How to Use self-dealing in a Sentence
self-dealing
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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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