To successfully cut down on their illicitconduct, we need more agents to conduct more frequent inspections of gun stores, and we need stiffer federal penalties for those who purchase and traffic these guns.
Americans have long been forbidden from doing business with Iranian entities, but increasingly companies around the world are deciding not to do business with the government of Iran because of its wide range of illicitconduct, and because, as President Obama said last week, it is a government that has brutally suppressed dissent and murdered the innocent.
Siedle believes that the feeder funds investing with Madoff "were all aware that Bernard L. Madoff was engaging in illegal conduct ... and intentionally chose to participate in and support Madoff's illegal conduct to reap enormous illicit financial benefits, " according to the affidavit.