Sentences with phrase «level criminal charges against»

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Daiichi Sankyo's press release comes in the wake not only of Ranbaxy's highly unusual criminal guilty plea and $ 500 million in fines and penalties — the largest ever against a generic - drug maker — but also a lengthy Fortune article that exposed for the first time the depth and extent of the fraud charges leveled at the company and the knowledge of senior company executives.

But Mr. Silver's defense attorney Steven Molo said the government simply disapproved of the entirely legal fact that Mr. Silver and other state lawmakers can hold outside employment and, instead of trying to change such laws — which he said will present «inherent conflicts of interest» — the government was «leveling false criminal charges against one of the senior legislative officers, senior government officials in this state.»

Federal prosecutors Thursday leveled public - corruption charges against eight individuals including Cuomo's former right - hand man, Joe Percoco, stemming from what was described as «two overlapping criminal schemes.»

The California criminal charges arise from citations and fines that the state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health leveled against U.C.L.A. in May 2009 for «serious» violations, among them failing to make timely corrections of unsafe conditions or to provide required training and personal protective gear.

«The appellant maintains that, by its nature, a tax on criminal defence legal fees will, at some level, be prohibitive or at the very least act as an impediment to or will interfere with the right to counsel since the additional cost of the tax to an accused will interfere with the financial resources available to mount a defence to the charges brought against him or her,» wrote Tax Court of Canada Justice Brent Paris, summing up the firm's case.