Under U.S. law, companies convicted of certain criminal acts can be debarred from contracting with the federal government.

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Unemployed youth can only watch, debarred from jobs filled under impermeable patronage arrangements.

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"People who have been convicted and sentenced to more than a year could be debarred from parliament, " he said.

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However the feds claim that when RSA applied for HUD approval it failed to mention that owner Ramsey Suphi Agan was twice debarred by the agency in the 1980s following felony convictions.

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