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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.

But RICO was supposed to apply to just organized crime at first, (as many proposals that get stretched) so his assurance that this phase is just for business is not greatly reassuring.

Critic Consensus: Raw, brutal, and bitter, Cartel Land offers a ground - level look at vigilante efforts to thwart organized crime at the Mexican - American border.

You're right about anti-criminal... organized crime at its best.

Not exact matches

«Mueller recognizes that Russian organized crime and sophisticated financial transactions involving them are going to be right at the center and Page is definitely a leading expert there,» Scott Horton, a US lawyer with experience working in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, told The Guardian.

«This Petrov probe could change the narrative of Putin in the West — from being a Stalinist tyrant defending the interests of his country to being a product of gangster Petersburg who united authorities with organized crime,» Stanislav Belkovsky, a Kremlin adviser during Putin's first term who consults at Moscow's Institute for National Strategy, told Bloomberg.

«In Guerrero, police, both state and local, pose little obstacle to organized crime groups,» Adam Isacson, a senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), told The Daily Beast this month.

Homicide increased at a higher rate between 1900 and 1910 than during Prohibition, and organized crime was well established in the cities before 1920.

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..

The Meese report's conclusions, based on information from law enforcement agencies (who presumably know), tell us that it is too simple to see organized crime (in the sense of the Mafia) at the heart of porn, though there may indeed be payoffs, protection and other such connections involved.

At 1:30 p.m., AG Eri Schneiderman will announce the takedown of a major Hudson Valley organized crime ring, 44 South Broadway, White Plains.

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.

Panama's public prosecutor against organized crime said Wednesday there was no evidence so far to take action against the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, following a raid lasting 27 hours on its offices.

At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, «Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman will announce the takedown of a major Hudson Valley organized crime ring,» at 44 South Broadway, White PlainAt 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, «Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman will announce the takedown of a major Hudson Valley organized crime ring,» at 44 South Broadway, White Plainat 44 South Broadway, White Plains.

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).

At 12:30 p.m., AG Eric Schneiderman will announce «a massive organized crime ring takedown,» 120 Broadway, 25th floor, Manhattan.

«I started getting involved in investigating organized crime in landfills, and it was all thanks to Congressman Hinchey who, at that time, was an assemblyman,» Isseks says.

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.

Speaking at the one day National Security Summit organized by the Nigerian Police force and Sun Newspapers in Abuja with the theme «Community partnership approach to internal security and crime management» yesterday, Buhari said, «In order to further strengthen the security of the public space, consideration is being given to the expansion of the CCTV Monitoring System across major cities and towns in the country while police accountability mechanism will be strengthened».

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.

Organizers of the annual Little Italy event the Feast of San Gennaro plan to ask City Hall to rescind a nearly two - decade - old gambling ban instituted by then - Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the height of his crusade against organized crime.

At 1 p.m., AG Eric Schneiderman will announce the takedown of an organized crime ring, AG's Buffalo Regional Office, Main Place Tower, Suite 300A, 350 Main St., Buffalo.

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.»

The annual Go Blue 4 Kids Candlelight Vigil, organized by the local non-profit McMahon / Ryan Child Advocacy Center and the Onondaga County Crime Victims» Rights Coalition, took place at Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday night.

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.»

But once my law office (I was an organized - crime prosecutor at the time) moved into a new building in Miami, something strange started happening.

White, Exley, and Vincennes find themselves drawn into a tangled and sticky web of violence and betrayal following a multiple murder at a coffee shop that is believed to be part of an effort by Mickey Cohen (Paul Guilfoyle) to consolidate his hold on organized crime in L.A..

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.

I first saw Matteo Garrone's ambitious and somewhat grueling screen adaptation of Robert Saviano's non-fiction study of the insidious infiltration of organized crime in all facets of life in Naples and Caserta, at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.

When a conniving Montana thief (Corbin Bernsen) decides to rob the local bank, he organizes a gang of four to meet at a remote cabin to initiate the crime.

It's a taut, gripping look at organized crime with a distinct action slant and Padilha balances it all beautifully.

When brutal organized real estate crime enforcer Thomas (Romain Duris) looks at a new lover through the slits of his fingers — fingers we've seen hungry at her body just moments before, fingers we've seen brutalizing squatters and other unfortunates he's been enlisted to bloody — there is aroused an essential sympathy with the base humanity of this man through his most human part.

From Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Terence Winter and Academy Award - winning director Martin Scorsese, the series chronicles the life and times of Enoch «Nucky» Thompson (Golden Globe winner Steve Buscemi) as he undergoes vicious power struggles and deals with opportunistic rivals — including Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano and Al Capone — at a time when Prohibition proved to be a major catalyst in the rise of organized crime in America.

It's a staunch look at a young boy's experience in a boarding school for deaf children that operates as an institutionalized system of organized crime.

AMC has released a «sneak - peek» of the global organized crime thriller, «McMafia,» starring James Norton (Grantchester, War & Peace, Happy Valley), set to premiere on Monday, February 26 at 10:00 PM PT / ET.

David Lynch's films often dimly hint at the clandestine powers that control things: networks of organized crime, pornography rings, supernatural bureaucracies that hold sway from behind curtains or inside shadowy, Mabuse - like glass chambers and anterooms.

The Toronto True Crime Film Festival is organized by Lisa Gallagher (programmer at Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival, formerly producer of The MUFF Society screening series), Steven Landry (Programming Director at Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival and programmer at Ithaca Fantastik, Toronto After Dark Film Festival), Kier - La Janisse (owner / artistic director of Spectacular Optical Publications, founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies), Gina Rim (staff at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival), and Jeff Wright (founder of Refocus film series and Programmer at Calgary Underground Film Festival, CUFF Docs).

Based on the Carlo Bonini / Giancarlo De Cataldo novel of the same name, the Rome - set crime thriller offers a dark, compelling look at the seedy underbelly of where Church, state, business, and organized crime meet.

At one point, Mite has the realization that by bringing Kockroach to Abagados and the world of organized crime, he is responsible for Kockroach becoming a murderous criminal.

Martin is best known for representing such high - profile clients as Michael Vick, NBA players Allen Iverson and Jayson Williams, former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, Monica Lewinsky, and former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, though his background includes a stint at the U.S. Attorney's office «where he quickly rose up the ranks, prosecuting drug dealers, politicians, white collar criminals, corporations, corrupt cops, and organized crime figures.»

One day I could be at a crime scene examining live roosters allegedly used in organized fighting.

At some point, I realized that if I was being honest, I wasn't actually playing a game about stealing cars or climbing the ranks of an organized crime syndicate.

«Those of you who are working on massively multiplayer online games, organized crime is already looking at you,» said Dave Weinstein, a Microsoft security development engineer at the company's Gamefest video game development conference.

Scene of the Crime, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum and supported by the Fellows of Contemporary Art, considers the art object as a kind of forensic evidence.

«American Art Today: Faces and Figures,» The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (formerly The Art Museum at FIU), Florida International University, Miami, FL, January 17 — March 9, 2003 «The Harlem Renaissance and Its Legacy,» Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, January 18 — April 13, 2003 «A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago,» Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 15 — May 18, 2003; catalogue «Structures of Difference,» Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, February — April 13, 2003 «The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism,» Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, March 18 — June 8, 2003 «Visual Poetics: Art and the Word,» Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, April 25 — November 16, 2003; brochure «Visualizing Identity,» The Jack S Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, August 27, 2003 — January 4, 2004 «Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection,» Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, October 26, 2003 — January 1, 2004; catalogue «Skin Deep,» Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C., March 15 — April 26; brochure «Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self,» curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, December 12, 2003 — February 29, 2004; traveled to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2004; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 2005; catalogue «Supernova,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2003 «Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms,» White Columns, New York, NY, 2003; catalogue «Today's Man,» curated by John Connelly, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 «The Disembodied Spirit,» curated by Alison Ferris, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, 2003; catalogue «The Alumni Show,» curated by Nina Felshin, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2003; catalogue «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2003 «DL: The Down Low in Contemporary Art,» Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY, 2003 «The Paper Sculpture Show,» organized by ICI, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, 2003; traveled to Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston - Salem, NC; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA «An American Legacy: Art from the Studio Museum,» The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 2003 «Stranger in the Village,» Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2003 «On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau,» The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2003 «Family Ties,» curated by Trevor Fairbrother, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2003 «Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude (Toward and understanding of trans - generational dialogue as a gift economy),» curated by Bill Arning, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 2003 «American Art Today: Faces & Figures,» The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2003

Their remote location makes them a likely target for guerillas and organized crime trying to sneak shipments out to other areas, or at least likely that someone trying to hide something will stumble upon them.

The fancy gear also points directly at organized crime wanting to fill the demand from Asian markets where horns can be sold for $ 30,000 a pound — and each horn weighs between 6.3 to 8.1 pounds.

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.

From the information provided in Barr, we know the affiants included several Alberta peace officers and at least one expert on crime prevention and organized crime (Barr at paras 7, 11, 12, 14).