Sentences with phrase «justice department officials»

A team of 55 attorneys, agents and analysts will be assembled quickly to try to speed up existing probes and launch new ones into the highly risky mortgage - backed securities that fell apart, Justice Department officials said Thursday.

Justice Department officials, for their part, argue that these gag orders are necessary to protect developing cases and to avoid tipping off potential targets.

Mr. Barge states, without explanation but apparently in an attempt to minimize Roberts» role, that Roberts was «one of six Justice Department officials who submitted the brief.»

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However, it is a stark reminder that the use of the overwhelming power of government to criminalize business executives — now even in death — is seriously out of hand, as even some prominent former Justice Department officials are now acknowledging publicly.

As Denniston also reported when the case was argued in April, a group of former top Justice Department officials, ex-prosecutors at the federal and state levels, and former judges asked the court to keep the Jackson decision intact, saying it had provided a «bright - line rule» that had become «embedded in routine police practice,» just as had the warnings requirement of Miranda v. Arizona.

A new legal opinion, written by two former Justice Department officials from the Antitrust Division, argues that a merger between Bayer and Monsanto would violate the Clayton Act, a law enacted by Congress to curb anti-competitive business practices.

The greatest impediment to Mr. Gonzales's being offered the kind of high - salary job being snagged these days by lesser Justice Department officials, many lawyers agree, is his performance during his last few months in office.

The announcements came after several weeks in which Justice Department officials had publicly spoken only of civil cases.

Various governmental entities have even issued subpoenas to banks and other companies that handle payments for an array of financial offerings, ramping up an investigation that has been under way for several months, according to Justice Department officials.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

Washington — U.S. Solicitor General Rex E. Lee is expected within the next few days to ask the Supreme Court to rule on the Education Department's (ED) legal authority to require states to reimburse it for Title I funds that were allegedly misspent prior to 1978, Justice Department officials said last week.

Justice Department officials said they needed more detailed information on every U.S. resident to prevent discrimination under the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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 three - and - a-half-page memo, written by Republican congressional aides, criticized information used by law enforcement officials in their application for a warrant to wiretap the former campaign adviser, Carter Page, and named the senior F.B.I. and Justice Department officials who approved the highly classified application.

Donations to the Clinton Foundation took a precipitous dive for a second year in a row as Justice Department officials mulled whether they would appoint a special prosecutor to probe the non-profit's «alleged unlawful dealings.»

Justice Department officials are taking a fresh look at Clinton's use of a private email server while she served as secretary of State.

Trump has decided to hire the longtime Washington lawyer Joseph E. diGenova, who has pushed the theory on television that Trump was framed by F.B.I. and Justice Department officials, to bolster his legal team.

Justice Department officials have so far been reticent to discuss whether the change will lead to a return to prosecutions for cannabis offences in states with legal markets.

The Justice Department officials say that they would not categorically rule out of consideration jurists who are personally opposed to abortion but acknowledge the legal right to abortion.

Justice Department officials did not immediately respond Tuesday to an inquiry about the Common Cause request.

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday refused to authorize the release of a Democratic rebuttal to a Republican intelligence committee memo alleging that FBI and Justice Department officials abused their power to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The Nunes memo alleges that FBI and Justice Department officials relied on an unsubstantiated dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of Page, who served on the Trump campaign's foreign policy advisory team.

A standoff between Justice Department officials and GOP lawmakers escalated Wednesday as President Donald Trump waded into a controversy over demands to release a highly sensitive document outlining who and what is being investigated by special counsel...

Depending on what it says, Trump could argue that it provides evidence of deep bias against him at the FBI and use it as a pretext to fire top Justice Department officials he perceives as insufficiently loyal, like Rosenstein.

«The memo's primary contention,» the Times writes, «is that FBI and Justice Department officials failed to adequately explain to an intelligence court judge in initially seeking a warrant for surveillance of Mr. Page that they were relying in part on research by [Steele].»

The Post's Brian Fung and Sari Horwitz: «Justice Department officials told AT&T that its $ 85 billion bid to acquire Time Warner is unlikely to be approved without major changes, a move that is driving the two sides toward a high - stakes legal battle over one of the biggest media deals in history.

That's what Justice Department officials in Washington are currently trying to decide.

Since then, Justice Department officials have publicly and privately indicated that they think they do not, in fact, have the authority to regulate the devices.

AT&T denied that version of events of the meeting with Justice Department officials.

High - level Justice Department officials and a magistrate judge had to conclude there was probable cause that Cohen had evidence of a federal crime, that he could not be trusted to hand over evidence voluntarily, and that there was reason to believe Cohen had voided his attorney - client privilege by «engaging in crime or fraud,» attorney Ken White writes.

A civil complaint filed by Justice Department officials in the United States said that some of the funds landed in the hands of Mr. Najib's friends and associates as well as officials and executives from Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund.

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 officials.

The committee posted the 10 - page document Saturday after weeks of wrangling between the panel's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, and Justice Department officials over the contours of classified material he hoped to release.

A different account emerged later: It was Mr. Stephenson who had offered to sell off CNN as part of a strategy to win governmental approval, according to two Justice Department officials who declined to speak publicly about the meeting.

Instead, it encouraged Justice Department officials to keep reviewing the Obama administration's more hands - off approach to enforcement, something Sessions has promised to do since he took office.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Alptekin said Flynn and his firm filed the registration under pressure from Justice Department officials.

The Obama administration also considered charging WikiLeaks and Assange, but Justice Department officials at the time decided that doing so would be problematic, since WikiLeaks arguably did the same thing that journalistic organizations like the Washington Post do.

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.

Collectively, the Justice Department officials said, these three laws improperly attempt to regulate federal immigration at the state level.

The Justice Department's planned lawsuit against California will target three state laws, senior Justice Department officials said on Tuesday in a press briefing.

President Donald Trump had planned on firing former FBI Director James Comey with or without a recommendation from top Justice Department officials, he said in an interview with NBC News Thursday.

Comey said he kept memos on his conversations with Trump — a move he said he did not do with two prior presidents or other top Justice Department officials — because he «was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting.»

That court issues warrants that allow Justice Department officials to wiretap individuals, a process that has been thrown into the spotlight amid the Russia investigation.

It's the second major hire by Uber's new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who in October appointed Tony West, PepsiCo Inc.'s general counsel and a former U.S. Justice Department official, as Uber's chief legal officer.

Trump quickly seized on the fact that the Russian «information warfare» effort, as it was dubbed by a top Justice Department official, began in 2014, before he declared his candidacy for president.

She said that she and another career Justice Department official met with McGahn and one of his associates in his office on January 26.

A Justice Department official told reporters on Monday that the merger would raise prices for consumers and potentially block creators of media content from distributing their product without paying more money.

A Justice Department official said Monday that the government made a «good faith» effort to resolve the harm to competition while allowing significant parts of the deal to move forward.

Citing reports that a Justice Department official's wife reportedly worked for a firm that paid for opposition research on Trump, Jay Sekulow told CNBC in a Tuesday interview that «I think these revelations require a special counsel to investigate.»