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criminal, felonious, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, lawless, unlawful
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Almost four months ago, the bankrupt estate of Sears Holdings Corp. sued Eddie Lampert and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin over allegedly wrongful transfers of $2 billion in company assets. — Josh Saul, Fortune, "Eddie Lampert and Steven Mnuchin Want Sears Insurance Policies to Pay Their Legal Fees," 9 Aug. 2019 The passenger, who was the owner of the car, was cited for wrongful entrustment. — Cheryl Higley, cleveland.com, "Runaway paver crashes into car: North Ridgeville police blotter," 2 Aug. 2019 In September 2015, United wrote to Williams, noting his lack of a license and the resulting wrongful payments, totaling $636,637. — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, "Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You.," 19 July 2019 Knox, 32, has been occupied with activism related to wrongful convictions. — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, "Amanda Knox’s ‘shameless’ request: We want you all to pay for our outrageous wedding," 24 July 2019 Former Elkhart police Detective Steve Rezutko died in an apparent suicide this year, amid an unrelated wrongful-conviction lawsuit against the city of Elkhart and several police officers. — Christian Sheckler, ProPublica, "The Questionable Conviction, and Re-Conviction, of Ricky Joyner," 20 July 2019 The city's largest prior payout for wrongful conviction was $6.5 million to Chante Ott, who spent 13 years in prison for a homicide actually committed by serial killer Walter Ellis. — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Settlement calls for Milwaukee to pay $7.5 million to man convicted based on bogus bite mark evidence," 11 July 2019 But Fairstein isn’t legally liable for the wrongful conviction. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "A changing America finally demands that the Central Park Five prosecutors face consequences," 8 July 2019 Other projects on its website include wrongful convictions, police use of force, and life sentences for juveniles. — Uriel J. Garcia, azcentral, "Phoenix police union defends officers identified in report of racist Facebook comments," 6 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'wrongful.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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