Ill-gotten in a sentence as an adjective

Then it's up to the citizen to "prove" it isn't ill-gotten goods.

This has already been done before the master key leak, using ill-gotten keys.

I think they'd get me tons of hits, bucket loads of karma, and millions of dollars in ill-gotten ad revenue on my blog.

Having done that for two decades, he grew a conscious and started handing out all his ill-gotten gains.

Look at it another way: if the alternative is the companies keeping the ill-gotten gains, is that better?

The reality is there is way too much corruption and the majority of the ill-gotten wealth is in India.

What I thought was "dumb money" is dictators, oligarchs, etc., who aren't looking for profit, just trying to get their ill-gotten gains out of their home countries.

You can begrudge the first DPR his lame security, shady ****** contracts, and ill-gotten fortune, but he's the product of our system, and his shame is our shame.

They paid taxes on the ill-gotten gains, so when the gains are taken away in a judgement, there is no need to pay whatever weird quasi-reverse taxes you are thinking of.

> The proprietary side is taking those hundreds of millions in ill-gotten licensing fees and pouring it back into the next generation so they can continue to seek rent.

In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of 'racketeering activity.

The United States has as one of its founding principles that powers must be separated, so here if you do take a bribe, there are multiple independent agencies that can come after you, and most importantly, send you to jail and take away your ill-gotten wealth.

The only options acceptable to the feds when a state is found to have systematically screwed over the citizens of the other 49 states like this are retroactive correction in one direction or the other - there is no option to stop doing it now and keep the ill-gotten gains from the past.

Ill-gotten definitions

adjective

obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"

See also: dirty