The accused face felony charges of false pretenses and conspiracy to commit false pretenses.
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Both are accused of making false pretenses, conspiring to make false pretenses, misconduct of office and neglect of duty.
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The most severe are the financial mismanagement charges of false pretenses and conspiracy to commit false pretenses; both carry up to 20 year sentences, as well as substantial fines.
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Howard Croft, a former director of the city's Public Works Department, and Daugherty Johnson, a former utilities director for the department, were accused of false pretenses and conspiracy to commit false pretenses.
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Snyder — were charged with felonies of conspiracy and false pretenses.
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Williams saw heroism and artistry in such poses and pretenses.
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But again, it's a racist measure that's advanced under false pretenses.
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There are days when it is taking money by false pretenses.
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The Index doesn't make any pretenses toward coziness, stylishness, or minimalism.
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They're ISIS, they're coming under false pretenses, I don't want that.
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He said he was fired under false pretenses in January 2017.
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Slater, Park revealed, had actually been obtained under false pretenses. Park's
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There are few pretenses to NBC's pro-American predisposition in Brazil.
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At a minimum, a book is being marketed under false pretenses.
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But Mr. Tucker, 35, did not come under such false pretenses.
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It's like I reeled him into our friendship under false pretenses.
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We were not inside the routines of human greed or social pretenses.
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All were, however, sold on false pretenses as plans for deficit reduction.
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The United States invaded Iraq under false pretenses and unraveled its institutions.
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Take the Iraq War, the greatest disaster of modern times, when, on false pretenses—one could say on a mistake about weapons of mass destruction, but I would say false pretenses—the United States decided to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
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But the truth is that the debate is taking place under false pretenses.
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For false negatives: People can enter or leave the U.S. under false pretenses.
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His mother believes the adoption papers were forged or signed under false pretenses.
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Though the videos were recorded under false pretenses, they inspired a real reaction.
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In other words, UMG is claiming the deal was brokered under false pretenses.
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Loughlin and Giannulli's daughters were accepted under these false pretenses, prosecutors have said.
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" Alam was arrested only hours after this segment aired under pretenses of "provocative comments.
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Gone are the days when democratic pretenses were required of autocrats to save face.
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This is all fine and very good—except when it happens under false pretenses.
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By stripping his presentation of all of those pretenses, Jacobs' designs could be appreciated.
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By contrast, the PA pretenses moderation and is a major recipient of U.S. aid.
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This week, Trump and Republicans in Congress have shattered all of their own pretenses.
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Not to mention his misdemeanor conviction for entering a federal building under false pretenses.
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We all have to put up pretenses at times when moving through the world.
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After all, the majority wind up being built upon false pretenses and questionable analysis.
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During this period, he transferred more than $16 million of artwork under false pretenses.
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For we're not just talking about a party selling bad ideas on false pretenses.
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He disparaged my employer and profession and accused me of attending under false pretenses.
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But just keeping up pretenses will mean an enormous waste of money and effort.
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Mr. Trump and Republican allies have said the warrants were sought under false pretenses.
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Mike now is up on charges of hacking, conspiracy, and obtaining money under false pretenses.
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There were no false pretenses or illusions of grandeur in the details of her songwriting.
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Calk is a banker whose bank allegedly loaned Manafort money on false pretenses, prosecutors say.
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Ihlenfeldt says that she was interviewed under false pretenses and was "exploited" by the project.
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Rowland borrowed the gun "under false pretenses" from an acquaintance, according to the university statement.
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The VA defines fraud as using false statements, pretenses or promises to obtain government money.
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The app, which reportedly masqueraded under vague, academic pretenses, asked for permission to connect to Facebook.
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They could be taken under false pretenses and submitted to the site by a third-party.
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Likewise, there is no precedent for a president terminating an FBI director under nakedly false pretenses.
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It has done nothing but run under false pretenses of deficits, executive orders, and constitutional fealty.
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He wanted to ditch any P.C. pretenses and consider Singapore-style death for all drug dealers.
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According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, the entire interview was set up under false pretenses.
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And now it's seeking to take back the citizenship it claims was given under false pretenses.
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But you also have reason to believe that he has sought significant sums under false pretenses.
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If a donation "has been made under false pretenses, that is a problem," Mr. Bader said.
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Some bills were poorly conceived; some were cruel and unjust; some were sold on false pretenses.
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Chesapeake pleaded no contest to one count each of attempted antitrust violation and false pretenses, both misdemeanors.
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The minute she drops these blasé (dare I say Drake-esque) pretenses, the real story takes off.
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Like Krylova, investigators say she traveled to the U.S. under false pretenses on a fact-finding mission.
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He is accused of having lured his daughter to Pakistan under false pretenses when she was murdered.
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Authorities said that the network had obtained permits under false pretenses about the nature of the shows.
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Actor Alex Baldwin claims dealer Mary Boone sold him the wrong Ross Bleckner painting under false pretenses.
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Al Qassemi filed under the pretenses that Sotheby's had misleadingly advertised the date of the work's creation.
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It's a surprisingly congenial environment, where pretenses are lost and all are united by a common goal.
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The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed, without citing data, that most asylum applications are under false pretenses.
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But what makes it sinister is that it's delivered under false pretenses in a setting ripe for manipulation.
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Now, Vizio has dropped all pretenses and is calling out LeEco for allegedly being a dishonest deadbeat company.
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"I am concerned that under-qualified students are being admitted to U.S. schools under false pretenses," Salmon wrote.
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And in the modern era, few pretenses have proven as effective at doing so as the Olympic Games.
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Those detained are reportedly often used for leverage in international negotiations and held on flimsy espionage-related pretenses.
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Our friendship bloomed under several false pretenses, so I felt like it could stand up to almost anything.
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Whereas the two previously declined to call each other out by name, they have now dropped those pretenses.
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My journalist father's exile by Bashir's government had ended after the first of the artificial "Unity government" pretenses.
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By stripping Laurie of her purity, the "final girl" of Halloween has been shorn of all her pretenses.
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Progressive journalist Michael Tracey claimed Tuesday that MSNBC is has dropped all pretenses for their "contempt" towards Rep.
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The blockade of Qatar — now widely viewed as instigated under false pretenses — has undermined the Middle East's stability.
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Elsewhere in the interview, Cook criticized other tech companies for collecting large amounts of user data under misleading pretenses.
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Although Moore did sign a release before going on the show, he alleges he signed it under false pretenses.
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We must examine the historical pretenses that lead us to this place and make conscious efforts to counteract them.
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If Half-Life 3 is taking so long, perhaps it's because so many pretenses about video games still exist.
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They have sought to corrupt and discredit arms of government that were established to fight false pretenses with truth.
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Under false pretenses, Bush launched a war in Iraq that led to at least 165,000 civilian deaths by 2015.
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Poor Guatemalans, desperate to come to the United States, take out loans under false pretenses to finance their journey.
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Good journalists should not be willing accept such distorted pretenses at face value, nor assume good faith without evidence.
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He was arraigned Thursday on 36 charges of burglary, possession of stolen property and obtaining money by false pretenses.
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So has the Trump administration's embrace of his assertions that Iran entered the 2015 nuclear deal under false pretenses.
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Nevertheless, Mr. Trump tried to claim validation for theories that the surveillance was begun under biased and false pretenses.
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Associates of three people who were detained said they had been summoned on false pretenses and taken into custody.
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The idea that he is in the Oval Office under false pretenses plays into his twisted sense of victimhood.
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The Trump administration also embraced on Tuesday Israel's claims that Iran had entered its nuclear deal under false pretenses.
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At Riverside, King denounced not only the war, but also a society accepting of the pretenses that sustained it.
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Republicans have been highly critical of the warrant, saying the F.B.I. persuaded judges to authorize it on false pretenses.
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The two, Minzayar Oo and Hkun Lat, are accused of entering the country under false pretenses, on tourist visas.
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He gave his last interview much later, in 1980, though that one may have been conducted under false pretenses.
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Attorney: She was brought here under 'false pretenses' How and why Abuslin ended up in Florida is a controversy itself.
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Gacy would lure men to his home on false pretenses, often offering them rides, money, drugs, alcohol or a job.
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Another scientist who organized the conference, University of Wisconsin Bioethicist Alta Charo, said the treatments were performed under false pretenses.
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" The court said that message could have encouraged parents to let their children use the Nick website under "false pretenses.
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So it's just not O.K. to enter the lottery under false pretenses and take a slot that's rightfully someone else's.
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He was arraigned January 24 on 36 charges of burglary, possession of stolen property and obtaining money by false pretenses.
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Some defendants even "traveled to the United States under false pretenses" and purchased "computer infrastructure" to obfuscate their Russian origin.
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The lawsuit, filed earlier this week in California, claims Amazon employees signed up for eBay under false names and pretenses.
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And while Taco Bell may not have any pretenses of grandeur or authenticity, it has taste down to a tee.
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Because Moore agreed to be interviewed under "false pretenses," the lawsuit claims Cohen and the network are liable for damages.
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Charges of false pretenses, conspiracy to commit false pretenses, misconduct in office and willful neglect of duty lodged against the former managers, Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose, were lauded by Flint leaders, some of whom said they had feared that blame for the city's contaminated water might ultimately be pinned only on low-level workers.
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CVS's coupon debacle is the latest instance of a "white person calling the cops on a black person" under questionable pretenses.
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Self-image, cultivated pretenses…we must forget everything — all of those human traits that prevent us from having fun and laughing.
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The police recommended that the attorney general indict Netanyahu for taking bribes, fraud, breach of trust and acceptance under false pretenses.
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Trump Jr. was also asked whether he believed Goldstone "duped" him into a meeting under "false pretenses" to "grab" his attention.
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Mike: It's probably a better deal than investors pulling their cash, or perhaps suing the company for investing under false pretenses.
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The human trafficking charges come from the allegations that women were forced into prostitution or brought to China under false pretenses.
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It has none of the pretenses of Saint Tropez or big crowds of Cannes or even Cinque Terre or Amalfi Coast.
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WELLS FARGO ADMITS IT PRESSURED EMPLOYEES TO MEET 'UNREALISTIC' SALES GOALS, RESULTING IN MILLIONS OF ACCOUNTS OPENED UNDER FALSE PRETENSES -OFFICIAL
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First by helping her start her own consultancy, Empress Green, and by providing the pretenses under which she met Mr. Landes.
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After luring the 17-year-old into his car under false pretenses, he assaulted her and stabbed her with a pocket knife.
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Lawmakers and FCC commissioners have been hard-pressed to fix the influx of robocalls in the country, albeit in less political pretenses.
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The October 25th filing alleges that much of the money the NRA spent on Ackerman McQueen's services was rendered under false pretenses.
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"The leadership of that department engaged in communication with a local agency here and brought her here under false pretenses," Price said.
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In December, one of his colleagues had been approached under false pretenses by someone else, who claimed his name was Gary Bowman.
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I have always been interested in what occurs when a reader approaches a falsified memoir, or a novel written under shaky pretenses.
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Play-by-play, and also for entire games, Cam Newton just absolutely trucks the NFL's most treasured pretenses and perceived best practices.
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" Additionally, Lee's attorney's say his signature on the check "is either a forgery or it was obtained by Olivarez under false pretenses.
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Israel's government has long held that the pact was insufficient to address Iran's military capabilities and was agreed to on false pretenses.
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But that's as bad as giving aid to Pakistan for helping out with Afghanistan: The war will continue, still under false pretenses.
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G.B.T. policies, wars waged under false pretenses, stealing a Supreme Court seat and obstructing almost every single action of the Obama administration?
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Ihlenfeldt, a fifty-four-year-old mother of two with short white hair, told me that she was interviewed under false pretenses.
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Last week, Yale rescinded the admission of one student whose family had allegedly paid $1.2 million to gain entry under false pretenses.
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As we've reported ... Lori and Mossimo allegedly paid $500k in bribes to get Olivia and her sister into USC under false pretenses.
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For every individual entering the world of "posting" with an open mind, earnestly seeking knowledge, there are a dozen coming under false pretenses.
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The order was requested by McKesson Medical-Surgical, Inc, which has accused the state of obtaining the drug, vercuronium bromide, under false pretenses.
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That suit alleged that an associate to O'Keefe won an internship at a firm called Democracy Partners under false pretenses and worked undercover.
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Social conservatives hold the line on platform Two delegates who had signed on to the effort said they did so under false pretenses.
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For that Senate office caper, he pleaded guilty to entering a federal property under false pretenses and was put on probation and fined.
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"I believe that donations to the Campaign were solicited under false pretenses," Snyder wrote in a letter to Malone and obtained by CNN.
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It's by no means fun to drive — there are no sporty pretenses here — but that's not particularly important for buyers in this class.
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The lawsuit also claimed Fox News reached out to Rich's family under false pretenses to support reporting that said he leaked DNC emails.
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O'Keefe is a criminal, having pleaded guilty to his part in an attempt to enter a United States senator's office under false pretenses.
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In recent years, multinational brands have dropped some of the careful pretenses of corporate social media to instead spur vitriolic chicken sandwich feuds.
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And the S.E.C., which is supposed to prevent companies like this that raise money from the public on false pretenses, sits idly by.
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Facebook, the world's largest social network, was best at blocking the creation of accounts under false pretenses, but it rarely took content down.
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Tony Blair celebrated his rejection of Labor's leftist traditions and proceeded to follow George W. Bush into the Iraq War on false pretenses.
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Republicans pushed hard on the idea that Booker was not just grandstanding in advance of 2020, but was doing so under false pretenses.
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A Turkish private aviation company, MNG Jet, said that its planes carried Ghosn but that a rogue employee took them under false pretenses.
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Want to make sure everyone's at ease and under no false pretenses that this is going to be a stuffy, awkward dinner party?
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According to an agreed statement of facts, McArthur met most of his victims under sexual pretenses, communicating with many of them via dating apps.
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So here's my (undoubtedly futile) plea that everyone abandon high-minded pretenses and admit that the principle animating this fight is will to power.
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Simpson is an uncle by marriage to Carlie, whom he allegedly removed from school last Wednesday under false pretenses, a TBI news release said.
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But he is absolutely right about the true intentions behind this proposal: Republicans are jamming through a massive tax giveaway under utterly false pretenses.
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Others on the right might have problems with Johnson saying that "religious freedom" laws are often pretenses to allow for discrimination against gay people.
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These campaign lies presaged what would happen during his administration — an administration that, let us not forget, took America to war on false pretenses.
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Putting Trump under investigation, even if under false pretenses, would accomplish the goal of keeping him from poking around into their business and practices.
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This year, give the gift of going back in a time to before all pretenses of civility and stable were utterly were totally shattered.
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Remove all the pretenses, all the adopted ideas, the second-hand self, and actually we can coexist very comfortably, thank you very much indeed.
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" Finally, all pretenses of civility aside, the "pitfalls," or "things to avoid," include "don't get trapped in the 'let's be nice and polite' mindset.
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A provocateur, under false pretenses, tries to get people of various backgrounds, from everyday Americans to sitting lawmakers, to make embarrassing comments on camera.
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The constant pursuit of illusory material gains translates to putting on pretenses, from pretending everything is OK to how fantastic our life is going.
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The official also denied that department personnel were using false pretenses to take away children, such as saying that they were going to bathe.
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They are accused of false pretenses and conspiracy, also related to the $85 million financing deal, and face up to 20 years in prison.
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Trump Jr. has discounted the meeting as being made under false pretenses and said the topic of damaging information against Clinton was never discussed.
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Another Vivint customer complained of signing up for solar energy under false pretenses after the company misrepresented itself as affiliated with a utility company.
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It was a botched drug raid that went horribly wrong -- police knowingly acted based on false pretenses, and then tried to cover up their actions.
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One of the pretenses of right-wing energy policy is that conservatives support a "level playing field," upon which energy sources can compete without subsidies.
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Several congressional Republicans criticized the investigation amid a trade spat with China, saying it was being pursued under false pretenses and could hurt American consumers.
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According to the indictment, Krylova was one of two defendants who obtained visas under "false pretenses" and in June 20143 traveled to the United States.
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In July, the California attorney general charged Ms. Le with false personation; identity theft; and obtaining money, labor or property by false pretenses — all felonies.
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A top Republican is pressuring the Obama administration to investigate thousands of immigrants who may have gained access to the United States under false pretenses.
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Many of the men say they signed contracts under false pretenses from recruiters in their home countries and now work long hours for scant salaries.
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The lawsuit describes Virgin Fest's alleged tactics as a "Trojan Horse strategy" that ultimately took control of the KAABOO's most valuable assets under false pretenses.
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In one experiment, children were asked not to peek at a toy hidden behind them while the researcher withdrew from the room under false pretenses.
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In this world, album releases are just pretenses — or more to the point, album releases are what's required for the fulfillment of record company obligations.
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On top of that, many still feel betrayed by the United States government's decision to invade Iraq under what we now know were false pretenses.
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So they made this strange little album with few pretenses and a modest agenda: what it's like to be a person in this changing world.
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The warrant for the hidden cameras, Kraft's lawyers claimed, was secured under false pretenses because police cited human trafficking as a potential crime in their application.
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"The ship was seized under false and illegal pretenses and the Iranians should release it and its crew immediately," Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman told reporters.
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They contradicted the EU's humanitarian pretenses, compromised the integrity of Schengen by isolating Greece, and gave the impression that the EU was outsourcing its border management.
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It seeks damages and a court order barring the group from entering Planned Parenthood facilities under false pretenses and covertly recording the group's officials and business.
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The woman allegedly entered Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida under false pretenses, bringing along a thumb drive with "malicious software," according to court documents.
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Since Coleman faked his documentary on human trafficking (yikes) and Yael signed up for the show under false pretenses, there was potential for a fair fight.
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The disciplinary fetish and political pretenses and facile accountability theater are the default obsessions of a certain type of sour old man, and long have been.
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But the tobacco companies are reaching out to their old ad friends under new pretenses — like the Philip Morris-funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World.
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Given what we now know, it's completely fair to ask if an investigation based on false pretenses and a fake dossier funded by Democrats is legitimate.
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It also alleges that Match relied on deceptive email marketing tactics whereby some users were coerced into signing up for the paid service under false pretenses.
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Once charges have been filed, could a defendant get the locational data thrown out on the grounds that the warrant application was based on false pretenses?
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Trump administration officials say it's meant to deter migrants from claiming asylum under false pretenses and then disappearing into the U.S. before their case is decided.
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Cops evicted him from squats, hassled him in the towns he and his friends passed through, and impounded their car on what seemed to be thin pretenses.
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Social engineering, or using human lies and pretenses as a means to lull victims into security slip-ups, is a well-worn page of the hacker playbook.
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The charging papers also said members of the IRA traveled to the US with travel visas under false pretenses in order to collect intelligence for their operations.
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Awkwafina plays Billi (the Lulu Wang surrogate), a struggling New York creative type who joins her parents in China for a wedding party, organized under false pretenses.
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After raving to Ellen DeGeneres about his serious Simone Biles obsession, Tatum got to meet Biles under some creative pretenses thanks to the hilarious talk show host.
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Of course, if she has gotten the engagement ring under false pretenses or under fraud, he could still have a claim for fraud even in that case.
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This is happening as the Trump administration, counter to its populist pretenses on the campaign trail, has moved to make it harder for various workers to unionize.
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Under diplomatic pretenses, North Korea drew China closer to its side after an extended period of tensions, and its relations with South Korea have also significantly improved.
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He said the father, who was now in Honduras, was removed from the country under false pretenses that he would be able to leave with his son.
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Prosecutors have already settled with some banks for repayments they'll get from Manafort's property sales for loans he received under false pretenses and has not paid back.
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For the survivors, another key determination is whether they were smuggled into the country on their own accord, or trafficked against their will or under false pretenses.
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That tends to happen when you invade an Arab-majority country, Iraq, on what most Arabs consider false pretenses, starting a war that kills hundreds of thousands.
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But the living heart of the film is Farmanfarmaian herself, as she butts heads with her team and refuses to accept any pretenses put on her work.
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These include "habitual breaking and entering," trafficking in stolen identities, embezzlement of large amounts of money, and obtaining property by false pretenses, as well as drug dealing.
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Keir Giles, an analyst at a British think tank, who alleges that he was approached by someone under false pretenses who was trying to spy on behalf of Kaspersky LabPhoto: APA man who goes by the name Lucas Lambert reportedly spent months setting up meetings with three cybersecurity experts under false pretenses last year, hoping to get them to say that they were paid to criticize Kaspersky Lab.
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" But the girl's parents have been quoted denouncing the film, saying it was made under false pretenses and was selectively edited to make an "anti-North Korean movie.
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I have no idea where these images were captured, other than in Xiangyang, Hubei Province of China, and I have no clue under what pretenses this situation occurred.
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There is no crime to meet with a foreign national to obtain opposition research, especially when it turns out that that individual took that meeting under false pretenses.
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The Russian criminals and their co-conspirators traveled, or attempted to travel, to the United States under false pretenses in other to collect intelligence for their interference operations.
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Alexandria, Virginia (CNN)Paul Manafort recommended a banker who allegedly loaned him money under false pretenses be nominated as President Donald Trump's Army secretary, Rick Gates testified Tuesday.
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His family has portrayed him as the victim of a corporate power play who was lured to Tokyo last month on false pretenses so he could be arrested.
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"As long as I am UEFA president, there will be no room for pursuing selfish endeavors or hiding behind false pretenses," Ceferin told European Union ministers in May.
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It alleges Apple stole its anonymous sign-in feature for "Sign in with Apple," then kicked it out of the App Store on flimsy pretenses to suppress competition.
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People also tend to forget just how bad the administration of George W. Bush really was, and not just because it led America to war on false pretenses.
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The lawsuit calls for damages and a court order barring the group from entering Planned Parenthood facilities under false pretenses and covertly recording the group's officials and business.
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One U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they don&apost have any clear way of identifying the number of Taliban released under false medical pretenses.
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The bureau sent anonymous letters that threatened exposure, planted unfounded media stories, arrested members under false pretenses, and coordinated a barrage of illegal break-ins despite proof of unlawfulness.
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It's extremely rare to see an American official held accountable for past wrongdoing so publicly, to witness them being forced to face their own records head-on, without pretenses.
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Ironically, if the FBI had communicated to itself a bit better, the court case likely would have continued under pretenses that only its own leadership would know were false.
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And if, in fact, he was brought into this under false circumstances or false pretenses as well, he&aposs the kind of guy that a deep state would target.
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It is polling substantially worse than it was in 2005, when British troops were dying in Iraq as part of a war known to be waged on false pretenses.
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The retired WR filed suit against two men -- Damien Marzett and John Wiegman -- for allegedly convincing him to invest $200K into construction for their new dispensary under false pretenses.
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He was charged with fraud, duping art dealers and collectors out of millions between 2015 and 2017, when he transferred over $16 million worth of artwork under false pretenses.
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In place of the article was an urgent note informing readers that the original had been expunged because it was created under false pretenses, by a sock puppet account.
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She was not only oozing self-pity, she also seemed self-righteous about it — convinced that her unhappiness held far more truth than the pretenses other people hid behind.
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Dozens more have been targeted, harassed, or imprisoned under the false pretenses of national security simply because they dare to speak out against Najib's authoritarian tendencies and corrupt practices.
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But Atari Games used a much more questionable method: It reached out to the US Copyright Office and asked for a copy of the 10NES code under false pretenses.
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But it's equally hard to survive toxic word of mouth when you advertise a movie as something it isn't, and get an audience in the door under false pretenses.
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They also are accused of forcing visitors to sign consent forms under false pretenses, and lying on official reports to cover up their actions, the district attorney's office said.
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If you want opinion, you come to shows like mine, where our prejudices and biases and opinions are made known; there's no false pretenses that you're getting pure objectivity.
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The cars then received certification under false pretenses, and Bauder, Eiser, Knirsch, Nagel, Pamio, and other co-conspirators went on to market them as "clean diesel," according to the indictment.
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Prior to the publication of this article, Katie posted an Instagram Story to her millions of followers, tagging my Instagram handle, saying that I conducted the interview under false pretenses.
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The sealed complaint released Friday alleged McFarland schemed investors to obtain "money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises" from late 2016 to May 2017.
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Ergo's lawyer argued that the firm was unaware the investigation was tied to a lawsuit, even while admitting Ergo's investigator "dissembled and used false pretenses in his duties," Law360 said.
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This included identifying experts working for these firms and recruiting and paying for them to come to China, sometimes under the false pretenses of giving a presentation at a university.
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US officials at the time believed the program was necessary to identify and capture terrorists who might enter the country on false pretenses or already be living among the population.
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But as a visual exercise, this "Krapp's Last Tape" assumes its own melancholy poetry that is in keeping with Beckett's affinity for the pratfall-deflated pretenses of music-hall clowns.
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EBay said it was alerted of the situation about 10 days ago after a seller reached out to the company after being contacted by an Amazon employee under false pretenses.
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According to Holliday's affidavit, Farrera-Brochez originally contacted the FBI in November 2018, alleging that Ler married him under false pretenses and conspired with Singaporean authorities to falsely imprison him.
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He wouldn't classify the long list of false pretenses their relationship began under as coercion, or equate the ways that he tries to "protect" Beck to being abusive and controlling.
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His son's administration lied consistently about its tax cuts, pretending that they were targeted on the middle class, and — in case you've forgotten — took us to war on false pretenses.
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In Parasite, the Kim family (who live in the slums of Seoul) finds themselves on the up-and-up after infiltrating the home of the rich Parks under false pretenses.
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The two teenagers meet cute under false pretenses in the elevator of Lucky's hotel and end up spending a whirlwind night and day together, both hiding their identities and motives.
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Vassar claims Northwestern attempted to get him to sign the form under false pretenses, calling him into the basketball offices a number of times to attempt to get his signature.
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All pretenses flew out the window on the way out, when they left in Bieber's SUV at around 2 AM and beelined it for a late night/early AM meal.
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December 20, 2016 - Four officials -- two of Flint's former emergency managers, who reported directly to the governor, and two water plant officials -- are charged with felonies of false pretenses and conspiracy.
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Which is why it's surprising, and welcome, that GoDaddy and security firm Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have taken down 15,000 subdomains dedicated to selling those phony pharmaceuticals under false pretenses.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters that the Israeli announcement offered proof that the Iran deal was made "under false pretenses" as Trump decides whether to withdraw the United States.
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They dropped all the pretenses — no liberals, no progressives — they are proud Marxist-Leninists driven by the ideology and committed to converting this country into the United Socialist States of America.
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In order for federal prosecutors to use the RICO Act, they must first prove reasonable suspicion that patterns of racketeering activity exist, and that the defendant obtained money through false pretenses.
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After all, the leftist who abused his or her position or was hired under false pretenses is too important to subject to the same moralistic, tearful anger reserved for everyone else.
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Ms. McDougal filed suit earlier this week to get out of her deal with American Media, saying she signed it under pressure and false pretenses, effectively silencing her on the affair.
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It took all of 20 minutes for my crowd, a small group of media and industry professionals, to drop all pretenses of professionalism and erupt in celebratory screams of unadulterated joy.
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He allegedly used the personal information "to obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses" when their cases were under review by ICE, the charging document said.
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But using false pretenses to collect taxpayer-funded food stamps in a place you do not even live too often goes unchecked—even when it results in billions of wasted dollars.
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The lawsuit, which was obtained by The Hill, claims that Fox News reached out to the Rich family under false pretenses to support reporting that Rich leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks.
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I'm in no way suggesting that New York is an intolerant city, but here, you give up any pretenses, any semblance of pretending to be anything than what you really are.
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To Mr. Netanyahu, this was proof that Iran could never be trusted and that it had reached the nuclear deal under false pretenses by pretending it never had a weapons program.
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But if someone genuinely cracks his code, without economic or showbiz-related pretenses, The Entity opens up with humility, offering more attention and care than the world's most experienced flight attendant.
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Third in command at Prigozhin's incredibly well-funded troll factory, Krylova traveled to the U.S. in 2014 under false pretenses to collect information for the then budding operation, according to the indictment.
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Videos that had once been pretenses to show off how attractive or talented or wealthy users were, were now making fun of the very tropes with which TikTok had initially been associated.
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In the longer term, Congress clearly needs to strengthen privacy laws to give people more control over private information and prevent businesses and political campaigns from harvesting personal data under false pretenses.
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Ms. Bogacheva and Ms. Krylova obtained visas to visit the United States in 2014 "under false pretenses for the purposes of collecting intelligence to inform the organization's operatives," according to the indictment.
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At this moment, both the episode and the broken couple — who ripped into each other in the previous episode — drop their pretenses to have the most honest talk Insecure has ever seen.
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In 2010, Mr. O' Keefe and three others pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor after admitting they entered a government building in New Orleans under false pretenses as part of a sting.
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BTW, Olivia and her sister, Isabella, are no longer enrolled at USC ... the school her parents are accused of getting them into under false pretenses, with alleged bribes of up to $500k.
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He allegedly used "personally identifying information of seven aliens in various stages of immigration proceedings... to obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses," according to the document.
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"And Then There Were None—Dry-Erase Markers, That Is" Ten strangers are lured to a co-working space under false pretenses (subway advertisements featuring racially diverse college graduates happily sharing whiteboards).
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He accused Adams of presenting a petition on false pretenses, claiming that the ladies in question were no real ladies at all, in his book, but mixed-race women and former slaves.
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Huynh said he was fired not long after raising concerns with U.S. e-commerce chief Marc Lore, and was dismissed under the "false pretenses" of a broader workforce reduction and alleged performance issues.
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Android co-founder Andy Rubin has been accused of cheating his wife out of millions through a prenuptial agreement obtained under false pretenses, according to documents unsealed in connection with a related case.
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There were no false pretenses in the Capitol over the holidays — not even feigned attempts to show the American people that their elected officials were working around the clock to reopen the government.
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Fast-forward to the present, and Dev's father Ramesh (Ansari's real-life dad Shoukath Ansari) is begging his son to keep up religious pretenses in front of his aunt and uncle during dinner.
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A state circuit judge issued the temporary restraining order on Wednesday after the U.S. pharmaceutical firm McKesson Medical-Surgical Inc accused the state of obtaining the muscle relaxant vecuronium bromide under false pretenses.
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The suit claims the festival falsely encouraged people to attend under false pretenses, paying more than 400 social media influencers, models, and celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid to help promote it.
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Then, in November 2015, a Met assistant commissioner formally apologised for the sexual relationships—though prosecutors in 2014 had decided not to charge four officers known to have dated women under false pretenses.
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The Oversteegen sisters would flirt with Nazi collaborators under false pretenses and then lead them into the woods, where instead of a make-out session, the men would be greeted with a bullet.
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According to the evidence presented at trial, Stockman from May 2010 to October 2014 solicited and obtained about $1.25 million in donations based on false pretenses, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Houston said.
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Alvogen, the drug's manufacturer, had sued to block its use, saying Nevada obtained the drug under false pretenses because the company did not want it to be acquired for use in capital punishment.
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But reporting by The Times revealed that the texts were actually sent by an impostor, who volunteered for Mr. O'Rourke's campaign under false pretenses and was given access to the campaign's texting software.
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Peloton began the patent lawsuit process by claiming Flywheel had specifically sent one of its major investors, twice-pardoned "junk bond king" Michael Milken, to obtain proprietary information from Foley under false pretenses.
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The 28-year-old Honduran woman and her family were stranded in Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state, where they were taken in a Mexican government busing program under what they say were false pretenses.
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Alex Jones's conspiracy theory site Infowars, made its claim even clearer: The bombing attempts are a "false flag" — an attack committed under false pretenses used to drive public perception in a certain direction.
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Dustin badgers both Steve and Erica to abandon their pretenses of being cool kids who are above nerdom and says they shouldn't be afraid to embrace the things and people they enjoy being around.
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We got her arriving at Fred Segal and took another stab at getting her take on her parents allegedly paying $500k in bribes to get her and her sis into USC under false pretenses.
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In 2016, Cota, along with Janette Martinez and James Anthony Martinez-Amador, was indicted for several alleged financial crimes against Deishley, which included embezzlement, forgery, grand larceny, racketeering and obtaining money under false pretenses.
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In 2014, he and frequent screenwriter partner Simon Barrett made The Guest, a terrifically taut, John Carpenter-inspired thriller starring Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens as a military vet infiltrating a family under false pretenses.
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In 2010, he pleaded guilty to entering a federal building under false pretenses and was sentenced to three years of probation over his involvement in a botched incident at then-Senator Mary Landrieu's office.
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For many of his voters, "The Snake" perfectly encapsulated their views of undocumented workers: Sneaking into the US under false pretenses and then immediately turning on the same people whose country they had entered.
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Transgender hate crime guilty plea in federal court a first After luring the 17-year-old into his car under false pretenses, he assaulted her and stabbed her with a pocket knife, prosecutors said.
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In reality, a charity employee had furnished Greitens with the list by email at his direction under false pretenses when he stepped down as the charity's CEO in May 2014, according to the committee.
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S. officials believe criminals came into possession of some of the passports belonging to new citizens and sold them to customers who then assumed new identities to travel to different countries under false pretenses.
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It takes a while to realize that Emre has gotten you hooked under arguably false pretenses, but what she finally pulls off is so inventive and beguiling you can hardly begrudge her for it.
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In recent weeks, Pakistan has been rocked by charges that at least 150 women were brought to China as brides under false pretenses — not only lied to, but in some cases forced into prostitution.
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The lawsuits, both filed in federal court in New York City, argued that the campaign had recruited staff members to work on Mr. Bloomberg's bid under false pretenses, preventing them from pursuing other opportunities.
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We can wrangle over whether to use the term "spying" to describe sending informants to meet with a Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos, under false pretenses and subjecting another aide, Carter Page, to wiretapping.
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And, according to the Independent Book Publishers Association, which has been conducting its own research into the issue by purchasing books on Amazon, the customer is sometimes sold a used book under false pretenses.
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The venture capital firm argues that special powers Mr. Kalanick negotiated in 2016 — which gave him control over three board seats, including one he occupies — were bestowed under false pretenses and should be nullified.
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He was one month away from a $22007,220 retention bonus—money that was crucial to his plan to strike out on his own—but he couldn't stomach the idea of accepting it under such pretenses.
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In Syria, by contrast, Russia could openly deploy its latest weapons systems, and control when they were deployed, what they did, and how they withdrew, without having to maintain any pretenses or negotiate with proxies.
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In the wake of Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, and now Poway, where anti-Semitic attacks gestated online, it's difficult not to be wary of someone taking a strong interest in wooing a Jewish person under false pretenses.
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Regardless, for the last year, the government has been prosecuting a child porn case—not a national security case—against Schulte, while Schulte's lawyers have argued that the government got its warrants under false pretenses.
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China was able to do this because it financed and built the new building itself to act as the African Union's new headquarters and gifted it under false pretenses of cordial partnership, Le Monde reports.
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This should be a part of a larger message designed to challenge Trump's populist pretenses, pointing out all the policies he supports that go against the interest of the working class or enrich the wealthy.
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Fallon Danielle Blackwood, 24, who attends Tuskegee University, was arrested last weekend after being indicted on 13 counts of bringing property obtained under false pretenses into Alabama, Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey tells PEOPLE.
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" The statement continued: "This was presumably done by the use of false pretenses or concealment of the truth, thus inducing the other committee members to act in a manner that caused D.F.B. a financial loss.
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"He knows his tactics are bound to fail, but pursues them to debase his Republican colleagues under false pretenses and endear himself to the base as the only authentic conservative," said a Republican policy expert.
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Officials have named Singer as the ringleader in the college bribery scandal -- where stars like Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are accused of making payments to get their kids into prestigious schools under false pretenses.
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"Defendant Brinkley devised and intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud the BBB and obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representation, and promises," the original indictment said.
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The court documents revealed new details about how Mr. Manafort directed a host of players to lobby under false pretenses, pretending to be independent actors when they were in fact paid agents of Mr. Yanukovych.
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The list includes Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, all of whom have abandoned most pretenses that they rule according to the people's will.
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I'm old enough to remember the near-universal portrayal of George W. Bush as a bluff, honest guy, despite the obvious lies underlying his policy proposals; then he took us to war on false pretenses.
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Three days after Michael Bloomberg laid off his remaining campaign workers, a former staffer has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the campaign, saying she and thousands of others were hired under false pretenses.
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Instead, by the beginning of this year, the commander-in-chief who started a war on false pretenses and brought America to the brink of a second Great Depression was polling at 54% among Democrats.
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"But the structure of trafficking and exploitation still remains," she contends, citing recent incidents in which Filipino women have sought legal assistance against bar owners they claim lured them to South Korea under false pretenses.
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In 2010, he and three others pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for entering a federal office under false pretenses — specifically, the office of Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, whom they had hoped to record.
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The review was prompted by the case of Zholia Alemi, 56, a medical-school dropout, who worked at medical facilities around Britain before a news investigation found that she had been practicing under false pretenses.
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I would rather it end sooner, rather than later, because I don&apost think there&aposs -- first of all, I thought it was spun up on false pretenses, rumors, innuendo, fake dossier paid for by partisans.
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A year and change after the car maker pleaded guilty to obstructing investigations and importing cars under false pretenses, Volkswagen's former CEO Martin Winterkorn has been charged with conspiracy and wire fraud in a U.S. court.
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Swatting Attacks Increase Security Concerns Across Silicon Valley Robert McMillan and Jeff Horwitz write about a disturbing rise in attacks designed to bring armed police presences to the homes of Silicon Valley executives under false pretenses.
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Even if you've never read Christie's masterpiece, you know the basics: Shortly before the advent of the second World War, 10 strangers are lured to a secluded estate on a mysterious island under various false pretenses.
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But it was a hit out in the world because it tapped the growing perception that a too-cozy relationship between journalists and government officials produced credulous reporting that helped start a war under false pretenses.
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Mack and Raniere's charges stem from what officials say were activities that took place as part of a secret society within Nxivm called "DOS," in which women recruited others under false pretenses to perform sexual acts.
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In fact, I'd argue that a lot of the current perspectives on where the technology industry is and where it's headed are based on a variety of false pretenses, some positively biased and some negatively biased.
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"What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open and hope you win in 2020," Mr. Graham, red-faced and dropping all pretenses of legislative comity, yelled at his Democratic colleagues.
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Tri Huynh, a former director of business development at Walmart, who had also worked at Amazon, says in the suit filed in San Francisco that he was terminated by the company under false pretenses in 2017.
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Mary LandrieuMary Loretta LandrieuCongress needs to work to combat the poverty, abuse and neglect issues that children face Dems wrestle over how to vote on 'Green New Deal' Lobbying world MORE (D-La.) on false pretenses.
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Many migrants seeking to make it to the United States have taken out Banrural loans on false pretenses to help pay for their trips, according to migrants, Guatemalan government officials, smugglers, academics and a former Banrural employee.
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Mary LandrieuMary Loretta LandrieuCongress needs to work to combat the poverty, abuse and neglect issues that children face Dems wrestle over how to vote on 'Green New Deal' Lobbying world MORE's (D-La.) office on false pretenses.
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Especially when you consider that lots and lots of people aren't rolling their eyes when Trump unleashes a tweet blasting the allegedly partisan bias of Mueller's team or how the whole probe is based on false pretenses.
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Ogg said that because two people died while Goines was allegedly committing a felony -- tampering with a government record by obtaining one under false pretenses -- he was charged with two counts of felony murder in the deaths.
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Once co-conspirators based in Nigeria, the United States and other countries persuaded victims to send money under false pretenses, the two Nigerian men who lived in Southern California coordinated the receipt of funds, the indictment says.
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Landrieu told reporters in Washington that he would not go to the meeting under "false pretenses," complaining that the meeting is supposed to focus on infrastructure but that the Justice Department's sanctuary cities move changed the equation.
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The sisters' right to stay in Hong Kong expired Thursday, months after Saudi officials allegedly attempted to kidnap them at Hong Kong airport by trying to convince them to get on a flight home under false pretenses.
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Mr. Kraft has filed motions first to keep the video private so as not to prejudice his case, and then to suppress the video from the evidence entirely because, he argued, it was obtained under false pretenses.
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The puzzle involves you (as a hacker character) breaching the phone system of the mega-corp in question, and you call people under false pretenses, working to "solve a mystery" that happens to be a trans woman's identity.
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In PUBG—a game which is uninterested in providing the thinnest of pretenses for its action—it represents the ability and willingness of players to stitch together details in order to create a more coherent world to inhabit.
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Shah pointed to a case of an Italian girl of Pakistani origin who was rescued from the prospect of a forced marriage last week after she had been lured to the country by her family on false pretenses.
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Kramer says most of the calls he gets from small business owners in distress result from "social engineering," where someone tries to persuade a small business owner to move money to criminals using phishing emails or false pretenses.
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A judge on Friday ruled that Alaska's Department of Health and Social Services may have declared an emergency that was the basis for cuts to the state's Medicaid program under false pretenses, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
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It has helped bolster the views of Mr. Trump's most vociferous partisans who insist that the Russia investigation was started under false pretenses by an F.B.I. leadership that favored Hillary Clinton and is hopelessly biased against Mr. Trump.
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WASHINGTON — For years, opponents of the nuclear deal with Iran have accused Benjamin J. Rhodes, a top national security aide to President Barack Obama, of scheming to sell the diplomatic agreement on false pretenses to the American people.
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But we've never witnessed a political aide move as brazenly to consolidate power as Stephen Bannon — nor have we seen one do quite so much damage so quickly to his putative boss's popular standing or pretenses of competence.
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A Novus representative replied in an unsigned email that included a threat: We do not authorize, permit, or allow the use of the Novus University name, site, information, emails, or additional information obtained under false pretenses, to promote buzzfeed.
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To the extent that there's any heterodoxy about domestic economic policy from Bannon, it's simply as an extension of culture war posturing — a way of lashing out at Silicon Valley's "woke" pretenses — rather than any vision of economic uplift.
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Roxanne Reed, 65, appeared to be planning the death of her mother, who shared a small house with her, so she could keep sending money to the scammer who was using romantic pretenses to bilk her, Garner Police Capt.
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"Upon arranging for a home health care provider, Deas would then pose as 'Cory' while allowing the care provider to change his adult diaper and obtain sexual arousal under the false pretenses of being handicapped," the LSP spokesperson said.
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In short, it is a bad policy, pitched to Congress under false pretenses, and unless our lawmakers want to take away the voice and rights of shareholders and investors as true owners of the companies, it should be defeated.
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After luring Littlefinger into the hall under false pretenses, letting him believe he'd succeeded in turning Sansa and Arya against each other, Sansa unleashes a torrent of accusations so damning, they leave Littlefinger on his knees begging for mercy.
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"After reviewing Nevada law, we believe that registering under false pretenses in order to participate in the Democratic caucuses for purposes of manipulating the presidential nominating process is a felony," Nevada Democratic Chairwoman Roberta Lange said in a statement.
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While the Americans place a high premium on the notion of being your "authentic" self in The Circle, shedding many tears over the real connections they believe they've formed with one another, the Brazilian crowd does away with pretenses.
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He told donors that he implemented new institutional controls after he tried to pull off a sting against Senator Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat, in January 2010, and was arrested on charges of entering federal property under false pretenses.
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"Official Welcome" is a case study in the intellectual rigor, physical bravura and satirical wit Fraser brings to diagnosing the collective delusions, material excesses, fraught politics, grandiose rhetoric, bumptious egos, ingrained biases and sundry pretenses of the art world.
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While Hamas did not deny the interview took place, they claimed the journalist presented herself under false pretenses of being a western journalist, not Israeli, and accused her of misrepresenting some of the content to favor an Israeli newspaper.
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Ms. Ogg said that Mr. Goines had secured a "no-knock warrant" for a raid in the city's Pecan Park neighborhood under false pretenses and that another former officer, Steven Bryant, then tried to help him cover it up.
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Ms. Ogg said that Mr. Goines had secured a "no-knock warrant" for a raid in the city's Pecan Park neighborhood under false pretenses and that another former officer, Steven Bryant, then tried to help him cover it up.
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In a written explanation of his decision, Judge Breyer said that "no jury could reasonably find that defendant Robert Bogucki made material false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises" to Hewlett-Packard, which would later split into HP Inc.
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Abdou, the researcher, said he interviewed one former inmate who joined ISIS in prison but dropped any Islamist pretenses the moment he walked out of jail, shaving his beard and going back to smoking shisha and lazing about with old friends.
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A bill passed on a party-line vote based on contradictory promises and false pretenses will have no long-term political sustainability and thus no positive impact on investment — even if you believe a permanent shift to lower taxes would.
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Ali, stripped of his heavyweight title and sentenced to five years in prison for refusing to comply with the US military's request that he kill Southeastern Asians in a war fought under false pretenses, was 32 in the fall of 1974.
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His manipulation of Olivia was cruel, reckless — her suicide attempt took him completely by surprise, as if forcibly doping an addict after having sex with her under false pretenses and threatening to have her child taken away wouldn't raise this possibility.
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Large data breaches have given hackers data to create specific spear-phishing emails, and robocalls allow scammers to cast an even wider night by calling extreme volumes of people, often asking for their information under fraudulent pretenses during the calls.
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This should be the moment that Democratic elected officials are shouting from the rooftops that Trump is stealing from the poor to give to the rich, that all of his pretenses to be a different kind of Republican were lies.
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The New York Times reported that a multi-count indictment unveiled Monday accuses the former officers with forcing visitors to strip down for searches by officers under false pretenses and lying to superiors in order to cover up their actions.
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Since taking office nearly two years ago, Mr. Trump has railed against what he calls weak laws that allow migrants who are caught crossing illegally to claim asylum under false pretenses so they can be released into the United States.
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The case The allegations made against Mack and Raniere stem from what officials say were activities that took place as part of a secret society within Nxivm called "DOS," in which women recruited others under false pretenses to perform sexual acts.
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And in 2007 and 2008, when the bank received financial support from the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and other federal entities in response to the growing mortgage crisis, those payments were provided under false pretenses, the plaintiffs contended.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday sued Monster Loans, also known as Chou Team Realty, for allegedly giving credit reports it accessed under false pretenses to debt relief companies who used the information to market to consumers with student loans.
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The investigative arm of ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, has also come under fire recently for creating a fake university to recruit hundreds of foreign-born students who sought to remain in the country under false pretenses, then detain many of them.
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This comes after a weekend when the company and independent news reports said that a psychology quiz app collected data about 50 million Facebook users under false pretenses, then shared that data with the political analytics firm without user permission.
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As for the Aaliyah thing ... R. Kelly's ex-tour manager, Demetrius Smith, has publicly backed the feds' claim his old boss had the ID made for his future bride, which was used to obtain their marriage license under false pretenses.
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Trump Jr. was first invited to speak to the committee in an open hearing in July, soon after he admitted to meeting with a Russian attorney under the pretenses of receiving ammunition to use against Clinton in the presidential campaign.
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Before a court could decide that Mr. Trump had cynically declared an emergency under false pretenses, the court would first have to decide that the law permits judges to substitute their own thinking for the president's in such a matter.
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The Case of the Man Who Adopts Dogs Under False Pretenses, Then Tries to Sell Them on Craigslist In this disturbing case, the plaintiffs needed to sell their home and move to a new place where they could not bring their dogs.
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Possessing as he does the soul of a con artist rather than the pretenses of an intellectual, Trump himself is much better positioned than Bannon to recognize the full potential of "economic nationalism" as a useful distraction tactic but not much more.
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The false pretenses of Iraq's 'liberation' Millions of Iraqis have been made homeless by the war against ISIS, and the many displaced or driven into exile during the chaos of the occupation years have nothing to celebrate in this "new" Middle East.
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Two of Rubin's associates were named in the suit as well for allegedly helping him attract women to visit the apartment under what they claim were false pretenses, such as a photo shoot or companionship, according to the New York Daily News.
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A Chinese woman has been charged with making a false statement to the U.S. Secret Service after entering President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on bogus pretenses, while carrying a thumb drive that contained "malicious software," court documents revealed Tuesday.
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"If you are a doctor illegally prescribing opioids for profit or a pharmacist letting these pills walk out the door onto the streets, based on prescriptions you know are obtained under false pretenses, we're coming after you," Sessions said in Columbus, Ohio.
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The view of many of the protesters who gathered on Wednesday waving placards reading "BLIAR," and of relatives of some of those who died in the conflict, is that he is culpable for taking Britain into a disastrous war on false pretenses.
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It's also the truth, because trust is the key to their long con — they were married off by the K.G.B. and now live as American travel agents in 1980s Virginia — befriending, seducing, creating relationships under false pretenses, right down to their children.
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The White House and Trump Jr. have defended the meeting as appropriate, emphasizing that Veselnitskaya sought it out under false pretenses to press the case for repealing a U.S. sanctions law that had led the Kremlin to ban Americans from adopting from Russia.
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That drunken confession undercuts the central thrust of the Nunes memo because the FBI was alarmed about Trump's possible ties to Russia long before it started surveilling Carter Page, the former Trump adviser Nunes claims was surveilled by the FBI under false pretenses.
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"When a terrorist or sex offender becomes a U.S. citizen under false pretenses, it is an affront to our system --and it is especially offensive to those who fall victim to these criminals," said Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt said in a statement.
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"When a terrorist or sex offender becomes a U.S. citizen under false pretenses, it is an affront to our system—and it is especially offensive to those who fall victim to these criminals," Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt said in a statement.
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Mack's charges stemmed from what officials said were activities that took place as part of a secret society within Nxivm called "DOS," in which women recruited and groomed others under false pretenses to be sexual partners for Raniere, according to an indictment.
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Those claims, it now appears, were little more than a "bait-and-switch" routine designed to lure millions of people to use the service under false pretenses, according to Jeff Chester, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a DC-based consumer protection group.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans in the U.S. Congress said on Thursday that his administration's national security investigation of car and truck imports amid a trade spat with China is being pursued under false pretenses and could hurt U.S. consumers.
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Those claiming the republic is on the precipice because Clinton wasn't indicted are often the first to deify and express uncritical reverence for presidents who owned slaves, secretly sold arms to our enemies and launched wars on what turned out to be false pretenses.
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The charges in the case include mail fraud and "honest services" fraud (basically, wire fraud), centering on Singer's use of a "charity" as a means of moving money to bribe university officials, administrators, and others in order to get students into schools under false pretenses.
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As you know ... both of Olivia's parents have pled not guilty to the slew of charges brought against them since they were first indicted back in March for allegedly paying upwards of $500k in bribes to get their daughters into USC under false pretenses.
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Rich's parents, Joel and Mary Rich, filed a lawsuit earlier this month against Fox News, alleging that the network and two of its guests reached out to the family under false pretenses in publishing a story that pushed the conspiracy theory about Seth Rich.
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Here, the frontman Barry Johnson falls for someone under dubious pretenses, and though he's willing to blind himself to her shortcomings — "Don't be fooled/The first two hours ruled" — reality eventually sets in, in the form of a conversation about the merits of Kanye West.
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It may be hard to believe that this is happening in the United States in 2018, that hundreds of children are being snatched from their parents, frequently under false pretenses, often screaming, and placed in vast warehouselike centers like the former Walmart in Brownsville, Tex.
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Anna Ukrainian workers have been systematically lured under false pretenses to Germany and Poland, where they often live and work under appalling conditions, in some cases akin to modern slavery, a three-part BuzzFeed News Germany investigation based on dozens of interviews has found.
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The three leaders — Guia Cabactulan, 59, Marissa Duenas, 41, and Amanda Estopare, 48 — brought church members to the United States under false pretenses, often telling them that they were invited to be special guests at a concert supporting the church's ministry, federal prosecutors said.
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When the administration abuses, and exceeds, the discretion it already possesses to do covert, cynical favors for industry under false humanitarian pretenses, the only lesson that people who take environmental protection seriously will draw is that all flexibility must be systematically removed from statutes.
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Without making pretenses about the leftist credentials of any party, in Syria or outside of it, left-leaning solidarity must reinvent what it means to act "in solidarity," where campaigning for non-intervention is one strategy and not the only mode of engagement or debate.
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There is nothing more dangerous than when Claire Underwood smiles like this Mirrors aren't explicitly used in The Favourite or Thoroughbreds, but both show women's relationships as spaces where all pretenses drop to reveal their deepest, darkest, ugliest urges that the rest of the world rejects.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The international agreement on limiting Iran's development of nuclear weapons was reached under false pretenses because the country's nuclear program was more advanced than it indicated at the time the deal was negotiated in 2015, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Tuesday.
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The bank admitted that it pressured employees to meet "unrealistic sales goals that led to thousands of employees opening millions of accounts for customers under false pretenses or without customer consent often by misusing customers' identities" from 2002 to 2016, a senior Justice Department official said.
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So even if your social media settings are set to private, all it takes is for somebody to take a screenshot of that picture and then repost it in a public-facing way or for somebody to have crept into your social circle under false pretenses.
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As she has pointed out, it's especially disturbing when one remembers that it is agencies dominated by men who are manipulating women and arranging sex under false pretenses—something that amounts to assault, as the Metropolitan Police admitted when they withdrew their defense in Wilson's legal case against them.
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And like Carter said, this gentleman who shall not be named has a reputation of being very pro-American, very patriotic and if, in fact, he was brought into this under false circumstances or false pretenses as well is the kind of guy that a deep state would target.
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For Mai, who has released three EPs over the last two years and has her debut studio album on its way, the video for 2017's "Naked" was very much about human connection — hence the dozen or so "characters" shedding their pretenses (but not necessarily their clothes) on camera.
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He had a small, sad global operation, mostly run by his two oldest children and Michael Cohen, a lousy lawyer who barely keeps up the pretenses of lawyering and who now faces an avalanche of charges, from taxicab-backed bank fraud to money laundering and campaign-finance violations.
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Gypsy might not entirely comprehend Dee Dee's plays for control, but as they years pass, she begins to resist them: She steals from her mother's "nest egg"—all money collected under false pretenses from people who believed they were helping with Gypsy's medical expenses—and buys phones and laptops.
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"A decade ago, soldiers across Colombia lured civilians to remote locations under false pretenses — such as with promises of work — killed them, placed weapons on their lifeless bodies, and then reported them as enemy combatants killed in action," said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch.
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It has since the Europeans arrived: High Country News recently featured a report on how the ancestors of Oklahoma Republican governor and Cherokee Nation citizen Kevin Stitt were once sued by the Nation for attempting to work their way onto the rolls under false pretenses in the nineteenth century.
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At trial, prosecutors alleged that from May 2010 to February 2014, Mr. Stockman and his aides solicited about $1.25 million in charitable donations "based on false pretenses, then used a series of sham nonprofit organizations and dozens of bank accounts to launder the money," a Justice Department statement said.
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If the Child Victims Act, which in a future iteration might include stipulations about who is required to report abuse, doesn't get passed, it will tell us something not only about the way politicians capitulate to religious interests, but also about the cultural pretenses we maintain around children's safety.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday embraced Israel's claims that Iran entered a nuclear deal with the world's major powers under false pretenses, a stark divergence from its European allies, who said the disclosures broke little new ground and reinforced, rather than weakened, the case for the 2015 deal.
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When Paul Manafort joined the Trump campaign earlier this year, to the chagrin of Lewandowski, conservative operatives who objected to the move emailed Manafort under false pretenses in an attempt to obtain damaging information about his personal life, according to one of the operatives involved in that effort.
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But law enforcement officials in Southern California in recent years have sought to crack down on the burgeoning cottage industry of maternity tourism, in which foreign nationals, typically from China, apply for U.S. visas under false pretenses and overstay them so that their children can attain birthright citizenship.
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Operation Choke Point, designed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Department of Justice under the pretenses of rooting out fraud from the financial system has put the squeeze on legally-operating industries the government doesn't like in an attempt to choke off those industries from our country's banking system.
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District Court Judge William Crawford II approved the charges, which allege the men knew the Flint Water Treatment Plant was unable to produce safe drinking water yet conspired to enter a contract "on false pretenses" that made Flint River the default source of drinking water for the city's 100,000 residents.
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And anyone shocked by Republican acceptance of the idea that it's fine to seek domestic political aid from foreign regimes has forgotten (like all too many people) that the Bush administration took us to war on false pretenses — not the same sin, but an equally serious betrayal of American political norms.
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Improbably, the recently pardoned former financier Michael Milken makes an appearance in the saga: Peloton began the patent lawsuit process by claiming Flywheel had specifically sent one of its major investors, twice-pardoned "junk bond king" Michael Milken, to obtain proprietary information from [the Peloton C.E.O. John] Foley under false pretenses.
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As I said in the podcast last week, I suspect that Mortal Kombat functions for me much the way pro wrestling does for other people: it's a batshit costume drama with no pretenses in reality, featuring larger than life characters and violence/fighting that bears no resemblance to the real thing.
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The Backstreet Boys "As Long As You Love Me" (22002) and Usher's "You Make Me Wanna" (22005) are iconic examples of the chair-backwards manspread, the former tacitly suggesting that the titular "love" should be directed between thighs, while the latter's presentation making no pretenses on exactly what you make Usher wanna do.
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The surrender and formal sentencing of the landlord, Steven Croman, followed a yearlong investigation by the New York State attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, that revealed Mr. Croman falsified payroll records and padded out the value of his more than 140 buildings, ultimately securing over $45 million in mortgage refinancing under false pretenses.
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It's incredible… Spero made her last major work, "Maypole: Take No Prisoners" (2007) in response to the continuum between Vietnam, which Bush sat out stateside, whiling away his time in the Texas Air National Guard, and Iraq, which Bush and Dick Cheney started under false pretenses, following Lyndon Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin playbook.
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This week's filing alleges that a group of Amazon managers, including three named individuals, knowingly carried out "a conspiracy designed to infiltrate and exploit eBay's internal member email system using fraud and false pretenses," including by encouraging Amazon employees as well as eBay sellers to engage in behavior prohibited by eBay's terms of service.
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That's bad enough, but the truly worst thing about this is that CNN, having fired a man on false pretenses, won't conduct any introspection — they'll still allow Trump foils to come on and spread disinformation with impunity, and never permit other guests to call them out for what they are: unabashed, self-serving liars.
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Famously, after the Umpqua Community College mass shooting in 2015, reporters found that local sheriff John Hanlin had previously shared content on his personal Facebook page suggesting the feds may have staged the 183 Sandy Hook mass shooting—and even the 9/11 terrorist attacks—as pretenses to disarm the public by way of gun control laws.
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When it came to light that Mr. Conrad had created software, called the Macro, that allowed sales representatives to get around regulations, they maintained that they had overpaid for a piece of a company whose fast growth was built on false pretenses, according to two people with knowledge of the deal who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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As presented in the subpoena, Exxon is suspected to have engaged in, or be engaging in, "conduct misrepresenting its knowledge of the likelihood that its products and activities have contributed and are continuing to contribute to Climate Change" in order to defraud the government and consumers by obtaining money under false pretenses and conspiring to do so.
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Since taking office nearly two years ago, Mr. Trump has railed against what he calls weak laws that allow migrants who are caught crossing illegally to claim asylum under false pretenses and then be released into the United States, sometimes for years, as they wait for the courts to determine the validity of their asylum claim.
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After seven years of railing against the evils of the Affordable Care Act, the party had winnowed its hopes of dismantling it down to a menu of options to appease recalcitrant lawmakers — with no more pretenses of lofty policy making, only a realpolitik plea to keep the legislation churning through the Capitol by voting to advance something, anything.
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Two of Flint's former emergency managers and two water plant officials were charged Tuesday for felonies of false pretenses and conspiracy -- the allegations are that they misled the Michigan Department of Treasury into getting millions in bonds, and then misused the money to finance the construction of a new pipeline and force Flint's drinking water source to be switched to the Flint River.
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The New York Times reported Tuesday that the parents of Harry Dunn said through a spokesperson that they are planning to sue the Trump administration for "lawless misconduct" after the family said they were "lured" to the White House under false pretenses and asked to meet with the woman, Anne Sacoolas, thought to have been driving when Dunn was killed.
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"I think it is different in kind if, for example, a Nazi war criminal were to arrive in Canada after the Second World War, professing to be a Roman Catholic priest and obtained his citizenship on those grounds, I for one would have no hesitation to revoke that citizenship, because he came into Canada and became a citizen on false pretenses," he said.
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When the war was over and no active WMDs were found (though the military did uncover aged WMDs from the 1980s), there was anger, except from Bush himself, who decided fighting a war under questionable pretenses was okay as long as you can still pull out a zinger, as he tried to do in his 2004 White House Correspondents Dinner speech.
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"As a result, MicroBilt was unaware that its terms of use were being violated by the rogue individual that submitted the request under false pretenses, does not approve of such use cases, and has a clear policy that such violations will result in loss of access to all MicroBilt services and termination of the requesting party's end-user agreement," Microbilt added.
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Among the activities Trump decried were Iran's development of ballistic missiles and its support for groups deemed terrorist organizations by the U.S. In the lead up to Trump's announcement on the Iran deal, the White House seized on a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — a staunch opponent of the pact — last month, in which Netanyahu argued that Iran entered into the deal under false pretenses.
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Goines obtained a warrant for a "no knock" raid from a municipal judge under false pretenses, which included claiming a criminal informant purchased heroin from a man at the address the day before and that the man selling drugs was known to have a gun, among other things, which meant there was no need for police to knock on a door before entering, Ogg said.
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The Patriots' own delusions further cemented their fringe status: In the last months of 22017, they feverishly prepared for a Y240K apocalypse that failed to materialize; and after September 250, 21970, they insisted that the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon had been false-flag operations—incidents covertly orchestrated by the government in order to create pretenses for instituting martial law and severely curtailing individual liberties.
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She spoke up for other women in Mosul, Iraq and the region with her powerful testimony about how ISIS has revived the institutional practice of slavery everywhere they operate, using a female morality police to punish women, creating a global market for enslaved women within the caliphate, and recruiting Western and non-Western women, under false pretenses of participating in some glorious battle, only to find themselves segregated, sexually violated and silenced.
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Trump and his allies argue that the investigation into his campaign started on false pretenses spread by an unverified dossier of supposed connections between then-candidate Trump and Russia, which was funded in part by lawyers for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAs Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Harris rips Gabbard over Fox appearances during Obama years Steyer, Gabbard and Yang shut out of early minutes of Democratic debate MORE's campaign.
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Prefab Story is made up of numerous mini-stories: a mischievous boy whom we follow through one "super block," (one of the endless unfinished socialist apartment complexes with giant concrete slabs jutting out and transported overhead by crane); an old Grandpa, as everyone calls him, a good-natured country bumpkin transplanted to the big city; a young student who finds out she's pregnant by a young man with no aspirations; an unhappy housewife who puts on pretenses of marital bliss; a stylish actor who romances female neighbors.
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While Blair did a tremendous amount of good in office — he did more for poor people in Britain and particularly poor children than just about any politician in the past half-century — he also pushed the country into war with Iraq under false pretenses, which despite the UK's much lower troop commitment has led to deeper, more lasting political consequences for war supporters there than in the US. Just this month, a newly released government report confirmed that Blair ignored predictions that the war would lead to a humanitarian catastrophe.
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Do not:• Artificially increase distribution for financial gain• Create or use fake accounts or compromise other people's accounts toImpersonate or pretend to be a business, organization, public figure, or private individual• Attempt to create connections, create content, or message people• Restrict access to content by requiring people to like, share, or recommend before viewing• Encourage likes, shares, or clicks under false pretenses• Maliciously use login credentials or personally identifiable information by: Attempting to gather or share login credentials or personally identifiable information; Using another person's login credentials or personally identifiable information; Promise non-existent Facebook features17.
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"Added Kaspersky: "You're only shooting yourself in the foot when you cater to the geopolitical noise and start refusing to promote material on false pretenses—contrary to the interests of your own business (how else can we describe not accepting money from clients that run ethical businesses?)"In an email to Gizmodo, Twitter cited a Homeland Security notice about Kaspersky Labs, which states that the US government remains concerned about ties it has alleged between "certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies," as well as requirements under Russian law that "allow Russia intelligence agencies to compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks.
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That includes the June 22019 Trump Tower meeting in which top members of the Trump campaign — including Trump's eldest son Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties Chris Cuomo: 'I should be better than the guys baiting me' MORE, his son-in-law Jared KushnerJared Corey KushnerTop immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia MORE and campaign chairman Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE — met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer under the pretenses that she had dirt on the Clinton campaign.
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