Parent-controlled 529 accounts get treated like other parent assets, with an annual 5% or 5.6% snatch, but the disbursements from these accounts do not go into the income calculation.

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According to the complaint, an unnamed assistant for Rivkin told authorities that Rivkin controlled all financial accounts.

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Perhaps more alarming to Dreier's former law partners is the disappearance of tens of millions in client escrow funds from accounts controlled by Dreier.

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Despite these red flags, the AWC alleged that Hesse did not identify any of the activity in the accounts controlled by Client to be suspicious or irregular.

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It excludes the value of your house, your farm, a small business you own and 529 college savings accounts not controlled by the parent or the student (for example, one controlled by a grandparent).

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Other payment processors targeted by the feds had six bank accounts at SunTrust and Wells Fargo controlled by Sanjay Panya.

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Picking up where the private equity titans could soon be leaving off are sovereign wealth funds, opaque investment funds controlled by governments which dip into their burgeoning national savings accounts to make investments.

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By all accounts this was a planned, if not completely controlled, transition spearheaded by an aggressive chairman, Michael C.

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Zimmerman "fully controlled and participated in the transfer of money from the PayPal account to defendant and his wife's credit union accounts, " Corey said in court records.

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