Sentence examples for the reported payments from inspiring English sources

But the reported payments, which reduced the company's taxable income, were never actually made, Mr. Morgenthau said, so Cipriani U.S.A.'s income was higher than reported on its tax returns.

Responding to the reported payments using Swiss bank accounts, the spokeswoman added: "Since 2012, we have been very transparent on all the steps we have taken to get our house in order and we're not going to comment on any speculation made by any journalist".

In one instance, an employee of one franchise was paid using the Social Security number of a former 7-Eleven employee, a person who had not worked for the store for 10 years and who had been the target of collection efforts by the Internal Revenue Service for much of that time because of the reported payments to the illegal immigrant, officials said.

Massachusetts called the reported payments "preposterous" in a recent bankruptcy court filing on behalf of eight states.

Asked about the reported payment to Nauru, he answered, "If no one paid, why would they come?" "There is no question of morality here," Mr. Markedonov said.

It seems almost silly to ask whether a federal investigation into the reported payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in payoffs from a strip club operator to local politicians could tarnish Sin City's image.

Neither Argento nor her lawyers have commented on the reported payment or the alleged incident.

Other previous big reported payments for photographs by magazines included £300,000 from OK! to cover the wedding of Westlife's Bryan McFadden and Kerry Katona.

Six other Westerners were freed on Sunday and Monday in exchange for reported payments of $1 million each.

After more than a week of negotiations with Getty, which followed the same procurement process as for the Shiloh pictures, People won domestic rights for the pictures with a reported payment of $7 million.

Appearing on 2SM on Friday, Turnbull was asked by John Laws whether the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (Asic) should examine a reported payment from Channel Nine to free their crew after they were arrested over the incident.