Sentences with phrase «among other crimes»

Another sense of assurance customers get is the pledge by both companies that they offer conflict - free diamonds — meaning, they will not sell diamonds that come from an area of the world known for human rights violations, environmental destruction or rebel - backed war zones, among other crimes.

That's despite the fact that nine former associates of Governor Cuomo have been charged with bribery and bid rigging, among other crimes, and are set to go on trial as early as the fall.

That's despite the fact that nine former associates of Governor Cuomo are have been charged with bribery and bid rigging, among other crimes, and are set to go on trial as early as the fall.

David Hope, known to his victims as «Capo,» and his associate Kemar Williams, 29, who remains at large, were charged in Manhattan federal court with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, among other crimes.

Grimm, who is accused of hiring undocumented workers and paying them in cash under the table, among other crimes, is scheduled to stand trial in February.

People arrested for being members of the MS - 13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang, among other crimes, flash their gang's hand sign from inside a jail cell at a police station in San Salvador, El Salvador, October 12, 2012.

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He said other issues included national security, crime and «the huge issue of economic growth and development, the big question is the unemployment among the younger generations.»

Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets; and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations.

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

For example, in «Crime, Drugs, Welfare — and Other Good News,» a recent and somewhat contrarian article in Commentary, Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin applauded the fact that various measures of social disaster and dysfunction seem to be improving from previous lows, including, among others, violent crime and property crime, and teen alcohol and tobaccoCrime, Drugs, Welfare — and Other Good News,» a recent and somewhat contrarian article in Commentary, Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin applauded the fact that various measures of social disaster and dysfunction seem to be improving from previous lows, including, among others, violent crime and property crime, and teen alcohol and tobaccocrime and property crime, and teen alcohol and tobaccocrime, and teen alcohol and tobacco use.

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.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

In Canada, the provincial government of Ontario appointed a royal commission to study (among other things) «the increasing exhibition of violence in the communications industry; to determine if there is any... relationship between this phenomenon and the incidence of violent crime in society...» Two of the commission's research studies found that 24 per cent of the news items on television and in newspapers dealt directly with violence and 40 per cent were violence - related, while radio news was concerned with violence and conflict almost 60 per cent of the time!

Everything that is happening among people is our doing.Jesus left message of Love, but we choose to do wars, crime, other crazy things.Jesus is looking over us, just like we are looking over our own children.

Among the «high crimes and misdemeanors» that, under other political circumstances, would surely constitute the Constitutional grounds for impeachment are these: the President and his top officials pressured the Central Intelligence Agency to put together a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's nuclear weapons that both the administration and the Agency knew to be patently dishonest.

And among those many persons who have committed no illegal act of crime or of overt violence, there is a widespread self - centeredness and demand for the right to do what one pleases which results in the violence of serious hurt to others.

Public incivility is clearly damaging to a democratic republic like ours — contributing to social ills like violent crime, road rage, lingering racism and disrespect of elders, among other things.

I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.

We have to go to the disaster that encompasses the black family, the failure to close educational achievement gaps, the rise of worklessness among black males, the increase in crime, and, behind all these, there are other factors in infinite regress.

Mangano, 56, of Bethpage, and Venditto, 68, of North Massapequa, have been charged with conspiracy to commit federal program bribery and honest - services fraud, among other alleged crimes.

The police have dispatched a special team comprising homicide squad, crime scene management and action units to Denkyira - Obuasi to among other issues, gather further evidence and intelligence regarding the murder of Captain Mahama.

Government officials who joined Buhari for the prayers included the Attorney - General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN); Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello; National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno; Director - General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura; Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu; and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikati Baru, among others.

This may or may not have been a crime — among other things, that's what the feds are trying to figure out — but the notion that it's not in spirit pay - to - play is ludicrous.

Some of the individuals from Borno holding influential positions at the national level include the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari; the National Security Adviser, General Babagana Monguno; the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Yusuf Buratai and even the renowned jailer of corrupt suspects and the boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu among others.

But he gave Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly credit for the low crime rates of recent years, among other improvements.

By Evelyn Usman Standing among forty other suspects arrested over various crimes ranging from robbery, rape, impersonation and cultism, at the Lagos...

For more than two hours hours, Capital Region Democratic Rep. Paul Tonko took questions at a town hall meeting on, among other topics, environmental policies pushed by Trump, the manufacturing workforce, efforts to repeal of the Affordable Care Act and hate crimes that have gained considerable attention since the election.

While commending the Nigerian Military for doing their best to halt threats to citizens as exemplified by Boko Haram, IPOB, Avengers and other groups complicit in crimes against humanity, Global Amnesty Watch sees Amnesty International as constantly demonizing nations that are battling terrorism and setting the ground for killers to embed themselves among migrant populations to spread to these other peaceful countries.

Among the other groups calling for the law's adoption were New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, and the Giffords Law Center, which was founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly.

The new unit, headed by Sean Cenawood, the office's former affirmative civil enforcement coordinator, will target mortgage fraud, bank fraud, and fraud related to federal stimulus spending, among other white collar crimes.

The Attorney General says she did not order the discontinuation of the case involving members of the Delta Force who were standing trial for conspiracy to commit crime, assault on public officer among other charges.

During the speech, Cuomo announced a seven - point «justice agenda,» which would appoint an independent monitor to have access to grand jury information, recruit more minorities into law enforcement, fund body cameras and bulletproof patrol cars in high crime areas and provide race and ethic data on police actions, among other things.

«I will not relent on my efforts to ensure that the challenges of crime faced in the country, be it kidnapping, armed robbery, militancy and terrorism among others will soon be resolved with the use of TIU.

His campaign is focused on Rochester City schools, what he calls «wasteful» and «redundant» business regulations and a public safety plan intended to reduce crime and improve police - community relations among other issues.

After suspending Nigeria, the Egmont Group had demanded that the NFIU should be pulled out of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, among other requirements.

Inalegwu disclosed that the purpose of his visit among others, was to bring to fore, some crime concerns within the University Community.

Along the way, we were treated to all the normal Paladino rhetoric, in which he, among other things, likened City Hall to a crime ring.

And included among the 24 papers he refers to, which are listed on his Web site, are the irrelevant papers mentioned above, as well as other studies that do not show links between concealed - carry policies and low crime.

A consensus among researchers is emerging that these events occur in public places, include at least four people killed by gunshots within a 24 - hour period and are not part of a robbery or any other separate crime, Rocque and Duwe say.

The authors note that public health initiatives that could help make the overall environment healthier include restricting the sale of non-nutritious foods in and around schools; menu labeling and providing incentives for food stores to build outlets in local food deserts; creating safe spaces for physical activity that are monitored to reduce the likelihood of crime; and maintaining smoke - free restaurants and public spaces, among others.

Among the other interesting features of this French crime drama is a brief consideration of the dire consequences of the legalization of drugs.

The criss - crossed film narrative is in a state of overuse, but writer - director James DeMonaco's droll, modestly stylish crime gewgaw «Staten Island» wrings a few suspenseful and comic pleasures out of a time - bending format that has served the likes of Quentin Tarantino («Pulp Fiction») and Sidney Lumet («Before the Devil Knows You're Dead») among scores of others.

Fans of the austere, wool - clad gloom of other Scandi - crime successes will have to adjust to the pace here, but its jittery grittiness has its own rewards, a star - making turn by Robocop - in - waiting Joel Kinnaman among them.

When: February 26th Why: If the prospect of John Hillcoat making a contemporary crime thriller doesn't get you excited, then the outstanding cast that he's assembled (which also includes Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul and Norman Reedus, among others) certainly will.

Consummate supporting actor Hawkes, whose recent filmography has plenty of titles that sound nearly interchangeable with this one (Life Of Crime, The Driftless Area, Low Down) leads an appropriately character - actor - heavy ensemble that includes Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster, Clifton Collins Jr., and Daniel Sunjata, among others.

Scholars in Europe began to embrace the term in 1955, when Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton, in their book Panorama du film noir américain, used it more broadly to describe the wave of American crime films after World War II that, among many other attributes, featured insulted, beaten heroes driven by desperation to acts of violence.

The anthology series focuses on an entirely new crime, but with several cast members returning in different roles this season — Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton and Regina King, among others, all turning in stellar performances.

One example among many: The screenplay, Rowling's first, makes it clear wizards execute other wizards for capital crimes — so why is Grindlewald alive?

Among other things, this gritty and sometimes acerbic film from director Guan Hu («Cow») is a crime - genre satire about the fallout of new wealth on narcissistic sons of China's modern capitalists.

Di Nunzio's crime film influences are obvious — with lines and situations alluding to «The Godfather Part 2» and «Reservoir Dogs,» among others — yet they are organically integrated into his story.