Sentences with phrase «crime syndicates»

I have heard a pretty good argument that the groups that spend the most money lobbying the government to keep marijuana illegal are actually organized crime syndicates.

We are dealing with international crime syndicates who are highly organized and highly professional.

It brings in $ 2 - 6 billion per year, most of which goes to fund international organized crime syndicates.

Sir Julian highlighted Europol's work exposing how sophisticated crime syndicates exploit online trade in illicit goods, adding that «online fraud is now the most common crime in the UK».

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D - Rhode Island) urged Lynch to sue climate skeptics under the RICO act — a law created in 1970 to target organized crime syndicates like the Mafia.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The United States will destroy its six - ton stockpile of elephant ivory as a way to combat wildlife trafficking, an international fight that often has law enforcement outgunned by well - financed crime syndicates, White House panelists said on Monday.

16 That figure, again with no qualification, was used in speeches by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a climate change crusader, such as his call on May 6, 2015 to use the RICO Act — a law intended to combat organized crime syndicates — to put «deniers» in jail.17 The same claim appeared in the U.K. Daily Mail.

Organized crime syndicates are linking up with them to move the ivory around the world, exploiting turbulent states, porous borders and corrupt officials from sub-Saharan Africa to China, law enforcement officials say.

It's worth noting that these warnings are regionally specific, targeting sites where crime syndicates are particularly active.

No, what truly makes a hero is the sheer will to do good in the world by protecting others and by dismantling harmful crime syndicates.

Released as a counterpart to the entirely original title Fear Effect Sedna, the original title by Kronos Digital Entertainment was ahead of its time, using Resident Evil style gameplay with FMV backgrounds and cel shaded characters to tell a story of mercenaries mixed up in crime syndicates and the supernatural.

Evil government divisions, super-secret spy rings, or ruthless drug or crime syndicates.

There is, however, one catch to Joe's profession: In order to tie up loose ends, the crime syndicates that employ the loopers eventually require them to kill their own future selves — to «close the loop.»

When he isn't dismembering crime syndicates, Wade hangs out with his pals Blind Al (Leslie Uggams), Dopinder (Karan Soni) and Weasel (T.J. Miller) and lives in erotic bliss with his girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), who he hopes to make a baby with someday soon.

We're told it's a «lawless time» with the galaxy overrun by crime syndicates in search hyperfuel — an extremely powerful energy source that is in short supply.

Written by Jonathan Fernandez, the film is led by Boardwalk Empire «s Michael Pitt in the true story of a young hood and his beautiful female partner Rosie (Nina Arianda) who come up with a dangerous plot to steal from the social clubs of the organised crime syndicates of New York City.

Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), a Looper, is paid handsome sums of money to eliminate targets of crime syndicates thirty years into his future.

No story details yet except that the film takes place within New York crime syndicates.

So, of course, only crime syndicates use it.

I've gotten so used to watching great mob movies depicting ruthless Italians (Goodfellas and The Godfather), that I've forgotten other cultures have their own organized crime syndicates too.

He's determined to get the Feds involved in cracking down on the Chinese crime syndicates who are sneaking them in.

The story begins with our red dead super hero taking apart crime syndicates around the world, only to find himself determined to protect a young mutant who is being hunted by a hitman from the future named Cable (Josh Brolin).

When Quentin Tarantino writes or directs a film, one can rest assured in the knowledge that it will involve hard - hearted characters living in a dangerous world most likely fueled by drugs, hard - core violence, crime syndicates, and good music.

According to the narrating voice of the trailer, the developers of Crackdown 3 are striving to create the «ultimate sandbox» game, with players taking once again control of an Agent fighting crime syndicates all over the city.

Now hunted by the ruthless MNU military division and the exploitive slum crime syndicates, Wikus has nowhere else to hide but within District 9.

If you're using a free service, like okcupid or plenty of fish, you could fall prey to one of many sophisticated crime syndicates that specialize in getting you to part with your money.

Rhino protection has grown more expensive in the last few years due to a surge in poaching fueled by international crime syndicates to feed demand in places such as Vietnam, where horn is used as a traditional medicine and sold at prices higher than gold.

Situated in one of the most secure buildings on the planet, the lab was an implausible target for even the world's greatest crime syndicates — despite the fact that the Apollo lunar samples were stored there and the street price of moon rocks was estimated at about $ 5 million per gram.

Where animal heads might once have been put in people's beds, crime syndicates are now trading them.

Wildlife law enforcement efforts have failed to keep pace with the increasing sophistication of poaching and trafficking as huge crime syndicates have moved in on the act, according to Elizabeth Bennett, a conservationist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.

That was especially true in the Roaring Twenties, a time that also suffered from Prohibition and its attendant crime syndicates.

However, they have to fight US sponsored crime syndicates.

Bo became very popular after a harsh anti-crime crackdown in a city notorious for powerful organized crime syndicates.

Hamas and Hezbollah have also leveraged its connections to narcotraffickers and other transnational crime syndicates in the region to raise money for future terror operations, Southern Command chief Gen. Douglas Fraser told Congress in March.

While the term is usually associated with groups like crime syndicates, public and «legitimate» businesses can be prosecuted under RICO.

Russia's grim Soviet - era housing, high rates of abortion and of alcoholism and substance abuse, crime syndicates controlled by the Mafia and widespread corruption — all these help to make Christianity deeply attractive.

HUMAN SLAVERY Another difficult and impossible situation is where you have forced prostitution through organized crime syndicates.

Data breaches like the one Target suffered are typically conducted by organized crime syndicates or similar groups with a sizeable level of cleverness.

Prosecutors in Madrid have filed a 488 - page petition to charge 27 people with money laundering and fraud in connection to the St. Petersburg - based Tambov crime syndicate's setting up shop in Spain in 1996.

He was believed to have taken over the leadership of the Sicilian crime syndicate after the 1993 arrest of a fellow longtime fugitive boss, Salvatore «Toto» Riina.

The Catholic Church is an international crime syndicate set up for the purpose of robbing the gullible and molesting the innocent.

Or again, would a biochemist, asked by a crime syndicate to develop a poison which would be undetectable at autopsy, be able to ignore the consequences of such a discovery?

Organized crimes, whether committed by a state (whether or not they acknowledge it as a crime), religious group, or crime syndicate are just that organized crime.

I think the Catholic Church is more like an international crime syndicate — relatively well - educated and sophisticated but yet narrow - minded and malevolent.

[48] Some journalists also later claimed that mobster Sam Giancana and his Chicago crime syndicate «played a role» in Kennedy's victory in Illinois.

Or is government just a glorified organized crime syndicate a la Tony Soprano?

He and others maintain that the putative Cunski is still out there and is just one of numerous ships full of poisonous garbage that a crime syndicate has scuttled in the Mediterranean Sea.

The film is further enriched by the performances of Jeff Daniels as Abe, the future boss of the crime syndicate, and by Paul Dano as Seth, a friend of Old Joe who fears the loop is about to be closed on him.

We learn that although time travel is declared illegal once it has been discovered, a crime syndicate cheats and uses it as a method for disposing of its enemies.

Edmond O'Brien stars as an idealistic state's attorney assigned to crack down on a crime syndicate.