Sentences with phrase «members of organized crime»

Teachers being led away in handcuffs and facing sentences usually reserved for members of organized crime families is as clear an indicator as any that high - stakes testing in this country has truly run amok.

In short order, he loses his job, his girlfriend, his apartment, gets mugged, has his nose broken, and arrives at a sympathetic buddy's apartment just in time to be intercepted and abducted by members of an organized crime fraternity who believe that he is, in fact, his conveniently absent buddy.

Green zeroed in on the use of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization, or RICO statute, put in place in 1970 to convict members of organized crime.

The rather straightforward reasoning was that, unlike the members of organized crime who are typical objects of RICO prosecutions, the antiabortion protestors did not obtain anyone else's property for their own use.

Characterizing Indigenous peoples who engage in the tobacco trade as gangs, criminals or members of organized crime is racist, factually wrong and is itself a form of hate crime insofar as it paints all Indigenous peoples in the trade as criminals and dangerous.

Not exact matches

Nearly three - dozen organized crime members were busted by federal authorities in Manhattan for an odd mishmash of crimes — trafficking 5 tons of stolen chocolate as well as hordes of illegal cigarettes.

The Mafia super-group, called the East Coast LCN Enterprise, included members of the Genovese, Gambino, Luchese, Bonanno and Philadelphia organized crime families, and Parrello is suspected of leading a crew based out of Rigoletto, located at 2311 Arthur Ave., at East 184th Street, according to the indictment and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office.

Murphy joined State Sen. Martin Golden, a retired New York Police Department officer, and State Sen. Fred Akshar, former Broome County undersheriff, at a press conference in Albany on Jan. 30, organized by State Sen. Patrick Gallivan, a former New York State trooper, sheriff of Erie County, member of the NYS Board of Parole and chairperson of the Senate Crime and Corrections Committee.

Six months later, government agents arrested 10 members of the gang, many with suspected connections to organized crime, and returned the monument to its home in Cancuén, which thrived during the Mayan Classic Period.

James Norton stars as Alex Godman, a man trying to outrun the organized crime DNA running through so many of his family members.

What's more, it's suspected there are 32 more vessels waiting to be found: The ship was discovered after a former member of the «Ndrangheta organized crime organization tipped off police — the informant was personally responsible for sinking this ship and two others.

What Article 28 (3) with its omission of public policy grounds seems to suggest in my view is that — to a certain extent — the mere fact of a 10 years residence has created a link between the EU citizen and the host Member State that is similar to the link between a national and its state; as a consequence expulsion can only be a valid means if this link is deliberately destroyed by the EU citizen; this would be the case of a serious security threat, i.e. an individual determined to engage in actions that jeopardize the security of the host Member State's society at large, which could indeed be the case of organized crime.

But in his later career, before his death in 1995, he took on clients who didn't seem to fit with activist image — an Islamic fundamentalist charged with murdering a rabbi, a terrorist accused of bombing the World Trade Center, a teenager charged with participating in a near - fatal gang rape, and members of the Gambino organized crime family.

One of the first press conferences held in the new session was an all - opposition affair to announce their collective support for a Private Member's Bill they believe will help fight organized crime.

From my former White House colleague Brian Forde who now heads the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, to the former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)-- BitFury board member Jim Newsome — to the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of cybercrime and organized crime at the Department of Justice's Criminal Division Jason Weinstein, to the former CFO of JP Morgan Blythe Masters, to startup entrepreneur Wences Casares.