Carl Hiaasen, Kick Ass, 1999 Correct Spelling Voters are tired of using public monies to enrich millionaire sports owners. The mood today is slightly less worshipful, and the reason is simple. Kara Leigh Lofton, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, 21 Aug. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human resources announced it will use $22 million in settlement monies received from drug distributors to combat the drug epidemic in West Virginia. Connor Radnovich, The Statesman Journal (Salem, Ore.), 23 Aug. Under Oregon's unique "kicker" law, if general fund revenue tops projections by more than 2 percent, the entirety of the above-projection moneys goes back to taxpayers in the form of a rebate. James McCommons, Waiting on a Train, 2009 Some of the 2009 stimulus monies for high-speed rail should end up in the California project and more may be coming. The spelling in these instance can be moneys or, more commonly, monies: There are occasions when 'money' is plural. It tends to occur when the reference is to discrete sums of money, obtained from a particular source or allocated to a particular cause. However, like common mass nouns such as water and sand, there are occasions when money is inflected with a standard plural, like any count noun. Even though it can be composed of discrete bills and coins, countable dollars and cents, the concept of money is treated as a mass in English. You can't have a single mud or four honesties, and in the same vein, we don't say a money or one money or twenty-six moneys. In most instances, we treat money as a mass noun or noncount noun-just like oxygen or mud or honesty. However in some scenarios, especially when it refers to discrete sums of money obtained from a particular source or allocated to a particular cause, money can be pluralized as moneys or monies, with the latter being the more common spelling. Stacey Henson is the visuals and breaking news editor for Fort Myers News-Press and Naples Daily News.Money is typically a mass noun, which means it gets used with some and not with a, and lacks a plural form. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Yolande G. This case was investigated by the United States Secret Service. Money transfers gave false impression refunds were madeĭuring the remote access, the telemarketer often transferred monies from the victim’s savings account or line of credit to the victim’s checking account to give the fraudulent appearance that the victim’s checking account was credited for the refund and overpayment. She retained a portion of the fraud proceeds.Īfter the victims conducted cash withdrawals or purchased cashier’s checks and mailed the money to Sprague, the victims discovered the purported overpayment were false. Sprague often initiated international wire transfers, that had been funded with victims’ funds, to her co-conspirators. Sprague deposited the victims’ funds into her bank accounts before she disbursed and transferred the proceeds to other members of the conspiracy. She also opened several post office boxes in Cape Coral. Sprague opened various bank accounts in which she was the sole signor. mail and other parcel delivery services to Sprague. Conspirators then instructed the victims to return the false overpayment in the form of cash or cashier’s checks via U.S. The telemarketer falsely represented that a deposit had been made into the victim’s account and would purport to accidentally deposit large amounts of money into the victim’s account. They instructed each victim to allow remote access to the computer and instructed the victim to log into their online banking platform to direct deposit the refund.
The conspirators contacted each victim to offer purported refunds to the victims for the purchase of the original service. Conspirators remotely connected to victims' computers and accessed victims' personal information, including access to financial accounts. After the victim agreed to make payment to the telemarketer, the scammers took access of the victim’s computer.