Sentence examples for prominent prosecution from inspiring English sources

Two years into Mr. Vance's tenure running one of the nation's most prominent prosecution offices, the cases in which the office's actions have received the most criticism involved highly publicized allegations of sexual assault.

He acknowledged that the most prominent prosecution witnesses were flawed and unsavory but said Mr. Bulger could not distance himself from them because they were all in the criminal enterprise together, like peas in a pod.

This case is the most prominent prosecution of an American gun dealer since the United States promised Mexico two years ago it would clamp down on the smuggling of weapons across the border.

Before the recent prominent prosecutions and fines, market participants had rarely been charged with insider trading, so they had little to fear about sharing information.

Unlike defendants in other prominent prosecutions since Sept. 11 who are accused of being low-level operatives, including Zacarias Moussaoui and John Walker Lindh, Mr. Al-Arian is accused of being a leading figure in financing and organizing terror attacks.

The Adelphia case, in which the cable company's founder, John J. Rigas and two of his sons, Michael and Timothy, are charged with conspiracy and fraud, is one of several prominent prosecutions recently of corporate executives.

The case was the most prominent tax prosecution since the billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley was convicted of tax fraud in 1989.

The Justice Department is seeking the death penalty in the case, the most prominent terrorist prosecution to result from the Sept. 11 attacks.

OCALA, Fla .— The most prominent tax prosecution in nearly two decades went to the jury Tuesday after defense lawyers argued that while a defendant, the actor Wesley Snipes, did in fact owe tens of millions of dollars in back taxes, interest and penalties, he had not committed a crime.

In the end, the frustration expressed over the lack of any prominent criminal prosecutions of bankers that captured the public's imagination like the case against Mr. Skilling may be less about the standard for proving a violation than finding proof to link executives to decisions that were clearly criminal.

The opinion elaborates on the February decision by a three-judge panel of the appeals court to overturn Mr. Aleynikov's conviction, a reversal that dealt a blow to one of the most prominent federal prosecutions of corporate espionage in recent years.