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
  • 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 | McAson@al.com, 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 | Mrogoway@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • 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

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