Sentences with phrase «illegal source of»

But it's only when DeMarco gets a tip on the likely illegal source of some of Callahan's financing that things get deadly.

Represented a client in federal jury trial against industrial valve counterfeiters involving the illegal sourcing of valves from Iraq.

Not exact matches

Sources described as «close to» the agency apparently said that the move comes in response to concerns over money laundering and other possible illegal uses of the cryptocurrencies.

The paramount crime issue in the source zone is the production of illicit narcotics, followed by money laundering, alien smuggling, illegal weapons trafficking, and human trafficking.

Although some of its supporters are optimistic about the potential for this new kind of open - source e-money, the venture is fighting a massive uphill battle: for one thing, Bitcoin may actually turn out to be illegal.

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.

Running an ICO of course, could have helped boost this campaign and give Cambridge Analytica an instant source of income which would have accelerated their seemingly illegal, data mining process.

Reports from state - owned media sources in China on January 19, 2018, indicate that a circular, titled «Notice Concerning the Self - examination and Rectification of Providing Payment Services for Illegal Virtual Currency Transactions,» was released online.

Further, depending on the source of the $ 130,000 paid to Clifford, Mr. Trump and his campaign may have received an illegal campaign contribution.

The move would help the iPhone - maker not only save many billions of dollars in the long term but also be more transparent about how the metal is sourced, as there have been concerns about illegal mining operations and the use of child labor.

If they are illegal then there is the constant fear of living as an «outlaw» afraid to report abuses, even rape or other crimes, to the authorities, but then the same fears arise for drug users or alcoholics; the authorities are not perceived as being sympathetic to someone who needs to «shoot - up» or drink regularly, whose only source of income is to sell drugs or their bodies.

Although the policy game is a major source of illegal gambling profit, betting on sports is, perhaps, the largest in revenue and public interest.

This isn't about privileged women saying «breast is best» (a woman's choice how to feed her child is her own)-- it is about misleading, unethical, and in some cases illegal marketing practices, illegally sourcing milk from a horrible dictator, and the use of slave labor.

These include the use of child labour, sourcing chocolate from cacao farms which use slave labour, stealing rural water resources in the United States, marketing formula with questionable and sometimes outright illegal claims, etc etc..

Illegal mining has caused widespread environmental degradation and the pollution of key freshwater sources in the Eastern, Western and Ashanti regions.

As an astute lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know of the latter enactment, by declaring the court of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an end for ever to the attempts of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source of tyranny in the case of the then star chamber.

As government struggles to deal with the age - old menace of illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, various reports from the Water Resources Commission and the Water Research Institute show the practice may soon leave Ghanaians without proper sources of drinking water.

Bloomberg is set to endorse Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Tom Barrett, who's also the mayor of Milwaukee and is part of the New York City chief executive's Mayors Against Illegal Guns group sources confirm.

The Guardian journalist Nick Davies described commissions from the News of the World as the «golden source» of income for Rees» «empire of corruption», which involved a network of contacts with corrupt police officers and a pattern of illegal behaviour extending far beyond phone hacking.

ALBANY — The state is investigating at least 11 possible contaminated or illegal dumping sites in the Hoosick Falls area, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the probe.

«DEC is actively investigating multiple potential sources of illegal dumping in the Hoosick Falls area and the investigation is ongoing,» she said in a statement.

In a more extensive use of a wiretap by Spota's office, the federal investigators are seeking to determine if information gleaned on a wiretap on Macedonio was used only to convict Macedonio of drug possession, while other information involving possible fraud by Macedonio, political corruption in the county and possible illegal activities by a member of Spota's staff, was ignored, sources said.

With limited sources of reliable information and a constant stream of new arrivals, it is also a place which runs on received wisdom, and the received wisdom remains that illegal entry to the UK is the only way to begin the asylum process.

News sources has implicated Dankwa Institute and Capt Koda as agents in the illegal importation of the three South African combatants to train the body guards and Photographer of Nana Akufo - Addo in how to throw bombs and how to to use riffles.

A police source told DAILY GUIDE that when the security agents got to the site, the illegal miners took to their heels, but the law enforcers managed to grab 26 of them on the spot, while the other 11 were arrested at Akyem Osenase in a different operation on the same day.

Turkey using as an excuse the treaty of guarantee, invaded, occupied and still has under its control a part of a foreign Sovereign Nation (Republic of Cyprus) The article of wikipedia is relatively un-biased and has good sources on the legitimacy of this military invasion The main reason this act was an illegal invasion was that the treaty...

The NYPD called in the feds on that case, which eventually led to Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg — who are suspected of giving gifts to high - ranking cops as part of an illegal quid pro quo, according to sources.

Unsurprisingly, as another source of cash, school officials also made it clear they are eyeing the unprecedented $ 5.1 billion windfall the state has collected from major New York - based banks that have admitted to engaging in illegal foreign transactions.

General News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: citinewsroom.com Affected residents around Madina REDCO flat attempt to rebuild despite threats from the Assembly A day after a joint task - force of police and officials from the LaNkwantanangMadina Municipal Assembly (LANMA) demolished some illegal buildings around the Madina REDCO flat; the unperturbed affected residents have begun rebuilding their structures.

To do this, it sounds like he had good Whitehall source, who was able to provide him with true information about the employment of thousands of illegal immigrants in Whitehall and one in parliament, an internal ministerial letter about the dangers of rising crime caused by the recession and a list of potential Labour rebel MPs over the anti terror laws.

Walsh's presence at the illegal card game led to an investigation by the Suffolk Police Department and District Attorney Spota, according to a source informed of the investigations.

Speaking with the newspaper, a source from the EFCC explained that based on the vetting, the commission is insisting that all those implicated so far must refund the «illegal disbursement» of cash or face trial.

Reductions in biodiversity from illegal wildlife trade can have other substantial negative human health impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.

They sometimes cover up the massive production of the illegal small coal miners to conceal income from tax sources.

Senior author Anthony Fabio, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health, added that the work «is an important step in developing multi-disciplinary tools to quickly identify current and future sources of new drugs that enter the illegal market.»

Illegal logging and slash - and - burn practices to clear land for farming — two major sources of income for impoverished Malagasy — have destroyed most of the country's native vegetation, including 90 % of its original forests.

And some nations have over - or underreported catches for political reasons, or ignored illegal landings, further complicating efforts to understand how fish stocks — a key source of protein — are faring.

The MFA relies on open source data from the AIS which, while not suitable for a systematic control of potentially illegal fishing, is more accessible and offers new possibilities for research.

And in the regions where they are being introduced, the illegal trade represents a likely source of new alien species to disrupt the local ecosystems and, in the case of venomous snakes, pose a potential threat to humans.»

The sale of unpasteurised raw milk (sourced straight from the cow's udder) is illegal in Australia because of hygiene concerns.

Set in the mid-1980s, it builds a thriller - like story of a woman trying to help her friend obtain a dangerous illegal abortion — yet it's a thriller so deliberate that its very slowness and lack of movement becomes a major source of tension.

AFT's dark (and illegal) money groups got dinged to the tune of $ 30,000 for «failure to organize as a PAC, failure to disclose finance activity accurately, contributions made in a manner intended to disguise the true source of the contributions, receipt of contributions not raised in accordance with campaign law, and use of wire transfers.»

The Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act identify a number of factors that are illegal to use in evaluating a prospective applicant's qualifications: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age (provided the applicant has the legal capacity to contract), source of income derived from public assistance, handicap, familial status (families with dependents under age 18).

One of Morrison's companies just saw its main source of revenue ruled illegal and that's fine by him.

«There is not much being done about the source of all these unwanted animals, such as the reproduction of feral animals, or the pet abandonment issue, or illegal puppy mills.

Even those of us in the know are susceptible to the emotional testimony offered by those who describe conditions at unlicensed, illegal breeding facilities only to misleadingly call for a ban on the sale of animals from pet stores, which are required to obtain their animals from USDA - licensed and inspected sources.

Dan is a member of the international Rust Crew charged with infiltrating robot defended Japan, and identifying the source of an illegal operation creating horrifically lifelike robots called «Hollow Children».

In point of fact, every painting in the show is of content deemed illegal in the PRC, with the source images taken from websites currently blocked in the PRC, made by workers in the PRC.

The trends on other sources of stress for polar bears seem to be in encouraging directions, with Russia introducing more control on hunting (illegal and legal) and research on potentially harmful industrial chemicals showing declines.

Constantly outgunned by poachers» high - tech helicopters, machine guns, night - vision binoculars, bullet - proof vests and insane arsenal in the illegal trade of «medicinal» rhino horns that are worth more than gold, one pissed - off game manager outside of Johannesburg, South Africa wants to do the unthinkable: inject poison into horns as a deadly warning to would - be poachers and the consumers who would buy them.According to South Africa's The Times, Ed Hern, owner of the Lion and Rhino Park outside of Johannesburg, says injecting poison into rhino's horns will protect them from poachers and kill the demand for rhino horn right at the source, which is prized as a medicinal ingredient in Asian medicine.