Mr. Nortman, who teaches a class on SEC violations for Nova Southeastern's law school in Fort Lauderdale, says the SEC will likely want to know whether the purchasers of stadium bonds were given full disclosure of the financial status of the borrowers involved, and also whether there may have been any "pay for play" involved on behalf of the parties.
It is for these reasons that PR professionals should be striving to grab some market share from their pay-for-play brethren on the other side of the marketing aisle.
The industry continues to struggle with ethical challenges involving pay-for-play, or play without cognizance schemes.
Doesn't this rather resemble the pay-for-play scandals of municipal finance, wherein elected treasurers pass the campaign hat around bond-underwriting firms?
Online campaign disclosure databases make pay-for-play politics far more difficult to obfuscate.
Safely assuming that any pay-for-play plan would include paying male football and basketball players, you run into huge issues with federal law.
Then again, his predecessor Andrew Cuomo probably did worse by taking money from those very same lawyers and then giving them a pay-for-play free pass even as he went after money managers for the very same offenses.
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Guests at the property, which is managed by West Coast Villas, can pay for exclusive passes to play the private Royal Westmoreland, plus there are discounted club rentals for travellers looking to avoid hefty baggage fees.
Why should the English Premiership reduce its money-spinning schedule so the players its clubs pay for can prepare to play for someone else?
The high tech Wii U will be sold at a premium price compared to the Wii, said Iwata, so consumers can choose whether they want to pay more for a unique play experience, or save some money.
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These market peculiarities would only be of concern to hospitals and insurance companies except for the rising role that co-pays and deductibles play in how Americans pay for their health care.
The technical question that Congress is now facing involves a mouthful: whether terrestrial radio stations should pay performance royalties for the music they play.
Back in New York, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has garnered banner headlines and much praise for his pay-to-play pension fund probe that has already led to four guilty pleas by investors and politicians.
Zynga games like "FarmVille" led the way for games that are free to download and play but then require players to pay small fees for in-game upgrades or premium content.
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The advertisers however want to scrap the "pay-per-play" system altogether and instead pay actors a flat rate for all their ad work.
Raiola also factored in a partial foreign tax credit that the players can use on their U.S. returns, along with so-called "jock taxes, " in which some states require visiting athletes to pay state income tax for each game they play there.
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"There have been ongoing issues regarding pay-to-play and undisclosed compensation for some time, " Galvin says.
Just after the first of the year, the nominee for Commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, withdrew his name for consideration due to a pay-to-play investigation in his state.
Just after the first of the year, the original nominee for Commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, withdrew his name for consideration due to a pay-to-play investigation in his state.
Most notably, as the result of a lengthy investigation as attorney general, Mr. Cuomo prosecuted former New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who pleaded guilty to a felony corruption charge for his role in a pay-to-play pension scandal.
In addition to the surtax, business groups oppose a public insurance option and an employer "play-or-pay" mandate for all but the smallest employers, under which businesses that don't provide health insurance for their workers would pay a penalty to the government.
Webber drew an analogy with football star Cristiano Ronaldo, saying he did not pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to play for Manchester United.
They have to play some role in the decision whether to pay for research into medieval poetry or muscular dystrophy.
In turn, the argument goes, money managers feel pressure to pay to play, or give kickbacks of various forms in return for recommendations to pension trustees.
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So because Congress has to take action to resolve the issue of the need to raise the debt ceiling so the United States can pay its bills, we do have to wait for that process to play out before we can get focused on legitimately solving this problem.
Burris, former attorney general for Illinois, is not accused of engaging in "pay-to-play" politics with Blagojevich.
Apple confirmed they know they need to play in pre-pay to have the volumes they need to for iPhone going forward.
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At 1, 018 pages, it's highly ambitious, including many of the expected provisions: a public insurance option, an insurance exchange, expansion of Medicaid and a "pay-or-play" mandate requiring employers to participate or opt out for a fee.
As I head to Lotusphere 2011 in Orlando, Florida next week, I intend to pay close attention to the Social Business Industry Symposium looking for where social business will play a role in the organization and in various industries.
Lala's current business model, which has changed almost as many times as Michael Jackson's nose, is to let you play a track once for free and then choose either to pay 10 cents for it as an unlimited-use Web song that lives online, or buy it as an MP3 download for 89 cents.
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