Sentences with phrase «federal crime which»

This is a serious federal crime which could be charged against anyone that misuses the US post office or private mail carrier for some illegal activity.

Every state in the US may experience crimes that would be classified as federal crimes which would be brought up to the Federal Court for trial.There are over 100 types of federal crimes which could be filed especially those related to Federal government property.

Not exact matches

He cited cases in Oregon and California in which illegal immigrants were charged with committing violent crimes after being arrested for relatively minor offenses by local police and then released, despite federal requests to keep them in custody.

Constitutionally, the president's pardon powers are very broad as they relate to federal crimes, which Trump pointed out in July.

I answered the door and was surprised to meet a well - dressed man and woman who introduced themselves as agents of a well - known American federal agency that investigates terrorism, counterintelligence, cybercrime, public corruption, civil rights, organised crime, white - collar crime, violent crime and weapons of mass destruction (and which shall remain unnamed here).

As it currently stands, the president could decide to give his lawyer a get - out - of - jail - free card for any federal convictions, which would also shield him from being prosecuted for those same crimes on the state level.

Federal prosecutors also said they expect to begin handing over copies of all the documents and other material they seized to Cohen and his attorneys starting April 27, with plans to finish handing over most of the material by May 11, with the exception of several cellphones, which are locked and likely have to be decrypted by experts at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.

Laufer reassures us, «The Obama administration and the DOJ have issued the Cole Memo, which deprioritizes federal criminal prosecutions of marijuana crimes, when commercial operators are operating in accordance with state laws.»

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has reacted to «a story entitled, CJN, Okonjo - Iweala, Fayemi, Fayose, Others Under Probe - EFCC, which appeared in The Punch Newspaper of today Wednesday September 6, 2017 regarding a list of high profile persons, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi and Justice Abdu Kafarati of the Federal High Court, who are said to be currently under investigation by the Commission.

We know because this actually happened: Arizona passed a state law making it a state crime to be in violation of federal alien registration laws (which automatically includes illegal immigrants) and giving state and local law enforcement the power to arrest people if they had probable cause to believe the person had committed some crime making them removable from the US.

· Amend The Penal Law To Prohibit Undisclosed Self - Dealing By Public Officials: To address the Supreme Court's decision in Skilling, which severely hampered the federal government's ability to prosecute cases involving deprivation of «honest services» by public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government employer.

Now, if a member of a family or household is convicted of one of more than 10 different crimes — including criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, menacing and unlawful imprisonment — the conviction is reported to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, which then allows that agency to report the information to the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

Despite his frail health, the Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh on Wednesday showed up at the Federal High Court, Abuja, for his trial which borders on a seven - count charge of criminal breach of trust and money laundering to the tune of N400m brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

«The heightened crimes and insecurity in the Southeast presently is heavily nourished by these antecedents of IPOB, which may not abate soon, unless the Federal Government of Nigeria take decisive actions against IPOB and its criminal affiliates to secure lives and property in the region.

Commending the Federal Government over its declaration that the case was not dead, Fayose said it was not enough to tell Nigerians that a case like the Halliburton and Siemens, in which many people have been jailed in other countries, especially the United States and investigations concluded in Nigeria with those alleged to be involved questioned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was not dead, rather, those already found wanting should be prosecuted.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has begged Justice Abdulaziz Anka of the Federal High Court in Lagos not to give Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) access to his account in Guaranty Trust Bank which has a balance of N75m.

In a speech to a group of New York lawyers, a federal judge from Brooklyn assailed the criminal justice system in which he has worked for more than 40 years, saying that the country had to «jettison the madness of mass incarceration» and find an alternative to overly punitive sentencing to address the problem of crime.

A final order is made forfeiting the sums of $ 43,449,947 found by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at Flat 7B of No. 16 Osborne Road, Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, which sum is reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities to the Federal Government of Nigeria.»

But the mayor told the Observer that he would not allow public dollars to go toward the defense of anyone found guilty of one of the 170 crimes that New York exempts from its «sanctuary city» protections — violent offenses like rape, murder and terrorism, for which local law enforcement will turn over a foreign national to federal authorities.

Federal prosecutors rarely charge clients in prostitution cases, which are generally seen as state crimes.

Suswam, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the same Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, was absent from court on health grounds on Tuesday, which had been scheduled for the continuation of his trial.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for its dedication and support in bursting a high profile Business E-mail Compromise, BEC, fraud in Dallas, Texas, which led to the arrest and eventual of a Nigerian, Amechi Colvis Amuegbunam.

At the conclusion of the interview, the agents advised Sampson that he had lied to federal agents, which constituted a federal crime.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday narrated to the Federal High Court in Lagos how it apprehended the alleged kingpin of a fraud syndicate which specialised in duping Bureau De Change operators in the country.

«These conditions that have been stated need to be fulfilled by the state government to convince the IMN that the state government, which is also an accomplice in the crime, since it demolished our properties and deliberately wiped out practical evidences of the army's brutality on the movement, is not setting up the enquiry to justify the indictment of the Movement by both the federal and state governments.»

Whatever Howe might say about the alleged crimes, his testimony could also shed light on Cuomo's Upstate development strategy, which spawned a federal probe and corruption charges.

Under the new legislation, which Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he supports, the city will honor immigration waivers if the federal government requests them with a judge's warrant — and even then, only if the subject of the warrant was convicted within the last five years of a violent or serious crime, or is a possible match on the terrorism watch list.

But things quickly soured after de Blasio clarified that the money in his proposal could only be used for people who were not accused of committing certain crimes, specifically any offense listed among the 170 crimes which the city has deemed «deportable offenses» that would require law enforcement to turn over offenders to federal immigration authorities.

The Inspector - General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has appealed against the judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja which declared as illegal the Special Joint Investigation Panel which he set up to investigate crimes committed during the National Assembly re-run held in Rivers State on December 10, 2016.

A federal jury last week convicted Silver of the crimes, which centered on having real - estate developers seeking help from the state steer hundreds of thousands of dollars in referral fees to his legal practice.

Aminu Sule Lamido, the 34 year old son of former Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, had his appeal struck out on Monday by an appellate court sitting in Kaduna against the decision of the Federal High Court, Kano which found him guilty of the charge of money laundering brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

EFCC Kicks Against Bail for Agbele The Economic and Financial Crime Commission has said it will immediately appeal the ruling of a Federal Capital Territory High Court which today granted bail to one Abiodun Agbele, a suspect who is being investigated by the Commission for a range of alleged criminal infractions bordering on fraud and -LSB-...]

A Federal appeals panel yesterday unanimously overturned the fraud conviction of former Assembly Speaker Mel Miller of Brooklyn, agreeing that a tangled real - estate deal in which he and his former law partner netted $ 200,000 did not constitute a crime.

His attorney, Paul DerOhannesian of Albany, said the appeal would contest federal prosecutors» increasing use of the statute against lying to federal investigators, which he said gives federal prosecutors power to «manufacture crimes.»

U.S. District Senior Judge Thomas J. McAvoy will rely on federal sentencing guidelines if he sentences Scarborough, and must publicly state his justifications if he sentences the lawmaker to less or more time than are called for in the guidelines, which take into account factors such as a defendant's criminal history and acceptance of responsibility for their crimes.

All for a good arrest record, which not only serves to line the county coffers via federal funds, but keeps the D.A.'s «tough on crime» credo in the spotlight - and, ugliest of all, satisfies his predudice against people of color.

The malady, titled, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is widely criticized by the NFL which uses its tremendous influence to ride Omalu out of Pennsylvania (he settles in California) while Wecht is arrested by federal agents and charged with 87 counts of fraud, misappropriation of funds and other crimes.

Some of the major conflicting moments include that of a physical battle between the medical examiner and the federal Secret Service men over possession of the body, the former insisting that the crime is one in which the state has jurisdiction (true) and that no body may leave without his autopsy.

Synopsis: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

DRM is usually discussed in the context of copyright and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which makes circumvention of measures that control access to copyrighted works a civil offense (in some cases even a federal crime).

If you say «No one» and the bankruptcy trustee finds out that you have, then you have not told the truth which means you've commited at least three federal crimes.

Adding to what others have said, if the mortgage for the new house is backed by the federal government (e.g., through FHA or is to be sold to Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac) you would be violating 18 USC § 1001, which makes making intentionally false statements to any agent or branch of the federal government a crime punishable by up to 5 years» imprisonment.

But they own the Dept of Justice — which is responsible for investigating and prosecuting federal crimes.

As you may know, Congress passed the Controlled Substance Act in 1970, which made the possession, use, and distribution of marijuana a federal crime.

The post from Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reports on yesterday's Supreme Court argument in which the state of Arizona and the federal government argued for — and got Justices supporting — the broad proposition that police who encounter someone in a public place should have the authority to frisk that individual any time they fear he may be «armed and dangerous,» even if they have no suspicion that any crime has been or is being committed.

Such information is primarily intended to help improve federal safety standards, but increasingly it is being used in court cases in which vehicles were involved in a serious accident or the commission of a crime.

Many of fraud cases may be classified as federal crimes where the case is heard in the state and federal courts which subject the defendant to more penalties upon conviction.

However, it does not limit the crime to the postal agency alone; it could also be a white collar crime which could be tried as a federal crime in California that brings on heavy penalties;

A federal judge or magistrate will also consider the sentencing guidelines established by the United States Sentencing Commission which dictate a uniform sentencing policy for individuals and organizations convicted of federal crimes.