How to Use self-dealing in a Sentence

self-dealing

noun

• The self-dealing contracts and loans were first reported by Reveal.
  — Cassandra Jaramillo, ProPublica, 5 June 2023
• According to critics, that amounts to self-dealing at the consumers’ expense.
  — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• If New York City wants a serious legislature, there can be no such blatant self-dealing to raise your own pay.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 June 2024
• The rules are incredibly strict on the care that a fiduciary must exercise to avoid self-dealing and put the interests of the beneficiaries first.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• The resignation of Mayor Catherine Pugh amid a self-dealing scandal is not long in the rearview mirror for Baltimoreans.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
• Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned in 2019 and served time in federal prison for a self-dealing scandal involving children’s books.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024
• These scholarship awards to a Board member’s son and daughter violated the terms of the Trust, and are prohibited self-dealing and private inurements.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 1 Mar. 2023
• The head of Carta’s troubled broker-dealer business has left the company, months after the group was publicly accused of self-dealing in a viral social media post, Fortune has learned.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• Popular pot brand Cookies lined up millions in kickbacks to self-dealing execs, lawsuits allege.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• But its growth has produced bitter debate over how the Seattle tech company secured its incentives and an ongoing probe of possible self-dealing among those awarding its tax breaks.
  — Mike Rogoway | [e-mail], oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Live Nation had become the second-largest ticketing platform behind Ticketmaster, and some lawyers and scholars cautioned that the deal could create a self-dealing monopoly.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 23 May 2024
• Last week, the legislature acted at Lamont’s insistence and restored the law prohibiting self-dealing in school construction.
  — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2024
• As with most major foreign policy issues, the foundation for Biden’s leadership will need to be laid at home, beginning with measures to clean up after the most corrupt and self-dealing presidency in U.S. history.
  — Samantha Power, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2020
• And prosecutors will be allowed to inform jurors of an agreement that the Trump Foundation would be dissolved as a result of an investigation into self-dealing transactions.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
• Real estate agents just have to be careful not to engage in self-dealing—sorry, no commission this time—but your IRA custodian can help you with educational information on this topic.
  — Jason Craig, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• If people started thinking that miners were self-dealing corruptocrats, the value of bitcoin would immediately plummet.
  — David B. Black, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• No modern president comes close to Mr. Trump’s voluminous record of conflicts of interest, allegations of self-dealing and post-presidential deal-making that marked the Trump administration and its afterlife.
  — Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• In addition to bearing responsibility for the central bank’s policy of financial engineering and the country’s economic collapse, Salameh faces serious allegations of self-dealing and illicit enrichment.
  — Sam Heller, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Jan 2025