Sentences with phrase «organized crime in»

has been arrested for allegedly providing a front for organized crime in a marijuana growing operation.

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.

Drug charges against a Mennonite man from Taber accused of being part of a trafficking network with ties to organized crime in Mexico have been stayed because of unreasonable delay.

We and my colleagues are the Dutch boys who try to plug the holes in the dikes containing organized crime in the province.

The visit to Iceland was thus linked to that process; accession of the Icelandic club would subsequently ferment the spread of organized crime in Iceland; and the relevant information had been gathered specifically on that individual's planned entry into Iceland (ibid.).

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) was passed by congress to seek out and eradicate organized crime in the United States.

In Blue Estate you use Kinect to control you way through the dark corners of organized crime in Los Angeles to right wrongs and perhaps cause a couple as well.

Yakuza Kiwami is a fantastic remake by Sega that portrays the gritty underground world of organized crime in Japan.

Fighting to liberate London, Jacob and Evie help define the birth of organized crime in an adventure filled with action, intrigue and brutal combat.

Former assassin Leine Basso goes head to head with organized crime in this gritty, page - turning thriller.

Just recently, late November 2013, we have witnessed a presidential fraud in Honduras, which comes to legitimize a previous coup d'etat, and all the human rights violations and violence being suffered by the peoples of Honduras, in particular against the first nations and Garifuna peoples, and in favor of the rule of organized crime in the region.

As part of a dangerous and long - secret undercover operation, the FBI positioned Van Laningham to become confidant to Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades.»

And that is here, too, in Gotham district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart: No Reservations, The Wicker Man), who is on a campaign to wipe out organized crime in the city and is every bit the upstanding boy scout he appears to be... until it all touches him personally.

A terrific ensemble cast powers this fast - paced action - adventure based on the true story of the rise of organized crime in America.

The film is about the organized crime in the border areas between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.

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.

Jackie Chan stars as a petty criminal who gets tangled up in organized crime in «Jackie Chan in Shinjuku Incident.»

With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good.

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.

With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good.

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..

The following year, he traveled into the realm of slick international caper with a supporting role in The Thomas Crown Affair, and then returned to his New York roots to portray the leader of organized crime in the Bronx in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam.

IGI's two extensive reports — which examine socioeconomic impact and ways to eliminate organized crime in casino management — offer recommendations gleaned from the Nevada's own history.

She is author of the upcoming book, Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast, about sex trafficking and organized crime in Italy.

The nickname is a humorous allusion to the Mafia families who dominated organized crime in New York City.

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.»

«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.

too bad my uncle who was in organized crime in the 80's is gone.

According to this account, the music was born in the brothels of New Orleans, came of age in the illegal speakeasies of Chicago in the 1920s, and reached maturity nurtured by organized crime in Harlem, Kansas City, and other corrupt communities in the 1930s.

The Zetas transformed the face of organized crime in Mexico because they had military training.

If you like mafia movies you should check out this exceptional story that gives us a peek inside organized crime in Italy.

The role of organize crime in the trade in endangered species, as well as how illegal fishing is driving iconic species towards extinction, is nothing new on the pages of TreeHugger, but there are several new graphic examples of this coming across our virtual desk today.

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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.»

(Even worse, the Fonds and its sponsor union were linked to organized crime last year in evidence presented to the Charbonneau inquiry into corruption in Quebec's construction industry.)

In 2008, the city actually moved to close half its brothels in a bid to dislodge organized crimIn 2008, the city actually moved to close half its brothels in a bid to dislodge organized crimin a bid to dislodge organized crime.

The region's violence is in large part driven by drug trafficking and organized crime — in Mexico, fragmentation of criminal groups has stoked more bloodshed in recent months.

(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.)

«The Brighton beach and Sheepshead Bay sections of Brooklyn have been headquarters for a smattering of emigre Russian crime gangs since the 1970s,» wrote Sewlyn Raab, an expert in organized crime, for the New York Times in 1994.

«The criminal underworld in Colombia has become very much like traditional organized crime under, like, Carlo Gambino, where they try to be invisible,» Vigil told Business Insider.

By the 1980s, organized crime groups controlled nearly all of the ready - mix concrete supplies in the New York area.

InSight Crime spoke with Guadalupe Correa - Cabrera, the author of the 2017 book «Los Zetas Inc.,» to discuss the genealogy of the Zetas, how they rose and fell from power, and where the group stands today in the context of Mexican organized cCrime spoke with Guadalupe Correa - Cabrera, the author of the 2017 book «Los Zetas Inc.,» to discuss the genealogy of the Zetas, how they rose and fell from power, and where the group stands today in the context of Mexican organized crimecrime.

«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.

Casa Grande, Arizona, features a vintage neon sign park, while renovations are progressing on the historic Formosa Cafe (once a haunt of Hollywood celebrities and organized crime figures) along Route 66 in West Hollywood, California.

«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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

Prosecutors who specialize in terrorism, narcotics trafficking and organized crime, led by the acting head of the Justice Department's criminal division, will bring prosecutions designed to restrict the flow of money to terrorist groups, Sessions said.