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Steel gained national attention as lead counsel in the YSL racketeering trial, which spanned more than 22 months and involved 28 defendants.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025 -
The prosecution alleged that Combs had conspired with others to commit racketeering.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
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The English flag, in particular, was prominent during the football hooliganism of the 1970s and 1980s, when soccer matches were marred by thuggish violence and racist abuse.—
Olivia Kemp,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
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Since 1985, drinking alcohol in view of the pitch has been banned in men’s professional football in England and Wales, a relic of moral panic amid rampant hooliganism.—
Lela London,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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The first is to expose Hamas’s criminality and the futility of its terror, which has led to the annihilation of Gaza.—
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib,
The Atlantic,
23 Sep. 2025
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His manipulating voters with their own tax dollars borders on criminality.—
John Moorlach,
Oc Register,
22 Sep. 2025
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Along with his plays, Graham also created the BBC series Sherwood, which finished its second season last year and uses the dependable Brit mystery format to look at the larger issues of post-industrial suffering and government malfeasance that plague his hometown and so many others.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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His dereliction of duty could be considered malfeasance and disqualification from running.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
27 Sep. 2025
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Tennessee law holds that those who committed crimes before 1999 can choose between being put to death by lethal injection or the electric chair.—
Evan Mealins,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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The office's programming extends to other areas as well, including domestic violence, human trafficking and interacting with victims of crimes.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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