Sentences with word «prosecuting»

Jean Frydman, according to the Times, «said they were pressing their case in the United States because there was no legal mechanism in France for prosecuting Mr. Bettencourt for writing propaganda.»

Saira Kabir Sheikh QC, prosecuting, was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying: «These works caused substantial harm which can not be rectified.»

And, if making babies is so important, how about investigating and prosecuting men for masturbating.

The prosecuting attorney's office sent CNN multiple case documents, dated primarily to the 1970s and 1980s, including a letter from Bevilacqua to Ferraro's file in 1977, along with a document authorizing the release of these documents to the prosecuting attorneys.

An Argentinian lawyer who made his fame prosecuting generals of Argentina's «Dirty Wars» of 1976 to 1983, he has, more than anyone, given the ICC a public profile of an organization assertively pursuing arch-war criminals and insisting upon justice.

Paul Newcombe, prosecuting, told the jury: «During the late 1970s and some of the 1980s he was a minister at various churches in North Yorkshire and Humberside.

I'm not talking about removing a right to practice a religion, I'm talking about re-classifying the alleged religion's tax status and prosecuting the followers for sedition.

This includes taking our default self - descriptions and re-ordering them using God's priorities, filling in gaps in our identity, prosecuting falsehoods, re-framing failure, accepting change, and anticipating our future heavenly identity.

The firm has been an innovator in organizing and prosecuting individual class cases across many states involving the same defendants and similar factual and legal issues.

At the same time, they also appreciate that prosecuting the guilty should not mean hurting others who have done nothing wrong.

The «Cole memo» advised federal attorneys that they should largely defer to state and local authorities when it came to prosecuting marijuana - related activities.

U.S. attorneys in Utah prosecuting a multimillion - dollar opioid drug - ring are moving quickly to sell seized bitcoin that's exploded in value to about $ 8.5 million since the alleged ringleader's arrest a year ago.

He believed that in principle, the massive bank fraud, junk - mortgage lending and corporate raiding that led up to the 2008 crisis was more efficient than regulating such activities or prosecuting fraudsters.

But the Justice Department has a mixed history of successfully prosecuting campaign - finance violations, should it pursue that course.

«So if they were somehow planning with the hacker to do the hack or planning, in this case, with the contractor to steal the information so that WikiLeaks could publish it, then I think they'd have a much stronger chance of successfully prosecuting them.»

The Justice Department under President Barack Obama decided not to charge WikiLeaks for revealing some of the government's most sensitive secrets — concluding that doing so would be akin to prosecuting a news organization for publishing classified information.

Greg Chen of the American Immigration Lawyers Association provided context for the action and discussed the legality of prosecuting asylum seekers.

MaRS will investigate occurrences which may involve violations of such laws, and may involve, and co — operate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.

We may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting Users who violate the Terms of Service.

If I were on the jury prosecuting the case, the other 11 jurors couldn't get me to say «guilty» no matter what.

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Kratz resigned as Calumet County District Attorney in 2010 after sending racy text messages to a woman while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend for domestic abuse.

• Switzerland is prosecuting two PetroSaudi International officials over alleged dealings with the Malaysian state investment fund.

Stateside, the Department of Justice and Securities & Exchange Commission have been even more aggressive in prosecuting that country's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, for an even longer period.

In a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state House and Senate Wednesday, Schneiderman asked state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow for prosecuting people on the state level for the exact crimes they were convicted of — and pardoned for — on the federal level.

In recent years the division has achieved remarkable success prosecuting financial crisis cases, insider trading and other violations, while returning billions to harmed investors.

After the Great Recession of 2008, the SEC was instrumental in prosecuting the financial institutions that caused the crisis and returning billions of dollars to investors.

A follow - up letter from a Honolulu prosecuting attorney instructed leading DFS providers to cease operating in the state.

The war on drugs is an expensive battle because a great number of resources go into catching those who buy or sell illegal drugs on the black market, prosecuting them in court, and housing them in jail.

He sent unwanted sexual texts to a domestic abuse victim of a defendant Kratz himself was prosecuting.

Based on these absurd and deliberately misleading statements, the misguided public... has been persuaded to purchase stock in his company...» — a U.S. District Attorney, prosecuting American inventor Lee DeForest for selling stock fraudulently through the mail for his Radio Telephone Company in 1913.

Despite the acclaim he received initially for successfully prosecuting the Halbach murder trials, Ken Kratz later suffered a major fall from grace that included a sexting scandal.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

Because he perceived that her independence was compromised by a private talk with Bill Clinton, Comey nudged aside Obama's Attorney General Loretta Lynch to make the call about not prosecuting Hillary.

Even so, much remains open to interpretation, but Sessions made it clear that he is not ruling out prosecuting people who violate federal law, even if they are in compliance with their state's laws in regard to medical marijuana.

She later became Chief of the Homicide Unit in the Office of the Attorney General, prosecuting homicide cases in New Hampshire, before joining the Senate in 2011.

«I don't know if anyone has any more experience than he does prosecuting activist campaigns,» says Chris Young, head of contested situations at Credit Suisse, who has known Cohn since the latter started at Elliott.

When he learned of the plan, Tsinosis resisted: after all, he worked for the Ontario government prosecuting traffic offences, while Greenwood ran a firm that defended people so charged.

But even then, a charge of unlicensed dealing falls far short of fraud, carries light penalties and may not be worth prosecuting.

The challenge for regulators has been detecting and prosecuting an infraction before the money disappears.

That's not to say that the case wasn't worth prosecuting.

Jay Clayton, the attorney tapped last year by President Donald Trump to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, argued that the agency doesn't need Congress» help in prosecuting insider trading.

In an editorial published on September 17, the Post defended the idea of prosecuting Edward Snowden, the former CIA operative who leaked classified documents to the media in 2013.

According to a person familiar with the investigation, the social media giant approached the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan (which is known for its prowess in prosecuting financial crime) and asked for help recover the money it had paid for the false invoices.

Last year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions refused to rule out prosecuting people who sell cannabis, even when they do so in accordance with state laws.

«Let's be clear — this Silk Road, in whatever form, is the road to prison,» Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office is prosecuting both cases, said in a statement.

To Alan McGonigal, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the district's civil division, the rampant abuse of prescription drugs required a more holistic strategy, one that he had often used in prosecuting health care fraud: Find the gatekeepers.

The agency's criminal investigation unit has focused on finding and prosecuting the thieves who commit return fraud.

When it comes to white collar crime, Canada has enjoyed a less - than - stellar reputation for prosecuting those involved in financial schemes and corporate corruption.

Seattle's attempt to rebalance those scales, at least in a minor way, follows a February move by Philadelphia to stop criminally prosecuting low - level marijuana offenses.