After millions in misused money and even criminal charges, Iowa said curtains to its motion-picture subsidies.
Two deadly collapses in 2008 spurred reforms and even criminal charges, but another crane fell and killed a worker in the city just this past April, at a subway construction site largely exempt from city safety rules.
Corporate directors and executives can be sued and even face criminal liability if the company fails to properly disclose business risks--including, many now worry, the cost of emissions.
Juxtapose that provision against Part E which allows those who have been aggrieved under this new law to sue the violating agency or individual, and even provides for criminal punishment for improper collection activities.
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But because failing to report income or disclose foreign accounts is serious and penalties can be severe even criminal consider your risks and options and get some advice.
The sub-prime fiasco demonstrates that it is perfectly possible for American financiers to turn a blind eye to practices that are unwise, even reckless and criminal, when there are profits and bonuses to be garnered.
The court determined that because the Bank Secrecy Act regulations were designed to address civil issues as well as criminal issues they were essentially regulatory, and not criminal, even though a significant purpose of the regulations is to detect money laundering, terrorism and tax evasion.
With reason: police are too often abusive, corrupt and incompetent or even criminal.
Meanwhile, the special committee is piling up evidence that might lead to civil action by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or even a criminal complaint by the U.S. Justice Department.
Reliance on self-regulation The commission is ever more willing to allow the brokerage industry to self-insure, self-adjudicate (through mandatory arbitration) and even control public access to the brokerage industry's criminal and disciplinary histories.
And sensitive information is stolen every day from both governments and businesses by criminal networks, as well as individuals, and even by other nation states.
Their meeting also signaled that the US expects Israel to treat lawful building activities by Jews in Judea and Samaria and even in sections of Jerusalem as criminal acts.
Do the unethical, even criminal, movers and shakers succeed?
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But the more urgent motivator for lawmakers was the bruising battle early this year over SOPA a bill aimed at reducing online copyright infringement that would have dramatically increased civil and criminal penalties associated with even minor violations of the law.
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The whole country, so many people have left the country even with criminal cases, and they took only my passport.
Ironically, the Obama administration is sending troubling signals that on his watch, not even conviction and incarceration in the civilian criminal system will guarantee that justice will be served.
Rather, because these programs provided both protection from criminal prosecution and a potentially favorable civil penalty structure, even taxpayers whose conduct did not evidence the willfulness necessary to support a criminal prosecution made voluntary disclosures to attain certainty regarding their civil exposure.
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The generals (and the judges) view even moderate Kurdish demands for political and cultural autonomy, for example as criminal.
The audacity of Brazil's criminal gangs, and the impunity they enjoy even behind bars, is chilling.
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The court held that the transport and defense ministries had concealed the truth, even though a criminal court acquitted two generals for lack of evidence five years earlier.
Ten years after the world-record-setting diamond heist in Antwerp, this week's diamond robbery is a sharp reminder that sophisticated criminal outfits are still out there and that even the most impressive security system could have unnoticed holes.
But given that no government seems willing to take such a step, and that there would still be criminal cash to launder even if drugs were legalised, it makes sense to ask what else can be done.
They say this rewards criminal behavior, and more to the point, even encourages more people to come over illegally.
Even after Mr. McNamee began cooperating with criminal and congressional investigators, he didn't give them the beer can until Mr. Clemens played at a news conference a secretly recorded phone call between the two in which they discussed the steroids investigation as well as the health problems of Mr. McNamee's 11-year-old son.
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The high death toll and the criminal negligence that caused it may just be too much even for the Bangladesh government to ignore, especially in an election year.
Saddam's brashness, and the criminal abandon with which his officers looted Kuwait, stripping even the marble from its palaces to add to Saddam's own, revealed for all to see his nature as an unworldly and power-mad brute.
To this end, the committee has been too willing to dilute the constitutional standard of what makes up a high crime and misdemeanor by equating a violation of a statute -- even a criminal statute -- to a violation of Article II, Section 4.
The mayor and police also cite "stop and frisk" as a deterrent in which officers stop, question and sometimes pat down people they think might be doing something criminal, even if the suspicions don't meet the probable-cause standard for an arrest.
And in that same year, Judge Hastings was convicted of lying under oath and removed by the Senate even though he had already been acquitted in a criminal trial. (It is generally recognized that an act need not be criminal in order to be impeachable.) As these examples illustrate, perjury is and historically has been a sufficient cause for conviction and removal.
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