Sentences with phrase «illegal sale of»

The antiabortion group Center for Medical Progress has orchestrated a propaganda campaign accusing the nation's largest provider of abortions of profiting from the illegal sale of fetal tissue, a charge refuted by Planned Parenthood.

Cease & desist orders, issued by regulators in Texas and North Carolina accuse BitConnect of engaging in the illegal sale of unregistered securities.

Daleiden is the founder of the pro-life Center for Medical Progress who made a series of undercover videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood clinic employees discussing the illegal sale of tissue from aborted fetuses.

However, with each new discovery, comes the risk of looting and illegal sale of these priceless cultural artifacts.

Cuomo announced a new series of aggressive enforcement actions in 2016 to combat the illegal sale of K2 and other synthetic cannabinoids, according to a press release Monday from the governor's office.

He said the arrests were part of a joint federal and state enforcement effort to combat the illegal sale of K2 in New York.

The bill would also increase penalties for the illegal sale of guns.

Following a police raid Wednesday on five Brooklyn bodegas after a wave of suspected overdoses of synthetic marijuana, Cuomo today announced stepped - up enforcement efforts to crack down on the illegal sale of the drug known as K2.

«The illegal sale of marijuana can not and will not be tolerated in New York State, but data consistently show that recreational users of marijuana pose little to no threat to public safety,» Cuomo wrote.

Senator Klein's proposed legislation would better equip law enforcement and district attorneys in New York with the tools they need to prosecute and enforce the illegal sale of synthetic marijuana.

Alf Hitchcock, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, added: «For some time, police forces have been working closely with Trading Standards to address the illegal sale of knives to young people.

Wednesday Questions — Latest assessment of the success of government economic policie; uninsured vehicles in regular use on UK roads; addressing the increase in elephant poaching and the illegal sale of ivory to the Far East.

Now, however, two of the individuals who made the videos are facing criminal charges, including tampering with government records and one related to soliciting the illegal sale of human organs.

After two lower court decisions blocked the release of an undercover video that allegedly shows abortion providers engaging in illegal sale of aborted baby tissue, the Supreme Court has killed...

Meenavalli was initially named as a defendant in the original SEC complaint but was able to prove to the court that neither he, nor the company, benefited from the alleged illegal sale of shares.

BOORSTIN: Questions were n`t as limited to issues of data and privacy with a number of committee members pressing Zuckerberg on concerns of content censorship, fake news, as well as the illegal sale of opioids on the platform.

Nonetheless, he may be deemed among those responsible if the SEC decides the firms engaged in the illegal sale of securities.

The SEC has said ICOs — in which companies sell digital tokens in order to raise startup capital — could constitute an illegal sale of securities.

Planned Parenthood has been mired in controversy since last summer, when videos from an anti-abortion group surfaced alleging the organization engaged in the illegal sale of fetal tissue from abortions.

The regulator said https://bit.ly/2qUJYff it had issued 40 warning letters to retailers, including multiple 7 - Eleven stores, for violations regarding illegal sales of Juul products, after uncovering violations through compliance checks since the beginning of March.

Juul in a statement said it agreed «with the FDA that illegal sales of our product to minors is unacceptable» and would announce «more aggressive plans» regarding the violations in the coming days.

Amazon is profiting from illegal sales of my ISSUED US patent and they refuse to respond or divulge infringing seller identifying info.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Wednesday new policies implemented by social media sites Facebook and Instagram that are intended to limit illegal sales of firearms through the sites.

Akande stated this while reacting to claims that some politicians were involved in illegal sales of forms to applicants of the N - Power programme.

The Lagos State High Court in Igbosere has fixed November 10 to rule on the murder and illegal sales of firearms charges against billionaire kidnapper, hukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans.

In 2006, The Department of Health estimated that New York State was losing as much as $ 550 million in taxes through the illegal sales of untaxed cigarettes.

If the authors are not allowed to sell their books legally, EBay and PayPal should most certainly not be able to profit directly and indirectly from the illegal sales of the same books on EBay.

Along with other substances, Seth Adams has defended individuals charged with CDS crimes involving possession of marijuana, illegal sales of prescription drugs, cocaine trafficking and manufacture of methamphetamine.

Again, pro-pot proponents like to compare pot to alcohol or tobbacco, fair enough, but under the Excise Act, 2001 anyone who makes illegal sales of tobacco and alcohol is subject to possible imprisonment, and you'd better believe that if people were openly selling cigarettes and booze without a license, you can be sure they would be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law (indeed provincial authorities are quite aggressive in prosecuting such persons).

Not exact matches

Last year, the world's largest dietary supplement maker, GNC Holdings Inc, agreed to pay $ 2.25 million to avoid federal prosecution over its alleged sale of illegal pills and powders.

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

The cryptocurrency's creation in 2014 was «probably an illegal securities sale» in the eyes of some regulators, the Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter.

The cryptocurrency's creation in 2014 was «probably an illegal securities sale» in the eyes of some regulators, the Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

Lift CEO Matei Olaru said he believes its accounts were targeted in connection with the U.S. tech giants» policies barring promotion of the sale of illegal, prescription or recreational drugs, even though medical marijuana is legal in Canada and recreational pot will soon follow suit.

In his letter, Dimon defended Mexico as well as NAFTA and even refuted some of the President's arguments regarding illegal immigration into the U.S. «Mexico is a long - standing peaceful neighbor, and it is wholly in our country's interest that Mexico be a prosperous nation,» Dimon wrote, noting that J.P. Morgan has business in Mexico worth $ 400 million in sales.

Although law enforcement has largely turned a blind eye to most dispensaries, the fact remains: the sale of marijuana, for any use, is considered illegal by the federal government.

Three attorneys general want Google to change the way its search engine displays results, accusing the company of helping facilitate the sale of illegal goods.

Wells Fargo chairman and CEO John Stumpf testified Tuesday in front of the Senate Banking Committee about the bank's allegedly illegal sales practices.

Public confusion over the retail sale of medicinal and recreational cannabis runs high, likely due to the confluence of inconsistent law enforcement and the perception that if so many such businesses exist surely they could not be illegal.

The creation of cryptocurrency itself is being questioned as «probably an illegal securities sale,» as per Wall Street Journal report, which quotes people familiar with the matter.

In a new report by Interpol, the international policing agency is claiming that it has found evidence of illegal wildlife products being offered for sale on the darknet.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Token sales are «illegal and disruptive to economic and financial stability» — People's Bank of China, Sept. 4, 2017

However, in the eyes of some regulators, the platform's creation in 2014 was «probably an illegal securities sale,» according to the WSJ report.

In short, it is illegal to advertise the sale of stock.»

Its legal and illegal cannabis market did around $ 8 billion in sales in 2016 - with 75 % of that from illegal sales.

This sales growth is a big reason why investors have jumped into marijuana stocks despite the risks of the drug remaining federally illegal.

Not long after the news of a T - 12 halt, the SEC said it has obtained a court order giving them access to freeze more than $ 27 million in trading proceeds from allegedly illegal distributions and sales of restricted shares of Longfin stock involving its CEO and three other individuals.

(The sale of cattle for slaughter was declared illegal in most of India this spring, until the Supreme Court suspended the ban.)