Sentences with phrase «by criminal organizations»

High end vehicles are often targeted by criminal organizations who then sell them for parts.

In the updated warning the State Department cited an increase in homicide rates as a result of targeted assassinations by criminal organizations, as well as turf battles that have resulted in violent crime in areas frequented by U.S. citizens and shooting incidents that have injured or killed innocent bystanders.

Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook - hee is recruited as a sleeper agent with the promise of freedom after ten years of service - and she jumps at the chance for a normal life.

Victims are caught, trussed and sack - masked by a criminal organization in the 2070s.

WHAT: New York City is being terrorized by a criminal organization called the Foot Clan under the command of a shadowy figure known as The Shredder (Tohoru Masamune).

What this is really about is how Big Data could be used by a criminal organization to subvert democracy for their own gains.

Both are immediately killed by a criminal organization, known simply as The Organization.

After getting double - crossed by the criminal organization, three individuals by the name of Tyler Morgan (The Racer), Mac (The Showman) and Jess (The Wheelman) join forces to take it down.

Therefore when certain aggravating circumstances exist the maximum prison term for certain offences is raised to at least 5 years, for example when botnets (a network of infected computers which can be controlled remotely) are used by a criminal organization or when attacks are launched on a significant number of information systems.

Not exact matches

This story was reported by Maurice Chammah for The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on the US criminal justice system.

Vincent Ramos, the CEO of the company, along with four associates were accused on Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of «knowingly and intentionally conspiring with criminal organizations by providing them with the technological tools to evade law enforcement and obstruct justice while committing transnational drug trafficking.»

«US - based Mexican [transnational criminal organization] members generally coordinate the transportation and distribution of bulk wholesale quantities of illicit drugs to US markets,» the DEA report states, «while retail - level distribution is mainly handled by smaller local groups and street gangs not directly affiliated with Mexican TCOs.»

Conflict in Guerrero over heroin production has reportedly been stoked by the Sinaloa cartel, which is arguably Mexico's most powerful criminal organization and is believed to control most of the heroin trade in the state.

Defenders, while confident in their tools, are undermined by complexity and manpower challenges; criminals are exploiting the inability of organizations to handle all important security matters in a timely fashion.

It was not immediately clear how many Spanish organizations had been compromised by the attacks, if any critical services had been interrupted or whether victims had paid cyber criminals to regain access to their networks.

At the time, the ministry had argued that by placing such narrow limits on legitimate cryptocurrency trading, the government would effectively be encouraging criminal organizations to use the technology.

To combat the activities of Mexican, Central American, and South American transnational criminal organizations — including illicit finance and money laundering activities and the flow of illegal drugs — the FBI works side - by - side with its numerous domestic and international partners to infiltrate, disrupt, and dismantle these groups by targeting their leadership and using sensitive investigative and intelligence techniques in long - term, proactive investigations.

Since each Bitcoin transaction consists of a string of code encrypted from the sender and decrypted by the recipient, it saw increased usage by many criminal organizations.

You got the Vatican, a multi-billion dollar criminal organization, and you have mormons, who HAVE to tthe 10 % of their income, I mean Romneys tithes could probably fund the whole thing by itself, and then you have all these other «charitable» organizations that bilk money from thousands of people.

Across the world, millions of people are trafficked each year by complex systems of criminal organizations, relatives, abusive partners and corrupt migrant smugglers.

Many states and cities have policies allowing volunteer organizations that serve children to have criminal checks run for free by police.

Keith Raniere, the co-founder of the NXIVM corporation, a secretive Colonie - based organization that an expert has called an «extreme cult,» has been arrested by the FBI based on a federal criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York.

Criminal justice reforms that were left out of the state budget should be passed by lawmakers before the end of the legislative session in June, the city's five primary public defender organizations say.

Espada, who The Post disclosed yesterday may be indicted on criminal charges this summer as a result of Cuomo's probe, is expected to be put on trial at an administrative tribunal conducted by the Bronx Democratic organization.

The sprawling rehabilitation network created over five decades by the Rev. Peter Young is collapsing, and his lawyer is working to stave off state investigators attempting to get a criminal indictment from a nearly three - year probe of Young's organization.

Calling on the international community, especially the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the heinous crime being committed by the military against Nigerians in the Southeast, Governor Fayose said there was no law in Nigeria empowering the military to declare any organization as terrorists and to kill unarmed people.

De Blasio again denied criminal wrongdoing in his campain's fundraising activities weren't illegal and said that he thought he was being singled out in a series of investigations by people and organizations that don't agree with his policies.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called on Defense Secretary James Mattis to immediately initiate a full audit of required notifications to the FBI by all military criminal investigative organizations after the Air Force's failure to report.

The new rules add stringent requirements for banks to curb illegal transactions by known terror organizations and other criminals.

«New York, the financial capital of the world, is leading the nation in taking decisive action to protect consumers and our financial system from serious economic harm that is often perpetrated by state - sponsored organizations, global terrorist networks and other criminal enterprises,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday.

Yes, Young's organization — Peter Young Housing, Industries and Treatment — ran into trouble six years ago when it self - reported criminal conduct by an employee.

Creation of an organization to oversee the City's efforts, chaired by the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, that will include City agencies and providers to ensure coordination of programming and services; and continued support of research to ensure program effectiveness and accountability.

Maybe one criminal organization decides, «We'll go deep in the wilderness,» and another, «Let's put it by the road.»

According to a recent report by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, sensitive U.S. military and civilian networks have been «deeply penetrated, multiple times, by other nation - states,» and hackers employed by terrorist and criminal organizations are a constant and serious menace.

News organizations» abilities to build trust with sources and gather sensitive information have been called into question by recent disclosures about surveillance: the U.S. Department of Justice's admission that it secretly obtained phone records from the Associated Press, Microsoft's admission that it read a blogger's personal Hotmail account to find a source of an internal leak and criminal investigations that have used email traces to identify and prosecute anonymous sources.

Although such breaches have soared since 2005 (right) as criminals try to commit identity theft, the truly enormous breaches (bottom) have increasingly been carried out by «hacktivists» — individuals or groups who are angry about an organization's actions.

Such organizations can help by promoting good practice in the industry, while also educating consumers, help them report dating fraud, and intervene in criminal activity.

Their goal is to disrupt the cartel activities of one of the most prominent criminal organizations in Juarez, which they do by disturbingly overstepping their jurisdictional boundaries, first sweeping into Mexico to retrieve a federal prisoner and then stealing him out of the country again to interrogate him on American soil.

This time, he's kidnapped by Marshall (John Goodman), the head of a criminal organization whose name was dropped in the first movie.

The sequel to the campy 2015 spy thriller sees newly minted Kingsman Eggsy (Egerton) and Roxy (Sophie Cookson) travel with their tech advisor Merlin (Mark Strong) to the U.S. after their headquarters is destroyed by Poppy (Julianne Moore), a criminal mastermind who holds connections to the shadowy organization known as The Golden Circle.

Directed by newcomer, Jesse Haaja, the film sees the masked vigilante fight the notorious VALA criminal organization in future Finland.

AB 230 by Assemblyman Brian Maienschein, R - San Diego, would require beginning in 2016 community youth athletic groups to provide parents with a written notice explaining whether or not the organization obtains criminal background checks for hired or volunteer coaches.

Loke had two money transfers stopped by The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury Department; the deposits were being sent through the third - party payment processor, Counting House, a company that was blacklisted and defined by the U.S. Treasury as a criminal organization.

For the purposes of this subsection, «service dog» means a dog owned, used, or in training by any police or fire department, rescue, or first response squad, ambulance corps, or search and rescue organization for the purposes of locating criminals and lost persons, or detecting illegal substances, explosives, cadavers, accelerants, or school or correctional facility contraband.

His proposed bill would bring Canada's Criminal Code provisions into the 21st century and it is supported by ALL animal welfare organizations in Canada.

So now, numerous criminal cases are being botched by inexperienced non-profit workers, leading to few prosecutions and the organizations and leading to them not being reimbursed for the substantial costs of holding these animals during the criminal proceedings.

Five years after the events in Ethiopia, you are now under the command of CIA agent Rachel Kane, tasked with investigating a CIA site in Singapore that has recently gone quiet, only to find out that the site had been compromised by the 54 Immortals» «Singapore's most powerful criminal organization.

By the looks of it, Naruto Storm Revolution will be telling the back story of the criminal organization and some of your favorite Akatsuki members may be receiving upgrades to their moveset.

Furthermore, large «Private Military Companies», or PMCs, that had been supported and controlled by the Patriots have collapsed, spawning countless rogue entities with origins to larger criminal organizations.