By The New Yorker October 9, 2008 In 2001, a judgment was brought against the publisher of Misha Defonseca's Holocaust memoir for allegedly withholding profits from the author; earlier this week, a Massachusetts judge ruled that it was too late to overturn the judgment, even though Defonseca has now admitted that her memoir is a fabrication.
German banks should be able to comply with the new rules by withholding profit they might otherwise have paid to shareholders, or in some cases by seeking fresh capital from outside, the Bundesbank said in its report Monday.
All those months of admonitions that if the terms of the expired contract could not be constrained to the point at which the company was earning a profit, Brynwood withheld the option of closing the company's doors.
Information that was once sealed off from the public by Soviet policies of secrecy is now withheld by government insiders looking to profit from their positions.
Fossil fuel electricity generators in South Australia withheld their supply to push up prices and reap bigger profits, according to an analysis of the causes behind the extremely high prices there in early July.
He emphasized that the commission was still investigating whether energy companies had withheld power to drive up prices or had manipulated prices to increase profits on financial derivatives whose value was tied to electricity or natural gas costs.
Those companies should have to prove disgorge profits from withholding power between May 2000 and October 2000, unless they can show they did nothing wrong, FERC staff recommended.
Unseen agendas, hidden alliances and intentionally withheld information all conspire to make the individual investor's path to profit a tortured one.
He was finance minister when UBS and Credit Suisse agreed in 1998 to pay $1.25 billion to Holocaust survivors to settle claims that the banks withheld assets belonging to victims of Hitler's genocide and helped the Nazis profit from looted gold.
According to the agreement, $380 million of the total represents the profits from the bank's cross-border business from 2001 to 2008; $400 million represents money it should have withheld from U.S. taxpayers and didn't.
It would ease the drain on California's treasury, release electricity that is currently being withheld in expectation of higher prices and address the administration's fears about investment by guaranteeing producers a reasonable profit.
