When someone willfully seeks to evade taxes, as he did, the penalty can be as high as 50 percent of the account value for every year it existed.
"In no way did I seek to mislead willfully or (otherwise mislead) the Independent Commission Against Corruption," he said.
Jeffrey Neiman, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice in Fort Lauderdale, said that "under my reading of the Fbar rules, if the government can prove that a financial institution willfully caused an Fbar violation, the government could seek a penalty on the financial institution, no matter where in the world it is based, for up to 50 percent of the balance of all accounts in question".
We have, here in the United States, a system by which wronged parties can seek redress from those who wronged them, and those who willfully enabled that wrong, without proactive control by government bureaucrats.
Like those who stood opposite the picket lines in Gaye's lament, he appears to be willfully closing his ears to the concerns of his own constituency who seek a different future for our region than the one starkly outlined by the highway system.
The allegation that Katz and Wilpon and some of their associates were willfully blind to years of concerns about Madoff's operation is what empowers the trustee, Irving H. Picard, to seek the staggering sum of $1 billion, money that may be returned to what the trustee regards as legitimate victims of Madoff's fraud.
The government can seek to revoke the US citizenship of immigrants after the fact in cases when it determines a person willfully misrepresented or concealed facts relevant to their naturalization.
The U.S. has completed negotiations on an agreement that will grant EU citizens the right to seek reparation in U.S. courts if personal data their home countries share with the U.S. government for law enforcement purposes is willfully disclosed.
Twain is not willfully buttressing racism here; he is seeking ruthlessly to unveil and ridicule it.
In this willfully ingratiating, heat-seeking first novel, Sophie is in fairly dire straits at first.
