Sentences with phrase «from organized crime»

For a while I thought the sentence in brackets said» (Recently retired from organized crime)» I am just being playful with you of course.

It targeted three spheres: reducing violence from political parties and elections, reducing violence by gangs, youth, and the state in marginalized communities, and reducing violence from organized crime.

Canada's implementation of the Cannabis Act is expected to decrease availability of cannabis to minors and remove a key revenue stream from organized crime.

Egbert defended a roster of notorious clients who ranged from organized crime leaders to top politicians and judges.

Increasing threats from organized crime and the presence of unregulated markets have resulted in a «highly significant correlation» between large - scale domestic ivory markets in Asia and Africa and poor law enforcement, the report suggests.

A former reporter and bureau chief for broadcast outlets and magazines, Truman Lewis has covered presidential campaigns, state politics and stories ranging from organized crime to environmental protection.

Not exact matches

InSight Crime spoke with Guadalupe Correa - Cabrera, the author of the 2017 book «Los Zetas Inc.,» to discuss the genealogy of the Zetas, how they rose and fell from power, and where the group stands today in the context of Mexican organized cCrime spoke with Guadalupe Correa - Cabrera, the author of the 2017 book «Los Zetas Inc.,» to discuss the genealogy of the Zetas, how they rose and fell from power, and where the group stands today in the context of Mexican organized crimecrime.

«This Petrov probe could change the narrative of Putin in the West — from being a Stalinist tyrant defending the interests of his country to being a product of gangster Petersburg who united authorities with organized crime,» Stanislav Belkovsky, a Kremlin adviser during Putin's first term who consults at Moscow's Institute for National Strategy, told Bloomberg.

The Vault, an FBI reading room of more than 6,700 documents, contains details of investigations into Marilyn Monroe, Dick Clark, Joe Paterno, Steve Jobs, and many more people famous for everything from music and movies to organized crime.

In today's environment, there are an abundance of well - funded and sophisticated hacking groups out there, many with nation - state or organized crime affiliations and interests, who are looking for any way possible to defraud or steal information from American business interests.

«If we substitute a tax on marijuana cigarettes equal to the difference between the local production cost and the street price people currently pay — that is, transfer the revenue from the current producers and marketers (many of whom work with organized crime) to the government, leaving all other marketing and transportation issues aside we would have revenue of (say) $ 7 per [unit].

The «modern technology services» discussed in the report point to cryptocurrencies and their usage to launder money derived from the illicit trade of firearms, drugs, human trafficking, and other organized crime.

The Meese report's conclusions, based on information from law enforcement agencies (who presumably know), tell us that it is too simple to see organized crime (in the sense of the Mafia) at the heart of porn, though there may indeed be payoffs, protection and other such connections involved.

These territories are also home to numerous groups involved the drug trade and other transnational organized crime, including right - wing groups that evolved from paramilitary groups demobilized between 2003 and 2006.

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.

It alleges that Percoco actually took inspiration from the TV show about organized crime, choosing to use the word «ziti» as a code word when demanding bribe payments and, according to the complaint, saying at times, «keep the ziti flowing,» and «don't tip over the ziti wagon.»

According to Singas, her office's review has already found an unspecified contractor with ties to organized crime, a contractor barred from doing government business in another jurisdiction and a convicted felon with a bankruptcy.

It alleges that Percoco actually took inspiration from the TV show about organized crime, using the word «ziti» as a code word when demanding bribe payments and saying at times, «keep the ziti flowing,» and «don't tip over the ziti wagon.»

Looper It's 2042, and Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) is living the good life as a «looper» — a high - paid hit man for an organized crime outfit from the future that has harnessed the power of time travel to dispose of its enemies.

Tempting profits from large - scale sand trade spawns organized crime and international conflict.

It wouldn't be hard to use China as a jumping - off point if you're in organized crime or another nation state looking to cause some saber rattling between China and the U.S.» Much of the U.S.'s current tension with China comes from Google's claims that recent hacker attempts to steal Gmail user passwords appeared to have originated from China.

Sweden is on its way to becoming the world's first cashless society, thanks to the country's embrace of IT, as well as a crackdown on organized crime and terror, according to a study from Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Ministries, the companies involved in the decontamination and decommissioning work, and police have set up a task force to eradicate organized crime from the nuclear clean - up project.

IGI's two extensive reports — which examine socioeconomic impact and ways to eliminate organized crime in casino management — offer recommendations gleaned from the Nevada's own history.

Jul 20, 2017 · Modern online romance scams are premeditated, organized crimes that steal millions — potentially billions — of dollars from vulnerable, lonely people...

Referred to as flash robs, flash mob robberies, or flash robberies by the media, crimes organized by teenage youth using social media rose to international Web service for saving flash or video files from Youtube, Vimeo and social networks to your computer.

There's a lot to do in this game from playing pachinko, visiting hostess clubs, and beating up punks to participating in the intrigue of organized crime.

From there, Molly — provocatively costumed to intimidating effect — takes over, upgrades the client list and unwittingly gets mixed up with organized crime.

The kill - or - be-killed world of organized crime is the focus of this hard - hitting exposé from the Oscar - nominated writing team of Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene.

It sprawls across genres, it tackles everything from prohibition to women's voting rights, worker safety to unionism, police corruption to organized crime, and it showcases slices of our cinematic history that just don't get seen outside of film archives and «educational» screenings.

From Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Terence Winter and Academy Award - winning director Martin Scorsese, the series chronicles the life and times of Enoch «Nucky» Thompson (Golden Globe winner Steve Buscemi) as he undergoes vicious power struggles and deals with opportunistic rivals — including Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano and Al Capone — at a time when Prohibition proved to be a major catalyst in the rise of organized crime in America.

The film tells the story of Joe Coughlin (Affleck), a small time thief who works his way up the ranks of organized crime after moving from Boston to Florida.

«Capo» Nick Capelli emerges from prison into a world where his once strong mafia family — and the very fabric of Italian organized crime itself — has eroded, leaving him with no direction, but an uncontrollable need to try to recreate his past life.

Despite his reluctance, French magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) is transferred from the juvenile to the organized crime division in the middle of mob wars in Marseilles, France.

This highly entertaining film from an exceedingly assured Thai filmmaker takes the underworld of organized high school math cheating and transforms it into a nail - biting caper, with all the excitement and suspense of the best crime stories.

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.

Suffice it to say, Animal Kingdom is sublime from top to bottom; cobbling together a riveting and altogether powerful organized crime story that's as good as anything Scorsese and Coppola have ever done.

But long before this plot is hatched, Costello is positioning his own rat: Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), a loyal kid from the neighborhood who becomes a state trooper and wins an assignment to a special investigative unit on organized crime.

Due to their economic situation, most migrants do not have the resources to pay for their transportation, from 3,200 USD up to 6,500 USD depending on several facts such as distance, and the person they deal with (usually international 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.

Queenpin is the story of a young woman, who remains unnamed throughout, plucked from a two - bit nightclub where she's cooking the books for a pair of half - wits and placed under the wing of the powerful Gloria Denton, a big player in the world of organized crime.

A biography of the controversial fighter follows Liston from the mean streets, where he was a petty criminal, to the heavyweight championship and his life as a pawn of organized crime.

All the powers of international organized crime rings have entered into unholy alliances to steal that which is not theirs, to become that which they are not, and to steal as much as humanly possible from you and from the banks and credit card companies who provide the capital you need to live your life.

The organized crime operation had access to personal information from the application and the debt collector calls seemed legitimate to many who were victimized.

The prosecution and conviction of the NFL's Michael Vick for dog fighting shed light upon this underground crime that takes place anywhere from city alleys and basements to rural barns and garages, run by impromptu street fighters or highly organized rings.

From there on, American history would play a key role in shaping the newly named U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz as the Great Depression ushered in a new era of organized crime.

His calm unwavering demeanor was the driving force behind my adventure to uncover the ever growing corruption within the organized crime world that he belongs to, and I feel a couple times manlier after experiencing it from his prospective.

One cold December night, he gets handed a job befitting a newcomer to organized crime: go collect this measly 300 grand debt (That's in Yen, mind you... that would have been around $ 2,450 in 1988 or just shy of $ 5k today, adjusting for inflation) from this sad sack of a dude, and deliver the money to the loan shark waiting for it.

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.

«American Art Today: Faces and Figures,» The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (formerly The Art Museum at FIU), Florida International University, Miami, FL, January 17 — March 9, 2003 «The Harlem Renaissance and Its Legacy,» Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, January 18 — April 13, 2003 «A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago,» Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 15 — May 18, 2003; catalogue «Structures of Difference,» Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, February — April 13, 2003 «The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism,» Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, March 18 — June 8, 2003 «Visual Poetics: Art and the Word,» Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, April 25 — November 16, 2003; brochure «Visualizing Identity,» The Jack S Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, August 27, 2003 — January 4, 2004 «Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection,» Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, October 26, 2003 — January 1, 2004; catalogue «Skin Deep,» Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C., March 15 — April 26; brochure «Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self,» curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, December 12, 2003 — February 29, 2004; traveled to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2004; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 2005; catalogue «Supernova,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2003 «Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms,» White Columns, New York, NY, 2003; catalogue «Today's Man,» curated by John Connelly, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 «The Disembodied Spirit,» curated by Alison Ferris, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, 2003; catalogue «The Alumni Show,» curated by Nina Felshin, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2003; catalogue «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2003 «DL: The Down Low in Contemporary Art,» Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY, 2003 «The Paper Sculpture Show,» organized by ICI, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, 2003; traveled to Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston - Salem, NC; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA «An American Legacy: Art from the Studio Museum,» The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 2003 «Stranger in the Village,» Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2003 «On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau,» The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2003 «Family Ties,» curated by Trevor Fairbrother, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2003 «Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude (Toward and understanding of trans - generational dialogue as a gift economy),» curated by Bill Arning, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 2003 «American Art Today: Faces & Figures,» The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2003