Word: illicitness
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...pretrial hearing will take place on September 6. According to the criminal complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange commission, Plotkin and former Goldman Sachs analyst David Pajcin organized a “widespread and brazen international scheme of serial insider trading...resulting in at least $6.7 million of illicit gains.” The complaint says that Plotkin and Pajcin paid forklift operator Nickolaus Shuster a flat fee for him to relay the contents of BusinessWeek’s “Inside Wall Street” column. Shuster had access to advance copies of BusinessWeek because he worked...
...King Fahd Causeway, connecting the countries of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, is seen by many Saudis - both religious and not - as an illicit passage...
...before they could arrive, the secret negotiations were thrown in jeopardy when Italian authorities, acting on information from U.S. officials, seized the BBC China cargo ship in the Mediterranean carrying thousands of components for Libya's illicit uranium-enrichment facility. As only a handful of top U.S., British and Libyan officials knew about the secret talks, the discovery provided the public with smoking gun proof of Libya's covert nuclear program. According to Seif al Islam, MI6 officers immediately flew from London to Tripoli to assure the Libyans that the incident need not affect the secret disarmament plans. The seizure...
...tempest in a teapot,” the issues are clear. Professional standards of ethical behavior are how we archaeologists explain to the world at large what archaeology is about. They are precisely what separate us from collectors of unprovenanced antiquities, both morally and scientifically. The trade in illicit cultural property is increasing annually, with untold destruction of historical context. All archaeologists have a professional responsibility to bring to public attention those who countenance and encourage looting by purchasing unprovenanced items in the market. The antiquities market is deeply intertwined with other illegal activities, not least of which...
...lawmakers slapped down the agency. In 1998 the INS launched Operation Vanguard, a bold attempt to catch illegals in Nebraska's meat-packing industry. Rather than raid individual plants to round up undocumented workers, as it had done for years, the INS aimed Operation Vanguard at the heart of illicit hiring practices. The agency subpoenaed the employment records of packing houses, then sought to match employee numbers with other data like Social Security numbers...