Sentences with phrase «organized crime syndicates»

I have heard a pretty good argument that the groups that spend the most money lobbying the government to keep marijuana illegal are actually organized crime syndicates.

It brings in $ 2 - 6 billion per year, most of which goes to fund international organized crime syndicates.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D - Rhode Island) urged Lynch to sue climate skeptics under the RICO act — a law created in 1970 to target organized crime syndicates like the Mafia.

16 That figure, again with no qualification, was used in speeches by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a climate change crusader, such as his call on May 6, 2015 to use the RICO Act — a law intended to combat organized crime syndicates — to put «deniers» in jail.17 The same claim appeared in the U.K. Daily Mail.

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.

Bo became very popular after a harsh anti-crime crackdown in a city notorious for powerful organized crime syndicates.

HUMAN SLAVERY Another difficult and impossible situation is where you have forced prostitution through organized crime syndicates.

Data breaches like the one Target suffered are typically conducted by organized crime syndicates or similar groups with a sizeable level of cleverness.

Or is government just a glorified organized crime syndicate a la Tony Soprano?

All the Money in the World tells the real - life story of the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (played by Charlie Plummer), by an organized crime syndicate, and his billionaire grandfather's cold and controversial refusal to pay his ransom.

In the 2044 of Looper, time travel exists, but it's mainly used by a giant organized crime syndicate, which sends hit men who have outlived their usefulness back in time to be murdered by their younger selves.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Black trade with illegal luxury goods is also a catalyst for organized crime - syndicates to form which then tend to commit various other crimes.

We are dealing with international crime syndicates who are highly organized and highly professional.