Sentence examples for acknowledge criminal from inspiring English sources

Many agreements acknowledge criminal conduct by the corporation but do not name a single executive or officer who was responsible.

In an article in The New York Review of Books, titled "The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High Level Executives Been Prosecuted?," he highlights the farce of obliging a corporation to acknowledge criminal wrongdoing without identifying or prosecuting the managers who were responsible.

Under the deal, Exide will acknowledge criminal conduct, including the illegal storage and transportation of hazardous waste, but will avoid prosecution in exchange for shutting down, demolishing and cleaning its 15-acre battery recycling plant about five miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, according to a person involved in the negotiations.

MEXICO CITY — The discovery of 59 bodies buried in mass graves in northern Mexico led officials on Thursday to acknowledge that criminal gangs had begun to inflict a new form of terror: stopping buses and removing passengers, some never to be seen again.

In pleading the fifth, a journalist does not acknowledge the criminal nature of that transaction, only that a prosecutor could seek to characterize it that way.

And even the governing party acknowledges that "criminal elements" have been causing havoc on some farms.

During the trial, the plaintiffs acknowledged their criminal pasts — one testified that he had been convicted of sodomizing his 9-year-old daughter, while another said he had sexually abused a 5-year-old girl while burglarizing a house.

Neighborhoods Organizing for Change put out its own video on the get-out-the-vote push, in which Gordon acknowledges his criminal past and notes how he's trying to change things for himself and other felons who wish to vote after serving time.

The overdue Innocence Protection Act and its Senate counterpart tacitly acknowledge that the criminal justice system is fallible.

But he also acknowledged that criminals and terrorists would find alternatives to any escrowed system.

But the Mexican officials I spoke with acknowledge that the criminal-justice system in their country is fragile, and that corruption remains endemic.