Sentences with phrase «justice department attorneys»

Former Homeland Security and Justice Department attorneys, Kiran Raj and John Roth, left government to join the Bittrex cryptocurrency exchange.

By now, most agree that John Yoo and other former Justice Department attorneys gave the Bush administration shoddy advice on the legality of torturing suspected terrorists.

In breaking news, tobacco companies last year celebrated the end of a decade long, multi-million dollar jihad pursued by politicized Justice Department attorneys who were not satisfied with simply extorting billions of dollars in taxes disguised as a settlement from the defendants.

But state Justice Department attorneys and DOA Secretary Mike Huebsch said they didn't believe that order applied to the Walker administration since it wasn't named as a defendant in Ozanne's lawsuit.

The legal fight against the immigration ban will return to Brooklyn Federal Court today when a team of lawyers who filed an emergency motion to stay the deportation of Iraqi refugees Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi over the weekend will again face off with Justice Department attorneys.

The announcement came a day after Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, after she announced she had directed Justice Department attorneys not to defend the president's temporary travel ban on seven majority - Muslim countries in court.

«He couldn't have been more supportive of making sure we got convicted the murderers of the last black man who was lynched by the Klan,» said former Justice Department attorney Barry Kowalski, who worked with Sessions.

Justice Department attorney Anne Spiegelman was one out of many bike riders who held up signs reading «Bicyclists May Use Full Lane» near the site of Russell Garrett's accident.

Not exact matches

Trump's memo on Tuesday directed the Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions to «dedicate all available resources to complete the review» and propose a rule banning the devices.

A former Department of Justice spokesman, Matthew Miller, said a raid coming months into an investigation in which the subject's attorneys had been speaking with, and presumably cooperating with, the DOJ «suggests something serious.»

Under Justice Department guidelines, prosecutors must consider alternatives to search warrants by using the «least intrusive approach» to gathering evidence from an attorney's office.

Perth IT company Ajilon has proven itself as a reliable provider to the justice and law enforcement arena as the Western Australian department of the Attorney General awards it a successive five year

Thursday Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Justice Department would be reversing several Obama - era rules pertaining to states that legalized marijuana.

That, combined with a streak of hubris, brought a decade - long antitrust battle between the company and the U.S. Justice Department, as well as 20 state attorneys general.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice was reviewing the lawsuit, said Johnny Koremenos, spokesman for Attorney General Brad Schimel.

«It's clearer than ever now that the attorney general can not, in good faith, oversee an investigation at the Department of Justice and the FBI of the Trump - Russia connection, and he must recuse himself immediately,» Franken said.

The U.S. Justice Department has approached 18 state attorneys general to try to win their support for an antitrust lawsuit to block pay TV and wireless powerhouse AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy media and entertainment company Time Warner Inc, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

Back in November 2016, John Hudak, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that if Sessions became attorney general, he would have the power to rescind the Department of Justice memos issued under the Obama administration that have allowed marijuana companies to exist without fear of DEA raids.

Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, subsequently turned the floor over to the attorney general, who went on to say that he had consulted with senior Justice Department staff prior to his testimony about what he called a «longstanding policy» regarding communications with the president.

Perth IT company Ajilon has proven itself as a reliable provider to the justice and law enforcement arena as the Western Australian department of the Attorney General awards it a successive five year contract.

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.

Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has made combating illegal immigration one of his top priorities since taking over the helm of the Justice Department in February 2017.

Yates, the former deputy attorney general who was fired by Trump in January after refusing to enforce his first immigration order, used her opening statement to outline her experience working in the Justice Department for 27 years «through five Democratic and Republican administrations.»

The Justice Department said its new order «simply directs all US Attorneys to use previously established prosecutorial principles that provide them all the necessary tools to disrupt criminal organizations, tackle the growing drug crisis, and thwart violent crime across our country.»

The U.S. Attorneys» Annual Statistical Report is the official reckoning of the Department of Justice.

In January, Attorney General Jeff Sessions» decision to rescind the Cole Memo — an Obama - era Justice Department memo that essentially protected states that have legalized marijuana from federal interference — caused concern in the cannabis industry that a crackdown could happen.

William Yeomans, a former deputy assistant attorney general who spent 26 years at the Justice Department, said Flynn's guilty plea «is likely big trouble for several members of the Trump administration.»

TPM's coverage of the firings of U.S. attorneys and politicization of the Department of Justice won a George Polk Award for legal reporting.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions declined to say last week if anyone from the White House had discussed the merger with any Justice Department officials.

It's a lawyer from outside of government named by the attorney general to take over an investigation that poses a conflict of interest for the Justice Department.

It is absurd, frankly, to suggest that a recusal from a single specific investigation would render an attorney general unable to manage the leadership of the various Department of Justice law enforcement components that conduct thousands of investigations.

The Department of Justice, which reached the agreement with Goldman along with the New York and Illinois Attorney Generals and other regulators, could not be reached for comment.

He served as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan from 2005 to 2008, and previously held high - level positions in the Commerce Department, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security.

A 2009 memo from then - Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department is to advise the White House on pending criminal or civil investigations «only when it is important for the performance of the president's duties and appropriate from a law enforcement perspective.»

But his decision to do so while facing increasing scrutiny — the deepening FBI probe regarding his administration's contact with Russia and damning new Senate testimony from former acting attorney general Sally Yates about Trump's now - fired national security adviser Michael Flynn — instantly recalls Richard Nixon's infamous «Saturday Night Massacre» in which the 37th president purged the Justice Department during the Watergate investigation.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Justice Department is forming a team of prosecutors to investigate drug trafficking and money laundering linked to Iranian - backed Hezbollah militant movement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday.

And CNN notes it was Comey, then serving as Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice, who oversaw the special counsel investigation into the leak that ultimately led to Libby's conviction.

«Building on prior actions against BP and its subsidiaries by the Department of Justice, this historic resolution is a strong and fitting response to the worst environmental disaster in American history,» U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

Sessions, who was confirmed as Attorney General and now heads the U.S. Department of Justice, has spoken out against marijuana legalization in the past.

The attorney cited reports that a Justice Department official's wife reportedly worked for a firm that compiled opposition research on President Donald Trump.

While Gates had apparently been flirting with a plea deal, Manafort sued Mueller, the Justice Department and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in January.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions takes questions during a press conference at the Department of Justice on March 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.

«That one phone call took down this massive fraud network,» said Conor Mulroe, a Department of Justice trial attorney, who prosecuted the case.

The talks, which involve the Justice Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the New York attorney general's office, continued on Tuesday without resulting in a final deal.

«Today's decision is a victory for American consumers — especially seniors and working families and individuals,» said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brent Snyder, who is currently heading the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.

Rudy Giuliani called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to «step in» and place the Justice Department «under investigation» for allegedly wiretapping Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, according to a report TAttorney General Jeff Sessions to «step in» and place the Justice Department «under investigation» for allegedly wiretapping Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, according to a report Tattorney Michael Cohen, according to a report Thursday.

Underscoring the breadth of the scrutiny, the people said, the Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have discussed the possibility of striking a wide - ranging settlement to conclude many of the looming mortgage investigations from federal authorities and state attorneys general.

On Tuesday, Trump claimed that he sent a memo to the Justice Department «directing the attorney general to propose regulations that ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns.»

On Monday, at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, Mr. Stephenson and AT&T's general counsel, David McAtee, met with Makan Delrahim, the new assistant attorney general for the department's antitrust division, and other Justice Department Department headquarters in Washington, Mr. Stephenson and AT&T's general counsel, David McAtee, met with Makan Delrahim, the new assistant attorney general for the department's antitrust division, and other Justice Department department's antitrust division, and other Justice Department Department officials.