Sentences with phrase «alleged illicit»

«We acted quickly to prevent more than $ 27 million in alleged illicit trading profits from being transferred out of the country,» Robert Cohen, the SEC Enforcement Division's cyber unit chief, said in regards to the freeze.

Consumers would be adversely affected if law enforcement agencies investigate any alleged illicit activities related to the token investment scheme.

In that sense, there is a clear pragmatism to Staff's framing of the case, since Staff have narrowed their focus to the four named individuals (three of whom are Canadian citizens), and are apparently willing to let the mystery group of foreign nationals — who benefitted the most from the alleged illicit scheme — off the hook.

So, considering the five years of setbacks, studio changes, and alleged illicit reattribution of Kickstarter funds by The Odd Gentlemen, the developers initially signed onto the project, I was decidedly wary of

He urged the court to compel him to immediately mount the witness box to explain all he knew about the alleged illicit transactions.

The kingdom had been squeezed by years of low oil prices, and Prince Mohammed was seeking to recover hundreds of billions of dollars in alleged illicit gains.

Not exact matches

The clincher, of course, would be the vandals» campaign for the release of Dasuki, alleged chief operator of the illicit spigot, that splashed public money into private pockets.

Testifying in the White Plains federal corruption trial of the plot's alleged mastermind, ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran, Manhattan GOP Chairman Daniel Isaacs said he called then - Republican mayoral candidate and Gristedes tycoon John Catsimatidis about the illicit offer made outside Spark's Steakhouse in Manhattan on Valentine's Day 2013.

Prosecutors allege Silver used his official power to gain illicit fees for himself in two separate bribery schemes.

Kashamu is said to be on the wanted list of the US government over his alleged involvement in illicit drug activities.

Prosecutors have alleged that Mr. Silver obtained nearly $ 4 million in illicit fees in return for taking official actions that benefited Dr. Robert N. Taub, a cancer specialist at Columbia University, as well as two real estate development firms.

Change consistently comes with a price, however, and soon there's a grisly murder, a suicide, an illicit pregnancy, an alleged UFO abduction, and a troubling speech by slick lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider (Tony Shalhoub) that applies the scientific theory of uncertainty (i.e., the act of observing an object changes the nature of that object) to issues of juris prudence.

The Plaintiff was alleged to have a history of illicit drug use during part of this period.

CBS WUSA 9 interviewed Washington, D.C. injury attorney Scott Lucas about his representation of the family of a 15 - year - old minor who alleges that former Metropolitan D.C. Police Officer Marc Washington took illicit photos of her.