The phrase "cite them for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to indicate legal action against someone in response to a wrong they have committed or could potentially commit. For example: "The judge decided to cite him for contempt of court."
They're brave, but they don't want Mayor Bloomberg swooping in to cite them for crimes against cardiology.
Mr. Carlin had dozens of examples, and he could cite them for minutes on end, alternately rueful and disbelieving.
The federal charges did not accuse officers in Mr. Faison's death, but did cite them for the beatings and for concerted efforts to cover up what they had done.
Birgeneau says that it was Roy's and other faculty members' accounts of police violence and the crowd's mood that made him decide not to try to herd the occupiers into police vans but simply to cite them for trespassing and release them.
The owners did, signing off on the language that two decades later would be used to cite them for collusion in depressing free-agent salaries.
An officer stopped them, threatened to cite them for allowing the children to "expose themselves," and checked the father for warrants.
We finally had to call in the Department of Environmental Protection, which cited them for "unnecessary noise".
When Mr. Townsend and four other boaters declined to leave, the police cited them for disorderly conduct.
Restaurateurs say the acidity keeps it safe, but inspectors have cited them for keeping it at over 70 degrees, the upper threshold for food monitored as it is warmed from refrigeration.
His death inspired a law signed last year that made texting while driving a primary offense, meaning that the police no longer need a separate reason to pull over drivers before citing them for texting while driving.
A month later, Citigroup suspended two of its leading investment banking executives in China, citing them for presenting false financial information to Chinese regulators and to the bank itself.
