Sentence examples for criminal himself from inspiring English sources

Edgar Hoover crossed over the line and became a criminal himself," said Vincent Garo, Mr. Salvati's lawyer.

Sarkozy is now an alleged criminal himself – he is being actively investigated in France for receiving up to £50m in illegal cash from Gaddafi to fund his 2007 election campaign.

I'm not someone who finds the Mob romantic — real mobsters are less punctilious than the Corleones, who in three blood-spattered movies managed not to harm anyone who wasn't a criminal himself — but I always enjoyed imagining what it might have been like to be Al Capone's chef.

Like Popeye, Chance is a marginal sociopath who has the makings of a pretty fair criminal himself; he crosses the line when he robs a fence in order to raise the cash he needs to buy counterfeit bills from his elusive prey.

Later this month, when OPR is expected to make its final report to Attorney General Janet Reno, Hogan will learn whether he is to be cleared, disciplined, fired, or even, potentially, prosecuted as a criminal himself for his role in the El Rukn case.

Knowing those things, the author writes, "wouldn't tell me what I really wanted to know: what went on in his head during those days he supposedly spent in the office... days he spent, it was now thought, walking in the woods?" You don't learn exactly what went on in Mr. Romand's mind during all those years of fakery; even the criminal himself doesn't seem to know, or doesn't say.

And more recently he may have been close to having the Bosnian Serb general, Ratko Mladic, nabbed with the intention of dispatching him to the UN's war-crimes tribunal too.Mr Djindjic had also been inveighing against organised crime, a major brake on the Serbian economy, but his detractors invariably accused him of being too close to criminals himself.

Caravaggio was no stranger to criminals himself but his incandescent genius has been extinguished by the gloom of the Sicilian underworld.

Well, sure, he's a felon -- but did you ever notice how he doesn't apprehend the criminals himself and how he doesn't carry a gun?

The other brother, Lee, is a trailer-trash petty criminal who himself lives in squalor in the Mojave desert, in thrall to the old man.

Yet when Officer Lugod was facing possible criminal charges himself in February for fatally shooting an unarmed man in the back, Kleine saw no reason to step aside.