The phrase "improper gains" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing unethical or illegal profits, often in financial or legal discussions.
Example: "The company was investigated for its involvement in improper gains from fraudulent activities."
Alternatives: "unlawful profits" or "illicit earnings".
Putnam has estimated that managers made $700,000 in improper gains -- not that shareholder losses were $700 million.
Certainly, the government's charges of "hundreds of millions" in improper gains or avoided losses don't come close to the gains SAC generated for investors over the years.
Mr. Homann had faced a possible sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 or twice the improper gains.
Connecticut is demanding that Countrywide make restitution to affected borrowers, give up improper gains, and rescind, reform or modify all mortgages that broke state laws.
If a country is found to have been illegally allowing state aid to favour the businesses, the company will be forced to return the improper gains to the national coffers.
Congress passed the statute during the savings and loan crisis to provide another tool for pursuing bank fraud, and it authorizes a penalty of up to $1 million a day or the total amount of the improper gain realized from the fraud.
His payment covers $100,952 of alleged improper trading gains, $34,236 of interest and a $33,164 civil fine.
The Hague adoption convention was supposed to streamline the adoption of children who legitimately needed new homes, and "prevent the abduction, the sale of, or traffic in children" for adoption by policing "improper financial gain".
"We want to be clear that we unequivocally abhor any attempt to leverage intellectual property rights to stifle political advocacy or pursue improper personal gain," Mr. Smith said in a post on the company's blog.
The Hague Convention includes provisions to ensure that adoption is authorized by competent national authorities and that inter-country adoption does not result in improper financial gain for those involved in it.
It includes ensuring that adoptions are authorised only by competent authorities, guided by informed consent of all concerned, that inter-country adoption enjoys the same safeguards and standards which apply in national adoptions, and that inter-country adoption does not result in improper financial gain for those involved in it.
