Sentences with phrase «of prosecution for»

Teens need to understand that there is the possibility of prosecution for the possession of child pornography.

Provided that a person charged with such an offence may be arrested, or a warrant for his arrest may be issued and executed, and any such person may be remanded in custody or on bail, notwithstanding that the consent of the Attorney - General to the institution of a prosecution for the offence has not been obtained, but no further or other proceedings shall be taken until that consent has been obtained.

Obtained declination of prosecution for prime contractor on construction of federal courthouses in New York and Nevada in connection with investigation of alleged bribes and kickbacks.

In Craxi (No 2) v Italy [2003] ECHR 25337 / 94 the court held that it was a violation of the claimant's Art 8 rights to play, even in court in the course of a prosecution for corruption, covertly recorded private telephone conversations.

Australian parliamentarians have a legal right to say anything about anyone in Parliament without fear of prosecution for libel; it is called Parliamentary Privilege.

In Italy they ran the risk of prosecution for Judaizing, given that in law they were baptized Christians; for this reason they generally avoided the Papal States.

The former cabinet minister Chris Huhne has been ordered to pay # 77,750 for the costs of his prosecution for passing speeding points to his then wife, the economist Vicky Pryce.

Former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne has been ordered to pay # 77,750 for the costs of his prosecution for passing speeding points to his ex-wife.

Cuomo, raising the possibility of prosecution for Schneiderman, said the allegations against him were «very powerful and damning.»

New statistics reveal a record number of prosecutions for domestic violence.

Not exact matches

Consider also the case of the prosecution of GlaxoSmithKline, a few years ago, for selling adulterated drugs.

While prosecutions are rare, women who are hospitalized for abortion complications frequently face criminal and civil action, and even run the risk of spending up to three years in jail.

Kirk also railed on Clinton for her use of a private email system after FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that she was «extremely careless» with sensitive information, although he did not recommend prosecution.

Experts also say that tougher penalties for and more prosecution of inside hackers would also be a disincentive for such crimes.

«But, because the business is so highly regulated on a state level and the threat of federal as well as state prosecution for violation remains, potential investors will want to take a long, hard look at the operations and the people involved in any investment opportunity.»

Rousseff has not been implicated in any of the scandals, although she may have made one all on her own when she created a cabinet position for Lula da Silva in an effort to shield him from prosecution.

«The typical state prosecution is for a standard common - law crime,» explains Philip A. Feigin, an attorney with Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons in Denver and a former commissioner of the Colorado Securities Division.

He meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House this week and is expected to press for immunity from prosecution as a condition for allowing even a relatively small contingent of U.S. troops to stay behind in Afghanistan after the 2014 drawdown.

Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept, who has also worked closely with Snowden, said the newspaper had «achieved an ignominious feat in U.S. media history: the first - ever paper to explicitly editorialize for the criminal prosecution of its own source.»

Any prosecution of Assange would be «incredibly dangerous for the First Amendment and pretty much every reporter in the United States,» Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, told Wired.

«Any prosecution of WikiLeaks for publishing government secrets would set a dangerous precedent that the Trump administration would surely use to target other news organizations.»

Hernandez's defense, led by Michael Fee, however, spun the conversation as proof of a close friendship between the men, which could lead the jury to question Hernandez's motive for murder, a significant element in the burden of proof for the prosecution.

Canadian companies have been operating in some of the most corrupt countries in the world for decades, but guess how many successful prosecutions there have been under foreign bribery laws in the history of our nation.

He faced a sixth deportation in 2015, and was in Justice Department (DOJ) custody that March after serving 46 months in prison for a felony re-entry into the US, but instead of transferring him into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation, the department transferred him to the San Francisco County Jail for prosecution of a 1995 marijuana charge.

The defense has raised concerns that this prosecution may be violating the fifth amendment of the constitution since the former employee had already served time for the matter before his federal conviction was overturned, the New York Times reported.

The USPTO has also reduced the filing fee for an application filed using the regular TEAS application form from $ 325 to $ 275 per class if the applicant authorizes email communication and agrees to file all responses and other specified documents electronically during the prosecution of the application.

The move follows reports that Obama administration officials thwarted drug prosecutions related to Hezbollah for fear of jeopardizing a nuclear deal with Iran.

She attracted global attention early in her tenure for the corruption prosecution of high - level officials at FIFA, international soccer's governing body.

The decision to allow Boehmermann's possible prosecution was awkward for Merkel as she sought Ankara's help in reducing Europe's migrant influx but also expressed concern about the state of media freedom in Turkey.

Chancellor Angela Merkel in April granted a Turkish request to allow the possible prosecution of Jan Boehmermann for insulting a foreign head of state.

This season of In the Dark, back Tuesday, is about the prosecution of a Mississippi man who's been tried six times for the same crime and the prosecutor who's spent two decades trying to execute him.

Arguments have been made that banks in general often do not face criminal prosecution for violating anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing regulations, but instead, according to the author of the aforementioned article referred to above,» (accept) settlements that either defer or erase the threat of criminal suits.»

Settlement could see supermarket pay in excess of # 100m and agree to conditions to avoid prosecution for overstating profits

Buffett's philanthropy and time serving in law enforcement allowed him to set up groundbreaking reforms such as his Macon County, Illinois program where drug addicts can turn themselves in for rehabilitation without fear of prosecution.

The U.S. Senate recently passed a resolution condemning the prosecution and continuing incarceration of former prime minister Yuliya Tymoshenko and her political allies.8 Various European leaders, including OSCE Parliamentary Assembly members, have made a special point of visiting Tymoshenko in prison and lobbying for her release.9 Her incarceration has become one of the main obstacles in Ukraine's relations with the EU, stalling Ukraine's hitherto successful bid for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with Brussels.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Canada has stepped up its enforcement of the CFPOA following criticism from the OECD for lack of prosecutions under its foreign anti-bribery legislation.

The agencies managed to avoid criminal prosecution by noting that the small print of their contracts said that they were only providing an «opinion,» not a realistic analysis for which they could be expected to take any honest professional responsibility!

In fact, Comey did as much as anyone to get Trump elected with three ethically dubious decisions: He publicly lambasted Hillary Clinton for her handling of her emails, despite his decision not to recommend criminal prosecution.

As for the possible result of such prosecutions, she said, «the government of Saudi Arabia would have to address that.»

He was on the prosecution team for the trial of former ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk.

This is the product of trying to believe Hayek's anti-government «Road to Serfdom» — that the government is the enemy, that regulation is the enemy, that prosecution of fraud is an interference with «the free market,» and that a «free market» is free for predators, for rentiers to be untaxed, for creditors to be given free reign, freedom from the law and even from having to take losses on their bad gambles.

And in a regulatory filing Tuesday, United said Smisek has agreed to cooperate fully «in the defense, prosecution or conduct of any claims or investigations» related to events when he worked for the company.

And the European told me that in Europe, it's really a no - no to use customer funds for your own — to gamble with that at all, that this is so criminal that if there is no criminal prosecution of Corzine, if it turns out that he did take the money, then that is going to lead the European capital markets to withdraw their money from the American capital markets, because the whole — the whole of Wall Street would turn out to be gangsters, without any prosecution, without any rule of law at all.

This identical wash, rinse, repeat cycle has occurred literally hundreds of times over the past 38 years, with no serious investigations or prosecutions whatsoever in that this is official, state - sponsored, for - profit corruption.

-LSB-...] if it turns out that the shareholders or top managers of these companies have their own wallets kryptowalutowe, which are used for personal gain, using the position of their companies, they are subject to prosecution.

30 November 2017: First attorney general of the financial affairs» prosecution counselor Mohamed Fouda on Thursday called for drafting an international legislation to combat dealing with the digital currency bitcoin, considering it a means to finance terror groups.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

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And, as United States Attorney from the Eastern District of New York, she was involved in two high profile financial fraud cases, one in which Citicorp paid $ 7 billion in settlement for its role in the mortgage - backed securities fraud, and one in which HSBC paid $ 1.7 billion and took a deferred prosecution agreement for facilitating money - laundering.