According to SAC Capital Advisors, the wildly successful hedge fund now accused of systematic crime, the firm not only has "a strong culture of compliance" intended to "deter insider trading," as the firm put it recently, but may also have one of the most rigorous and "cutting edge" hedge fund compliance programs in the country.
Micro-time hot spots represent the short-term units of response for the department's systematic crime reduction efforts, and none of the agency's efforts examined here (i.e., crime analysis or responses) were employed as "extra" resources or through the use of overtime but are a result of the standard practices of the agency.2.2
They have sometimes been shot at, and once his group was held hostage, but they have persisted and become witnesses to systematic crimes against humanity.
Through his attorney general, a president is prosecutor in chief, but Obama has ordered Eric Holder not to pursue the Bush administration's serious and systematic crimes against detainees.
The crimes covered by the treaty that created the court include genocide, "widespread and systematic" crimes against civilians, including murder, torture, rape, deportation and enslavement, as well as war crimes and crimes of aggression.
The Senate's report does not urge prosecution for wrongdoing, but the threat to former interrogators and their superiors was underlined when a UN special investigator demanded that those responsible for "systematic crimes" be brought to justice.
The prosecutor's charge of genocide -- in Mexico, "systematic crimes against the lives of members of any national group," including political dissidents, appears for the moment to have misfired.
"We need to be clear that opposition crimes do not approach the systematic crimes by the regime that account for the majority of the deaths in Syria," says Nadim Houry of HRW.
The analysts also suspect that the evidence will not meet the standards for the charge filed by Mr. Carrillo -- genocide -- defined in the Mexican penal code as "systematic crimes against the lives of members of any national group," including political dissidents.
A panel of four international judges, based in The Hague, is trying Mr. Taylor on charges including murder, conscripting child soldiers, terrorizing and mutilating civilians, and other systematic crimes by rebels under his control in neighboring Sierra Leone during that country's civil war.
Riyad al-Maliki met the ICC's chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, at the tribunal on Tuesday in The Hague and referred the case, calling it an "important and historic step towards justice for the Palestinian people who continue to suffer ongoing, widespread and systematic crimes".
