Sentences with phrase «federal criminal charges which»

So in theory the DoJ could pursue federal criminal charges which may include espionage, treason, and many other serious charges.

Not exact matches

The suit alleges that the law gives the Ugandans standing to sue Lively for his activities, which had a crucial nexus in the U.S. and therefore come under federal courts» jurisdiction; it also charges that Lively not only advocated bad ideas in an abstract context but helped various Ugandans conceive and manage a campaign of persecution, thus involving himself in a joint criminal enterprise.

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).

And he narrowly avoided criminal charges in parallel state and federal investigations into his fundraising practices — a fact on which Malliotakis and others sought to capitalize.

They are prosecuted under provincial and federal legislations like the Traffic Safety Act, Gaming and Liquor Act, Fisheries Act, Aeronautics Act, Fair Trade Act, and numerous other acts and regulations unlike criminal charges which are laid under the Criminal Code of Canada or the Drugs and Substancriminal charges which are laid under the Criminal Code of Canada or the Drugs and SubstanCriminal Code of Canada or the Drugs and Substances Act.

Don Morgan, Saskatchewan Attorney General, Canada, allows Polygamy, which is against Federal Criminal code law (he does not report his own alleged Criminal code violation of the law, which wouled be to assist in the creation of Polygamous relationships, consenting for unwilling victims etc.) to RCMP): Two members of a Mormon splinter group were charged recently with practicing Polygamy in Bountiful, British Columbia, Canada.

Sentencing range enhancements based on facts alleged in charges of which a defendant has been acquitted («acquitted conduct») have long been among the most controversial features of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, in part because acquitted conduct enhancements effectively nullify the jury's determination in a criminal case.

The US Justice Department, which announced the terms of this resolution, said that Ranbaxy also pleaded guilty to criminal charges involving federal drug safety violations.

In the past several years the medical profession has been the target of both Federal and State prosecutors and the threat of losing everything — not just a criminal charge which could result in only probation — but also a doctor's livelihood, is a daunting challenge.

If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution... The tendency of those who execute the criminal laws of the country to obtain conviction by means of unlawful seizures and enforced confessions, the latter often obtained after subjecting accused persons to unwarranted practices destructive of rights secured by the Federal Constitution, should find no sanction in the judgments of the courts which are charged at all times with the support of the Constitution and to which people of all conditions have a right to appeal for the maintenance of such fundamental rights.