Sentences with phrase «justice department asks»

Newfoundland Justice Department asks for outside lawyers to handle murder case, Canadian Press

Reuters reported Tuesday that the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court to start the trial March 3.

Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr said his team has «talked to all the appropriate people» despite the Justice Department asking for additional time to comply with a House request for information about Trump's wiretapping accusation, and received «sufficient answers.»

Preet Bharara was fired as Manhattan U.S. attorney on Saturday, a day after the Justice Department asked the 46 remaining U.S. attorneys appointed by ex-President Barack Obama to step down.

Nor is it obvious why the Justice Department asked WordPress «not to disclose the existence» of its notice to the bloggersthemselves.

When that motion was denied, Milanes dismissed his own case and then refiled it in Washington, where the Justice Department asked to have it sent back to Puerto Rico.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump asked the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to call the Department of Justice last year and ask a senior official to persuade then - FBI director James Comey to publicly clear the president of wrongdoing in the Russia probe, The Washington Post reported.

In addition to asking McGahn to contact the Justice Department about convincing Comey to exonerate him, Trump also personally appealed to Comey to do the same, and to let go of the bureau's investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, on multiple occasions in early 2017.

When asked by Jackson Lee whether the allegations against Moore would undergo a federal review by the Justice Department, Sessions responded, «We will do our duty.»

Sources told Reuters earlier this month that the Justice Department had demanded significant asset sales in order to approve the deal and that it asked AT&T to sell either CNN - parent Turner or AT&T's DirecTV business.

But things went south, Torossian said, when Gates and Manafort asked him whether he could avoid registering with the Justice Department as a foreign agent in accordance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Yates was named deputy attorney general by then - President Barack Obama in 2015 and asked to stay on as acting head of the Justice Department by Trump.

Sessions» recusal is a key point of frustration for Trump, who once reportedly asked why he couldn't order «my guys» at the «Trump Justice Department» to do what he wanted.

FBI agents on the case expected that Petraeus would be asked to resign immediately rather than risk the possibility that he could be blackmailed to give intelligence secrets to foreign intelligence agencies or criminals... [T] he FBI, Justice Department, and the White House held off on asking for Petraeus» resignation until after the election... FBI agents on the case were aware that such a decision had been made to hold off on forcing him out until after the election and were outraged.

Last month, the Department of Justice asked CVS and Aetna extended its review of the merger, asking the companies for more information.

Lauer asked if Flynn still had the trust of the president despite the Justice Department's concerns.

I have asked the Department of Justice to investigate.

The lawsuit by Ms. Clifford adds weight to allegations in a separate legal complaint brought by Common Cause, a public interest group that has asked the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the $ 130,000 payment by Mr. Cohen.

The U.S. Department of Justice has demanded significant asset sales in order to approve the $ 85.4 billion deal, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, and asked AT&T to sell CNN - parent Turner Broadcasting or its DirecTV satellite TV operation in discussions on Monday.

In September of 2016, Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a 20 - page letter to the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, Michael E. Horowitz, asking for an investigation into why the DOJ had failed to indict any of the Wall Street executives that had been referred to it by the FCIC.

U.S. Department of Justice officials have asked Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase to provide details of their dealings with 1MDB, banking sources have told Reuters.

In search of any evidence of White House pressure on the Department of Justice, AT&T asked the judge overseeing the case for access to White House correspondence, which the judge denied.

January 22, 2018: The campaign finance and anti-corruption watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice asking them to «determine whether the payment was made by the Trump Organization or some other corporation or individual, which would additionally make it an illegal in - kind contribution to the campaign.»

The cable company could ask the Justice Department to review the acquisition and force a sale of Hulu.

But asked if anyone from the government had suggested that he should sell off DirecTV, Stephenson said he wouldn't comment on the details of his negotiations with the Department of Justice, which he described as «advanced.»

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says no one from the Department of Justice has asked him to sell CNN as a condition of getting his proposed Time Warner deal done.

After reading the documents released by the Justice Department in connection with the settlement, the Los Angeles Times asked in a photo caption of a smirking Madoff outside of Federal Court: «Bernie Madoff: Was he part of the JPMorgan ring, or was JPMorgan part of his ring?»

During closing arguments in the trial earlier this week, Leon asked the Justice Department's lead attorney, Craig Conrath, whether the imposition of a remedy would mean that the court was recognizing that there is anticompetitive harm.

AT&T had previously rejected such a divesture, something the Justice Department had asked for prior to filing the lawsuit.

That's one reason why the Trump Administration issued a news release from Justice Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. Monday night, announcing the arrest of 11 «caravan» members accused of crossing the border illegally near San Ysidro, without asking for asylum.

Concerns about confidentiality and immigration status were discovered months before the Department of Justice asked to add a question about citizenship.

Two sources familiar with the memo said it accuses the FBI and the Justice Department of abusing their authority in asking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge to approve a request to extend an eavesdropping operation on Carter Page, an adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign.

Eric Garner's daughter has been asked to meet with the U.S. Justice Department to get an update on its years - long investigation into his chokehold death on Staten Island.

The committee, meanwhile, says it has been asked to defer its consideration of the case by the Department of Justice, which is also investigating the contributions to Grimm's campaign.

A congressional committee asked the Justice Department to consider criminally prosecuting a technology services company that was involved in maintaining a private email server for Hillary Clinton.

Preet Bharara, a fiercely independent prosecutor, was among 46 U.S. attorneys asked to resign by the Department of Justice.

When asked if he would step down from his post at the Justice Department, Sessions said he serves «at the pleasure of the president.»

Emeka Etiaba, SAN, counsel to the embattled former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 asked Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja to order the arrest of Director General, Department of State Service, DSS, Lawal Daura, following the failure of the DSS to produce former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki in court to give evidence.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from Agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» he said.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» Azzopardi said in a statement.

One day after Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled his support for a New York Police Department review of the department's practice of allowing officers on modified duty to boost their salaries with overtime pay, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn said the administration could not be trusted to conduct that review and asked the federal Department of Justice to Department review of the department's practice of allowing officers on modified duty to boost their salaries with overtime pay, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn said the administration could not be trusted to conduct that review and asked the federal Department of Justice to department's practice of allowing officers on modified duty to boost their salaries with overtime pay, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn said the administration could not be trusted to conduct that review and asked the federal Department of Justice to Department of Justice to intervene.

The Cuomo administration has sent two letters to the Justice Department, asking federal officials for a waiver in order to import out - of - state marijuana for seriously ill children.

Two powerful House Republicans are asking the Justice Department to make senior FBI officials available to testify before Congress as early as this week, the latest salvo in an expanding confrontation between the GOP and the bureau.

It instead asked officials at the Justice Department, of which it is a part, to explain that no such wiretaps existed.

House Democrats have asked the Department of Justice to provide them with evidence showing the FBI had political bias against Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign.

The Department of Justice had confirmed to the Observer that Bharara was asked to resign and noted that it was not unusual for U.S. Attorneys to change with the presidential administration.

The Department of Justice confirmed to the Observer that Bharara was asked to step down and noted it was typical for U.S. Attorneys to change with the presidential administration — which is especially true of the powerful post in the Southern District of New York.

Sen. Charles Schumer is asking the justice department to help fund the Forensic Pathologist Fellowship.

Top White House and Justice Department officials asked for patience from the public as they refused to say whether Russia or another nation may be behind a new series of headline - grabbing hacks affecting the realms of politics and sports.

The Department of Justice is threatening to challenge AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner and has asked the company to divest of either DirecTv or the unit that runs CNN, which the president has criticized.