Sentences with phrase «in criminal schemes»
Both films take the form of curdled dark comedies about raging misanthropes who abuse their positions of authority — or at least their power over small children, since drunken mall Santas and Chicago's public - school teachers both lack real power — to engage in criminal schemes.
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On Friday, prosecutors disclosed that Shirley L. Huntley, when she was a Democratic state senator from Queens, had secretly recorded conversations with seven elected officials and two other people after she was confronted by the F.B.I. and asked about her alleged participation in criminal schemes involving embezzlement and bribery.
«Peter Galbraith Kelly was involved in a criminal scheme to bribe one of the most powerful men in New York in exchange for favorable treatment for his energy company,» said U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in a statement.
Excited by the numerous possibilities that it offers, Max takes advantage of his newfound ability by getting revenge on a particularly rude customer (Method Man), only to get mixed up in a criminal scheme to redevelop the Lower East Side by a corrupt real estate mogul (Ellen Barkin).
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A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin - related Ponzi scheme.
As Vancouver Sun investigative reporter David Baines revealed in a series of articles, Eker has invited the likes of Milowe Brost, who is currently in prison awaiting trial over an alleged $ 400 - million Ponzi scheme in Alberta, convicted white - collar criminal Nick Thill, Michael Ruge, who was banned for life from dealing in securities by the BCSC, and Nick Lathigee, head of the failed Freedom Investment Club, to present at his «Millionaire School» events and received commissions for steering investors in their direction.
The suspected operator of the underground website Silk Road was convicted on Wednesday on narcotics and other criminal charges for his role in orchestrating a scheme that enabled around $ 200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins.
The other aspect of risk related to credit card processing is the increased numbers of data breaches from hacking, phishing, and other schemes where criminals have exploited vulnerabilities in the technology used to process credit cards.
Prosecutors in that high - profile probe allege that Scott Walker is at the center of a «criminal scheme» to illegally coordinate fundraising with Wisconsin Club for Growth and other nonprofit «dark money» groups during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections.»
In the grand scheme of things a felony assault is not as important as murders, criminal attempt murders, gang shooting and on and on.
The government's move towards a national ID cards scheme, and expansion of IT schemes in the health, welfare and criminal justice systems across the country also made it a pressing issue, he says.
The NYT tells the story of the 2011 bootlegging case that turned out to be the tip of a criminal scheme that within three years would be used as evidence in an unimaginably larger case, a federal corruption investigation that would ultimately reach deep into New York City's highest offices of power.
Following his 11 - day trial in Queens Criminal Court, the jury found Wills guilty of one count of a scheme to defraud, two counts of grand larceny and two counts of filing a false instrument.
But he said the 2016 Supreme Court McDonnell decision narrowing federal corruption laws — and the «difficulty in proving criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit» — made prosecuting inappropriate.
Court papers say the charges announced Thursday come from «two overlapping criminal schemes involving bribery, corruption, and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in State contracts and other official State benefits.»
A former Cuomo administration official is among those named in a criminal complaint by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that alleges kickback and bribery schemes carried out over several years.
Joe Percoco, once among the most powerful New York political figures, appeared in federal court today to face criminal charges stemming from a pair of alleged bribery schemes.
Shortly afterwards, the chair of the Criminal Bar Association announced that «we will not call for barristers to forgo work in opposition to the scheme», despite an internal survey finding 96 % of criminal law specialist barristers supported setting up pickeCriminal Bar Association announced that «we will not call for barristers to forgo work in opposition to the scheme», despite an internal survey finding 96 % of criminal law specialist barristers supported setting up pickecriminal law specialist barristers supported setting up picket lines.
Their sources say around 110 of the 150 extreme Islamist criminals in prison or on parole are proactively resisting attempts to persuade them away from such beliefs despite the government's «Contest» scheme which encourages offenders to choose a path of non violence.
New York Senate Leader Dean Skelos has been charged with extortion, conspiring to commit fraud, and soliciting bribes in a corruption scheme also involving his son Adam Skelos — making Mr. Skelos the second of Albany's famous «three men in a room» leadership to face criminal charges from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
These would extend a voluntary retirement scheme, require expulsion of peers convicted of criminal offences and those who do not not appear in the house.
Asked if he was suggesting that he would base his decision on the outcome of the two grand juries currently weighing whether to charge the mayor and / or his top political aides in two potential criminal schemes, Diaz Jr. quickly dismissed the suggestion.
The criminal prosecutions spawned by the CityTime case reached a quiet denouement when a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Carl Bell, a computer specialist at the center of the scheme, to three years» probation, showing leniency because he had given crucial help to investigators.
No criminal case was ever brought against Christie, but three key Christie allies were convicted for their role in shutting down lanes going onto the George Washington Bridge, causing a massive traffic jam for days in a political revenge scheme against a mayor who didn't support Christie's 2013 campaign.
A wire caught Macedonio and an associate discussing retaliation against a man they believed was a criminal informant and a scheme to swap patronage jobs in exchange for supporting a judicial candidate.
The complaint says that the men were involved in «two overlapping criminal schemes involving bribery, corruption and fraud in the awarding of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official state benefits.»
The former Speaker faces up to 12 years in prison for two criminal schemes, one of which involved real estate developers.
But the criminal complaint mentions that at least one other county chairman in addition to Savino was on board with the scheme.
Kaloyeros stepped down from the leadership of SUNY Polytechnic Institute in the fall after it was alleged in federal and state criminal complaints that he took part in a wide - ranging scheme that involved bid - rigging and bribery.
It's important to note that the Senate Democrats were the subject of a very serious criminal referral and remain under investigation for an illegal scheme they hatched with Mayor de Blasio to circumvent the state's campaign finance limits and steal the elections in 2014.»
A scheme to cut sentences for criminals who plead guilty was cancelled when Chris Grayling was installed in the Ministry of Justice as a gift to the Tory right.
Such an identity scheme will help prevent people already in the country using multiple identities for terrorist, criminal or other purposes.
A few weeks later, the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, released a criminal complaint charging Mr. Kaloyeros; Mr. Howe; Joseph Percoco, another former aide to the governor; and several upstate developers in a yearslong bribery scheme.
Criminal penalties, including jail terms, for employers who allow access to children and vulnerable people to those who have been barred by the scheme, come into force in October.
Making blacklisting a criminal offence and introducing a compensation scheme for blacklisted workers funded by the blacklisting companies would help in righting this wrong.
A 35 - page criminal complaint filed by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office lays out his alleged scheme where Silver «used the power and influence of his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income earned by Silver as a private lawyer.»
A former Cuomo Administration official is among those named in a criminal complaint by US Attorney Preet Bharara, and accused of carrying out kickback and bribery schemes over a period of several years.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara lashed out at the state's executive branch and the «show - the - money - culture in Albany» today as he unveiled a massive criminal complaint implicating some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's closest associates — but he refused to say what the governor's knowledge of the alleged scheme might be.
Regarding his decision not to prosecute, he said it's difficult to prove «criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit.»
They said the three took part in a «criminal scheme» to bypass state election laws that prohibit such coordination to help his campaign and those GOP state lawmakers also facing recalls.
A pilot scheme of mobile prisons in crime hotspots - where police could process, fingerprint and fine criminals without needing to leave their beat and return to a faraway police station - is the headline proposal in the Conservative Party's plans to allow the police to concentrate on policing.
In the criminal complaint filed against Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the New York State Assembly, prosecutors outlined what they called two central schemes that he used to obtain bribes and kickbacks.
In the criminal complaint, prosecutors outlined what they called two central schemes used by Sheldon Silver to obtain bribes and kickbacks.
In addition to federal criminal charges, Kaloyeros also is facing state corruption charges from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in three alleged bid - rigging schemeIn addition to federal criminal charges, Kaloyeros also is facing state corruption charges from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in three alleged bid - rigging schemein three alleged bid - rigging schemes.
Nick Clegg approves scheme to strip away British citizenship in move to stem Tory rebels» support of criminals» deportation
The analysis shows that in 2007, in Cardiff, where this collaborative approach was pioneered, the scheme lopped off almost # 7 million from health, societal, and criminal justice costs caused by violence.
These criminals also use stories of severe life circumstances, tragedies, deaths in the family, injuries to themselves, or other hardships to keep their victims concerned and involved in their schemes.
That's the foundation of many a classic heist or men - on - a-mission thriller and this film offers it as a kind of skewed redemption for a misfit band of former military men, most of them drummed out for conduct unbecoming (you know, petty schemes and such), many of them fallen into cons and criminal schemes and all of them adrift in the post-war culture.»
In this very busy story, Holmes and his brother Mycroft (Stephen Fry) hijack the honeymoon of Watson (Jude Law) and his bride (Kelly Reilly) to save them from Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), and then head to the continent with a gypsy fortune teller (Noomi Rapace) targeted by Moriarty's assassins to take on the master criminal's latest diabolical scheme.
«A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.A screenwriter is drawn into a dog kidnapping scheme by his oddball friends.»