Sentences with phrase «mafia state»

And for the ones touting Usmanov think twice: first of all this guy was jailed for fraud back in 1980 when the law was law and Uzbeks were «quick» to reverse the justice act in 2000 by the mafia state today.

He added: «In the United States, President Trump would like to establish a mafia state, but he can't, because the Constitution, other institutions, and a vibrant civil society won't allow it.»

Not exact matches

«The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 spawned thousands of powerful crime gangs — collectively known as the Russian mafia — and some of these groups, officials warn, are establishing bases among emigre communities in the United States, particularly in South Brooklyn.»

,» of course it's a state but also it's a kind of a mafia syndicate that uses mafia methods to snuff out its enemies and to get its way both inside its borders and outside its borders.

Greece's citizens not unreasonably regard the State as akin to a mafia organization which they are trying to avoid as much as possible (unless it promises them free goodies to buy their votes — they do of course gladly accept those).

Police investigate whether four people arrested over a drug bust in the state's central west have links to the Italian mafia.

Since the unveiling a year ago, Roma have made some slow progress on the new facility The mafia corruption scandal at city hall played in their favor, neutralizing their opponents on the council and empowering Mayor Ignazio Marino, a surgeon who studied in the United States and whose outsider status in Roman politics kept him clear of the dirty business.

Let them go to Man U, PSG, Chelsea and the other clubs owned by states where slavery is allowed or Russian with mafia money.

The ethics commission's first meeting comes on the same day that State Senator Carl Kruger pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to felony charges, for accepting more than a million dollars in bribes to maintain what prosecutors called a lavish lifestyle, including a large house owned by a former mafia boss and a Bentley automobile.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

But while he repeatedly said he simply did not know much about a New York Times report alleging the governor had interfered with the commission's work before disbanding it — which led to a week of coverage in papers and on television throughout the state — the mayor was apparently keenly aware of comments Mr. Astorino made in response to the story, comparing Mr. Cuomo to a mafia boss.

Earlier this week a group of Senators from some of the states that are victims of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) decided to fight back against the ethanol mafia.

-- «that best meets the needs of child victims and their nonoffending family members» is the false guise to hide the debauchery and fraud behind, create discrimination and favor, removing the balance and blindfold from the judiciary, while giving them mafia like motivation and purpose to defraud both sides of the family for gain ill - gotten from the State and Feds without accountability... ultimate power corrupts ultimately reigns again.