Sentence examples for criminal transactions from inspiring English sources

But Liberty Reserve was, by all accounts, the Internet's largest payment processor for illicit and criminal transactions.

The very characteristics that account for hawala's success have made it an impenetrable haven for illicit and criminal transactions.

Only after recovering the ring did investigators discover that, like a modern-day Maltese falcon, it had passed through many hands and, apparently, some shadowy criminal transactions since it was first reported stolen in 1994.

Nor does it seem to us possible to draw any line between documents whose contents bears directly upon the criminal transactions, and those which may be only indirectly relevant.

The former lobbyist acknowledged about a dozen criminal transactions with Representative No. 1, confirmed to be Mr. Ney by participants in the case, stating that he repeatedly lavished gifts and campaign donations on the congressman in return for help with legislation.

Liberty Reserve, the alternative-payment network and digital currency that federal prosecutors shut down a couple of days ago, was not, as it described itself, the Internet's "largest payment processor and money transfer system". (PayPal, obviously, is much bigger). But Liberty Reserve was, by all accounts, the Internet's largest payment processor for illicit and criminal transactions.

As Feinstein explained, it had been much easier to trace the Angolan officials who benefited from the criminal transaction.

Some examples might include a revelation that the juror is an actual employee of the prosecuting agency, that the juror is a close relative of one of the participants in the trial or the criminal transaction, or that the juror was a witness or somehow involved in the criminal transaction.

Cf. Ashe, 397 U.S., at 445, n. 10, 90 S.Ct., at 1195, n. 10 (the question whether collateral estoppel was a constitutional requirement was of little concern until modern statutes gave prosecutors the ability to "spin out a startingly numerous series of offenses from a single alleged criminal transaction").

Steve Hall, a spokesman for the Texas Resource Center, which arranges legal help for death row inmates, said state law at the time of the crime said defendants could "only be convicted of one crime arising out of a single criminal transaction". The law was changed in 1982, after Mr. Callins's trial.

Hawala activities often take place in secret alongside the operations of other businesses; both general and criminal hawala transactions are concealed amidst legitimate business activities.