Fisher submitted examples of Li ' l Abner to Capp's syndicate and to the New York courts, in which Fisher had identified pornographic images that were hidden in the background art.

The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows for the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually do it.

The notorious First Ward ( encompassing downtown, which had many businesses but few residents ) was tied to the local mafia or crime syndicate, but Daley's own ward was supposedly clean and his personal honesty was never questioned successfully.

The leading bank would underwrite the bonds, and would often head up a syndicate of brokers, some of which might be based in other investment banks.

Banker J. P. Morgan stepped in to form a syndicate that saved the U. S. with a massive gold loan, for which he received a commission.

He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial which was bought by the syndicate for 75 pounds.

A large IPO is usually underwritten by a " syndicate " of investment banks, the largest of which take the position of " lead underwriter ".

This trend reached its height with the rise of the Maceo crime syndicate which controlled Galveston establishing a business empire based on gambling, bootlegging, and prostitution.

During the 1920s, Dickinson became a significant tourist destination resulting from investment by the Maceo crime syndicate which ran Galveston during this time.

From the 1920s to the 1950s Kemah became a significant tourist destination resulting from investment by the Maceo crime syndicate which ran Galveston during this time.

The previous landowners, a sporting syndicate, sold the assets of the estate for £ 4. 5 million to a Community Company known as Stòras Uibhist which was set up to purchase the land and to manage it in perpetuity.

The previous landowners, a sporting syndicate, sold the assets of the estate including Benbecula, South Uist and Eriskay for £ 4. 5 million to a community-owned organisation known as Stòras Uibhist which was set up to purchase the land and to manage it in perpetuity.

Luciano's vision was to form a national crime syndicate in which the Italian, Jewish, and Irish gangs could pool their resources and turn organized crime into a lucrative business for all.

Thirdly, during the decade a number of scandals had come to light, including the collapse of the Sass syndicate, which had highlighted both the lack of regulation and the legal inability of the Council to manage the Society.

This was followed by An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament ( 1640 and 1641 ), an eloquent and forceful defence of his order, which produced a retort from the syndicate of Puritan divines, who wrote under the name of Smectymnuus.

He does appear in The Black Stallion Returns, alongside Cass Ole, by which time the studio bought out the syndicate of owners in order to secure El Mokhtar's services.

In 2000, the current owner Jerry Speyer ( a close friend of David Rockefeller ), of Tishman Speyer Properties, L. P., together with the Lester Crown family of Chicago, bought for $ 1. 85 billion the older 14 buildings and land from the previous syndicated owners: Goldman Sachs ( which had 50 percent ownership ), Gianni Agnelli, Stavros Niarchos, and David Rockefeller, who organized the syndicate in 1996 and is historically associated with the other partners.

His later serial Les Vampires, which concerns the eponymous crime syndicate ( and not actual vampires ) is also reminiscent of the Fantômas series.

Although Terry and the Pirates had made Caniff famous, the strip was owned by the syndicate, which was not uncommon at the time.

The game features a single player campaign in which players assume the role of British Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond as he fights to prevent a criminal syndicate from using a satellite weapon against London to cause a global financial meltdown.

In 1919, Lord Stalbridge sold a large portion of the town, which was purchased by a syndicate and auctioned piece by piece over three days.

Since 1997, a syndicate has tried to obtain an " Appellation d ' Origine Contrôlée " for " Crème de Cassis de Bourgogne ," which would guarantee the origin and variety of berries and the quantity of berries used in its production.

The modern gentlemen's club, sometimes proprietary, i. e. owned by an individual or private syndicate, but more frequently owned by the members who delegate to a committee the management of its affairs, first reached its highest development in London, where the district of St. James's has long been known as " Clubland ".

( In fact it is the other way round: Hal Kines, the " big shot " and the brains of the syndicate, has a hold on Kalecki: Hidden away in the vaults of some bank he has documents proving that Kalecki is a killer on the loose.

Fasssbinder himself plays the lead part of Franz, a small time pimp who is torn between his mistress Joanna, a prostitute played by Hanna Schygulla, and his friend Bruno, a gangster sent after Franz by the syndicate that he has refused to join.

The trail leads to a gambling syndicate that operates out of a wrestling arena, a murdered reporter, and a pretty secretary whose boyfriend has been framed.

In order to manipulate the price of the stock, Saccard and his confreres on the syndicate he has set up to jumpstart the enterprise buy their own stock and hide the proceeds of this illegal practice in a dummy account fronted by a straw man.

* The long haired syndicate thug asking Keung if he has seen any diamonds.

The varsity has a syndicate too.

Mori Building has financed the project with $ 800 million equity and $ 1. 3 billion in debt from a syndicate of banks led by the Development Bank of Japan.

For if the syndicate ever finds out that the Whisper, who passes on their orders, is really Philip Gault, the man who has wrecked so many of their plans, there'll be slow walking and low moaning.

Web syndication has been increasingly used as a way to syndicate online news content to websites, too as part of Search Engine Optimisation techniques.

Milo Minderbinder is the mess officer at the U. S. Army Air Corps base who becomes obsessed with expanding mess operations and trading goods for the profits of the syndicate ( in which he and everyone else " has a share ").

" What was once a happy, peaceful, productive city, full of life and activity, has fallen into the hands of a secret criminal syndicate.

The leader of the syndicate has somehow managed to keep his identity a secret.

The Toa-kai has aligned itself with the largest known Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate since the syndicate's Taoka era in the 20th century, and has been closely supported by Shinobu Tsukasa, the sixth-generation godfather of the Yamaguchi-gumi, since 2005 when the sixth era of the Yamaguchi-gumi officially started.

Okinawa's underworld has been known for its exclusiveness since the 20th century, where the dominating Kyokuryu-kai has persistently attacked and violently expelled any yakuza syndicate attempting to enter the island.

Shinobu Tsukasa, known as the current head of the Yamaguchi-gumi | Yamaguchi, the largest yakuza syndicate since the mid 20th century.

BMW Oracle Racing won the America's Cup on February 14, 2010, off Valencia, Spain, beating Alinghi 2-0 in the best-of-three series and becoming the first American syndicate to win the cup since 1992.

Bytowners had been promoting their town as the capital of Canada since the 1840s and later several of its citizens formed a syndicate to promote the railway scheme.

He goes to Angerstein and threatens to expose the lie, but Angerstein tells him that he himself would be ruined if Jonathan's syndicate is destroyed since, unbeknownst to Stacy, Elizabeth's fortune is tied up in it.