrestrained by naïve notions like global trading rules.
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Johnny Depp claims the law firm that represented him for years betrayed him by conspiring with his financial manager who Depp claims fleeced him out of $40 million.
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"Fox and His Friends" (on Saturday) stars Fassbinder himself as an openhearted carnival worker who, after winning the lottery, is progressively fleeced by members of a mendacious upper crust.
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We need this reform so that 340B helps the vulnerable populations it was originally intended to serve while keeping taxpayers from being fleeced in this health-care shell game.
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A few years later, in 1763, Casanova was himself fleeced in a convoluted scam by a young French-Swiss courtesan, Marie Ann Charpillon, and her mother, in London's Soho.
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And there's this final blow -- Mary claims Martin, who was also her manager, fleeced her out of $420k in supposed business expenses that had squat to do with her biz.
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Organizations like the PEA may serve as the beginning of player's associations and unions to protect esports athletes from being fleeced financially, as well as providing them with economic agency.
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" Few were better at targeting people of faith than Ephren Taylor, who fleeced some $16 million from members of church flocks in 43 states by preaching so-called "prosperity gospel.
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"There is a perception that the Chinese played to his vanity and fleeced him," said Christopher R. Hill, a special envoy on North Korea during the George W. Bush administration.
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Catherine, over a cigarette in their plant-crowded garden, explains to her sister Clare how a group of lads fleeced a local farmer out of a member of her herd.
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Normally, it would be best to ignore this obviously troll-y horseshite from small-time developers whose only shot at success is to become "free speech" martyrs for easily-fleeced morons.
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I would put my hands under fleeced pink pajama bottoms and masturbate in front of my mum's huge beige desktop computer whilst watching clips I found online of Brad Pitt's Achilles.
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Clayton's modernization attempts need to be realistic about the fact that today, if individual investors blunder into private markets where they have no protection, they will overwhelmingly end up getting fleeced.
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Fulford, now 61, is serving a 10-year prison sentence after admitting she fleeced her victims out of millions of dollars by falsely claiming she was a Harvard-educated financial advisor.
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In 2012, soon after Germany shut down its cum-ex problem, a London trader began a cum-ex scheme that fleeced the Danish tax authority of $2 billion, officials there say.
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State Street had fleeced its clients, prosecutors maintained, by secretly billing for unwarranted commissions and, as a result, had abused their trust and caused them to lose substantial amounts of money.
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One moment his craggy face was glowering over the mistreatment of the local truckers, fleeced of job security and benefits; the next it had melted, like frost in spring, into a joyful smirk.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Malaysia has banned the movie "Hustlers", a Jennifer Lopez film based on the real life exploits of a band of strippers who fleeced clients after having drugged them.
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Bernshteyn left in 2009, in the middle of the financial crisis, and joined a small start-up that was helping companies track their spending to make sure they weren't being fleeced by vendors.
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The most immediate cause is that the Major League Baseball Players' Association (MLBPA), long regarded as America's most successful union in any industry, seems to have been fleeced in the league's most recent CBA.
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"The United States was fleeced out of more than half a million dollars through the defendant's corporate misdeeds," Bridget Rohde, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement.
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An Indiana couple has pled guilty to charges of federal mail fraud and money laundering resulting from an elaborate plot that fleeced Amazon out of over $1.2 million in merchandise, according to The Star Press.
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But the most egregious acts committed against us were initiated out of Russia, and when all was said and done they had fleeced us for more than US$10 million in a single calendar year.
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Alanis Morissette was fleeced to the tune of $4.7 million by her famous business manager ... so claims the company where the manager worked, claiming he used the money to fund a lavish and glitzy lifestyle.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Police in six countries have dismantled a complex cybercrime network that operated from Eastern Europe and fleeced victims - including small businesses and charities - of some $100 million, Europe's police agency said on Thursday.
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Clinton landed some surgical strikes, but aides pointed to a couple of moments, in particular, that they hope to push through Election Day to portray Mr. Trump as a cold businessman who has fleeced average Americans.
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For every minister forced from office, for every disenfranchised conservative cleric, for every rich royal hauled in for corruption and fleeced of allegedly ill-gotten billions, for every businessman shaken down, more potential enemies are created.
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Try not to choke on the irony, but the real-life 'Wolf of Wall Street' -- who infamously fleeced investors for roughly $200 million -- is now suing the film's producers, claiming they lied and screwed HIM over.
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The storied stockpicker - speaking at a table festooned with Berkshire Hathaway Inc-owned See's Candies at the conglomerate's annual shareholder meeting - suggested that "supposedly sophisticated people" and institutions are being fleeced by hedge funds and their backers.
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When you've run before, when you served in the administration and the game is rigged tighter than Three-card Monte, you either land a fatal blow or look like the rube who got fleeced for her diamonds.
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The Argentine armed forces carried out genocide because they were hired guns at the service of economic and military powers that fleeced the country (the foreign debt went to $46 billion, from $9.5 billion, under the junta).
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He described the collapse of Carillion as a "watershed moment" and said it was time to "end the rip-off privatisation policies that have done serious damage to our public services and fleeced the public of billions of pounds".
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The ban covers cryptocurrencies and ICOs—some of which have turned out to be scams that fleeced investors of their money—as well as trading advice (sorry, James "Crypto-Genius" Althusser) but it also covers exchanges and wallet services.
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Getting fleeced by Ken Holland at the trade deadline should be grounds for disqualification, no matter your record, but hey, if Petr Mrazek isn't the guy, the Flyers can always turn to noted playoff dynamo Brian Elliott and his .
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While the general belief in popular culture dictates that Gates and Microsoft fleeced IBM over MS-DOS (the truth is more complicated), at the time IBM clearly felt it had a strong partner and joined forces with Microsoft again.
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"Additional powers are needed to ensure that customers are not being fleeced, because that is what is happening," McGrath told state broadcaster RTE, noting that some bank rates were over 4 percent, double those in some other euro zone countries.
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In my experience, though, problems are pretty rare, and for every broken device you might receive, you'll have many more that work perfectly — and even if you occasionally get fleeced with no recourse, you'll likely save money in the long run.
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Editorial Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is inexplicably backing away from rules that are meant to prevent federal student loan borrowers from being fleeced by companies the government pays to collect the loans and to guide people through the repayment process.
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The film also captures the vaguely hilarious response to the experience from the wider world -- again, much of it via social media -- with many harboring scant sympathy for wealthy 20-somethings who got fleeced after buying into the illusion that McFarland was selling.
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However, as I quickly learned, a passionate community of people throwing around money is like blood in the water to the shark-like scammers and opportunists who, in late 2014, co-opted the Dogecoin community and fleeced its members for millions of dollars.
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Nahar, 23, is one of a rising number of Rohingya refugees, who fled Myanmar in a massive exodus two years ago to escape a military crackdown, to have been duped by human traffickers into slavery or fleeced with promises to reunite them with family.
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"Based on his duck, dodge, and deny performance in the wake of admissions that his bank had fleeced legions of its own customers, he was not – and would never be – the change agent leader Wells Fargo so desperately needs," Chiang said in the statement.
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The reason I have seen Taking Back Sunday perform live more times than Janine Butcher has fleeced an EastEnders man for money isn't just because they have more emotions than a GCSE exam room, and a catalogue of hits that would make Ty Cobb blush.
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I was fleeced by a man claiming he would handle my ticket purchase on Air Peace, a domestic carrier, only to realize too late that he was merely a go-between with big shoulders who could muscle his way to the front of the line.
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WeWork is reportedly leaning toward delaying its IPOWeWork's top communications executives are jumping ship as the company struggles to go publicAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned against opening private companies to everyday investors — if ordinary people had invested in WeWork at a $47 billion valuation, they'd be 'getting fleeced'
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After SAC's indictment on multiple counts of criminal securities fraud, he was vilified by many as a fraudster whose traders routinely fleeced regular investors by trafficking in inside information, allowing them to pocket stock gains or avoid losses that those ignorant of the real facts were forced to weather.
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"I'm feeling extremely fleeced by Elon - guy secured an interest free loan from me (reservation payment) for a car I hadn't seen before reserving, and just told me that it might be another year before I should receive it," wrote one person from Seattle, "0003er", who was among a handful on TeslaMotorsClub.
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In project after project, he faced allegations of broken promises, deceit or outright fraud, from Trump University students who said they had been defrauded, to Trump condominium buyers who said they had been fleeced, to small-time contractors who said Mr. Trump had fabricated complaints about their work to avoid paying them.
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Why it matters to the market: The $2 billion default is the result of the almost-too-surreal-to-believe tuna bonds scandal, in which the country's finance minister and supposedly rogue agents from Credit Suisse fleeced Mozambique for at least $200 million in kickbacks and ill-gotten gains, and possibly more than $1 billion.
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"Family and clergy at some of the most difficult moments in their lives are being fleeced — they have no choice — pay up or cut off the people who need them the most," says Cheryl A. Lanza, policy advisor at The United Church of Christ's media justice arm, which has long advocated for inmate calling reform.
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Conservative columnist Max Boot said Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has "fleeced" President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE in the nuclear talks.
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Since the United Nations-backed International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (known as the CICIG) started work in 2007, CICIG investigators and Guatemalan prosecutors have successfully brought down criminal networks involving the richest and most powerful entrenched elites in the country who for decades have fleeced the government coffers, allowing poverty and insecurity to grow.
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So while there is plenty of room for argument about whether he ever made a greater film, anyone seeking the perfect distillation of his sensibility should look no further than this 1975 drama about a naïve gay carnival worker (played by Mr. Fassbinder himself) who wins the lottery and is subsequently fleeced by his new upper-crust boyfriend (Peter Chatel) and high society.
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An everyday consumer, someone who might just be trying to make ends meet and hardly needs the extra hassle of being fleeced by the big financial institutions, may well have a claim that is very "valuable" to her, but is not valuable enough for an attorney to pursue, or even valuable enough for her to deal with potential arbitration costs.
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The ability of wealthy people to purchase and post their way to fabulousness may help explain why, in the aftermath of the Fyre fiasco, much of the delight that burbled up online revolved around the suffering of the presumably moneyed suckers who had purchased tickets: There were even jokes going around Twitter that Ja Rule had not only heroically fleeced wealthy millennials but successfully stranded them in an island gulag.
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There was Trump University, which was a business that you started, and it was marketed... TRUMP: ... Small business... KELLY: ... to many people, and now there is a class-action of over 173,000 plaintiffs against you, Mr. Trump... TRUMP: ... Right... KELLY: ... And, it involves veterans, and it involves teachers, and it involves so-called little guys, working class, and lower- working class and middle class who say that they were fleeced, who say that it was as scam.
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Under the intense scrutiny of a presidential election, many of those allegations have already become familiar campaign fodder: the Trump University students and Trump condo buyers who say they were fleeced; the public servants from New Jersey to Scotland who now say they rue the zoning approvals, licenses or tax breaks they gave based on Mr. Trump's promises; the small-time contractors who say Mr. Trump concocted complaints about their work to avoid paying them; the infuriated business partners who say Mr. Trump concealed profits or ignored contractual obligations; the business journalists and stock analysts who say Mr. Trump smeared them for critical coverage.
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