"As an international scientific organization, the IAU dissociates itself entirely from the commercial practice of 'selling' fictitious star names or 'real estate' on other planets or moons in the Solar System," it says.
State attorneys general also launched investigations and filed lawsuits for alleged violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), the FTC Act, and various state consumer protection laws, and for allegedly deceptive, unfair, and unconscionable debt collection practices and assessing fictitious fees.
Investigators say the fake bills are sent out by fictitious companies that pretend to be medical practices or their billing agencies.
Training consisted in a first theoretical module, a second phase of supervised practice of interviews with individuals that simulated fictitious patient stories, and a third phase where the interviewers administered the questionnaire to breast cancer patients in the presence of KUS.
The use of fictitious or misleading biographies is a common, even if controversial, practice in medical marketing, particularly when it comes to AIDS.
Once the alienation of real property had again become possible by gift or sale, there grew up all over Europe that same practice of indirectly achieving the effects of a will by fictitious grant to a middleman (German Salmann, "sale man"; English feoffee to uses) that, in analogous circumstances, had grown up at other times and places.
Their operation included many of the ghastly practices that the liberal law was supposed to stamp out.Saddled with fictitious debts, the women under the barons' control were made to take 20 clients a day, subjected to forcible breast enlargements and tattooed with the names of their "owners".
But last fall, she said, she learned that not only was the practice continuing but that the money was being parked in accounts named for fictitious groups.
The "Kazakhstan" depicted in the film has little or no relationship with the actual country, and the producers explicitly deny attempting to "convey the actual beliefs, practices or behaviour of anyone associated with Kazakhstan" in the "all persons fictitious" disclaimer.
Then last fall, she said, she found that her finance staff was continuing the practice and learned for the first time the staff was using the names of fictitious organizations to set aside the money.
