Sentence examples for prosecutions for years from inspiring English sources

UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland even had their Japanese brokerage subsidiaries enter a guilty plea in the United States, something unheard-of in bank prosecutions for years.

She hasn't consistently seen so many petty immigration prosecutions for years.

The Ecuadorean Embassy in London protected the WikiLeaks founder from prosecution for years, but its tolerance wore thin.

Mr. Rudolph escaped into the North Carolina mountains and remains at large, another suspect who has avoided prosecution for years.

Why is Polanski different from Alex Kelly, the Darien rapist who dodged prosecution for years by hanging out in Europe?

The defendant, Heinrich Boere, was able to evade prosecution for years, first by fleeing the Netherlands and then because German courts ruled he could not be extradited.

Mohammed and his co-defendants have clashed with the prosecution for years over access to evidence and standards of fairness, to include an ongoing controversy about the FBI spying on the defense attorneys.

"He has escaped prosecution for years," said Marcello Zanardo, an analyst with Keefe Bruyette & Woods.

The deal allowed Exide and its employees to avoid prosecution for years of environmental crimes, including illegal storage, disposal and shipment of hazardous waste, while agreeing to pay $50 million to demolish and clean the plant and surrounding communities, including $9 million set aside for removing lead from homes.

The figures were well in excess of HMRC's target of 565 prosecutions for the year, but come after missing what critics said was an artificially low target of 365 in 2011/12.

Both prosecutions dragged on for years and ultimately embarrassed the Marine Corps.