Sentences with phrase «other organized crimes»

This law is especially helpful in curtailing illegal immigration, drug syndication, gang violence, and other organized crimes.

According to the President, «The need for community input to policing and crime management in Nigeria has even become more imperative considering our current national security challenges in which kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, transnational crimes, terrorism and other organized crimes have evolved to threaten our national values and developmental strides».

Third - party distributors, like gangs and other organized crimes groups, are vital to the operations of Mexican TCOs.

The «modern technology services» discussed in the report point to cryptocurrencies and their usage to launder money derived from the illicit trade of firearms, drugs, human trafficking, and other organized crime.

One attendee made the point that the most effective mediation she had seen on TV occurred on the Sopranos or on other organized crime shows, where older, respected Mafiosos help resolve conflicts between rival gangs.

Authorities in the U.K. and the European Union have reportedly become concerned that drug dealers and other organized crime groups are using Bitcoin ATMs to stash away illicit gains.

Not exact matches

(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.)

On the other hand, Scott Bernstein, an American mafia historian and true crime writer, said that it wouldn't be a stretch to link the murder with organized crime or mafia.

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.

«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.»

«If we substitute a tax on marijuana cigarettes equal to the difference between the local production cost and the street price people currently pay — that is, transfer the revenue from the current producers and marketers (many of whom work with organized crime) to the government, leaving all other marketing and transportation issues aside we would have revenue of (say) $ 7 per [unit].

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 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.

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.

Bordering Venezuela and Ecuador, respectively, these two regions are dominated by the cocaine trade and other forms of transnational organized crime, including gasoline smuggling.

These territories are also home to numerous groups involved the drug trade and other transnational organized crime, including right - wing groups that evolved from paramilitary groups demobilized between 2003 and 2006.

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

Say hello to scalpville, plus deep rehashes of Pirro's other issues re organized crime, should ongoing federal events in Connecticut heat up while she's on the campaign trail.

These crimes include cruelty to animals, the neglect of pets, animal hoarding and the training and the fighting of dogs and other animals in organized animal fighting.

The testimony before the legislature followed a rally outside organized by Birnbaum, North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Carver and other police union officials to complain about the conditions and decry an increase in crime.

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.

The FBI has a wide range of jurisdictions, including counterterrorism, organized crime, white - collar crime, violent crime, civil rights investigations, bank robbery, kidnapping, foreign counterintelligence, drug trafficking, and many other violations of 260 federal statutes.

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.

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.

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.

One that might include making films in other cities with organized crime problems.

Ricky, on the other hand, fancies himself an instant organized crime big shot, leading him to do a number of none - too - bright things that draw the ire of Big Apple big boss Ruiz (Sean «Don't Call Me «Puffy»» Combs, who fares better than expected in his acting debut), his underling Horace (Faizon Love), and most of all the increasingly impatient Bobby.

Risks such as terrorism, cybercrime, organized crime, environmental degradation, government breakdown, corruption, illicit trade, fiscal crises, social inequality, racial and religious violence, among others.

Animal cruelty still lags way behind other crimes in terms of response and prosecution; despite record levels of animal welfare awareness, many rural prosecutors have still never prosecuted a single cruelty case, dispatchers often do not know what to tell callers who are frantically trying to report cruelty, many cases that are reported are never investigated and organized animal cruelty, including dog fighting and the use of animals in pornography, are on the rise.

Dogfighting and other forms of organized animal cruelty often co-occur with other crimes, including drug trafficking.

«They are also involved in an organized crime ring that W.C.S. and other partners have been tracking in this region for the past year.

Illegal logging activities can also weaken the rule of law — evidence shows that illegal logging is so corruptive that other forms of organized crime often accompany it, such as arms smuggling and human and drug trafficking.

«Unlike any other organization, EIA investigates environmental crime and the organized criminal networks behind them,» said Kate Horner, Director of EIA's Forest Campaign.

Last month, a man by the name of Jagadish Shukla (along with several other scientists) sent a letter to the President and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, demanding that RICO charges — that is, «racketeering, influenced and corrupt organization» charges — be brought against so - called «climate deniers,» as though those who disagree with the theory that global climate change is inherently man made and undeniably catastrophic, were joined together in a conspiracy that amounts to organized crime.

This racket puts all of organized crime, to include drug smuggling, human trafficking, illegal gambling, murder for hire & every other racket to shame.

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.

What's more, it's suspected there are 32 more vessels waiting to be found: The ship was discovered after a former member of the «Ndrangheta organized crime organization tipped off police — the informant was personally responsible for sinking this ship and two others.

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The Medical Case, held in 1946 - 1947, involved 23 defendants accused of organizing and participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the form of harmful or fatal medical experiments and other medical procedures.

Exceptional revocation cases that raise complex issues of fact and law, such as those involving war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as cases regarding security, other human or international rights violations and organized criminality, would instead be decided by the federal court.

His focus is on complex commercial crime and other major case files involving organized crime, homicides and sexual assaults.

Lawyers are very necessary servants in the architecture of corruption for without lawyers willing to assist their valued clients, money laundering would be much more difficult for organized crime, crooked politicians, cheating corporations and others so inclinded to wash and conceal money here in Canada or offshore.

When investigating organized crime and robbery rings, police may use wiretaps, GPS data, cell phone data and other surveillance evidence to build the Crown's case.

Section 37 (1)(b) applies only to people who act to further illegal entry of asylum - seekers in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit in the context of transnational organized crime, so that a migrant who aids in his own illegal entry or the illegal entry of other refugees or asylum - seekers in their collective flight to safety is not inadmissible under s. 37 (1)(b).

In B010 v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 SCC 58, the Court held that a person is not inadmissible to Canada on grounds of organized criminality if he or she was not acting in order to obtain «a financial or other material benefit in the context of transnational organized crime.»

Some of the organized crime legal issues are analogous to those in other jurisdictions and last year one of the SPC websites published a long article analyzing this area of law (and its problems), suggesting that China look to US RICO legislation.

Thereafter he focuses on property and personal safety - related crimes, mentioning this year's organized crime normative document (this blog discussed it earlier this year), as well as (among others) its accomplishments relating drug cases and medical violence.

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.

The city has a history unlike any other, with close ties to travelers, military training, nuclear tests, organized crime and hospitality.

Many big virtual currency holders privately say that they will no longer travel to Russia, Turkey or other countries where they assume that attacks may be easier to pull off because of organized crime.