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USDOJ: Seventh Guilty Plea in Connection with Scheme to Fraudulently Control
The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:00P
Gaddafi's death lost chance - legal expert
THE brutal death of Muammar Gaddafi has been a lost opportunity for justice, a Sydney international law expert says. Professor Steven Freeland, a former visiting professional at the International Criminal Court's appeals chamber, said it would have
Updated: 10/21/2011 05:00P
City of Pineville Pleads Guilty to Illegal Discharge
“The public sector has the same obligation to obey the law as does the private sector,” said Ivan Vikin, Special Agent in Charge of EPA's Office of Criminal Enforcement in Dallas. “Today's guilty plea shows how EPA is working with its federal and state
Updated: 10/21/2011 04:40P
2011 National Gang Threat Assessment Issued
The FBI, along with its federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement partners, strives to disrupt and prevent their criminal activities and seek justice for innocent victims of their crimes,” said Assistant Director Kevin Perkins, FBI Criminal
Updated: 10/21/2011 04:40P
SHARIAH LAW AND RADICAL ISLAM: A MORTAL THREAT TO AMERICA - TO STOP IT
Shariah law is already perverting American jurisprudence. In fact, in 2010 a New Jersey judge dropped charges against a Muslim man who brutally beat and raped his wife, all because the judge said the man's Islamic beliefs allowed such criminal conduct
Updated: 10/21/2011 04:24P
Travers Smith | MAD 2 and MAR: Overhaul of the European Market Abuse Regime
The UK is in a privileged position (as is Ireland) of being able to choose whether to opt in to the Directive, because of special provisions in the Lisbon Treaty relating to its criminal laws generally. The UK already has a criminal offence of insider
Updated: 10/21/2011 04:15P
Heated words over hearsay bill
“If we were in such a hurry to emulate British legislation we might have copied their divorce legislation or bankruptcy laws many years ago. “Target specific legislation for a single purpose should be opposed as a matter of principle until full
Updated: 10/21/2011 03:53P
PM calls for changes in laws to criminalize private sector bribery
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the government plans to strengthen anti-graft laws in India by making bribery in the private sector a criminal offence. “We are considering changes in our laws to criminalize private sector bribery,”
Updated: 10/21/2011 03:42P
UN expert calls for integration of gender perspective into criminal justice
A gender perspective needs to be integrated into countries' criminal justice systems to ensure women are not “ruled out of the law,” the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Gabriela Knaul said today.
Updated: 10/21/2011 03:33P
'Govt to make pvt sector bribery criminal'
NEW DELHI, Oct 21 – With the alleged involvement of big corporates in a spate of scams apparently weighing on his mind, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the Government is considering changes in law to make private sector bribery a criminal
Updated: 10/21/2011 02:37P
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