Sentences with phrase «control of organized crime»

Like most of the police, indeed, like most residents, Brunetti had always assumed that the men from Senegal were under the control of organized crime, the reason most often offered to explain their politeness in dealing with the public: so long as their manner did not call attention to them, few people would trouble to ask how they so successfully managed to remain invisible to and undisturbed by the authorities.

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The vast majority of that industry — an estimated 85 % — is currently controlled by organized crime.

By the 1980s, organized crime groups controlled nearly all of the ready - mix concrete supplies in the New York area.

On top of that, docks were often controlled by organized crime or run through unions, and there were problems of theft to contend with.

These small but significant reforms will give law enforcement and prosecutors the ability to utilize eavesdropping warrants to further fully investigate crimes involving the distribution of controlled substances, as well as empower law enforcement to further prosecute organized activity related to prescription drug trafficking in New York State.

Fact 1: The UCRRA was created in 1987 by an act of the state legislature to protect the county taxpayers from the ravages of a waste hauling and disposal industry controlled by organized crime.

David Lynch's films often dimly hint at the clandestine powers that control things: networks of organized crime, pornography rings, supernatural bureaucracies that hold sway from behind curtains or inside shadowy, Mabuse - like glass chambers and anterooms.

Now, the streets of Liberty City are in turmoil, as warring families vie for control and the town begins to self - destruct under waves of political corruption, organized crime, drug trafficking and union strikes.

In the time you've been away from Liberty City, the organized rule of the mob has become fractured as corrupt politicians, rival games, and striking unions vie for control of a city where crime is as commonplace as pizza is in NYC.

In Blue Estate you use Kinect to control you way through the dark corners of organized crime in Los Angeles to right wrongs and perhaps cause a couple as well.

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«The action taken in the U.S. directly impacts the upper echelons of organized crime both here in Australia and offshore, who until now have been able to confidently control and direct illicit activity like drug importations, money laundering and associated serious criminal offending,» says Neil Gaughan, the assistant commissioner of organized crime for the Australian Federal Police.