Sentences with phrase «tried on conspiracy»

Adelphia founder John Rigas, two of his sons and a fourth former executive were tried on conspiracy, securities and bank fraud charges.

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The realization that the feds have been trying to track Bitcoiners for years is no doubt concerning to anybody who relies on Bitcoin's privacy guarantees (and vindicating to the NSA conspiracy theorists), and it's a good example of how being extremely paranoid doesn't necessarily mean you're completely wrong.

And the NDP tried to move a motion to get Bill C - 27 withdrawn, because they sailed a conspiracy theory that somehow there was a conflict of interest with a bill that they opposed for ideological reasons, in order to come at a different angle of attack on it.

Go to insightsofgod.com and try to convince yourself that all those people from all different walks of life are really in on a giant conspiracy to fool you into believing in Jesus.

Six Minnesota men were arrested on Sunday and charged with conspiracy and trying to provide material support to a foreign terror group.

When he was tried in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy, I judged him guilty long before the jury had, and when Judge Bob Potter gave him 45 years in prison and a half - million - dollar fine, my instinctive reaction was, good, he deserved it.

I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.

I'd play him in midfield with jack he reminds me Micheal Thomas we have bring sead kolosinic back in or even put him right back cause bellerin has being nothing short of disastrous in every way I like him as a man but my god he has not pushed on and I must say Cech looks so old and sluggish like last nite when Hernandez hit cross bar Cech looked so slow reactions gone we need keeper and I think Forster be great for us da guy at Southampton I think ozil will stay he's trying a lot more so would I to get 280 thousand weekly and Sanchez won't go cause not that he wants stay but he's form is very worrying hard take 3 weeks ago I looked at table and said we'll finish above spuds by ten points and in top 4 easily now we're behind them we have no consistency and manager that's just too old I love wenger always will but it's time and I think artery would be great choice for manager he meant be great coach maybe he's the one get Man City so great after all he loves arsenal maybe it's wenger plan go learn from pep and come bk when I leave take over and mersaker as he's no2 arteta and bfg take us forward and hand picked by wenger conspiracy theory begins

The Working Families Party is trying to capitalize on the rumor being spread by what it deemed «paranoid right - wing conspiracy theorists» that it is paying people to join the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park.

Trying to implicate other parties, he suggested that they had been involved in the leaking of the SPÖ's confidential information to the media — thus fueling conspiracies about what was going on.

The BBC, which for years has been accused by those on the right of being part of some grand left - wing conspiracy, is derided by Corbyn as «obsessed» with trying to destroy him.

Iran deal opposition: Next time some anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist tries telling you about the nefarious influence the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — better known as AIPAC — supposedly wields in Washington, remind them of its pitiful failure to stop the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran.

In the pic below I tried to encourage people with their choice... later on in the day my addendum was missing, conspiracy???

Warren Beatty plays an investigative journalist trying to uncover a vast corporate conspiracy behind a political assassination, a tale rife with commentary on the Kennedy assassinations.

It doesn't so much re-litigate her case — tried in real court and the one of public opinion — as jazz up the juiciest details: the «motivational» maternal shit - talk that Janney performs like a profane comedy routine; the on - the - ice outbursts, sometimes punctuating Gillespie's robustly staged skating sequences; and every twist and turn of Gillooly's hapless criminal conspiracy, which turns the backstretch of the movie into a dimwit caper, dominated by Paul Walter Hauser's broadly farcical take on Eckhardt and his mouth - breathing delusions of grandeur.

Over the next fifteen years, he becomes a paranoid conspiracy theorist who believes there is more to the seismic activity than what the government is leading on to as he tries to connect it to a previous nuclear bomb that was detonated to kill Godzilla.

The description makes it sound like Geostorm is trying to be a sci - fi disaster film, a space adventure, and a conspiracy thriller all at once, when the more advisable route would be to concentrate on making just one of those elements as good as it can be.

Some critics may choose to portray the contemporary school reform movement as a nefarious conspiracy on the part of evil plutocrats hoping to destroy America's schools, but in fact, the vast majority of reformers (ourselves included) are well - meaning people who are acting in good faith and trying to do right by kids.

Earlier this year, the owners of The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, N.Y., Fiction Addiction in Greenville, S.C., and Posman Books in New York City, filed a lawsuit against Amazon and the publishers for both the DRM conspiracy and a separate allegation that they were in violation of the Sherman Act — the same Act that factored in an important way in the DOJ lawsuit against Apple — for trying to gain a monopoly on the industry.

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Over at Crooked Timber, Daniel Davies demolishes the latest effort by junk science writer Steve Milloy (on diet and diabetes), and admonishes Todd Zywicki of the Volokh Conspiracy for giving uncritical credence to Milloy, who has a track record of bogus work going back at least a decade, to his work for the tobacco companies, trying to cast doubt on the link between smoking and lung cancer.

One of the favorite smears from Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky used to try to diminish the arguments of climate skeptics is to create dodgy psuedo - scientific psychological studies with a bent on trying to prove that skeptics are conspiracy theorists.

You have Cass S. trying to crack the first amendment in the name of conspiracy theories (with an elitist board to decide what is and isn't) and now this attack on the first with RICO.

Nice conspiracy theory, but (a) it is rather unrealistic: trying to get a bunch of scientists to agree on anything is like herding cats.

That you consistently use the red herring of false accusations of «conspiracy» to try and obfuscate the issue 1 - is repetitive 2 - displays a lack of serious thinking on your part at best.

And of course with any major public event on climate change, the same small and very vocal group of climate change science deniers and conspiracy theorists are trying to distort the message, and (of all things) discredit Pope Francis and his concern about climate change.

Tyler Cowen tries putting the shoe on the environmentalist foot, while Eugene Kontorovich at the Volokh Conspiracy observes that «Thiel's conduct fits into the «public interest» or «ideological» litigation paradigm» and claims that «By current standards, Thiel's funding should raise no eyebrows — unless one also wants to revisit public interest litigation, class actions and contingent fees.»

Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy has offered several observations (and made me feel better about my own personal moments of chaos in trying to blog with children on summer vacation) here, here, here, and here.

As technology firms continue to try to bolster their defenses against fake news, YouTube reportedly plans to introduce information from Wikipedia articles to combat the spread of conspiracy theory videos on the platform.

Early in the manga, Dai saves her from a conspiracy that tries to use a ritual on the island to kill her, and falls in love with her.