Mr. Rubenstein's image could be of a man fleecing America.
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Contractors are fleecing taxpayers by charging the government $2,000 for a pig.
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It works… until Elio starts fleecing Veronica in front of her very eyes.
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Elio's plan, however, fails since Ronnie had been fleecing him the entire time.
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You might think such fleecing would leave the government with cash to spare.
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They are fleecing these smaller donors … because these guys haven't gotten the word.
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That was rather charitable since he was also probably fleecing widows and orphans.
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Have you ever seen her happier than she was while fleecing that engineer?
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To receive taxpayer money, airlines must stop fleecing flyers with fees & short-changing safety.
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Meanwhile, some people appear to be fleecing Peloton's rankings system to climb its internal leaderboards.
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Trump has also slammed foreign actors like China and Japan for fleecing the U.S. in trade deals.
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Policymakers have been slowly moving towards introducing payment parity and stopping the fleecing of Medicare and seniors.
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Since fleecing customers was often illegal, the saloonkeeper's profits paid kickbacks to the police, judges and mayor.
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Several graders gave bonus points to the 49ers for fleecing the Bears out of those extra picks.
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Bruno's no longer the beautiful and mysterious stranger in the tux, fleecing the rich in immaculate splendor.
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This settlement sends a clear message that charities will not get away with fleecing donors in New York.
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Marie confidently baffles and humiliates the townspeople at every turn, fleecing some, rejecting others and blackmailing them all.
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The agency suspected one of fleecing the F.B.I. of hundreds of thousands of dollars used in the sting.
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Perhaps they calculate that as so many of their guests are on business trips they are ripe for fleecing.
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But ultimately in America's system of checks and balances, the responsibility for preventing the fleecing of America lies with Congress.
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When Mr. Philbrick's clients accused him of fleecing them in 2019, the Basquiat painting was among the works in dispute.
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The results tell a clear story, and it's the story I tell in my column today: The fleecing of millennials.
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He was accused of fleecing members of N.W.A. Some members, including Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, accused him of outright stealing.
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Though undue influence can be argued in commercial settings, it is typically reserved for cases involving nefarious youths fleecing aged relatives.
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Such a dramatic increase did not come from fleecing big drug companies but the very consumers that rely on these medicines.
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Indian call center operators posing as IRS agents were recently busted for fleecing 15,000 Americans out of more than $300 million.
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It was a short step from taking outsize risks to fleecing customers — but when whistle-blowers reported concerns, they were shoved aside.
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Gurley said investment banks have long been fleecing companies by pricing shares low so that they pop on their first trading day.
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Gurley said investment banks have long been "fleecing" companies by pricing shares low so that they pop on their first trading day.
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The film follows a group of strippers who realize that drugging and fleecing their customers pays better than shaking it for tips.
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Amazon has hurt bookstores and publishers not by fleecing consumers but by offering them improbably low prices, vast selection, and quick delivery.
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In 2013 he sued Mr Trump over the fleecing of students at Trump University, a bogus training scheme for would-be property moguls.
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Prosecutors say Philips and Rizzi Comercio conspired to disguise and recoup the cost of bribes through inflated prices, fleecing Brazilian taxpayers in the process.
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To make the fleecing of foreigners and a restricted number of Russians possible, Moscow gave permission for the establishment of four special gambling zones.
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The flush inaugural committee also stands in stark contrast to Trump's inaugural address where he castigated the Washington political establishment for fleecing the American people.
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In the coming days, Congress has an opportunity to begin unraveling a billion dollar boondoggle that's been fleecing American taxpayers for more than a decade.
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"Between chartered private jets, lowering royalty rates and now suspending this rule, Zinke is fleecing taxpayers for millions, if not, billions of dollars," Saeger added.
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They said the firms' top brass had "total and unequivocal" knowledge that they were fleecing Petrobras and that the illicit activity may still be ongoing.
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Such an audacious business plan could only originate in the state of the Home Shopping Network and the birthplace of schemes for fleecing retirees: Florida.
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Amazon's Golden Fleecing Here is the extremely rare day that the Wall Street Journal and New York Times op-ed page have the exact same opinion.
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A judge clearly sees it differently, siding with Katherine, who claims Trent Jackson has been fleecing her out of money and isolating her from her family.
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Note how quickly the provincial protesters turned their sights on the supreme leader: Maybe it's because they know better than most how thoroughly he's fleecing them.
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The Titans now have an insane stockpile of draft picks and jumpstarted their rebuilding process around Marcus Mariota, and they did it all by fleecing the Rams.
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Fans loved it, but it's just another movie that doesn't fit in their typical vision of what an Oscar movie is, because it sees strippers fleecing men.
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Whatever your politics, that's the sort of outcome we can all agree on: if you get caught fleecing consumers, you're going to have to make it right.
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They have repeatedly said the firms' top brass had "total and unequivocal" knowledge that they were fleecing Petrobras and that the illicit activity may still be going on.
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Although it is possible that private electricity-providers are fleecing customers, it is more likely that the industry was previously subsidised through higher taxes or uncounted environmental costs.
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Someone purporting to be Wendi Deng Murdoch, the former wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is fleecing thousands of dollars from hundreds of unsuspecting Instagram influencers and photographers.
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But Mr. Smith's work for AMG raised new questions about his fitness to run a division that polices payday lenders among many other industries accused of fleecing consumers.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday announced charges against a group of unregistered funds and their owner, for allegedly fleecing retail investors through a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.
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Not only do some cryptocurrencies have no proven use case, they have been accused of fleecing investors through a fundraising process known as an initial coin offering, or ICO.
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The most pressing ills facing our society are somewhat different today than they were in 2007, but they share a common basis in the fleecing of the working class.
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For weeks, the president has portrayed the European Union as fleecing America with unfair trade, but he put away his saber as farm state Republicans were begging for relief.
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Instead of fleecing a team for a second-round pick, Benning wanted to lock up a defenseman that's never been good but people thought he'd be good a decade ago.
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That, coupled with the $750 million in public funds Nevada already voted to provide for the stadium, was enough for 31 rich dudes to rubber stamp the fleecing of two municipalities.
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That conversation led to what became a series of columns over the years about psychics in New York City and the epic lengths some have gone in fleecing the emotionally vulnerable.
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Republicans used to label their policies "energy independence" and now call it "energy dominance," but it looks more like the ransacking of our public lands and the fleecing of American taxpayers.
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Not surprisingly, this runs afoul of those already fleecing the neighborhood, forcing the trio into shifting alliances and showdowns, with the river providing a convenient place to dispose of the collateral damage.
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As we moved to the living room, she spotted, on her coffee table, an Op-Ed in the Times titled " The Fleecing of Millennials ," about the dim financial prospects of young Americans.
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In 2013, a federal jury in Detroitconvicted Kilpatrick on 553 counts in what prosecutors called an "astonishing"scheme to establish a "pay-for-play" system, fleecing city contractors andtaxpayers for his personal gain.
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Shelia filed legal docs asking a judge to appoint her temporary conservator so she could handle John's business affairs, and Cleopatra claimed Shelia was fleecing the estate to deny his children any money.
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"Until Congress and bank regulators pass sensible reforms to curtail the further fleecing of consumers, bank customers – like the states of California and Illinois – will have to fill the leadership void, " he said.
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Feeling down, he dips a pink, clammy hand inside his dinner jacket and pulls out a pamphlet: A Beginners Guide to Profiting from Your Unwanted Concert Seats by Fleecing the Upper-Middle Classes.
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That hasn't worked out; it turns out that when you send a businessman-grifter into the world of political grifters he hires some of the worst of them to help him with the fleecing.
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But a look behind the headlines of roaring job growth and consumer spending reveals how the boom continues in large part by the poorer half of Americans fleecing their savings and piling up debt.
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"This is a fleecing and betrayal of the United States Navy in epic proportions, and it was allegedly carried out by the Navy's highest-ranking officers," said Acting US Attorney Alana Robinson in a statement.
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Rimasauskas' work also involved "forged invoices, contracts, and letters that falsely appeared to have been executed and signed by executives and agents" of the companies he was impersonating and fleecing, prosecutors said in a statement.
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Perhaps most sensationally, Gates said that while he was helping Manafort set up their financial spigot, he was fleecing the longtime GOP operative himself -- turning in fake expense claims worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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"LinkedIn is strategically taking advantage of technology novices all the while fleecing money from limited library budgets," Samantha Lee, the Intellectual Freedom Committee Chair of the Connecticut Library Association, wrote in a June blog post.
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Aside from fleecing American companies with high import tariffs, China is stealing U.S. technology through unfair requirements to do business in the world's second-largest economy, Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett told CNBC on Monday.
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With uncanny regularity, they compared him to a fictional character in satirical Russian literature named Ostap Bender, a charlatan who traveled the country fleecing unsuspecting victims, seeking a score big enough to flee to Brazil.
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The report, titled "War Crimes Shouldn't Pay," details the rampant fleecing, exploitation and wholesale bloodbath that implicates South Sudan's president and former vice president, international banks, multinational oil and mineral companies and arms dealers in Africa.
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The government accused Alexander in a criminal complaint on July 31, 2006, with masterminding the alleged scheme that allowed Alexander and others to buy the stock at deep discounts, fleecing shareholders out of millions of dollars.
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"Catalyst's decision to set the annual list price at $375,000 is not only a blatant fleecing of American taxpayers, but is also an immoral exploitation of patients who need this medication," Sanders wrote in his letter.
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"Catalyst's decision to set the annual list price at $375,000 is not only a blatant fleecing of American taxpayers, but is also an immoral exploitation of patients who need this medication," Sanders wrote in the letter.
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Between the settlements for his sham university or the myriad lawsuits filed against him for fleecing contractors, it's easy to understand why the left asserts that his supporters have been emotionally defrauded in a similar fashion.
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" DEPUTY GOVERNOR BEN BROADBENT ON BANKS PASSING ON HIGHER INTEREST RATES TO SAVERS "It's not the case that banks are fleecing their customers, or at least not any more than they were on average over the past.
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"Catalyst's decision to set the annual list price at $375,000 is not only a blatant fleecing of American taxpayers, but is also an immoral exploitation of patients who need this medication," the independent senator from Vermont wrote.
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Chief among those to exploit the short-term gains was Donald Trump, whose multiple casinos succeeded only in fleecing working and middle-class gamblers, whose money bypassed the local economy on its way to his bank accounts.
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This pro-consumer bill would, for the first time, give fans real protections in the live event ticketing marketplace, which, in its current state, is among the worst industries we see in terms of how it's fleecing consumers.
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Its team of reporters covered everything from conmen in the district of Plumstead, fleecing the elderly out of their jewelry to the time some kids in my high school were caught on film tagging up the 472 bus.
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Working for the Boston Red Sox then, Duquette acquired Derek Lowe and Jason Varitek from Seattle for Heathcliff Slocumb, fleecing a Mariners team trying desperately to win with Ken Griffey Jr., Randy Johnson and Alex Rodriguez in their primes.
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But the Oddleifson pick is probably more famous for another reason—it was the one the Seals acquired from Montreal as part of the classic Sam Pollock fleecing that saw them give up their 1971 first, which turned into Guy Lafleur.
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He is telling Americans that he will build a wall to protect the southern border, halt the fleecing of America through faulty trade deals, put an end to unnecessary wars of intervention, and do whatever it takes to defeat radical Islam.
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A mini industry of intermediaries has sprung up to help consumers deal with the providers' notoriously terrible customer service, offering to negotiate bills and publishing online scripts for getting rates cut ("The fleecing of the U.S. continues!" a representative comment reads).
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THE HAGUE, May 16 (Reuters) - Authorities in six countries have dismantled a cybercrime network that used malware to steal money to order for individual clients, fleecing businesses and financial institutions of an estimated $100 million, Europe's police agency said on Thursday.
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Now, it seems, he'd like to go back to small-time con artistry, and he demonstrates what he means, on the spot, by fleecing an obnoxious, foul-mouthed stockbroker who is drinking at the same bar and shouting into his cellphone earpiece.
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"Catalyst's decision to set the annual list price at $375,000 is not only a blatant fleecing of American taxpayers, but is also an immoral exploitation of patients who need this medication," said Sanders, who on Tuesday announced his latest Democratic presidential bid.
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The story runs along the channels you'd expect, and there are dangerous shoals of sentimentality: Marius-Pete, whose own childhood was harrowing, finds himself falling for his new family and will have to decide whether to stick to his plan of fleecing them and disappearing.
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At the October event, Bill Gurley, a partner at venture capital firm Benchmark Capital and one of the biggest proponents of direct listings, had complained investment banks have long been "fleecing" companies by pricing shares low so that they pop on their first trading day.
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In July, the CFPB issued a rule prohibiting rip-off clauses — perhaps the single most important tool that big banks and financial companies have used to escape accountability for cheating, conning, fleecing, defrauding and plundering consumers — in the fine print of consumer financial contracts.
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Twenty other GMA filings have been made by NGOs-of-conscience, naming officials from the dregs of worldwide autocracy as culprits in everything from killing their own people to fleecing their own citizens to propping up their despotic regimes — and paying off allied oligarchs.
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His public appearances, while hitting top political points on illegal immigration, free trade and U.S. allies who he says are fleecing America, are effectively a list of his personal triumphs -- that seem like the obsessions of a billionaire and have little in common with his heartland audiences.
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" One juror, who gave her name only as Debby, explained in an interview why the jury had found Ms. Sorokin not guilty of fleecing Ms. Williams of some $1003,000: "Anna did a lot of nice things for her and she accepted it, right down to the spa.
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"I'm not saying they cant squeeze some money here, but to think that UNFI is somehow fleecing Whole Foods by hundreds of millions of dollars - it really doesn't make a lot of sense," Mushkin said, adding there was a cost-saving opportunity of just tens of millions of dollars.
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With respect to corruption, a distinction is made between the fleecing of public resources that underpinned the fortunes of many of the earliest Indian billionaires and an equally "grand but more orderly" form of corruption in which the spoils are used to fund social progress and encourage growth.
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The Celtics have spent a good amount of their history fleecing other teams in trades for stars or acquiring them via the draft, but Horford is the first true star the Celtics have ever really signed away from another team in free agency, which should go some way towards eliminating a stubborn stigma.
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Now, whether you're the type to say "alpaca one and take it home", or "alpaca my bags before taking one home", this shows a chance for you to live vicunarously to those who love their shear charm and are willing shear it with others, without fleecing them or pulling the wool over their eyes.
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"Wells Fargo's fleecing of its customers by opening fraudulent accounts for the purpose of extracting millions in illegal fees demonstrates, at best, a reckless lack of institutional control and, at worst, a culture which actively promotes wanton greed," Chiang said in a letter to Wells Fargo's chairman and chief executive, John Stumpf, and bank board members.
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But while DeVos's actions may be trademark Trumpism, they are also continuous with a long history of fleecing that has been going on since World War II. No one was more dismayed this week than the Obama veterans who worked to crack down on for-profits, who described the rollbacks as one step forward, two steps back.
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Trump is now facing a barrage of political attacks over his Trump University program: The real estate developer's rivals for the White House are using there controversy to portray him as an untrustworthy "con man," even as at least one well-funded political non-profit has fielded TV ads trashing Trump for allegedly fleecing unsuspecting participants in the training effort.
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On Thursday evening, the President's top trade officials previewed two executive actions that are coming Friday and intended to signal to foreign countries that Trump intends to follow through on his nationalist campaign rhetoric: Investigation into causes of America's trade deficits: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and the US Trade Representative are initiating a comprehensive study of the ways foreign countries are fleecing America on trade.
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