Sentences with phrase «up against criminal»

If you are up against criminal charges, you need an aggressive advocate in your corner.

whether we are really up against criminals who rely on the sceptics being a bit namby pamby and treating corruption as «human error» rather than deliberate intentional malice to defraud the public.

Not exact matches

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters)- France is entitled to bring criminal proceedings against local managers of ride - hailing app Uber for running an illegal taxi service, the EU top court ruled on Tuesday, dealing the Silicon Valley start - up another legal setback.

He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted in a pending criminal case — one of several prosecutions brought against him.

AUSTRAC will up the ante in its case against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with the transactions regulator expecting to file fresh allegations on Thursday that it breached the law 100 additional times while facilitating banking by criminal syndicates involved in money laundering and terrorist financing.

We have criminal and civil law codes, but it's hardly necessary to post up little reminders like «Don't forget, murder is against the law», is it?

All of them off shoot of hinduism, denial of truth absolute, just like any hindu, criminal locked up in a Jail, united against truth absolute God, stand no chance.

What if I come to you and say that because you are against stealing from store, you must now take up the thief's jail sentence and criminal record?

If you truly do not recognize the Const!tution as being the Supreme Law that governs your physical life here in this country, then you have some options, like giving up your Citizenship and moving to a different country, or staying here and refusing to follow the law — in which case we can bring a tort action or other civil suit against you, file criminal charges against you, or have you committed to a psychiatric hospital.

But the Catholic church has tried to cover it up, pretend it never happened, and refuses to take action against these criminals.

The competition watchdog is set to launch its first criminal cartel cases against a series of high - profile Australian companies seeking multimillion - dollar fines and up to 10 years» jail for senior executives, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims has warned.

The decision follows ACCC chairman Rod Sims» warning this week it is set to launch its first criminal cartel case against a series of high profile Australian companies, seeking multimillion dollar fines and up to 10 years» jail for senior executives.

In addition, Wenger's rotation policy is criminal to say the least, he always sticks with the same line - up even when the players are in terrible form, that sort of favouritism will only hurt the dressing room, because eventually players that are being wrongfully excluded from the squad will stop playing for the manager and in worst case scenario the other players will have the isolated player's back and unite against the manager.

Not withstanding whatever weekly wages paid to the players, i for one won't risk a carrier threatning injury playing in a match officiated by a recless, fraudlent and criminal minded referee like phil dawd.Arsenal still have a great chance of winning the premiership, but this is up to Wenga and his Board to chekmate the conspiracy Against Arsenal.

The going rate for information ranges from # 17.50 for confirming someone's address against the electoral register, to up to # 500 for a criminal records bureau check and up to # 750 for details about a mobile phone account.

Bharara, who because of the criminal cases against the lawmakers is not exactly popular among legislators, summed up his discomfort with the process in his podcast, «Stay Tuned with Preet.»

Buffalo businessman and Empire State Development Chairman Howard Zemsky is trying to pick up the pieces after nine criminal complaints were issued against two former Cuomo associates, including a top former aide, along with the former head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, who oversaw the contracts for the Buffalo Billion and other projects.

Cuomo has signed a bill that changes criminal statute to ensure suspects accused of making bomb threats against a community center can, at minimum, face a sentence of up to a year in jail.

Despite his frail health, the Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh on Wednesday showed up at the Federal High Court, Abuja, for his trial which borders on a seven - count charge of criminal breach of trust and money laundering to the tune of N400m brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Wait, so Paterson calls the girlfriend of his aide who's filed domestic abuse charges to get her to drop the charges against his aide, but he's bringing up a 20 year old criminal conviction of Astorino's father?

Cuomo also outlined a plan to speed up the state's criminal justice process, and reform the bail system, and he proposed cashless tolling on the entire state Thruway, saying it's faster, and also more secure against potential terrorists.

A grand jury today handed up a three - count indictment against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on charges of mail and wire fraud and extortion, a month after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara shook the city's political class with a criminal complaint against the longtime Manhattan legislator.

He further urged security agencies in the country to step up their intelligence activities so as to prevent activities of criminals and also unravel any crime committed against Nigerians by undesirable elements in the society.

I believe we all observe the basic social criteria that... «Protecting human lives and their basic rights of living supersedes teaching, doing business or doing research»;... Before this case clarified, and those fascists along with this criminal suspect Gabriele Scheler and Sebastian Thrun being concurred, I bet nobody would like to play up personnels associated with fascism crimes, the likes of Sebastian Thrun and Gabriele Scheler, nor cover up their fascism crimes and everybody has the obligation to fight against such anti-humanity crimes;

Nevertheless he is to be commended for standing up for his profession, in numerous tweets and blog posts, against a public which often associates being a member of parliament with being a criminal.

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

Sex abuse victims and child advocates turned up the heat on Cuomo, calling on him to support legislation that would extend the statute of limitations for criminal charges and civil suits lodged against accused abusers.

Three Onondaga County sheriff's deputies have accused the district attorney's office and Centro of pursuing «trumped - up» criminal charges against them before a judge exonerated them last year.

In some cases, the Education Department may have been delayed because its investigators ran up against open criminal investigations.

(When a reporter posited that the legal advice the mayor had gotten may have been up against the line, which would seem to be a given since it's led to formal criminal inquiries, Mr. de Blasio accused him «editorializing.»)

If passed, the Child Victims Act would allow child victims to take criminal action against their alleged abusers up until age 28 or file civil lawsuits until age 50.

The new law changes criminal statute to ensure suspects convicted of making bomb threats against a community center can, at minimum, face a sentence of up to a year in jail.

The most damaging allegation to emerge against News International today was that its directors took part in an orchestrated cover - up of criminal wrong - doing and sought to destroy incriminating evidence.

What if he were on the air or talking to the press, publicly accusing senators — as the tenant activists and many rank - and - file Democrats do — of carrying water for the same developers who keep turning up in criminal complaints against state lawmakers, including the former Republican leader?

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

A group of reputed mobsters may be spared a trip up the river because the criminal case against them...

But she says if a politician is using campaign donor money to pay for a legal defense against criminal charges, then it would be better to set up a separate fund for that.

Imagine that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are in office) to grant their leaders immunity from prosecution for corruption and money laundering.

Kwame Asare Obeng, also known as A-Plus, is alleged to have released the leaked audio tape suggesting there was a cover - up in the probe of President Akufo - Addo's two Deputy Chiefs of Staff as some form of revenge against the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).

Criminal charges against former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer are unlikely in connection with an allegation he roughed up a woman Saturday night in his suite at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, law enforcement sources said.

The bill, likely to be voted Tuesday, will let prosecutors bring criminal cases any time up to a victim's 23rd birthday, and allow civil lawsuits against abusers any time up to a victim's 50th birthday.

In addition to the Burke - Loeb case, Newsday has reported that the comprehensive federal scrutiny of Spota's office has included whether there was anything unlawful in the handling of the investigation into the shooting of Huntington Station taxi driver Thomas Moroughan by an off - duty Nassau County police officer; the circumstances under which former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave up a $ 4.1 - million - dollar campaign chest to the district attorney's office, and also agreed not to run for re-election; the legality of a wiretap placed on the phone of former Suffolk detective John Oliva; the resolution of the criminal case against well - known Suffolk criminal lawyer Robert Macedonio; the office's distribution of asset - forfeiture money; and the investigation into a number of political associates of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

The advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has taken up Monnett's cause, calling the apparently criminal investigation a politically - motivated «witch hunt» against a scientist whose research threatens the government's ability to drill in the Arctic.

The free products put up a strong defense against the various exploitative tactics of cyber criminals.

As the cases, confessions and interrogations pile up, the squad members have only each other as support as they face an uphill battle against both criminals and bureaucracy.

But when criminal evidence turns up against wunderkind billionaire Bobby Axelrod, Chuck recognizes that he needs to proceed judiciously.

Synopsis: After being burglarized, a depressed woman (Melanie Lynskey) and her obnoxious neighbor set out to find the thieves, but they soon find themselves up against a group of dangerous criminals.

Nichole Beharie as Dee Roberts gives a truly inspiring performance as a mother, living in the projects, who is wrongly accused of drug dealing, and then is caught up in a corrupted criminal justice system that railroads those who have little way of defending themselves against a system created to protect them.

Rather than try to take on Matt Damon in space, Focus surveyed the release calendar and wisely moved «London» to Jan. 22, 2016, where it will go up against a faith - based movie starring Tom Felton, STX's low - budget thriller «The Boy» and the Kevin Costner - Ryan Reynolds crime drama «Criminal.»

When the criminals suddenly descend upon the cabin, Joe and his family end up in a fight for survival against the gang... but luckily for Joe, his wife knows how to use a bow and arrow, and his Father still has some spunk left in him.