Sentences with phrase «intepol for organized crime»

«It's like putting out the welcome mat for organized crime.

(The Ogden and Cole memos assure the industry that federal law enforcement agents will not step in as long as businesses follow the rules and do not act as fronts for organized crime, do not sell to kids, and avoid other federal enforcement priorities.)

The department's Organized Crime Strike Force maintains that in 1974 - 75 a group of gamblers, working for organized crime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars out of New York tracks.

They charged him as a drug kingpin, for organized crime and everything else they could.

His older brother, Michael, was employed at the same time as a bag man for organized crime boss John Gotti Sr. and shook down union officials for payoffs.

Black trade with illegal luxury goods is also a catalyst for organized crime - syndicates to form which then tend to commit various other crimes.

Anytime you prohibit some product or activity or service legally which has a demand in society, you create an ecological niche for organized crime to cater to that demand.

The whole Dominica thing blew up explicitly when Francesco Corallo - wanted by Intepol for organized crime - tried to get diplomatic immunity this way).

Looper It's 2042, and Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) is living the good life as a «looper» — a high - paid hit man for an organized crime outfit from the future that has harnessed the power of time travel to dispose of its enemies.

Sunshine, a sunny Carribean island, is a little - known haven for organized crime, drug running, and murder.

Theatrical Distributor: Screen Gems Official Site: Release Date: January 12, 2018 DVD / Blu - ray Release Date: April 10, 2018 Synopsis: Mary (Taraji P. Henson) is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.

A hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston gets completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses during a professional hit.

Proud Mary: A hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston has her life completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses during a professional hit.

Working for an organized crime family in Boston, Mary's...

Synopsis: Henson is Mary, a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad..

As if that weren't bad enough, according to law enforcement and online security firms, the average spam campaign is often a front for organized crime which is why most email filters send these emails straight to the trash bin.

With more than 1 billion tourists now crossing international borders each year, there is a growing opportunity to call on tourists to act and reduce demand for these illicit products which in many cases are providing a funding source for organized crime.

Lawyers are very necessary servants in the architecture of corruption for without lawyers willing to assist their valued clients, money laundering would be much more difficult for organized crime, crooked politicians, cheating corporations and others so inclinded to wash and conceal money here in Canada or offshore.

In September, a Panamanian judge rejected Mossack Fonseca's claim that the raids directed by the country's special prosecutor for organized crime, Javier Caraballo, were unlawful.

has been arrested for allegedly providing a front for organized crime in a marijuana growing operation.

Not exact matches

Bo and Gu had been China's most potent power couple, offspring of revolutionary heroes and renowned for fighting organized crime.

Or, maybe worse, they fall prey to acting as a conduit for some type of organized crime ring looking to make big money by selling or manipulating stolen personal data.

«The Brighton beach and Sheepshead Bay sections of Brooklyn have been headquarters for a smattering of emigre Russian crime gangs since the 1970s,» wrote Sewlyn Raab, an expert in organized crime, for the New York Times in 1994.

He says that the facial recognition database can be used to track repeated visits to multiple locations and the facial recognition technology can be especially helpful for merchants targeted by organized crime rings.

«This Petrov probe could change the narrative of Putin in the West — from being a Stalinist tyrant defending the interests of his country to being a product of gangster Petersburg who united authorities with organized crime,» Stanislav Belkovsky, a Kremlin adviser during Putin's first term who consults at Moscow's Institute for National Strategy, told Bloomberg.

No profession should model itself on Russian novels — or, for that matter, a cult, a Ponzi scheme, or organized crime.

The Vault, an FBI reading room of more than 6,700 documents, contains details of investigations into Marilyn Monroe, Dick Clark, Joe Paterno, Steve Jobs, and many more people famous for everything from music and movies to organized crime.

The promoter, who insisted on speaking anonymously out of concern for his safety, said it was unfortunate that organized crime was hurting the 10 - day BPM festival.

In today's environment, there are an abundance of well - funded and sophisticated hacking groups out there, many with nation - state or organized crime affiliations and interests, who are looking for any way possible to defraud or steal information from American business interests.

For instance, in 1934, as a response to the rise of organized crime and gangster culture, Congress passed what was known as the National Firearms Act.

Target is happy because it has the money in the form of Bitcoin, which it can immediately turn into dollars if it wants, and it paid no or very low payment processing fees; you are happy because there is no way for hackers to steal any of your personal information; and organized crime is unhappy.

The rather straightforward reasoning was that, unlike the members of organized crime who are typical objects of RICO prosecutions, the antiabortion protestors did not obtain anyone else's property for their own use.

The Catholic Church is nothing but an organized crime ring that has been guilty of crimes against humanity for over 2000 years.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

Current bureau practices suggest that new laws, recommended by the panel, must be enacted to prevent COINTELPRO redux: the FBI still has a half - million domestic intelligence files and has budgeted for the current fiscal year $ 7 million to pay domestic security informants — twice that spent for informants against organized crime.

We see the allure of organized crime for Henry Hill as he's ushered past the line into the best seat in the house of the Copacabana nightclub in Goodfellas.

the Catholic Church is like the Mafia, it's organized crime, protected by governments, immune to prosecution for it's transgressions against mankind, a purveyor of lies and fatasies.

Prohibition in the 1920s did little to curb the desire for alcohol and increased the power of organized crime mobs that specialized in the illegal production and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Concern over porn's connections with organized crime has been around for many years.

Drug laws have also fostered drug - related murders and an estimated 40 percent of all property crime in the U.S. Ethan A. Nadelmann, whose article «Drug Prohibition in the United States» in the September 1, 1989, issue of Science has been a major catalyst for public discussion of legalization, argues that «the greatest beneficiaries of the drug laws are organized and unorganized drug traffickers.

The educational emergency in Mexico, broken families, corruption and inefficiency in the distribution of the nation's resources, injustices in international trade that mean fewer jobs, and those poor - paying, for Mexican youth — all these contribute to organized crime and to common crime, but it is still true that every boy born into poverty is a potential saint as well as a potential assassin.

A sunken - place theology cries «black - on - black crime» while ignoring that black communities have worked for decades to organize against both peer on peer violence and state violence in our community.

Stephen Wayne, the New York lawyer who has handled Tampa Bay's search for a buyer for the last 14 months, contends that any implication that Okubo is involved in organized crime is «entirely unfounded.»

Many BabyCenter en Español moms and dads found names in telenovelas, TV shows, or movies about organized crime or horror — although they tended to choose the names of celebrities who battled the villains in these stories or fought for a more just world.

Bo became very popular after a harsh anti-crime crackdown in a city notorious for powerful organized crime syndicates.

As discussed here in the Monkey Cage, the state historically had abandoned many of these areas — which evolved into strategic zones for transnational organized crime, especially the illegal drug trade.

Nearly three - dozen organized crime members were busted by federal authorities in Manhattan for an odd mishmash of crimes — trafficking 5 tons of stolen chocolate as well as hordes of illegal cigarettes.

E.g. Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification could be used to assess progress with corruption and fight against organized crime.

I want to thank Richard Aborn and the Citizens Crime Commission for inviting me and for organizing events like this.

Finding a peace solution that accounts for the interests of these groups — but also breaks up the vicious cycle of state neglect and organized crime that has driven much of the conflict — will be essential tandem goals.