Sentences with phrase «with racketeering»

5 of them were arrested and are charged with racketeering, grand theft as well as petty theft.

Defendants in the US would be charged with racketeering, not bribery, since government officials were not bribed.

Horse sales are frequented by Baker trucking; George Baker was recently charged with racketeering and conspiracy and receiving stolen property and farm equipment http://www.ktul.com/story/19138023/six-men-indicted-for-stealing-livestock-breeding-vehicles.

Former Senior Vice President Stanley «Jim» Cardiges is charged with racketeering, while Damien Budnick, 45, of Orlando, is charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

A complaint filed in the Southern District of California on Thursday charges Vincent Ramos, the founder and CEO of Canada - based Phantom, with racketeering conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs, as well as conspiracy to distribute narcotics, and aiding and abetting.

Not exact matches

A number of other prominent mob bosses with ties to the concrete industry were also convicted on federal racketeering charges.

Oregon also accuses Oracle of breach of contract, along with civil racketeering, for «failing to deliver on its obligations, overcharging for poorly trained Oracle personnel to provide incompetent work, hiding from the state the true extent of Oracle's shoddy performance, continuing to promise what it could not deliver, and willfully refusing to honor its warranty to fix its errors without charge.»

He had gone to jail on March 16, 1985, the day a jury of nine women and three men in U.S. District Court in Tampa found him guilty of racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering (including loan - sharking), extortion and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute it.

Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel got a four - year sentence last week following his conviction on charges of mail fraud and racketeering: for the latter, read playing legislative footsie with state racetrack interests.

Charged with one count each of racketeering conspiracy and extortion conspiracy were James Parks, the former chief of the now - disbanded police department; Willie Parker, a former sergeant; and Marshall Thompson, a onetime police sergeant for the Maywood Park District, also defunct.

«Astorino is being sued for federal racketeering for conspiring with a family and accomplices to rig his election through election fraud.»

Yesterday, Rob Astorino was talking about cleaning up Albany because he knew today he was going to be charged with being dirty: voter fraud, election fraud and racketeering.

Sixteen alleged members of a Central American gang, MS - 13, were charged for a range of crimes — including murder, assault and racketeering — in connection with three brutal slayings that rocked Brentwood on Long Island last year.

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.

The new allegations are contained in a superseding indictment, charging three men — Alexis Hernandez, 20, of Central Islip, Santos Leonel Ortiz - Flores, 19, of Central Islip, and Omar Antonio Villalta, 22, of Central Islip and Charlottesville, Virginia — each with one count of racketeering, one count of conspiracy to murder rival gang members, and four counts of murder in connection with the April 11 murders of Justin Llivicura, Michael Lopez, Jorge Tigre and Jefferson Villalobos in a Central Islip park.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Sixteen alleged members of a Central American gang were charged Thursday for a range of crimes — including murder, assault and racketeering — in connection with three brutal slayings that rocked Brentwood on Long Island last year.

Meria Joel Carstarphen became superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools (APS) on the heels of a national cheating scandal in which 11 of 12 people in APS were convicted on charges including racketeering, with some serving time in prison.

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.

The RICO statute makes it unlawful for any person associated with an enterprise to participate in the conduct of such enterprise's affairs, or to conspire to do so, through a pattern of racketeering.

Just ask Peter Gleick, or ask the tobacco companies convicted under RICO, how easy it is to drift into «patterns of racketeering activity» with «specific intent to defraud».

With a view toward future lawsuits relating to adverse consequences of CO2 emissions, and suspicions of a racketeering conspiracy that seeks to obscure the risks associated thereto, the identities and expectations of Heartland's corporate sponsors now are a topic of public interest.

@A physicist «With a view toward future lawsuits relating to adverse consequences of CO2 emissions, and suspicions of a racketeering conspiracy that seeks to obscure the risks associated thereto...»

Similarly, the tobacco industry's RICO conviction for 150 counts of mail and wire fraud in a continuing «pattern of racketeering activity» with the «specific intent to defraud» is of course matter of public record (per the link posted above)... however vehemently the senior fellows of the Heartland Institute may disagree with the justice and legality of tobacco - industry RICO convictions.

But it's the climate hysteria and the corrupt industry that surrounds it that could be used as the defining example of racketeering at the beginning of the 21st century because contemporary people are much more familiar with the climate hysteria.

The third statute is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act («RICO»), 18 U.S.C. § § 1961 - 1968 (Counts 3 and 4), which provides private parties with a cause of action to recover treble damages due to injuries they received from a defendant's unlawful racketeering activity and the government with a cause of action to seek other equitable remedies to prevent future unlawful acts.

As Ayres noted, the RICO statute requires that a claimant establish the existence of a «criminal enterprise,» and at least two acts of racketeering (with at least one having occurred within the past four years).

Ayers is recorded in the summary as saying, «the RICO statute requires that a claimant establish the existence of a «criminal enterprise,» and at least two acts of racketeering (with at least one having occurred within the past four years).»

Last month, a man by the name of Jagadish Shukla (along with several other scientists) sent a letter to the President and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, demanding that RICO charges — that is, «racketeering, influenced and corrupt organization» charges — be brought against so - called «climate deniers,» as though those who disagree with the theory that global climate change is inherently man made and undeniably catastrophic, were joined together in a conspiracy that amounts to organized crime.

In 2015, IGES, with Shukla as its president, fell under congressional investigation for violating non-profit law with «partisan political activity» by «requesting a RICO («racketeering influenced and corrupt organization») investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change,» according to the House Science, Space and Technology committee.

In an effort to send the company further down the path of discovery about who really seems to be doing the racketeering in this issue, I sent the information below verbatim (with non-embedded links) as an email to Exxon via its online contact form and straight to the lawyer group noted in the article.

Perhaps Gelbspan has no direct current involvement in global warming political efforts, but regarding the question of where he is these days, the answer seems to indicate that his collective past efforts are worthy of deep professional level investigation in relation to all the current focus on using racketeering laws to persecute skeptic climate scientists and the organizations having any association with them.

The ultimate psychological projection here might be that when enviro - activists say the fossil fuel industry engaged in racketeering when it conspired with skeptics to misinform the public about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming, this is instead a giant arrow pointing to enviro - activists doing all the racketeering on misinforming the public about settled global warming science and industry - corrupted skeptics.

The EU has produced anodyne reports on partnership with Malta and programmes continue despite a breakdown in the rule of law and governance, that have provided a haven for nepotism and racketeering.

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Last year, Connolly self - published a book, Don't Embarrass The Family: The Trial of Whitey Bulger's Handler FBI Special Agent John Connolly, about the trial of the former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering and obstruction of justice stemming from his relationship with Bulger.

One such tussle, as we recounted here, was with Chicago's Winston & Strawn, which reported a spike in pro bono hours, driven by its no - fee commitment of 20 lawyers to the defense of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan against federal fraud and racketeering charges.

Thompson countersued with charges that Take Two violated federal racketeering laws.