In 2010 Alcatel-Lucent agreed to pay a fine of US $ 137. 4 million to avoid US prosecution for alleged bribes paid in several countries, including Kenya, Taiwan and Costa Rica.

* May 14-MP John Nunziata alleges the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) know who bombed the Air-India flight 182 but did not have evidence needed for prosecution.

The lawsuit alleges that the Murray family has been victimized by malicious prosecution, defamation, mental anguish, libel and slander.

The private investigator Jeff Katz, who was hired by Calvi's family in 1991 to look into his death, claimed it was likely that senior figures in the Italian establishment had escaped prosecution.

The incident strained relations between the United States and Japan, and resulted in the arrest and prosecution of two senior executives, as well as the imposition of sanctions on the company by both countries.

The testimony of " Kid Twist " Reles was particularly important to the prosecution, as he was a more senior gang member, and he is considered the key to the downfall of Murder, Inc ..

During the Parliamentary recess of the summer of 1797 he was senior counsel for the Crown in the prosecution of John Binns for sedition.

The incident strained relations between the United States and Japan, and resulted in the arrest and prosecution of two senior executives, as well as the imposition of sanctions on the company by both countries.

The prosecution case collapsed when the senior SOE figure Nicholas Bodington testified that he had authorised Déricourt to make and maintain contacts with the Germans.

The prince's arrest caused great consternation among the Japanese, because it opened the possibility that Emperor Shōwa and more senior members of the imperial household might face also prosecution for war crimes.

Despite this, the prosecution did not call any senior officers to testify.

However the prosecution argued that even if he was following orders from senior officers, he should have known that the orders were illegal.

Jim was consistently assigned the most difficult and challenging cases as the office senior trial attorney, including the successful prosecution of a United States Senator.

The last led to a secret meeting of more than 20 senior judges to see whether Levin could be prosecuted for criminal libel ; there was no prosecution, and his accusations about Goddard's vindictiveness, deceit and bias were later acknowledged to be justified.

Mr Fisk alleged the existence of a vast network of prominent individuals from the legal profession, media, political establishment and medical profession who were paedophiles / pederasts and were colluding with senior ranks of the police service to protect its members from prosecution.

However, the inquiry debunked the most sensational allegations made by Mr Fisk ; it was emphatic that there was no compelling evidence for the existence of a large network of prominent professionals with paedophile tendencies and a criminal bargain with senior officers of the police service to protect them from prosecution.

Asquith, Edward Grey, and Richard Burdon Haldane forming a clique dubbed the " Liberal Imperialists " that supported the government in the prosecution of the war.

For users in such places, the darknet option may be a requirement in order to avoid prosecution by such a government.

Perhaps his most significant achievement, other than his predominant influence in the early movement, was his leadership in overcoming the twin challenges of government prosecution after the Restoration and internal disputes that threatened its stability during the same period.

Hoover expanded civil service coverage of Federal positions, canceled private oil leases on government lands, and by instructing the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service to pursue gangsters for tax evasion, he enabled the prosecution of mobster Al Capone.

Under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, if the defendant is entitled to a jury trial, he may waive his right to have a jury, but both the government ( prosecution ) and court must consent to the waiver.

The Sixth Amendment right “ attaches ” once the government has committed itself to the prosecution of the case by the initiation of adversarial judicial proceedings " by way of formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information or arraignment ,".

Michael and Lori Fortier testified against McVeigh and Nichols ; Michael was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to warn the U. S. government, and Lori received immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony.

The prosecution called 137 witnesses, including Michael Fortier and his wife Lori, and McVeigh's sister, Jennifer McVeigh, all of whom testified to confirm McVeigh's hatred of the government and his desire to take militant action against it.

However, many whistleblowers report there exists a widespread " shoot the messenger " mentality by corporations or government agencies accused of misconduct and in some cases whistleblowers have been subjected to criminal prosecution in reprisal for reporting wrongdoing.

Such qui tam lawsuits must be filed under seal, using special procedures to keep the claim from becoming public until the federal government makes its decision on direct prosecution.

The Attorney General of Israel is the head of the public prosecution from the state, the person who advises the government in legal matters, the person who represents the state's authorities in the courts, and advises in preparation of law memoranda of the government in general and the Justice Minister in particular ( likewise he examines and advises for private proposals for a law of Knesset members ).

Also the English A-G has no direct equivalent, as the function of legal adviser to the government does not exist as such, and we find part of it responsibilities in the Avvocato Generale dello Stato, who is in charge of representing the State in any civil, criminal or administrative lawsuit, but not in charge of prosecution.

In criminal cases, under a theory of dual sovereignty, both the state government and the federal government may independently prosecute crimes arising out of the same criminal conduct, even if the dual prosecution would violate the right to not be tried more than once for the same offense if the prosecutions had both happened at the state level or had both happened at the federal level.

York's public stance was that of a reformer, demanding better government and the prosecution of the traitors who had lost northern France.

According to local newspapers, the diplomatic immunity granted to the Russians was a worry for the British government since it effectively granted a licence for Tass to publish libellous newsletters without the threat of prosecution.

The prosecution argued that Asahara " gave orders to attack the Tokyo Subway " in order to " overthrow the government and install himself in the position of Emperor of Japan ".

Furthermore, " n the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, the federal government adopted as policy that allegations of continuing slavery were matters whose prosecution should be left to local authorities only -- a de facto acceptance that white southerners could do as they wished with the black people in their midst.

The next significant government prosecution was the trial of the eight main Gunpowder Plot conspirators in Westminster Hall.

Coke conducted the prosecution for the government – an easy one, since the conspirators had no legal representation – and through his speeches, " blacken them in the eyes of the world ".

The Secretary for Justice ( SJ ) is responsible for legal matters of the government and prosecution for criminal cases in the territory.

The prosecution argued that the texts advocated violent revolution, and that by adopting the texts as their political foundation, the defendants were also personally guilty of advocating violent overthrow of the government.

The decommissioning was completed five weeks before a government amnesty deadline beyond which any weapons found could have been used as evidence for a prosecution.

The Spanish monarch is personally immune from prosecution for acts committed by government ministers in the king's name.

The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring ( at the left edge on the first row of benches ), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich | Third Reich after Adolf Hitler | Hitler's death.

In spite of the agreement, all the parties of the trial: prosecution, defendant and the victim as an auxiliary prosecutor ( in Poland, the victim may declare that he wants to act as an " auxiliary prosecutor " and consequently gains the rights similar to official prosecutor )-have the right to appeal.

The prosecution in the case demanded that the jury convict Ponting as he had clearly contravened the Act by leaking official information about the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War.

The Director of Public Prosecutions ( DPP ) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world.

The Director of Public Prosecutions of Belize is the official responsible for the prosecution of criminal offences.

The United States Department of State recommended that President Zedillo be granted immunity from prosecution due to the actions occurring as part of his official capacity as head of state.

The use of trade synonyms in the Pharmacopoeia, such as saltpetre for purified potassium nitrate, and milk of sulphur for precipitated sulphur, is partly answerable for this difficulty, and has proved to be a mistake, since it affords ground for legal prosecution if a chemist sells a drug of ordinary commercial purity for trade purposes, instead of the purified preparation which is official in the Pharmacopoeia for medicinal use.

It is fairly easy for a government official to issue a blanket denial of an action, and it is possible to destroy or cover up evidence after the fact, and this might be sufficient to avoid a criminal prosecution, for instance.

The official purpose, as described by the White House Counsel's Office, was to " screw " Nixon's political enemies, by means of tax audits from the Internal Revenue Service, and by manipulating " grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc.

The District Attorney ( DA ), in many jurisdictions in the United States, is the elected or appointed official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminal offenses.

Instead of manuscripts, official French funds were now advanced for the prosecution of his researches, and he remained in Egypt for four years, excavating, discovering — and despatching archaeological treasures to the Louvre, following the accepted Eurocentric convention.

In the United States, the State's Attorney ( or State Attorney ) is, most commonly, an elected official who represents the State ( prosecution ) in criminal prosecutions and is often the chief law enforcement officer of their respective county, circuit, or district.

The prosecution also claimed that Olmert used his official capacity as minister of trade and industry to facilitate introductions with hotel managers for Talansky, a partner in a firm providing mini-bars for hotels.

They persuaded a friend to play a former top CIA official (" Mr. Ed ") in meetings with LaRouche associates who, according to LaRouche group lawyers, came to believe that they had a direct line of communication to the White House and Kremlin through Mr. Ed and — as " a national resource in security matters "— were immune from prosecution.

On 7 February 2005, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan suspended Sevan and another UN official with pay ($ 1 per year plus benefits, including diplomatic immunity from prosecution ) because of their roles in the fraud.

All charges of corruption and official misconduct were dismissed by Supreme Court Judge Kase on December 11, 2009, who stated the prosecution had misled the Grand Jury in the indictment.

A topless, or top-optional, beach differs from a nude beach in that beach goers of both sexes are required to keep their genital area covered, although females have the option to remove their tops without fearing legal prosecution or official harassment.

On 10 December 1992, a group of villagers reported the existence of a clandestine grave in Plan de Sánchez and, on 7 May 1993, Ramiro de León Carpio, the country's human rights ombudsman ( Procurador de los Derechos Humanos ), lodged an official accusation with the public prosecution service, reporting the massacre that had taken place 11 years earlier.

The official response had escalated from prosecution for incitement to breach of the peace to prosecution for the much more serious offence of conspiracy and incitement under the Official Secrets Act.

For this, Tolstoy earned the undying hatred of the majority of the Russian people ; but Tsar Peter I naturally regarded it as an inestimable service and loaded Tolstoy with honors and riches, appointing him, moreover, the head of the Secret Chancellery, or official torture chamber, a post for which Tolstoy, nearly 80 years old by then, was by nature eminently fitted, as his vigorous prosecution of the Mons Affair ( 1724 ) made clear.

During the prosecution phase of U. S. patent applications, a similar concept to judicial notices are applied by patent examiners, but the process is referred to as taking " official notice ".

For example, the system of exemption of eight categories or persons from criminal prosecution ( ba yi ) and the system of exemption from punishment by giving up official positions ( guandang ) are formally recognised legal device.