It has studied the coin microscopically and matched it with one of the original dies used to strike it, "and is certifying that this coin is genuine," Mr. Pickens said.
A major part of what Wall Street firms do for their clients is, in effect, to vouch for their financial prospects: when a bank underwrites a company's bond offering or an I.P.O., it is essentially certifying that company in the eyes of investors.
Mr. Fo did not answer the letters I wrote him certifying that Harvard University had awarded me a postdoctoral fellowship to study his work.
The company agreed to continue this effort at its terminals and take other security steps, including giving American officials access to information on its United States-based employees and certifying that it had conducted background checks on them, Department of Homeland Security officials said.
It signed the deal to settle a federal lawsuit accusing it of violating the False Claims Act — that is, of taking tens of millions of federal dollars for affordable housing and other projects while falsely certifying that it was doing all that it must to promote integrated housing.
In 2007, the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, a nonprofit advocacy and litigation group, sued Westchester, saying it had violated the False Claims Act by taking federal housing grants while falsely certifying that it was living up to its legal requirement to provide affordable housing without reinforcing racial segregation.
The agreement, which needs to be ratified by the county Board of Legislators, settles a 3-year-old federal lawsuit, filed by the Anti-Discrimination Centhe, acountyg the cofntakingtensng tens of millions of dollars in federal housing grants while falsely certifying that it was living up to its legal requirement to provide affordable housing without reinforcing racial segregation.
Filed in Federal District Court in San Diego, the complaint accuses Ms. Vattimo of drafting "false and misleading disclosures," and it accuses Mr. Uberuaga of signing the closing letter for one of the bond offerings, falsely certifying that it was accurate.
Every company in the real-estate business has to get a letter from the state certifying that it pays taxes and hires no illegal immigrants.
There should be a sign posted in the restaurant certifying that it is kosher and who the supervisor is.
