Sentences with phrase «justice department took»

The US Justice Department took exception to this collusion and a lengthy court battle has ensued.

Also, the Republican chairmen of two House committees say they're opening an investigation into actions the Obama administration Justice Department took during last year's presidential election.

At the Henry Horner Homes on the West Side, the U.S. Justice Department took over a gymnasium for a forum on Chicago's gang problems.

This summer, the Justice Department took the first public steps toward seizing $ 1 billion in assets that it says were moved to the United States after being taken from 1MDB by family and friends of Mr. Najib, the prime minister.

And when will the Justice Department take notice?

I'm wondering when the justice department takes a hard look at these businesses and starts talking anti-trust and anti-competitive behavior.

Not exact matches

The Justice Department (DOJ) took Edwards all the way to trial over payments some supporters made to his mistress, Rielle Hunter, in the lead - up to the 2008 election cycle.

«I have taken the position — and I don't have to take this position and maybe I'll change — that I will not be involved with the Justice Department.

The Justice Department investigation is still in its early days, and it could take years to determine if any federal laws were broken.

On Thursday, facing mounting pressure on his company from Congress, the Justice Department and others, a very serious - looking Zuckerberg took to Facebook Live and pledged to take a range of actions to make sure future elections, in the U.S. and elsewhere, will be safe from clandestine meddling.

Koch is particularly upset that the Justice Department allowed Big Beer to bulk up, first by approving the merger of Anheuser Busch and InBev and then by allowing Molson Coors to take full control of the MillerCoors joint venture when SABMiller got acquired by AB InBev.

Next week, the Department of Justice is taking AT&T (t) to court to block its $ 85 billion bid for Time Warner (TWC).

Adding insult to injury, shares of GE briefly fell below $ 14 each on Monday after news late Friday that the Justice Department could take action in connection with alleged subprime mortgage violations.

For now a Department of Justice internal bulletin has instructed that, unless border officers have a search warrant, they need to take protective measures to limit intrusions, and make sure their searches do not access travelers» digital cloud data.

The lawsuit, to be filed sometime late Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, the California state capital, will take aim at three state laws passed last year that the Justice Department contends violate a clause in the U.S. Constitution.

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

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.

He also wanted to know if the Department of Justice was pursuing a criminal case against Flynn, and expressed concern that firing Flynn could «interfere with the FBI taking action against» him.

Law enforcement sources say the Justice Department is likely to identify the tech firms once the extradition process — which is expected to take months — is over, and Rimasauskas faces a bail hearing in a U.S. court.

You should give back the money that you took while this scam was going on and you should be criminally investigated by both the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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.

Department of Justice lawyer Elizabeth Chasson said Loblaw Financial Holdings took steps to have Barbados - based Glenhuron Bank Ltd. appear to be a foreign bank in order to avoid paying tax.

In addition to congressional probes that are taking place into possible collusion between Trump's 2016 campaign team and Russia, the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday named former FBI Director Robert Mueller to investigate the matter.

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.

«Apple has such a close connection to the devices it sells that it can be compelled to step in and take control of the device,» the US Justice Department wrote.

Now, the U.S. Justice Department is taking sides in the legal fight — and not with the scrappy startup.

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.

Counsel to AT&T Inc. (T) and Time Warner Inc. (TWX) took aim at the economic projections underpinning the Department of Justice lawsuit to block their merger, in closing arguments on Monday afternoon.

It will call on the departments of Labor, Justice, Homeland Security and State to take action to crack down on what the official called «fraud and abuse» in the U.S. immigration system to protect American workers.

Trump's specific criticism of Sessions here makes no sense, but the bigger picture is that, as he's said repeatedly, he wants the Justice Department to do more to investigate his political enemies and is annoyed that Sessions won't take a greater personal role in doing so.

But even he was taken aback by the speed with which the FBI, Justice Department and others moved to comment on the situation.

One such meeting took place recently at the Justice Department in Washington.

While his advice wasn't always taken, Cobb repeatedly warned Trump to pull his punches and keep quiet on matters relating to the Justice Department and the investigation.

«I've taken this position that I will not be involved with the Justice Department,» Trump said, before adding he could change his mind at any time.

But now that the Department of Justice is suing AT&T to block its proposed acquisition of Time Warner, Stephenson's profile has only increased: Now he's directly taking on the Trump administration in a high - stakes fight with important implications for the rest of the technology and media industries.

Government officials say it's not even yet clear which department will take the lead on the bill — Natural Resources, Finance or Justice.

We took a look at FINRA data to see if the dark pools of JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup were trading in their own stocks during the week in May when the U.S. Justice Department announced the banks were each admitting to a felony charge.

«The parties involved in the transaction apparently took extreme measures to ensure that their identities would not be disclosed,» CREW wrote in its complaint to the Justice Department and the Office of Government Ethics.

The FBI takes seriously its obligations to the FISA Court and its compliance with procedures overseen by career professionals in the Department of Justice and the FBI.

The US Justice Department says at least US$ 4.5 billion was stolen from 1MDB by associates of Najib, and it is working to seize US$ 1.7 billion taken from the fund to buy assets in the US, potentially its largest asset seizure ever.

CEO Mark Bertolini took to Aetna's website to address the U.S. Justice Department's criticism of the deal and a $ 54 billion proposal...

The UK bank took a 1.4 billion pound hit in the quarter from its settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over the sale of toxic mortgage - backed securities.

Because no legal action can be taken against him in France, French Nazi hunters have come to the U.S. to get our Justice Department to punish Bettencourt by prohibiting him from entering the country, much as was done with Kurt Waldheim, erstwhile UN General Secretary and President of Austria.

The seal of the Justice Department is also that of the Office of the Attorney General, and judging from his review of The Ethics of Interrogation, former attorney general Michael Mukasey takes the motto seriously and believes in the efficacy of the arrows.

The justice and education departments said in a joint statement late on Wednesday that they «withdrew guidance for educational institutions, issued in 2015 and 2016, that took the position that the prohibitions in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and implementing regulations against discrimination on the basis of sex require access to sex - segregated facilities on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex.»

Zylka pointed out though, the holding center has already been the subject of a federal Department of Justice review and over the past few years has taken major steps forward to address perceived flaws in the system.

Former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara took a shot at Trump's Justice Department, questioning its judicial independence in light of efforts by former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani to persuade «senior officials» to help him free a jailed businessman being prosecuted by Bharara's old office.

Yet shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan pointed out that there is a «black hole» in the department, and that today's National Audit Office report revealed there was a # 130m loss of savings, since the Tory - led government took over 28 months ago, as a result of sentencing reforms not going ahead.

Oral arguments are scheduled to take place in the U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday in a years - long civil litigation over the U.S. Department of Justice's failure to fully release under FOIA records about the prosecution of activists over their activism.