Sentence examples for offer leniency from inspiring English sources
He pushed the S.E.C. to offer leniency for cooperating witnesses and to strike deferred prosecution agreements with companies that promised to behave.
And last August, Attorney General Eric Holder offered some guidelines though ones the next administration can ignore that offer leniency to nonviolent drug offenders.
A common way prosecutors get testimony in drug cases is to offer leniency if a defendant testifies against another alleged offender.
People in the Iraqi hierarchy who help bring down the government may be offered leniency.
Then, once the accused were before them, they offered leniency in exchange for information.
The government has on occasion offered leniency to hackers in exchange for their help assessing the vulnerabilities of important computer systems.
Mortgage customers who were offered leniency on home loans will also get some redress because they faced charges on missed payments.
Chinese officials demanded the surrender of the "lawbreakers" in Lhasa and offered leniency to people who turned themselves into the authorities by midnight Monday.
Following the lead of criminal authorities, the S.E.C. now offers leniency for cooperating witnesses who agree to give evidence against their co-conspirators, a strategy Mr. Khuzami has called a potential "game changer".
[C1.] I.R.S. Offers Leniency in Questionable Tax Shelter Cases The Internal Revenue Service is making an unusual offer of leniency to firms that made and sold questionable tax shelters: come forward, pay penalties and turn over information and you may avoid criminal prosecution.
Mr. Kouznetsov said that while he was jailed in the United States in 1998, Mr. Tobin visited him, identified himself as an F.B.I. agent and offered leniency if Mr. Kouznetsov would collaborate.
