Sentences with phrase «convicted drug»

Does this insurance agent really believe that modern RICO laws will somehow prevent the federal government from seeking assets from a convicted drug dealer?

Federal law does prohibit you from getting a passport if you are a convicted drug trafficker who has crossed an international border to commit the crime.

The allegations of a convicted drug dealer turned police agent and a confidential police informant were at the heart of the hearings into Girouard's conduct of Quebec.

The ongoing investigation into her work — which could upend thousands of drug convictions — has already led to the closing of the lab, the release of hundreds of convicted drug offenders, and the termination of one lab official and resignation of another.

The saga began after Girouard was seen on a security video meeting with his then - client, video store owner and convicted drug trafficker Yvon Lamontagne, in 2010, two weeks before his appointment to the Quebec Superior Court.

A prison sentence of one day for a crime that Congress and the American public consider grave, in circumstances that enhance the gravity (we refer to the character of some of the images), committed by a convicted drug offender, does not give due weight to the «nature and circumstances of the offense» and the «history and characteristics of the defendant.»

The Des Moines Register reviewed recently unsealed emails sent between Rose and federal prosecutors concerning the case of a convicted drug dealer named Bryan Holm.

Funds and property seized by the state from convicted drug dealers must go to local school systems rather than law - enforcement agencies, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled.

THE 25TH HOUR Director Spike Lee takes the story of a convicted drug dealer's (Edward Norton) last day of freedom and expands it into a meditation on New York and America in the aftermath of Sept. 11.

During the row, a man in his 50s with close links to convicted drug dealer Graham «The Wig» Whelan (35) was punched.

The funds came from money seized from convicted drug dealers and was donated as a way to help the organization improve its technological capacity to track sex offenders and provide important safety information to the public, according to a press release.

One of Defy's biggest success stories is Coss Marte, a convicted drug kingpin who at one time made $ 2 million dollars a year running one of the New York City's largest drug rings.

Reviewing the case of a convicted drug dealer whose car police had tracked for 28 days with a GPS device, the court warned authorities to apply for warrants before using that kind of tactic.

Not exact matches

At one point, Buari says, he accepted being wrongly convicted and felt he deserved it for running drugs.

She particularly focused on drug laws impacts on people of color, who have for decades been convicted under aggressive drug laws at disproportionately high rates relative to whites.

The man, Ross Ulbricht, was convicted of seven felonies, including trafficking drugs on the internet, narcotics - trafficking conspiracy, running a continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking, and money laundering.

Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.

She was convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering charges — her first offenses — and has been in federal person since 1996.

In his retrial, 80 - year - old Cosby was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault, for drugging and sexually assaulting Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004 at his suburban Philadelphia home, according to the Associated Press.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In his last major act as president, Barack Obama is cutting short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes.

At the time of Steinle's death, Garcia Zarate had been convicted of nonviolent drug crimes and deported five times since the early 1990s.

In fact, Garcia Zarate had never been convicted of a violent crime before Steinle's shooting — his previous convictions were for nonviolent drug crimes and illegal entry.

Ross Ulbricht, convicted ringleader of the drug trafficking website Silk Road, is appealing his conviction and lifetime sentence.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.

One in five incarcerated people is convicted for a drug - related offense like trafficking or possession, according to the report.

The suspected operator of the underground website Silk Road was convicted on Wednesday on narcotics and other criminal charges for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $ 200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.

Among them: Jeffrey Sterling, the former CIA officer who was convicted in 2015 of leaking classified information about Iran's nuclear program to The New York Times; Jeffrey Skilling, Enron's disgraced CEO; Rafael Cárdenas - Vela, an ex-leader of the Mexican drug - trafficking Gulf Cartel; and Jared Fogle, the former Subway pitchman convicted of distributing child pornography and having sex with minors.

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Little more than a year after his arrest, 30 year - old Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of starting and running Silk Road the infamous online drug marketplace.

Shamo was convicted on May 31, 2017 along with fellow dark web operators for several drug - related offences, including trafficking and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- The suspected mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road was convicted on narcotics and other charges on Wednesday for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $ 200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.

An Arizonan bitcoin trader has been convicted for using the cryptocurrency to launder the proceeds of drug deals.

Evicting from public housing not only individuals accused (not convicted) of drug - dealing and use but also families is becoming accepted policy.

In addition, Obama, and Holder should be convicted as accessories to MURDER, for the slaughter of over 200 innocent Mexicans, as a result of Fast and Furious supplying hundreds of automatic weapons to the drug cartels.

And when black men are convicted of those minor drug offenses, their sentences tend to be much longer and harsher than those assigned to white men guilty of the same crimes.

The Orange County - based ministry called the accuser «a convicted felon and longtime drug abuser.»

Now you go to some extreme examples using convicts and drug abusers to try to prove your point.

The law gives individuals convicted of low - level, nonviolent drug felonies restored access to SNAP (formerly known as food stamps).

They calculate that, with the majority of prisoners sentenced to less than 12 months, at least 4,000 foreign criminals will evade deportation, including those convicted of drug dealing, benefit fraud, theft and burglary.

Rafael Flores, a one - time campaign surrogate for former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano was convicted last week in El Salvador on a charge he impersonated a U.S. drug enforcement agent in a plot to extort a local mayor.

The liberal Democratic mayor pledged that those convicted of such crimes, and of less severe violations like forcible touching and misdirection of prescription drugs, would not benefit from the defense fund — but Mark - Viverito noted that pilot program does offer assistance to such offenders, and argued they should continue to do so in the new iteration.

For Correa, convicted in 2010 of selling drugs to an undercover officer, clemency means that he will be able to spend the holiday season with his three children and three grandchildren.

A New York City police officer has been convicted of transporting marijuana and cocaine for someone she believed was a drug courier, but was really an undercover officer.

Between 1999 and 2003, several were convicted for crimes including drug distribution, the theft of drugs, child pornography, planting evidence, corruption, and perverting the course of justice.

These illegal immigrants are criminals, they're on the run for murder, drug dealers, gang leaders, convicts, and low lives.

In another case, a drug - dealer convicted of beating his girlfriend, jailed twice for other brutal, barbaric attacks, successfully cited his young daughter as grounds to evade deportation.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would set aside $ 16.4 million to provide free legal services to undocumented New Yorkers facing deportation — but told the Observer that those convicted of violent felonies, forcible touching, illicitly dealing in prescription drugs and possibly other crimes, will not benefit from the program.

Maeweather, who was convicted on a drug charge in 2015, was apparently wearing his GPS monitor as part of his probation when the Crossgates incident occurred.

Unless there is a tangible threat to life or limb, these convicted killers, rapists, drug - dealers and other very serious criminals should be sent home.

In a more extensive use of a wiretap by Spota's office, the federal investigators are seeking to determine if information gleaned on a wiretap on Macedonio was used only to convict Macedonio of drug possession, while other information involving possible fraud by Macedonio, political corruption in the county and possible illegal activities by a member of Spota's staff, was ignored, sources said.