Sentence examples for funds seized from inspiring English sources

Without offering details, he said all but $14,000 of the money would be distributed to various law enforcement offices, much as funds seized from convicted felons are.

The forfeiture order also lists all funds seized in two bank accounts, and all funds or property traceable to a third bank account.

Mr Howard insists that he has done nothing wrong and that he has wide discretion in how he spends.But these are funds seized by federal investigators, who gave the Fulton DA's office a cut.

"Today a total of one billion francs is blocked in the framework of Arab spring," he told a news briefing in Geneva, giving the latest figures for funds seized since early 2011.

A group of angry hedge funds seized control in March and fired Grillos.

The federal government and 25 states direct 100percentt of the funds seized in forfeitures to local law enforcement, usually the very ones that carried out the forfeiture.

The Bank of England is concerned that if all the property funds seize up at once it could hasten any fall in commercial property prices.

The new measures include criminalizing political slush funds, seizing the assets of corrupt officials, and strengthening the government's Ficha Limpa (Clean Record) law, which bars those with criminal records from holding elected office, to include all appointed officials.

New York City's comptroller, John Liu, who oversees the city's pension fund, seized on the results to press for change.

Hedge funds have seized upon this opportunity to present themselves as the solution to an urgent problem.

Oppenheimer previously held 23percentt of Take-Two, a stake it acquired as part of a group, including several hedge funds, that seized control of Take-Two's board last year.