Sentences with phrase «organized crime as»

The FBI was already using a cellphone microphone to eavesdrop on organized crime as long as a decade ago.

Not exact matches

Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

(The Ogden and Cole memos assure the industry that federal law enforcement agents will not step in as long as businesses follow the rules and do not act as fronts for organized crime, do not sell to kids, and avoid other federal enforcement priorities.)

Or, maybe worse, they fall prey to acting as a conduit for some type of organized crime ring looking to make big money by selling or manipulating stolen personal data.

«As long as the three pillars of organized crime exist — sports gambling, extortion, and loansharking — there's no reason to believe that [the mafia] would ever go away.&raquAs long as the three pillars of organized crime exist — sports gambling, extortion, and loansharking — there's no reason to believe that [the mafia] would ever go away.&raquas the three pillars of organized crime exist — sports gambling, extortion, and loansharking — there's no reason to believe that [the mafia] would ever go away.»

«However, I'm skeptical that a multiplayer western will be as fun as a multiplayer organized crime game, so we'll see.»

She worked as a federal prosecutor in New York under then - U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, focusing on white - collar and organized crime.

The migration «problem» in Italy feeds into many other endemic issues in Italy — as well as highlighting the problem of organized crime, the country's north - south divide.

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.

Jones is best known as a white - collar crime and organized crime specialist.

Crime factions are increasingly organized in the same fashion as legitimate businesses.

However, only three months later, on September 27, 2013, the Financial Service Agency («FSA») ordered Mizuho Bank, a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group («Mizuho»), to submit a business improvement report after an FSA investigation revealed that Mizuho Bank conducted business transactions with organized crime groups (which in Japan are referred to as «anti-social» groups).

For instance, in 1934, as a response to the rise of organized crime and gangster culture, Congress passed what was known as the National Firearms Act.

In A Higher Loyalty, fired FBI Director James Comey brings to front - and - center of our national discourse the idea of President Trump as a kind of organized crime boss speaking to both his character and his Administration.

Maybe there was organized crime back when it was overwhelmingly white, but the city was no doubt a much, much safer place as well.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

We see the allure of organized crime for Henry Hill as he's ushered past the line into the best seat in the house of the Copacabana nightclub in Goodfellas.

The days and weeks of commemoration organized at the secular level by bodies such as the United Nations Organization and its related agencies can help orient the eucharistic communities also to issues such as children's rights, women's emancipation, the aged, foreign debt, peace, environment, food, employment, AIDS, drugs, crime, cancer... etc..

... These defendants, some of whom have been tagged by the press as «contrapreneurs,» represent the very epitome of organized crime, but on an international stage.

The educational emergency in Mexico, broken families, corruption and inefficiency in the distribution of the nation's resources, injustices in international trade that mean fewer jobs, and those poor - paying, for Mexican youth — all these contribute to organized crime and to common crime, but it is still true that every boy born into poverty is a potential saint as well as a potential assassin.

Organized crimes, whether committed by a state (whether or not they acknowledge it as a crime), religious group, or crime syndicate are just that organized crime.

They charged him as a drug kingpin, for organized crime and everything else they could.

As discussed here in the Monkey Cage, the state historically had abandoned many of these areas — which evolved into strategic zones for transnational organized crime, especially the illegal drug trade.

«Just as not every Italian American is associated with organized crime, not every Ukrainian woman is connected to President Putin.

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.

In border departments such as Nariño, Putumayo and La Guajira, people have suffered under state neglect, the presence of conflict actors and transnational organized crime, especially the cocaine trade.

His older brother, Michael, was employed at the same time as a bag man for organized crime boss John Gotti Sr. and shook down union officials for payoffs.

These small but significant reforms will give law enforcement and prosecutors the ability to utilize eavesdropping warrants to further fully investigate crimes involving the distribution of controlled substances, as well as empower law enforcement to further prosecute organized activity related to prescription drug trafficking in New York State.

People are afraid to give information on organized crime to authorities due to fear of retribution, both as witnesses and as arrestees (and low - income people also face the backwards carrot pressure - at least with Italian mafia in USA - that if you get caught and don't snitch, the mafia will take care of your family).

Given the somewhat low impact on regular citizens, the costs of fighting organized crime are not cheap enough to justify investing as much money as required.

NEW YORK — A Bronx restaurateur ordered his associate in an organized crime ring to break the knees of a panhandler supposedly bothering people near his eatery as part of a massive racketeering conspiracy, according to a federal court indictment.

Katko was assigned to the task force as the chief organized crime prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Syracuse.

It alleges that Percoco actually took inspiration from the TV show about organized crime, choosing to use the word «ziti» as a code word when demanding bribe payments and, according to the complaint, saying at times, «keep the ziti flowing,» and «don't tip over the ziti wagon.»

He spent the past 15 years working in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Syracuse, where he served as chief of the organized crime division and developed a reputation for his innovative gang prosecutions.

Marino resigned as U.S. Attorney sometime after it became public that he wrote a letter of reference for a billionaire with alleged organized crime ties, so he could be approved for a casino license.

According to court records filed in June, Veliu bragged his cousin is Alex Rudaj, who's «widely recognized as the leader of Albanian organized crime in New York.»

He worked as a trial prosecutor and later as chief of the labor racketeering unit and the rackets bureau, where he handled organized crime cases.

Prior to joining the Attorney General's Office, Ms. Biben served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office for more than 10 years, the last five years as Deputy Bureau Chief of the Rackets Bureau where she investigated and prosecuted organized crime, money laundering, tax evasion, public corruption and other forms of racketeering.

He made the call while speaking as the guest speaker at a 2 - day National Anti-Corruption Stakeholders» Summit organized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at the Commission's Academy, Karu, Abuja.

It alleges that Percoco actually took inspiration from the TV show about organized crime, using the word «ziti» as a code word when demanding bribe payments and saying at times, «keep the ziti flowing,» and «don't tip over the ziti wagon.»

Looper It's 2042, and Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) is living the good life as a «looper» — a high - paid hit man for an organized crime outfit from the future that has harnessed the power of time travel to dispose of its enemies.

It wouldn't be hard to use China as a jumping - off point if you're in organized crime or another nation state looking to cause some saber rattling between China and the U.S.» Much of the U.S.'s current tension with China comes from Google's claims that recent hacker attempts to steal Gmail user passwords appeared to have originated from China.

Beneath its thin ideological veneer, ISIL operates as an organized crime enterprise.

Shark fins are even illegally smuggled as part of organized crime.

Dr Bachmann originally became involved in this area of research through his role as Rule of Law Subject Matter expert for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) study on hybrid threats facing Europe — diverse issues such as terrorism, organized crime, failed states and how a mass influx of migrants might lead to political instability in certain countries.

Sweden is on its way to becoming the world's first cashless society, thanks to the country's embrace of IT, as well as a crackdown on organized crime and terror, according to a study from Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

More than 800,000 people are trafficked every year (some right here in the US, including girls as young as age 5) and sex trafficking is the # 2 largest source of profits for international organized crime... second only to drugs.

As Internet romance has become more accepted in society — and grown into a more than $ 2 billion market — fraudsters have found ways to monetize the search for a partner, with organized crime rings around the globe now getting in on the action.

When the hero of the show and one of the antagonists have a romantic tone right out in the open, as... Referred to as flash robs, flash mob robberies, or flash robberies by the media, crimes organized by teenage youth using social media rose to international

Referred to as flash robs, flash mob robberies, or flash robberies by the media, crimes organized by teenage youth using social media rose to international