Sentence examples for improper profits from inspiring English sources

The scheme generated $35 million in improper profits, the C.F.T.C. said.

Improper profits in those eight cases totaled $22.7 million, the S.E.C. said.

Improper profits in those cases totaled $35.7 million, the S.E.C. said.

Although smaller in scale, the allegations are similar in nature to those the commission filed in 2004 against five large specialist firms on the New York Stock Exchange, accusing them of collecting more than $150 million in improper profits.

In the individual complaints made public on Wednesday, the S.E.C. said that the improper profits collected by the 14 specialist firms had ranged from a few million dollars at some of the smaller organizations to more than $28 million at E*Trade.

But according to NASD's complaint, the improper profit-sharing involved some New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks, as well.

The Lindsay-Woolsey bill (or "little Mann Act") would make it a federal offense to transport an athlete across a state line for improper profit.

He also faced questions about whether Harken -- of which he was a director and a member of the audit committee -- had deliberately booked an improper profit on the sale of a subsidiary in 1989 to obscure the size of its operating losses.

FleetBoston Financial agreed to pay $14 million to the NASD and $19 million to the SEC to settle charges of improper profit sharing related to initial public offerings during 1999 and 2000 at its since shuttered investment bank Roberston Stephens.

Richard Strong reportedly has made up to $600,000 in improper trading profits in his funds, and he supposedly is going to give the money back.

The reported $700,000 in improper trading profits several of its traders made amounts to a 20th of a basis point, or 48 cents per $100,000.