Sentence examples for criminal effort from inspiring English sources

But with the exception of one failed case against Bear Stearns in 2009, the Department of Justice, which historically would lead any criminal effort, has declined to criminally prosecute those who created the financial instruments built out of toxic mortgage loans.

Legal experts said prosecutors could view floating the idea of a presidential pardon to people under investigation as a criminal effort to obstruct justice.

"We have definitively defeated a new destabilizing aim, a new perverse, malevolent, criminal effort to sink Venezuela, sink the revolution, sink the government," Mr. Chávez told the nation today in his weekly televised call-in show.

Barnes & Noble said it completed an internal investigation into the "sophisticated criminal effort" and added that federal authorities are now looking into the crime.

The law is aimed at giving the authorities a way to track criminal efforts to launder money.

However, the large numbers of devices now in circulation and the intimate role they have in people's lives has convinced many security experts that app stores will soon be subject to significant criminal efforts.

"This action is yet another example of criminal efforts by the (ministry of state security) to facilitate the theft of private data for China's commercial gain," US attorney Adam Braverman said in a statement.

Placement is carried out by changing the mass cash obtained from criminal efforts into a less suspicious and more portable form by putting those earnings into the mainstream financial system.

Now these criminal efforts look minor next to the biggest class A drug haul in British history.

Now these criminal efforts look minor next to the two men have been found guilty of smuggling over three tons of cocaine in the biggest class A drug haul in British history.

By virtue of the so-called layering, criminals effort to hide the source of illegal proceeds through a massive amount of transactions by circulating around black money (Schneider and Windischbauer 2008).