Sentences with phrase «justice official for»

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(Officials from the federal government's ministries of finance, industry, and justice did not respond to requests for interviews.)

Elliott served the South Korean justice ministry a notice of intent in mid-April seeking arbitration of the dispute, the official said, a step before filing with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a forum to resolve such cases.

Citing anonymous government officials, the New York Times is reporting that federal prosecutors with the FBI and the Department of Justice have recommended that Petraeus be charged with a felony for providing classified information to his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell, who was also an Army Reserve 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.

In his 1994 study on securities lawbreaking for the Justice Department, Schlegel found that while officials were talking tough about locking up insider traders, there was little evidence to suggest that the punishments imposed — either the incarceration rates or the sentences themselves — were more severe.

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.

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.»

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

EXCLUSIVE: A senior Justice Department official was demoted this week amid an ongoing investigation into his contacts with the opposition research firm responsible for the anti-Trump «dossier,» the department confirmed to Fox News.

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.

Later, a Justice Department official told Fox News: «It is unusual for anyone to wear two hats as he has done recently.

The president also complained about Session's decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, a longtime sticking point for Trump, who felt that his top Justice Department official should have done more to protect him.

That's the question of the day for media executives, government officials and investors, occasioned by a Wall Street Journal story which said the U.S. Department of Justice may sue to block the deal.

Meanwhile, Rachel Brand, the third - ranking official at the Department of Justice, also stepped down — for fear that she would have to manage the Russia probe if her superior, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, were to quit or be fired.

«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].»

US officials refused to prosecute HSBC for money laundering in 2012 because of concerns within the Department of Justice that it would cause a «global financial disaster», a report says.

The extraordinary criticism raised questions about whether Trump was seeking to drive his top Justice official from office as a way to wrest control of the investigation from Mueller, who was appointed after Sessions» recusal for failing to immediately disclose his meetings with Kislyak.

A majority of the Justices went so far as to proclaim, «The Free Exercise Clause commits government itself to religious tolerance, and upon even slight suspicion that proposals for state intervention stem from animosity to religion... all officials must remember their own high duty to the Constitution.»

As for Justice Stevens himself, it is an arresting fact that in the animal sacrifice case he joined the opinion announcing the constitutional requirement that public officials disassociate themselves from antireligious measures.

A certain tension is built into their official canons of ethics, e.g., «A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.»

Yesterday marked the official opening of Montgomery, Alabama's new National Memorial for Peace and Justice, conceived and built by the Equal Justice Initiative.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

«DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same - sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others,» Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.

(It is, however, part of the official oath for federal judges and justices and several other federal employees.)

• In Alabama, state Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore said that officials are not «required» to issue licenses for 25 days.

There is much to be said, for instance, on behalf of Justice Kennedy's complaint that the decision deprives the people of California of the right to govern themselves by referenda, if the losers of a plebiscite can challenge the outcome and, with the collusion of friendly state officials unwilling to defend the people's will, win in court what they can not win at the ballot box.

Instead, however, and as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more living ardour of Christian inspiration as a basis of individual life; an absolute conviction that the moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he does not come in conflict with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course does justice to universal regulative principles but can not wholly be deduced from them solely by explicit casuistry.

Verse 8 outlaws the use of that all - pervading instrument for the perversion of justice, the bribe, which «blinds the officials» and subverts righteousness.

Even if the justices were able to see on the basis of the French achievement that the political divisions they fear from religious controversy are not inescapable in today's democratic society, their own need for consistency as they fashion the developing common law would still prevent them from reversing themselves soon enough to enable the American people to take effective official action to save nonpublic education.

As we watch the comedic behavior of some of our elected officials in Washington D. C., we long for the return of Jesus when He will rule and reign over all the earth with righteousness and justice.

February 22 — The next round of sentencing has begun in the US Department of Justice case against football's corrupt officials and marketing partners with Panama - based Mimo International Exports and Imports ordered to pay a fine and restitution totalling $ 1.4 million for bribing Costa Rica's former FA president Eduardo Li (pictured).

Coffey confirmed Wednesday that he had met with a U.S. Justice Department official regarding the park district «s consent agreement to increase funding for facilities in minority neighborhoods.

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.

At a union hall rally today, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the official kickoff of the «Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice,» or as the twitter handle calls it, «@Fightfor15NY.»

President Trump acknowledged publicly for the first time today that he was under investigation in the expanding inquiry into Russian influence in the election, and he appeared to attack the integrity of the Justice Department official in charge of leading it.

«In the light of the foregoing, our client has instructed us to serve you notice of its intention to institute legal proceeding against the State as a result of the wrongful interference by State officials with our client's right to» prospect on its concession and also a breach of its right to administrative justice, the latter cause of action resulting from the seizure and - detention of trucks without, due process as well as recover all sums of money our client must pay to Engineers an Planners by reason of the actions of die State officials responsible for the seizure and detention of the trucks.»

A longtime North Syracuse village justice, Robert J. Bertrand, 65, was found dead Monday after not showing up for court, state court officials said.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

The Queens District Attorney's Office has resisted any calls for substantive criminal justice system reform, because no elected official dares to stand up to District Attorney Brown or the powerful Democratic Party county committee that supports him.

WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic leaders on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee agreed Tuesday to subpoena a Justice Department official who didn't show up for the panel's hearing on the 2020 Census.

Pigeon — who for decades has quietly assisted candidates, companies and sitting officials as they navigate the labyrinthine factions of Erie County politics — was arraigned the day after the judge, state Supreme Court Justice John Michalek, resigned from office and pleaded guilty to accepting bribes.

Environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Alliance for a Greater New York and the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance have also fought against the bill but they too lobby elected officials on a variety of issues.

According to Mr. Osei - Wusu, the MP's alleged participation in that programme and the comments he made against the Chief Justice, were improper for a public official.

One of the counts reads: «That you Nwobike, on the 19th day of March, 2015 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, intentionally gave the sum of N750, 000 to Hon. Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa of the Federal High Court directly through your United Bank for Africa Plc Account No. 1002664061 in order that the said Judge acts in the exercise of his official duties».

The Department of Investigation assisted with the matter, and DOI Commissioner Mark Peters said in a statement that Friday's sentencing represented «a measure of justice for the brutal acts perpetrated by former correction employees, including high - ranking officials.»

September 28, 2006: For the past year and a half, Maxine Russell has been knocking on official doors in China and the United States, seeking justice for her late son DarrFor the past year and a half, Maxine Russell has been knocking on official doors in China and the United States, seeking justice for her late son Darrfor her late son Darren.

The monitor insists, and Obama's Department of Justice agrees, that Westchester County officials must not only obtain financing for new low - income housing developments in Chappaqua, but must suppress local opposition to the project, the National Review article goes on to say.

I believe policy can be advanced most effectively when an elected official works with all groups that can be affected and who stand for justice — I would include people with disabilities at the table when crafting legislation that I sponsor or co-sponsor, as they would represent the largest minority group in the U.S.

Instead, officials said, the bills, known collectively as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, seek to balance the goal of fairer punishment, laid out by Melissa Mark - Viverito, a Democrat who is the Council speaker, with the Police Department's desire to maintain the discretion that officers use in making arrests, for even seemingly trivial offenses, when they deem it necessary.

Detective James Miller, official spokesman for the Albany Police Department, promised swift and certain justice.