blank check

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“That doesn’t mean that it’s just a blank check, you know, no regulatory oversight of large-scale consolidation,” he says on a call with analysts.

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On Friday, the bank’s lawyer said the duo were essentially treating the legal bill order as a “blank check.”

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I’d get a scrap of paper from my purse, the back of a receipt or a blank check to write on.

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But the latest results—and the reaction in after-hours trading Wednesday—show the blank check investors have written to the Facebook parent might have an expiration date after all.

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The bank said in its Friday filing that Javice and her convicted colleague, Olivier Amar, have treated the bank’s agreement like a “blank check” and used it to pay personal expenses, too.

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