Sentence examples for a pattern of criminal from inspiring English sources

It also provides that racketeers must forfeit all ill-gotten gains obtained through a pattern of criminal activity, and allows government prosecutors to obtain pre-trial restraining orders to seize defendants' assets.

Mr. Burgess also faces two counts each of sexual battery, rape by instrumentation and subornation of perjury, and engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses, indecent exposure and kidnapping.

He recently sued Catholic Church officials under a racketeering law originally intended for organized crime, saying that their conduct in covering up accusations against priests amounted to a pattern of criminal conduct.

At a briefing yesterday in Washington, the lead lawyer for Mr. Torricelli's campaign, Robert F. Bauer, said he was preparing to file a formal demand that the Justice Department review the tactics of prosecutors in the campaign-finance inquiry and particularly of what he called a "pattern of criminal leaks".

The lawsuit comes a few weeks after Haysbert wrote to the U.S. Department of Justice calling for an investigation into what he described as a pattern of "criminal police misconduct" toward his client.

The retaliation against these whistleblowers (e.g., Bowen, his boss, and one of his lieutenants) by Citigroup's senior managers established (a) a pattern of criminal conduct that continued and grew after warnings and (b) the retaliation and efforts to silence these witnesses established the bad intent (mens rea) as well as an effort to cover up the underlying felonies.

Tourists who visit Brazil are encouraged to go through the procedure of filing a complaint at a local police station (delegacia), but law enforcement has little time to budget for investigating cases unless officials notice a pattern of organized criminal activity.

United States Attorney George Cardona is not messing around: These charges allege a disturbing pattern of criminal conduct in which money flowed freely to sworn law enforcement officers to violate their oath and uphold the law to provide the means for Pellicano and his associates to violate the rights of others.

"It appears that these zealots are engaged in a nationwide pattern of criminal activity for purely political reasons," said campaign spokesperson Zeese.

Quietly, methodically, he described a pattern of improper, even criminal, behavior inside the sheriff's office.

Hospital computers are not programmed to red-flag or identify any patterns of criminal behavior.