Word: ill-gotten
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...referred to the property as “ill-gotten gains” and suggested Agnes order it be given to HPT or to charity...
Agnes said the property should not be considered ill-gotten gains, but that “it would be unreasonable for the Harvard University Police to hold on to this property for a period of three or four years until restitution is paid...
...Senate hearing. Former Enron managing director Michael Kopper's guilty plea to wire fraud and money laundering appeared to promise future boons for government prosecutors, who are counting on him to incriminate his bosses, and for defrauded Enron investors, employees and pensioners, who may win back some of the ill-gotten spoils. In court documents, Kopper detailed the schemes that he says he ran with former CFO Andrew Fastow, schemes that cost the energy giant more than $1 billion. (Fastow has yet to respond.) Kopper also agreed to forfeit $12 million in illegal profits he earned, to be distributed...
...cheated. These scoundrels fear most the loss of their liberty and their personal riches. Confidence in our financial markets will be restored when ceos and directors are charged with their crimes, convicted, photographed in shackles and sent to real prison. Convicted executives must also be stripped of their ill-gotten gains. Retrieved monies should be used to reimburse loyal employees who suffered losses in their 401(k) and pension plans because of their bosses' misdeeds. WILLIAM GOLDSTEIN Boca Raton...
...well-kept secret, which is that she is virtually deaf. She covers this defect by being an expert lip-reader. Now, this is a skill a bad guy can use. Soon she's perched on a rooftop, peering through binoculars, learning the secrets of a criminal gang whose ill-gotten gains he plans to heist. The comedic first part of Jacques Audiard's film doesn't achieve a seamless connection with its melodramatic second half, but you can't deny the originality of his conceit or the tart cynicism of its development...