Sentences with phrase «at racketeering»

Just what these big payoffs meant for soccer dons wasn't fully known until federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, began unveiling their evidence at the racketeering trial of three former South American soccer officials.

Not exact matches

A veteran of more than 50 years in government — 22 years as alderman — Roti was convicted of racketeering and extortion, for which he spent four years at a federal prison in Oxford, Wis..

At his fall, he was accused of all sort of heinous crimes — poultry racketeering, a killer squad to bump off political enemies, real or phantom, and gubernatorial fascism Ekiti never knew; and again unlikely to know.

Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor and a partner at Walden Macht & Haran in Manhattan, said it would be «difficult to imagine that prosecutors are not already looking closely at the lulus,» citing potential violations of statutes covering larceny, false records or official misconduct on the state level, or fraud or racketeering on the federal level.

At this point the state government is nothing more than an organization formed for the purpose of racketeering.

But in a statement from the Nigerian Wailers signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Fasipe Oluyemi, the group has called on the good people of Nigeria to come out en mass for a protest (#OccupyCBN) to stop this impunity of the Fraudulent Forex Trading, Round Tripping and racketeering going on in the Central Bank of Nigeria aided by its Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele and bring to an end the Manipulation of Forex, illegally funding Federal Government budget, short - changing the Money Deposit Bank's reserve ratio at the expense of the Masses as the abuse of internal process.

U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon's opinion stated that, if the plaintiffs» allegations are true, all of Pinnacle's «rent - regulated tenants either have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to the same pattern of racketeering.»

According to him, Mr Asiamah should have been the first to be suspended following reports of visa racketeering at the Commonwealth Games in Australia where over 50 persons who claimed to be journalists were sent.

At some point she worked for Charles Keating, he made all the women in his office wear skirts (no pants allowed), fiercely protested pornography and would eventually go on be convicted of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy about a decade after my mom stopped working for him — interesting guy to say the least.

Wreckage of the doomed cruise ship MV Lyubov Orlova which went missing at sea in 2013 and was plagued by rats may have been found buried in sand on a beach Accused Genovese mob boss Eugene «Rooster» O'Nofrio has given up on plea talks and is headed to trial for racketeering, his lawyer confirmed on Thursday.

At issue are kickbacks for high priced merchandise, misuse of federal charter school expansion funds, grand theft, racketeering, fraudulent invoices, overcharging families for uniforms... the list goes on.

When I suggest we have a polar opposite situation here, enviro - activists appearing to be doing all the racketeering to keep their cause alive in the face of withering science - based criticism, this sort of thing is what I'm talking about — Newsweek «s Sharon Begley practically yelling about the need to stop skeptic climate scientists in their tracks, and less than three years later, Dr Schneider telling policy analysts and media experts at a major symposium exactly how such critics can be marginalized.

But it's the climate hysteria and the corrupt industry that surrounds it that could be used as the defining example of racketeering at the beginning of the 21st century because contemporary people are much more familiar with the climate hysteria.

As Ayres noted, the RICO statute requires that a claimant establish the existence of a «criminal enterprise,» and at least two acts of racketeering (with at least one having occurred within the past four years).

Ayers is recorded in the summary as saying, «the RICO statute requires that a claimant establish the existence of a «criminal enterprise,» and at least two acts of racketeering (with at least one having occurred within the past four years).»

Instead of the accusation from Schneiderman et al. being that Exxon engaged in racketeering in order to misinform its shareholders about the certainty of man - caused global warming, the question should be asked if a particular clique of enviro - activists (Gore, Oreskes, Gelbspan and those at «Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action» http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=4482) instead engaged in racketeering when it comes to hoodwinking environmentalist donors about the certainty that skeptic climate scientists are «industry - paid crooks.»

But if he subsequently took time to read my material after replying to my comment at his article, then it's plausible he's not only realized that this grandiose dream has evaporated, but also that he's now facing the far more real and very bleak prospect of trying to guess who might turn state's evidence against him just to save their own skins in investigations of where the actual «racketeering» in the global warming issue seemingly appears.

At 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, the commenters seem to think that, while it might not amount to racketeering, a litigant has a legitimate complaint when forced to use a particular private vendor for such services, at extra cosAt 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, the commenters seem to think that, while it might not amount to racketeering, a litigant has a legitimate complaint when forced to use a particular private vendor for such services, at extra cosat extra cost.

For over nine years as Assistant State's Attorney at the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, he prosecuted financial crime, fraud, and racketeering cases against corporate executives and business owners, union and government officials, and organized crime figures.

Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy posts about this New York Times story reporting on infighting between DOJ career attorneys and political appointees regarding the DOJ's decision to seek $ 10 billion in penalties against the tobacco companies in its racketeering case rather than the $ 130 billion originally sought.