Any company with criminal ties would be denied a license and kicked out.

Most were later found to have had criminal ties.

No one has produced evidence suggesting that Mr. Bush knew of West Tsusho's purported criminal ties.

DeVita, a Sicilian born mobster, keeps strong family and criminal ties to Sicily.

In 1999 the Westchester County Legislature passed a law setting up strict licensing procedures, including background checks, to bar any company with criminal ties.

And while he never was convicted of any criminal ties to organized crime, he was always suspected.

January 31 - Sixteen teenagers with no criminal ties were gunned down at a party in Ciudad Juárez.

He has been denied a United States visa for his suspected criminal ties and is running on the platform that Russia needs a fashion-conscious president.

He denied that ordinary citizens without criminal ties had been subjected to tapping of their telephones.

The indictment started in 1995, when the federal government began to investigate and arrest many people with criminal ties or activities [2].