Sentence examples for obtain penalties from inspiring English sources

Generally speaking, under a statute of limitations, the SEC can only obtain penalties for fraud within the past five years.

The Dodd-Frank Act gave the commission the authority to pursue such cases, and obtain penalties, by having the case tried before an administrative law judge rather than requiring it be heard overseen by a federal judge.

The sports pages Tuesday were indicative of the trend: The jockey banned for providing inside information to bettors, the motor racer allegedly instructed to deliberately crash to alter the outcome, the rugby player who feigned a blood injury, the dopers in athletics, and, of course, the furor in soccer over top players simulating fouls to obtain penalties by deceit.

"One problem the agency could face in pursuing a case involving earlier trading, however, is that a recent Supreme Court decision limits its ability to obtain penalties for violations that are more than five years old, unless the firm waived the statute of limitations".

The Dodd-Frank Act authorized the agency to obtain penalties in this type of proceeding, which means it does not have to run the risk of having a federal judge — perhaps even Judge Jed S. Rakoff in Manhattan — scrutinizing its settlement.

So while the FTC can set data protection standards, in order to obtain penalties or fines to compensate victims of a data breach, the "FTC must identify affected consumers and any monetary harm they may have experienced," the GAO says.

Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley to deal with one sort of criminal conduct, but federal fishery enforcers sought to use it for something else in order to obtain criminal penalties.

Farrell's proposal only allows the city to obtain civil penalties, for example.

The consent order released today does not have a fine attached to it, as the FTC doesn't have the authority to obtain civil penalties for initial violations of the FTC Act or under Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

In 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Packard and Stewart, accusing them of fraud, and attempted to obtain monetary penalties from them.

FIRREA remains a powerful tool for the government, which has succeeded in expanding FIRREA's purview to obtain record monetary penalties in recent years.