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...Axel Bernabe, the chief of staff and senior policy director for New York’s office of cannabis management, believes the state has learned from others’ experiences and remains confident its legal market will...
...And the United States, just 0.7%....
...The privatisation of the major utilities and — since her time, but in continuation of her policies — of much of the criminal justice system (prisons, the probation service, forensic science, translation)...
...Every year more than 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons....
...Chris Grayling, justice secretary, has been embroiled in a debate about his plans to outsource the majority of probation services....
...“Even if you don’t directly ship goods from the United States to sanctioned countries, you violate our laws when you facilitate trade with those countries from a US-based office building.”...
...The FBI and Secret Service raided his offices in December 2005, and he wound up spending three years on probation, including six months under house arrest, after pleading guilty to running an unlicensed...
...“They found out that I had a brain,” he says, and entrusted him with office work....
...Even in the UK, sensitive outsourcing plans for areas such as defence procurement (where G4S is not involved) and probation services (where it is) are now under even more intense political and public scrutiny...
...And he’ll do this while offering, for the first time, probation services for those who have served short sentences, to help to end the revolving door of crime and reoffending....
...Adam Smith – one of the government’s key witnesses in its case against Mr Rajaratnam and a Galleon portfolio manager who pleaded guilty to insider trading – was on Tuesday sentenced to two years’ probation...
...In late 2007, after hearing complaints from residents and a steep increase in foreclosures, Mr Hunter teamed up with the US attorney’s office in Las Vegas and state authorities to create a mortgage fraud...
...That was a dereliction of duty, given that MF Global’s back office and controls were antique and it was on regulatory probation for not having caught Evan Dooley, a rogue trader who lost $141m in 2008....
...Some services – medical consultations, social work interviews, probation and contact with the emergency services – are unlikely ever to go fully digital....
...Mr Clarke hopes the private and voluntary sectors will improve the poor performance of probation services. Almost two-thirds of people on short sentences reoffend within a year....
...We will use new payment mechanisms for prisons, probation, and community health services. And we will encourage new providers in adult social care, early years and road management....
...That undead Christmas hit by Slade is roaring dimly, the toilet’s out of service and the floor’s littered with wrappers and detritus....
...But as she settles into her “office” – the spare room of her New Jersey family home – and begins to explain Eden’s history and business model, the qualities that caught the eye of the US retail giant, among...
...Once the furore died down (Morris was sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service in the Boston area and a $10,000 fine) the papers went on to other, more important, matters....
...On a federal level, a US judge at the end of 2002 required BP to provide unrestricted access for probation officers to its Alaska operations to verify compliance with federal, state and local environmental...
...“My client believes this was legitimate tax planning, which the prosecutor's office is distorting into criminal charges,” he said. Mr Kelley's office and KPMG declined to comment....
...Wroblewski, 25, of the United States Marine Corps, who was killed in Iraq and was a parishioner at Cottone’s church....
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