Sentences with phrase «accused mastermind»

Ross Ulbricht, the accused mastermind behind the underground Silk Road website for the sale of illegal drugs to customers worldwide, failed to persuade a federal appeals court to overturn his conviction and life sentence.

Known as the Mississippi Burning case, the murders sparked national outrage and triggered a massive federal investigation that resulted in several convictions in 1967, as well as a belated one in 2005 for accused mastermind Edgar Ray Killen.

After an unspeakable act of terrorism, two lawyers are brought in as defense for the accused mastermind of the entire horrific incident, which resulted in the deaths of 120 people.

The accused mastermind of Iceland's «Big Bitcoin Heist» says that he was free to travel when he escaped from a low - security prison and flew to Sweden last week.

Not exact matches

For example, Mexican authorities accused him of masterminding the deadly 2000 highway ambush of Tijuana's police chief.

Vinnik was arrested by authorities late July 2017, and stands accused of masterminding...

Those were just some of the signs that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, accused of masterminding the Boston Marathon bombings, had adopted a virulent strain of Islam that led to the deaths of four people and injury of more than 260.

The Minority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah is reported to have accused the government of masterminding Wontumi's arrest.

Issac Adongo accused government of masterminding the selective collapse of indigenous banks such as the Unibank, Capital Bank and the UT Bank.

Halloran is accused of pocketing $ 20,500 in cash bribes for masterminding cross-party negotiations to help fix the Republican mayoral primary for Smith.

The Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Alhassan, has distanced herself from purported reports that she accused Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El - Rufai, of masterminding the abduction of Chibok girls in Maiduguri, Borno State.

Member of Parliament for Atebubu - Amantin Constituency, Hon. Sanja Nanja, has taken the Queen mother of his constituency to the cleaners for accusing him of masterminding the burning of NDC headquarters.

The protesters accused Awe of bungling last Saturday's governorship primary and masterminding the invasion of the voting area by suspected thugs led by a member of Awe's exco, Demola Adeusi, a.ka.

«There will be no letters of support from New Windsor residents who recall Dubaldi as mastermind of baseless attacks on candidates Chris Eachus, a respected NFA teacher he accused of supporting child molesters, or Diane Newlander, who wanted a dog park, or Bonnie Brennan, a respected international civil rights attorney and domestic abuse victim he accused of being a criminal.»

He accused security agencies of lacking professionalism, saying if «they could be could be negatively used during a party congress, Nigerians should expect electoral mischief, masterminded by security agencies in 2019.

Lawyers for Bridget Anne Kelly, the former Christie aide accused of scheming to snarl traffic in the Bridgegate scandal as political payback, want to paint a picture of her for jurors as a hard - working single mom being hung out to dry by the former Port Authority exec who actually masterminded the plot.

The defeated Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, Alfred Kwame Agbesi, has accused some national executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and his Constituency Chairman of masterminding his defeat by supporting his opponent, Ernest Norgbey.

Halloran is also accused of pocketing $ 20,500 in cash bribes for masterminding cross-party negotiations for a failed $ 200,000 bid to get Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — the Republican line in last year's mayoral race.

Halloran is accused of pocketing $ 20,500 in cash bribes for masterminding cross-party negotiations to get Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — the Republican line in last year's mayoral race.

According to Golge's wife, a distant relative who was angered over an inheritance dispute told police Golge was a spy and supporter of Fethullah Gülen, the Islamic cleric who Turkey accuses of masterminding the coup.

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, asserts the measures are necessary for national security: to root out allies or sympathizers of Fethullah Gülen, a cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania whom Erdoğan has accused of masterminding the coup.

In a reply to their motion, WPI's counsel yesterday filed documents with the Second Judicial Court in Reno that accuse Mikovits of having «masterminded the theft of the Misappropriated Property.»

Eckhardt's efforts to mastermind the attack on Kerrigan are so laughable we'd accuse the screenwriters of overreaching, were it not for the fact they're pretty much sticking to the events as they happened.

Armed with a partially burnt scrap of paper from the diary of Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth (Christian Carmargo), Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris) accuses Ben's progenitor of frequenting with the Knights of the Golden Circle and masterminding the murder of the U.S. «s sixteenth president.

Serebrennikov has been accused of masterminding a fraud scheme from his time as artistic director of the avant garde Gogol Centre and has been placed under house arrest until October by the Russian authorities.

Police in Tennessee have arrested Clarence Mumford, Sr. and accused him of masterminding a massive cheating syndicate designed to help would - be teachers pass the Praxis Exam.

Turkey accuses Gulen, an iman who lives in Pennsylvania, of masterminding the failed coup that attempted to overthrow the Turkish government in July.

Some critics accuse him of masterminding a cabal of scientists that aims to establish a new world order.