Sentences with phrase «under federal felony»

«Any group or individual developer who both (A) sold newly created tokens to buyers (i.e. had an ICO) involving U.S. residents and (B) failed to register with FinCEN as a money transmitter, and perform the associated compliance KYC / AML obligations, can be charged under a federal felony criminal statute, 18 U.S.C § 1960, with unlicensed money transmission.

The 64 - year - old Leibell, of Putnam County, resigned his seat in December just before he was indicted under federal felony corruption charges.

Not exact matches

But under a compromise negotiated with Governor Jerry Brown, the bill allows local police to notify the federal government if they have arrested an undocumented immigrant with a felony record.

Two of JPMorgan Chase's felony counts stem from how it handled Ponzi - king Bernie Madoff's main business bank account for decades and failed to report highly suspicious activity as it is required to do under Federal law.

Under pressure from Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas, Oyster Bay commissioner Frederick Ippolito stepped down Thursday, two days after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony.

Under the liberal Democratic mayor, the city booted Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from Rikers Island and has only honored the federal agency's requests it detain a suspect if that person has committed one of 170 violent felony offenses.

The party office of any member of the Executive Committee or officer of the County Committee or any District or Divisional Committee shall become vacant upon the conviction of such person in any state or federal court of a criminal offense that constitutes (or, had such offense occurred in New York, would have constituted) a felony under the laws of the State of New York.

Under federal law, firearms are required to be surrendered upon felony domestic violence convictions.

Under President Barack Obama, the federal government only targeted individuals who had committed the most serious felonies for apprehension — just as New York City only complies with ICE detainer requests for 17o violent crimes.

I'm reminded of the time former state senator Dick Schermerhorn, under felony federal indictment for mail fraud, money laundering and the like, lost to an unknown undertaker from Port Jervis.

«Currently under federal law, those who have been involuntarily committed to inpatient treatment for mental illness or those who have been convicted of felonies are prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms, but there is no temporary prohibition based on dangerousness,» Frattaroli said.

Conviction of a felony or other crime of moral turpitude under federal or state law in a matter related to the practice of, or qualifications for, financial counseling.

George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and the Humane Society of the United States are raising public awareness of the newly enacted federal animal fighting law that makes it a felony to knowingly bring a child under the age of 16 to an animal fight and a misdemeanor to knowingly attend an animal fight.

Animal Cruelty (felony charge): A person commits the offense of aggravated cruelty to animals when he or she knowingly and maliciously causes death or physical harm to an animal by rendering a part of such animal's body useless or by seriously disfiguring such animal... (paraphrased) except for conduct otherwise permitted under state or federal law.

Under current federal law, it is a felony crime to sponsor or exhibit an animal in a fighting venture; to buy, sell, deliver, possess, train or transport an animal for fighting purposes; to use the Postal Service or other interstate means to promote animal fighting; to buy, sell, deliver or transport cockfighting implements; and to bring a minor to an animal fight.

The Federal Anti-Kickback Statute makes it a felony to knowingly and willfully offer, pay, solicit, or receive remuneration, directly or indirectly, in order to induce business that is reimbursable under any federal health care program, such as Medicare or MeFederal Anti-Kickback Statute makes it a felony to knowingly and willfully offer, pay, solicit, or receive remuneration, directly or indirectly, in order to induce business that is reimbursable under any federal health care program, such as Medicare or Mefederal health care program, such as Medicare or Medicaid.

Under federal law identity theft is a crime, and any person who «knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person» during or in relation to another enumerated (generally fraud - related) felony, receives an additional two - year sentence.

It is both critical for criminal suspects to assert their right to remain silent under the Constitution's Fifth Amendment, to have a federal criminal lawyer advocating for them early on to work to avoid a prosecution in the first place, and to minimize being behind the eight - ball in defending against federal felony charges.

The question was whether a state - law felony conviction falls within this definition, even if the crime would have been punishable only as a misdemeanor under the federal CSA.

In his view, any ICO that involved US residents (as issuers or investors) and failed to register with the Financial Crimes and Enforcement Network (FinCEN)-- a Treasury bureau tasked with preventing and investigating financial crimes — could be charged under 18 U.S.C § 1960, a federal felony criminal statute that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

According to the IPKCA, it is a federal felony to take a child under the age of 16 out of the U.S. or keep the child in a foreign country with the intention to obstruct the lawful exercise of parental rights.