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SCOTUS dispatch: government lawyer grilled for an hour on meaning of federal corruption statute

JURIST

Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. What if we define wrongful as unlawful under state or local law? Sinzdak refused to accept that narrower construction. Justice Alito, no longer meditating, raised an important rule-of-law issue. He asked Ms.

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A Criminologist Assesses the ‘Racketeer-in-Chief’

The Crime Report

The notorious abilities of Capone and these other crime kingpins to corrupt people and neutralize the forces of law pale in comparison to the former president. in the 1940s, the Trump Organization engaged in a variety of non-traditional illegal schemes around the inheritance laws of taxation that in my judgment constitute racketeering.

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Detailed Analysis of POCSO Act, 2012

LexForti

Teesha Deb (National Law University, Orissa). The author is associated to the National Law University, Orissa. This was done with the objective of constructively combating such activities. Infractions of this provision may result in the imposition of penalties outlined in the law. INTRODUCTION.

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