Sentences with phrase «mafia ties»

It didn't take long for new developments to surface about the Italian Mafia infiltrating the renewable energy industry: Police officers have arrested a renewable energy exec and seized 1.5 billion euros worth of assets, because of alleged mafia ties.

From its Dutch and German roots in the 17th through the 19th centuries to its mafia ties in the»20s, learn about the top 12 secrets of the East Village in NYC.

Releasing solely for the Xbox 360 and PS3, the consoles with grunt enough to deliver its tale of mafia ties undone by a mysterious malevolence that gives the game its title.

Marco Abiatti — a wealthy businessman with mafia ties turned right - wing politician, has staged an early evening event near Sapienza's beach.

Only once investigators have looked into dormant criminal connections and nonexistent Turkish mafia ties do they realize Katja was correct.

A Queens contractor on the hook for defrauding the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey allegedly hid mafia ties in order...

Police are now asking for the public's help in tracking down Yves Denis, 35, Denis Lefebvre, 53, and Serge Pomerleau, 49 — all accused of mafia ties — after the Saturday night jailbreak in Quebec province.

Not exact matches

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 when one of them falls for a local beauty with ties to their mafia contact, things get complicated and deadly very quickly.

The plan is for Bob to assume the identity of a «legitimate» businessman with ties to the mafia (not too difficult when his actual family was involved), establish a money - laundering relationship with the cartel, and work his way up through Escobar's underlings until he gets to the boss.

Triple 9 kicks things into high gear from the get go with a group of five men (Paul, Reedus, Mackie, Ejiofor, and Collins) pulling off the heist, each one having their own role in the job, as they steal a safe deposit box that has ties to the Russian mafia.

The mafia occasionally used Double Eagles for hits and those two ties led to the assassinations.

As soon as this happens Tom is forever tied to the mafia and then to the Eagles.

Back when 20 % of Pakistan was underwater, I wrote about the influence of deforestation on the flooding — deforestation caused in no small part by illegal logging at the hands of the so - called timber mafia, a group with direct ties to the Taliban.

Altaf Nazerali, the plaintiff in Supreme Court of British Columbia decision Nazerali v. Mitchell, discovered a number of articles about him on a website, Deep Capture, including allegations of arms trading, ties to the Iranian regime, and that he was part of a criminal enterprise with ties to the Italian and Russian mafias and Colombian drug cartels.