Sentences with phrase «organized crime gets»
While organized crime gets the press, many other forms of insurance fraud happen on a smaller scale but still add up to millions of dollars.
https://www.armourinsurance.ca/ Not exact matches
It's hard to tell what Mueller has on Manafort, «but they absolutely have something because they got a search warrant,» said Joseph Pelcher, a former FBI counterintelligence agent who was stationed in Russia and specialized in organized crime.
Asked in late June about the effect sanctuary - city policies have on efforts to combat transnational organized crime, Flordia Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said he didn't believe getting rid of them would solve the problem such groups posed.
«The cross-border operation may involve nationals of other countries, but once it gets to I - 10 and comes east toward the southern states and up north on 95... those are American organized crime groups that are helping with the distribution internally.»
Even though the punishment for theft in areas under Islamic State control is amputation, a criminal past can be a valued asset, Mr. Sarfo said, «especially if they know you have ties to organized crime and they know you can get fake IDs, or they know you have contact men in Europe who can smuggle you into the European Union.»
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).
«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 whole Dominica thing blew up explicitly when Francesco Corallo - wanted by Intepol for organized crime - tried to get diplomatic immunity this way).
You can't get lab tests in New York that you can get in New Jersey for some strange reason and I often wonder if it's organized crime or some other reason.
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.
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.
From there, Molly — provocatively costumed to intimidating effect — takes over, upgrades the client list and unwittingly gets mixed up with organized crime.
Jackie Chan stars as a petty criminal who gets tangled up in organized crime in «Jackie Chan in Shinjuku Incident.»
I've gotten so used to watching great mob movies depicting ruthless Italians (Goodfellas and The Godfather), that I've forgotten other cultures have their own organized crime syndicates too.
It sprawls across genres, it tackles everything from prohibition to women's voting rights, worker safety to unionism, police corruption to organized crime, and it showcases slices of our cinematic history that just don't get seen outside of film archives and «educational» screenings.
A hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston gets completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses during a professional hit.
In the hands of a better director (say maybe Nicholas Winding Refn who directed Bronson), Legend could have been organized into a fascinating crime film, all the ingredients are there but Brian Helgeland (Paycheck, A Knights Tale) can not seem to get everything in order.
There are a lot of big, attention - getting films in 2012, and one that I forget about once in a while is Gangster Squad, the film in which Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer follows the efforts of a squad of LA cops (Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie) to stop the incursion of organized crime into LA, led by Sean Penn as famed mob boss Mickey Cohen.
One cold December night, he gets handed a job befitting a newcomer to organized crime: go collect this measly 300 grand debt (That's in Yen, mind you... that would have been around $ 2,450 in 1988 or just shy of $ 5k today, adjusting for inflation) from this sad sack of a dude, and deliver the money to the loan shark waiting for it.
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.
Until our politicians take organized crime in this country seriously and effectively implement measures to deal with this menace, the situation is only going to get worse.