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Judge Arun Subramanian also sentenced Combs to five years of supervised release and imposed a $500,000 fine, the maximum allowable fine.
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Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Now Kaprizov is a superstar and getting paid like one, taking reasonable expectations for star-caliber players and stretching them toward the upper limit of what’s allowable under the salary cap.
—Murat Ates, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Nuggets president Josh Kroenke has made clear the team’s intention to offer him the full amount of money allowable.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Since 2010, in four of the five cases in which the agency settled with psychiatric hospitals for EMTALA violations, the amounts were well below the maximum allowable.
—Eli Cahan, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2025
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Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Now Kaprizov is a superstar and getting paid like one, taking reasonable expectations for star-caliber players and stretching them toward the upper limit of what’s allowable under the salary cap.
—Murat Ates, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Nuggets president Josh Kroenke has made clear the team’s intention to offer him the full amount of money allowable.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Since 2010, in four of the five cases in which the agency settled with psychiatric hospitals for EMTALA violations, the amounts were well below the maximum allowable.
—Eli Cahan, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Allowable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allowable. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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