Sentence examples for purported profits from inspiring English sources

Madoff's seductive appeal lay not so much in his purported profits as in his consistency.

Judge Rakoff ruled that the investors are liable to repay $83.3 million that represented purported profits on their investments paid out in the two years before the Ponzi scheme collapsed.

Courts have ruled that investors who have not received the money they invested (their investment principal) should be compensated before investors who have recovered their principal and are making claims for purported profits.

Level Global, which was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2010 and later closed down, made by far the largest profits in the purported scheme, the government says.

The complaint says that Mr DiPascali "picked advantageous historical prices, often near the lows, to create the appearance of a profit once the purported trade was booked".

The suit charges that "Picower and the other defendants also knew or should have known that they were reaping the benefits of manipulated purported returns, false documents and fictitious profit".

We don't know whether the gunman was an anti-abortion activist, or whether he had seen the undercover videos released this summer that purported to show Planned Parenthood employees selling off fetal tissue for profit (videos that have since been found to be, to put it charitably, misleadingly edited).

The next day, the Ohio state Legislature was voting on whether to defund Planned Parenthood, a fallout of the by then entirely discredited videos that purported to show that the organization sold fetal tissue for profit.

This purported waste is essential not just to his calculations but to those of the entire for-profit public-school industry, which has received a huge boost from charter-school legislation... Advantage places a great deal of emphasis on basic skills; in Brian Stiles's class, for example, I saw a schedule for second graders.

I contacted the purported trollop shortly after.

A purported Pollock fingerprint on a stretcher.