a very long-standing interest and success in investigating and prosecuting Russian organized crime, which since the breakup of the Soviet Union is called Eurasian organized crime, and in particular in this defendant. |
federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, your investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses. |
Folks who think that organized crime is a thing of the past in New York are kidding themselves, |
He is the perfect man for this job, ... He is an absolutely apolitical career prosecutor. He is a man with extensive experience in national security and intelligence matters. |
I view this as sort of a model, |
If AOL fails to comply with the agreement, the deal is off and they are in a world of trouble, |
in the next couple of days. |
It could be that they were victims of extraordinarily bad fortune, that they were flying in the air during the time of the 9/11 attacks, had one-way tickets, and were carrying their devices, ... There were a lot of circumstances that warranted the government taking a very, very close look at them. |
KSM was unsure what operation they would finally pursue, |
no one is above the law, that no scheme is too complex or too fancy to be beyond the long arm of the law. |
That's a power that regular criminal investigators have had for hundreds of years. It now applies to counterterrorism investigators. They have to go to a judge and get a court order to obtain the records. |
The charges filed today reflect our commitment to pursue fraud cases both up and down the corporate ladder, |
The defendant has accepted responsibility for the most heinous charges, the only appropriate sentence for which, as we advised the defendant today, is life in prison without the possibility of parole or release. |
The defendants are accused of perpetuating a massive accounting fraud that cost public investors hundreds of millions of dollars when it collapsed, then they allegedly tried to cover up their crimes by lying. |
The defendants cooked the books by simply keeping them open beyond the end of a fiscal quarter for however long it took to meet the analysts earning estimates, |