Defendant and Others Bribed Public Officials for Legislative Action Sample Clauses

Defendant and Others Bribed Public Officials for Legislative Action. Beginning at least as early as 2010 and continuing to in or about 2017, XXXXXXXX, together with Person #1, Person #2, Person #3, other Charity executives, and others known and unknown to the United States, paid bribes in the form of money and other things of value to Arkansas State Senator Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx (“Xxxxx”), Arkansas State legislator Xxxxx Xxxxxxx XX (“Xxxxxxx”), Arkansas Senator A, and others, to provide favorable legislative action for XXXXXXXX and the Charity, including, but not limited to, steering Arkansas GIF grant money to the Charity; holding up agency budgets; initiating legislative audits; and sponsoring, filing and voting for legislative bills. XXXXXXXX transmitted money and other things of value by different manners and means, including, but not limited to: providing cash to Xxxxx, facilitating employment to individuals close to Xxxxx, providing cash and checks to a church where Xxxxxxx was a pastor, and providing cash and job referrals to Arkansas Senator A. By paying bribes to Woods, Xxxxxxx, Arkansas Senator A, and others known and unknown to the United States, CRANFORD, Person #1, Person #2, Person #3, other members of the Resource Team and others known and unknown to the United States, enriched themselves, the Charity, CRANFORD Clients, and others by: (1) having Woods, Wilkins, Arkansas Senator A, and others provide favorable legislative action for XXXXXXXX, the Charity, XXXXXXXX Clients, and others known and unknown to the United States; (2) maintaining political influence in the Arkansas legislature and with Arkansas State agencies to the benefit of CRANFORD, the Charity, XXXXXXXX Clients, and others known and unknown to the United States; and (3) sending additional income, in the form of GIF grants, to the Charity that CRANFORD, Person #1, Person #2, Person #3, other members of the Resource Team and others known and unknown to the United States, then embezzled, stole, obtained by fraud, and without authority knowingly converted to their own use property worth at least $5,000 that was under the care, custody, and control of the Charity. Between the dates alleged in the Information, XXXXXXXX provided more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) in cash to Xxxxx, and assisted Xxxxx in obtaining employment of Person #14 by the Charity, in exchange for Xxxxx sponsoring and voting to approve legislation that provided GIF monies to DHS-DBHS and influencing a $1,000,000 grant of GIF money to the Charity and a $400,000 grant to Entity G. “Ent...
Sample 1Sample 2See All (4)
AutoNDA by SimpleDocs

Related to Defendant and Others Bribed Public Officials for Legislative Action

  • References to Statutes, Public Acts, Regulations, Codes and Executive Orders All references in this Contract to any statute, public act, regulation, code or executive order shall mean such statute, public act, regulation, code or executive order, respectively, as it has been amended, replaced or superseded at any time. Notwithstanding any language in this Contract that relates to such statute, public act, regulation, code or executive order, and notwithstanding a lack of a formal amendment to this Contract, this Contract shall always be read and interpreted as if it contained the most current and applicable wording and requirements of such statute, public act, regulation, code or executive order as if their most current language had been used in and requirements incorporated into this Contract at the time of its execution.

  • SEC Filings and the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act (a) As of the date hereof, the Company has Made Available to Parent complete and correct copies of (i) the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, (ii) its proxy or information statements relating to meetings of the stockholders of the Company since January 1, 2018 and (iii) all of its other Company SEC Documents. (b) Since January 1, 2018 through the date hereof, the Company has timely filed with the SEC (subject to extensions pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 12b-25) each report (including each report on Forms 8-K, 10-Q and 10-K), statement (including proxy statement), schedule, exhibit, form or other document or filing required by Applicable Law to be filed by the Company at or prior to the time so required, including all certificates required pursuant to the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. No Subsidiary of the Company is required to file or furnish any report, statement, schedule, exhibit, form, certificate or other document with the SEC. (c) As of its filing date (or, if amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date hereof, on the date of such filing), each Company SEC Document complied as to form in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act and all other Applicable Law. (d) As of its filing date (or, if amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date hereof, on the date of such filing), no Company SEC Document filed pursuant to the Exchange Act contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. No Company SEC Document that is a registration statement, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, filed pursuant to the Securities Act, as of the date such registration statement or amendment became effective, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. (e) The Company has Made Available to Parent correct and complete copies of all comment letters received by the Company from the SEC relating to the Company SEC Documents since January 1, 2019, together with all written responses of the Company thereto. Since the date of the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 and as of the date hereof, (i) there are no outstanding or unresolved comments received by the Company from the SEC that would be required to be disclosed under Item 1B of Form 10-K under the Exchange Act, and (ii) to the Knowledge of the Company, none of the Company SEC Documents is the subject of any ongoing investigation by the SEC. (f) Each required form, report and document containing financial statements that has been filed with or furnished to the SEC by the Company since January 1, 2018 through the date hereof was accompanied by the certifications required to be filed or submitted by the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as applicable, pursuant to the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act and, at the time of filing or submission of each such certification, such certification was true and accurate and complied with the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. For purposes of this Section 4.07, “principal executive officer” and “principal financial officer” shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. Neither the Company, any current executive officer nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any former executive officer of the Company, has received written notice from any Governmental Authority challenging or questioning the accuracy, completeness, form or manner of filing of such certifications made with respect to the Company SEC Documents filed prior to the date hereof. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has outstanding (nor has arranged or modified since the enactment of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act) any “extensions of credit” (within the meaning of Section 402 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act) to directors or executive officers (as defined in Rule 3b-7 under the Exchange Act) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. The Company is otherwise in compliance with all applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act and the applicable listing and corporate governance rules of Nasdaq, in each case in all material respects.

  • Public Office Leave (a) An Employer shall grant a leave of absence without pay upon the request of any Nurse to run as a candidate in a Federal, Provincial, or Municipal election. If the Nurse withdraws as a candidate or is an unsuccessful candidate, she/he is entitled to return to her or his former position without loss of benefits provided that the Nurse gives two (2) weeks notice to the Employer of her/his intent to return unless mutually agreed to a shorter notice period. (b) Any Nurse in the Bargaining Unit who is elected to full-time office in the Federal, Provincial, or Municipal level of Government shall be granted a leave of absence without pay, for a term not exceeding five (5) years. (c) Upon return, the Nurse will be placed in a position determined in accordance with the needs of the Employer at that time. The Nurse shall be placed on the same level of the increment scale the Nurse formerly occupied prior to commencing the leave of absence. The Nurse shall retain all benefits which accrued up to the time the Nurse commenced the leave of absence, including Service. The Nurse shall continue to accrue Seniority during the leave of absence.

  • Corrupt Practices Legislation (i) Neither Tahoe nor any of its subsidiaries, nor, to Tahoe’s knowledge, any of their respective directors, officers, agents, employees, consultants or other persons acting on behalf of Tahoe or any of its subsidiaries has offered or given, and Tahoe is not aware of or does not have any knowledge of any person that has offered or given on its behalf, anything of value to any official of a Governmental Entity, any political party or official thereof or any candidate for political office, any customer or member of any Governmental Entity, or any other person, in any such case while knowing or having reason to know that all or a portion of such money or thing of value may be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of any of the following: (A) influencing any action or decision of such person, in such person’s official capacity, including a decision to fail to perform such person’s official function in order to obtain or retain an advantage for Tahoe or any of its subsidiaries in the course of business; (B) inducing such person to use such person’s influence with any Governmental Entity to affect or influence any act or decision of such Governmental Entity to assist Tahoe or any of its subsidiaries in obtaining or retaining business for, with, or directing business to, any person or otherwise to obtain or retain an advantage in the course of business; or (C) where such payment would constitute a bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or illegal or improper payment to assist Tahoe or the subsidiary in obtaining or retaining business for, with, or directing business to, any person. (ii) There have been no actions taken by Tahoe, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Tahoe, by any persons on behalf of Tahoe or any of its subsidiaries, that would cause Tahoe or its subsidiaries or such persons to be in violation of the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Canada) or the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (United States) (collectively, the “Corruption Acts”) or any similar legislation in any jurisdiction in which Tahoe or any of its subsidiaries conduct their business and to which Tahoe or any of its subsidiaries may be subject. (iii) The financial records of Tahoe and its subsidiaries have at all times been maintained in compliance with the Corruption Acts. (iv) There are no proceedings or investigations under the Corruption Acts or any similar legislation in any jurisdiction in which Tahoe and its subsidiaries conduct their business pending against Tahoe or any of its subsidiaries, nor any of their respective directors, officers, agents, employees, consultants or other persons acting on behalf of Tahoe or any of its subsidiaries, or to the knowledge of Tahoe, threatened against or affecting, Tahoe or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective directors, officers, agents, employees, consultants or other persons acting on behalf of Tahoe or any of its subsidiaries.

  • Proxies and Notices; Compliance with the Shareholders Communication Act of 1985 The Custodian shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the appropriate Fund all forms of proxies, all notices of meetings, and any other notices or announcements affecting or relating to Securities owned by such Fund that are received by the Custodian, any Subcustodian, or any nominee of either of them, and, upon receipt of Instructions, the Custodian shall execute and deliver, or cause such Subcustodian or nominee to execute and deliver, such proxies or other authorizations as may be required. Except as directed pursuant to Instructions, neither the Custodian nor any Subcustodian or nominee shall vote upon any such Securities, or execute any proxy to vote thereon, or give any consent or take any other action with respect thereto. The Custodian will not release the identity of any Fund to an issuer which requests such information pursuant to the Shareholder Communications Act of 1985 for the specific purpose of direct communications between such issuer and any such Fund unless a particular Fund directs the Custodian otherwise in writing.

  • Pro-Children Act Grantee certifies that it is in compliance with the Pro-Children Act of 2001 in that it prohibits smoking in any portion of its facility used for the provision of health, day care, early childhood development services, education or library services to children under the age of eighteen (18), which services are supported by federal or state government assistance (except such portions of the facilities which are used for inpatient substance abuse treatment) (20 USC 7181-7184).

  • Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010 The parties hereby agree that none of (i) Section 739 of the WSTAA, (ii) any similar legal certainty provision included in any legislation enacted, or rule or regulation promulgated, on or after the Trade Date, (iii) the enactment of the WSTAA or any regulation under the WSTAA, (iv) any requirement under the WSTAA or (v) any amendment made by the WSTAA shall limit or otherwise impair either party’s right to terminate, renegotiate, modify, amend or supplement this Confirmation or the Agreement, as applicable, arising from a termination event, force majeure, illegality, increased cost, regulatory change or similar event under this Confirmation, the Equity Definitions or the Agreement (including, but not limited to, any right arising from any Acceleration Event).

  • State of California Public Liability and Workers’ Compensation Program A. The Judicial Council has elected to be self-insured for its motor vehicle, aircraft liability and general liability exposures. B. The Judicial Council administers workers’ compensation benefits for its employees through a Third Party agreement.

  • Benefit to Citizens of Xxxxxxx County The safety of the citizens of Xxxxxxx County is enhanced through this Agreement, which promotes safe boating conditions and reduces costs associated with patrols of recreational waterways.

  • Telephone Consumer Protection Act Consent Each Member expressly consents to receiving calls and messages, including auto-dialed and pre-recorded message calls, and SMS messages (including text messages) from the Administrator, its affiliates, agents and others calling at their request or on their behalf, at any telephone numbers that the Member has provided to the Company or Masterworks (including any cellular telephone numbers). Member’s cellular or mobile telephone provider will charge Member according to the type of plan Member carries. Any Member may unsubscribe from receiving text messages or promotional calls at any time by (i) replying STOP, STOPALL, UNSUBSCRIBE, CANCEL, END or QUIT to any text message such Member receives from the Company or Masterworks or (ii) email to sxxxxxx@Xxxxxxxxxxx.xx with one of the forgoing words in the subject line. Each Member acknowledges and consents that following such a request to unsubscribe, such Member may receive one final text message from Masterworks confirming such request.

Draft better contracts in just 5 minutes Get the weekly Law Insider newsletter packed with expert videos, webinars, ebooks, and more!