Sentences with phrase «racketeering claims»

The plaintiffs» racketeering claim was certified as a class action.

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According to him, Mr Asiamah should have been the first to be suspended following reports of visa racketeering at the Commonwealth Games in Australia where over 50 persons who claimed to be journalists were sent.

GEO Group is being sued by the State of Mississippi over «several statutory and common law claims, including violations of various public servant statutes, racketeering activity, antitrust law, civil conspiracy, unjust enrichment and fraud.

The state of Georgia has outlawed the practice entirely claiming payday lenders violate racketeering and New York and New Jersey have also prohibited payday loans because they are in violation of state usury laws.

Blasko also brings claims against Petland for racketeering in violation of RICO, 18 U. S.C. Sec. 1962 (C; fraud, negligence, and breach of contract.

Yet there are critics of the HSUS who claim, «The advertising of the Humane Society of the United States is false by implying it runs animal shelters when in fact only 1 percent of the donations the HSUS collects», that HSUS is charged with Federal racketeering and more.

Taken further against a central clique of enviro - activists, the claim that Exxon's «faillure to disclose that it knew its products increased the health hazard of global warming» was racketeering could be flipped against them.

And that enviro - activists» collective accusation against skeptic climate scientists might backfire under tough scrutiny, potentially exposing them — Shabecoff, Gelbspan, Naomi Oreskes, «Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action,» and Al Gore — as people engaging in the kind of racketeering action they claim is being done by the fossil fuel companies?

Filed under: Alien Tort Claims Act, Harvard, Hillary Clinton, music and musicians, Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, racketeering and RICO