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11 Apr 2024, 7:04 am by Jon Shazar - Dealbreaker
We’re not saying that’s what happened with CaaS Capital Management, but… The post Sometimes Omertá Means Becoming A Family Office To Hire A Loyal Friend appeared first on Above the Law. [read post]
27 Apr 2006, 8:21 am
[JURIST Europe] Israeli activist group Peace Now [advocacy website] has condemned Wednesday's directive from Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Omert [BBC profile] to top security officials to block the gaps [official press release] in the controversial security fence [JURIST report; IDF official website] around Jerusalem. [read post]
27 May 2007, 8:42 am
He is, after all, the guy who broke the rule of ex-presidential omertà to identify the man who really is the worst president (link). [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 9:10 am by Tom Smith
 So they are silent.The reason for this omertà -- or near omertà, to be accurate -- is obvious. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 9:53 am
Huma must have rolled her exotic eyes and thought "what kind of amateurish influence peddler so consciously violates the rules of pay to play omertà? [read post]
17 Sep 2023, 3:46 am
" (The New Yorker).There’s a palpable discomfort among comedians when they are asked to comment on another person’s art—a sort of code of omertà. [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 2:21 am by sevach
Pese al silencio y omertá que reina en los Ministerios sobre los términos del inminente Decretazo, que aprobará el próximo Consejo de Ministros y que incluirá las medidas urgentes de recorte de efectivos, retribuciones y personal de todas las Administraciones Públicas, lo cierto es que Sevach ha conseguido acceder al borrador de dicha norma. [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 8:45 am
Just ask Edward Lazarus, who in 1998 published an account of his year clerking for Justice Blackmun; for his breach of omertà, his fellow clerks shunned him at Blackmun's funeral. [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 11:14 am by Elie Mystal
If you do a close read on these Trump tweets, you can see the pardon coming. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 2:22 pm by Richard Renner
But according to Scott Horton, the decision to go after Sterling seems to have more to do with “his violation of the intelligence community’s code of omertà, under which no agent ever speaks about another’s mistakes. [read post]
17 Feb 2021, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Their code of silence, preventing the police from incriminating other officers for their wrongdoings, is a harder barrier to crack than even the Mafia’s Law of Omertà – the code of honor that places importance on non-cooperation with outsiders, especially those in law enforcement. [read post]
20 Jan 2018, 3:11 am by INFORRM
Instead they can count on something resembling a code of omertà in their industry. [read post]
21 Dec 2018, 2:33 am by INFORRM
During the course of a three-week trial in March 2015, it was revealed how MGN papers, and especially the Sunday Mirror, had hacked the phones of eight well-known people, wreaking havoc in their personal lives by causing them to believe that stories about them appearing in the papers had been fed to them by their nearest and dearest. [read post]
28 Sep 2019, 11:18 am by Benjamin Wittes
The Washington Post reported last night: President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries, an assertion that prompted alarmed White House officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people, according to three former officials with knowledge of the matter. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 8:56 pm
   The nightly coerced vow of omertà might be compared to the tennis ball in the Far Side cartoon of the dentist who tells his patient: "Now open wide, Mr. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 1:01 am by INFORRM
After all, to do so would inevitably bring to far wider public attention a critique which has thus far circulated only online and break the traditional Fleet Street omertà on anything which has the temerity to question the integrity of Britain’s national newspapers. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 1:39 pm by sevach
Sin embargo, hay casos en que ni los policías ni los jueces están en condiciones de doblegar el silencio de los presuntos culpables o de conseguir su captura, o averiguar el paradero del botín o de la víctima, o de descifrar las tramas de corrupción pública, ante una especie de omertá o silencio estratégico de los implicados, sabiamente administrado por sus hábiles letrados. 4. [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 10:07 pm
"[T]he height of absurdity ... even more senseless ... reckless, outrageous, and desperate ... desperate and ridiculous ... unfathomable logic ... a most bizarre challenge ... shocking, obscene, and insidious ... absurd and alarming ... an incoherent, rambling jumble of averments ... [read post]