Sentences with phrase «with organized crime»

«This is now becoming more pervasive and touching more law enforcement divisions that deal with organized crime and violent crime on a local level,» said Jonathan Levin, the founder of Chainalysis, which has worked with several law enforcement agencies on virtual currency crimes.

The city's history and affiliation with organized crime is catalogued at The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, which opened there in 2012.

With respect to individuals with non-violent, lower - risk criminal activities, stakeholders urged the government to allow certain individuals currently involved in the illegal production of cannabis — and who are not associated with organized crime — to participate in the legal industry in order to displace the illegal market and thereby prevent these individuals from continuing their illegal activities.

It thus agreed with the assessment of the national authorities because the latter had not only limited themselves to consider «mere membership in a particular organization associated with organized crime» sufficient to establish such conduct (para 90).

RICO has been used to prosecute people who had nothing to do with organized crime and should be repealed.

«My stepfather said the elder Saint brothers were dirty, corrupt, mixed up with organized crime, and their sons weren't far behind them, destined to be just as criminal as their father.I didn't care.

Former assassin Leine Basso goes head to head with organized crime in this gritty, page - turning thriller.

«State of Grace» (1990) What It's About: After ten years away, Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) returns to Hell's Kitchen, a New York neighborhood rife with organized crime and rivaling gangs.

One that might include making films in other cities with organized crime problems.

Season 2 travels back to 1979 with organized crime with the help of leads Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons.

From there, Molly — provocatively costumed to intimidating effect — takes over, upgrades the client list and unwittingly gets mixed up with organized crime.

As Internet romance has become more accepted in society — and grown into a more than $ 2 billion market — fraudsters have found ways to monetize the search for a partner, with organized crime rings around the globe now getting in on the action.

«In contracts with our subcontractors we have clauses on not cooperating with organized crime,» the spokesman said, adding the company was working with the police and its subcontractors to ensure this sort of violation does not happen again.

There's even been rumors that MTA projects are subject to higher costs due to problems with organized crime, which certainly could be the case given some of the enormous overages in cost.

Giannoulias, whose family bank failed, I'm sure had nothing to do with the millions in loans he approved to people associated with organized crime.

«Just as not every Italian American is associated with organized crime, not every Ukrainian woman is connected to President Putin.

Concern over porn's connections with organized crime has been around for many years.

However, only three months later, on September 27, 2013, the Financial Service Agency («FSA») ordered Mizuho Bank, a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group («Mizuho»), to submit a business improvement report after an FSA investigation revealed that Mizuho Bank conducted business transactions with organized crime groups (which in Japan are referred to as «anti-social» groups).

«If we substitute a tax on marijuana cigarettes equal to the difference between the local production cost and the street price people currently pay — that is, transfer the revenue from the current producers and marketers (many of whom work with organized crime) to the government, leaving all other marketing and transportation issues aside we would have revenue of (say) $ 7 per [unit].

«This Petrov probe could change the narrative of Putin in the West — from being a Stalinist tyrant defending the interests of his country to being a product of gangster Petersburg who united authorities with organized crime,» Stanislav Belkovsky, a Kremlin adviser during Putin's first term who consults at Moscow's Institute for National Strategy, told Bloomberg.

On the other hand, Scott Bernstein, an American mafia historian and true crime writer, said that it wouldn't be a stretch to link the murder with organized crime or mafia.

Not exact matches

InSight Crime spoke with Guadalupe Correa - Cabrera, the author of the 2017 book «Los Zetas Inc.,» to discuss the genealogy of the Zetas, how they rose and fell from power, and where the group stands today in the context of Mexican organized cCrime spoke with Guadalupe Correa - Cabrera, the author of the 2017 book «Los Zetas Inc.,» to discuss the genealogy of the Zetas, how they rose and fell from power, and where the group stands today in the context of Mexican organized crimecrime.

«Mueller recognizes that Russian organized crime and sophisticated financial transactions involving them are going to be right at the center and Page is definitely a leading expert there,» Scott Horton, a US lawyer with experience working in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, told The Guardian.

On top of that, docks were often controlled by organized crime or run through unions, and there were problems of theft to contend with.

«It's organized crime so you're dealing with evolution, most of the time, rather than revolution,» says Somerville.

Data breaches like the one Target suffered are typically conducted by organized crime syndicates or similar groups with a sizeable level of cleverness.

Enterprises must continually expand and enhance their security capabilities to keep up with new techniques, schemes, and technology continually introduced by organized crime.»

«The cross-border operation may involve nationals of other countries, but once it gets to I - 10 and comes east toward the southern states and up north on 95... those are American organized crime groups that are helping with the distribution internally.»

In today's environment, there are an abundance of well - funded and sophisticated hacking groups out there, many with nation - state or organized crime affiliations and interests, who are looking for any way possible to defraud or steal information from American business interests.

Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs.

This works with our brothers in organized crime.

Not only will it create jobs and bring in much needed revenue without raising taxes but it will also deal a major blow to organized crime which has a stranglehold on the illegal gambling industry with an estimated $ 380 billion wagered annually.

Steinbrenner didn't inform Vincent of his involvement with Spira, even though Spira had told Steinbrenner's investigators he had ties to organized crime.

It depends on the country: Structural problems: In Russia, on the local level organized crime is strongly reputed to be linked with both government in general and law enforcement in particular.

E.g. Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification could be used to assess progress with corruption and fight against organized crime.

Borisov, once the top official in charge of the country's police, pledged to eradicate organized crime and grapple with Bulgaria «s corruption.

Black trade with illegal luxury goods is also a catalyst for organized crime - syndicates to form which then tend to commit various other crimes.

The Republican questioned Democratic candidate Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi (D - Utica) because his father is a former criminal attorney who represented clients with ties to organized crime, remarks that many are calling an ethnic slur and inappropriate in general.

In Russia, on the local level organized crime is strongly reputed to be linked with both government in general and law enforcement in particular.

People are afraid to give information on organized crime to authorities due to fear of retribution, both as witnesses and as arrestees (and low - income people also face the backwards carrot pressure - at least with Italian mafia in USA - that if you get caught and don't snitch, the mafia will take care of your family).

Michael Contillo and Joseph Deglomini were indicted in the 1990s for tax evasion, racketeering and conspiring to raid the pension funds of building trade unions with the help of organized crime.

Speaking at the one day National Security Summit organized by the Nigerian Police force and Sun Newspapers in Abuja with the theme «Community partnership approach to internal security and crime management» yesterday, Buhari said, «In order to further strengthen the security of the public space, consideration is being given to the expansion of the CCTV Monitoring System across major cities and towns in the country while police accountability mechanism will be strengthened».

Dan Brownell is the chairman of the Business Integrity Commission, the agency charged with keeping organized crime out of wholesale markets and private carting.

Marino resigned as U.S. Attorney sometime after it became public that he wrote a letter of reference for a billionaire with alleged organized crime ties, so he could be approved for a casino license.

According to Singas, her office's review has already found an unspecified contractor with ties to organized crime, a contractor barred from doing government business in another jurisdiction and a convicted felon with a bankruptcy.

It wouldn't be hard to use China as a jumping - off point if you're in organized crime or another nation state looking to cause some saber rattling between China and the U.S.» Much of the U.S.'s current tension with China comes from Google's claims that recent hacker attempts to steal Gmail user passwords appeared to have originated from China.

A police official with knowledge of the investigation said Arai's case was just «the tip of the iceberg» in terms of organized crime involvement in the clean - up.

Six months later, government agents arrested 10 members of the gang, many with suspected connections to organized crime, and returned the monument to its home in Cancuén, which thrived during the Mayan Classic Period.

A common complaint: the project's dependence on a sprawling and little scrutinized network of subcontractors - many of them inexperienced with nuclear work and some of them, police say, have ties to organized crime.

Daniel Williams of the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre told the Star: «What we're dealing with is organized crime.