Sentences with phrase «into organized crime»

Dennis was the Creative Director for The Mob Museum: National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, a $ 43 million project in downtown Las Vegas, designed to attract new audiences to the city core, housed in the historic federal courthouse where the Kefauver Hearings into organized crime were held.

Ozark was one of the most streamed shows of the summer, and its plot focusing on suburbanites forced into organized crime probably did well with fans of Breaking Bad.

Secondly, it would cut into organized crime, which is the major profiteer of illegal gambling today.

Not exact matches

(Even worse, the Fonds and its sponsor union were linked to organized crime last year in evidence presented to the Charbonneau inquiry into corruption in Quebec's construction industry.)

The migration «problem» in Italy feeds into many other endemic issues in Italy — as well as highlighting the problem of organized crime, the country's north - south divide.

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.

Target is happy because it has the money in the form of Bitcoin, which it can immediately turn into dollars if it wants, and it paid no or very low payment processing fees; you are happy because there is no way for hackers to steal any of your personal information; and organized crime is unhappy.

We see the allure of organized crime for Henry Hill as he's ushered past the line into the best seat in the house of the Copacabana nightclub in Goodfellas.

The educational emergency in Mexico, broken families, corruption and inefficiency in the distribution of the nation's resources, injustices in international trade that mean fewer jobs, and those poor - paying, for Mexican youth — all these contribute to organized crime and to common crime, but it is still true that every boy born into poverty is a potential saint as well as a potential assassin.

As discussed here in the Monkey Cage, the state historically had abandoned many of these areas — which evolved into strategic zones for transnational organized crime, especially the illegal drug trade.

Even though the punishment for theft in areas under Islamic State control is amputation, a criminal past can be a valued asset, Mr. Sarfo said, «especially if they know you have ties to organized crime and they know you can get fake IDs, or they know you have contact men in Europe who can smuggle you into the European Union.»

But once my law office (I was an organized - crime prosecutor at the time) moved into a new building in Miami, something strange started happening.

As Internet romance has become more accepted in society — and grown into a more than $ 2 billion market — fraudsters have found ways to monetize the search for a partner, with organized crime rings around the globe now getting in on the action.

The following year, he traveled into the realm of slick international caper with a supporting role in The Thomas Crown Affair, and then returned to his New York roots to portray the leader of organized crime in the Bronx in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam.

White, Exley, and Vincennes find themselves drawn into a tangled and sticky web of violence and betrayal following a multiple murder at a coffee shop that is believed to be part of an effort by Mickey Cohen (Paul Guilfoyle) to consolidate his hold on organized crime in L.A..

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

Inspired by a real life heist in London, «Snatch,» centers on a group of twenty - something, up and coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high - stakes world of organized crime.

Its themes of juggling family and work also relate to that celebrated contemporary, but the fact that the work involves organized crime seeping into a legitimate business recalls The Godfather, as do some of its boldest beats.

Informed by a real life gold bullion heist in London, the show centers on a group of twenty - something, up and coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high - stakes world of organized crime.

In «Tokyo Knights» (1961), a college student takes over the family business in the field of organized crime, while «The Man with a Shotgun» (1961) marks Suzuki's first entry into the territory of the «borderless» Japanese Western.

It follows the son of a police captain as he falls into a life of organized crime.

Starring two of the hottest stars in Francophone cinema, Matthias Schoenaerts, who you may have seen in The Drop, and Adèle Exarchopoulos, the underused young star of the epic queer drama Blue is the Warmest Colour, it's a wild descent into a world of organized crime, race car driving and, in the context of all of the madness, timid and strange phobias.

«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.

In the hands of a better director (say maybe Nicholas Winding Refn who directed Bronson), Legend could have been organized into a fascinating crime film, all the ingredients are there but Brian Helgeland (Paycheck, A Knights Tale) can not seem to get everything in order.

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.

There are a lot of big, attention - getting films in 2012, and one that I forget about once in a while is Gangster Squad, the film in which Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer follows the efforts of a squad of LA cops (Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie) to stop the incursion of organized crime into LA, led by Sean Penn as famed mob boss Mickey Cohen.

Illegal immigration and the racism attendant to it, social groups morphing into organized hate groups, the disintegration of traditional bonds, organized crime, white slavery — all of it is tossed into a loud, anxious bundle and presented as a confused overview of the hell of modern life.

Snatch «will carry the spirit» of the film and feature all new characters; inspired by a real life London heist, it «centers on a group of twenty - something, up - and - coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high - stakes world of organized crime.

As a young man, he had fallen into a life of organized crime and drug dealing, and been incarcerated multiple times.

When Conor discovers that the power hungry Marshall Hugo Bonvilain is organizing a military coup, the king is murdered and Conor is blamed for the crime and thrown into prison.

Working in the shadows, the crew follows their fire - conjuring leader, Madison, as they descend further and further into the world 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.

It is the intriguing story of Vito Scaletta, who along with his childhood friend, Joe, will descend into the world of organized crime.

2K has officially revealed Mafia III, the next installment in the popular series known for immersing players into a world of organized crime through rich...

2K has officially revealed Mafia III, the next installment in the popular series known for immersing players into a world of organized crime through rich narrative storytelling and beautifully crafted game worlds.

Live out your fantasy of being a felon in the over-the-top, top - view game where the story unravels as you pick up various organized crime goals and missions and enter into the deep seedy underbelly of the criminal world right in the palm of your hand.

Peter Coffin is one of a group of artists who have been slowly moving into Masten Lake, which was originally a Jewish settlement and then a rumored organized - crime enclave.

The driving factor behind these troubling figures, reports the UN, lies in the burgeoning illicit wildlife trade, once a localized market that is increasingly grown into a highly - profitable network of organized crime — on par with the drug and arms trade.

The visit to Iceland was thus linked to that process; accession of the Icelandic club would subsequently ferment the spread of organized crime in Iceland; and the relevant information had been gathered specifically on that individual's planned entry into Iceland (ibid.).

Instead, they delivered their citizens into the seemingly permanent evil of organized crime, still with us today, even though the Act was later repealed.

Mr. Harel: The insinuation of organized crime into the legal economy is nothing new, Senator Sinclair.

During his tenure with the Attorney General, Mr. Levy was responsible for the investigation and trial of organized crime and corruption matters with statewide and national significance, including investigations into allegations of voter suppression in the 1993 gubernatorial election and the «computer gate» investigation involving the infiltration of the New Jersey Assembly Democratic staff's computer system.

«The government must do everything possible to prevent organized crime being introduced into the legal economy.»

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.

Deteriorating economic conditions during the 1970s led to recurrent violence as rival gangs affiliated with the major political parties evolved into powerful organized crime networks involved in international drug smuggling and money laundering.

Companions in Crime organizes the extensive literature on peer influence and group delinquency into a coherent form for the first time.

Corporal Brent Hill of the Ontario Division of RCMP's National Chemical Diversion Program says, «Where there is easy illegal profit to be made, there is organized crime, and organized crime is gaining a steady foothold into the clandestine lab business.

The Public, the Feds, the Cities and Municipalities will no longer have ease of access to all the information for comparable sales, taxation and to keep an eye on the fraud related practices that organized crime migrates into.