Sentence examples for kingpin of a from inspiring English sources

By fun, I mean the visceral kicks of well-staged shootouts and highway chases as the kingpin of a drug cartel (Benjamin Bratt) enters the fray.

His style bore results: In 1871, he arrested Joshua Miner, the kingpin of a massive counterfeiting operation in New York City.

This is Shangaan electro, and Nozinja is the 44-year-old self-styled kingpin of a scene that he has taken from township backstreets to countries as far-flung as Finland and Australia.

One notorious case does get good exposure: that of Cheng Kejie, until recently a vice chairman of the national Parliament and the former kingpin of a backward southern province who is on death row for extorting $5 million in payoffs.

He brought the kingpin of a political crime operation into court, announced that he'd struck a plea deal — and at a news conference thereafter, suggested that I was a co-conspirator and would soon be indicted.

He was succeeded by Mr. Manes, who killed himself in 1986 after being implicated as the kingpin of a corrupt enterprise in the city's Parking Violations Bureau that became the biggest scandal of its era.

Authorities say that Zvonko Veselinovic, an ethnic Serb, is the kingpin of an underworld business.

The last remaining kingpin of an international network of organised criminal gangs that flooded the UK with £300m worth of illegal drugs has been brought to justice.

Mr. Lai, according to court documents sent from China, was the kingpin of an enterprise that smuggled $6.4 billion worth of goods into China, evading $3.6 billion in duties.

Smoke 'em?"In this section Too many laws, too many prisoners Prisons full, coffers empty It's a deal ReprintsProsecutors described Mr Norris as the "kingpin" of an international smuggling ring.

However, local Kosovo police officers, Western diplomats and the customs authorities say that Mr. Veselinovic is the kingpin of an underworld business threatened by customs controls, and that he was a central organizer of a dozen barricades that NATO recently started demolishing, dispersing furious demonstrators with pepper spray.