Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal office»

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In a report for the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Nicole and Mark Crain of Lafayette University explained that the per - employee cost of federal regulatory compliance was $ 10,585 for businesses with 19 or fewer employees, but only $ 7,755 for companies with 500 or more.

Federal prosecutors, report the Bloomberg writers, «are also investigating relationships between PBMs and large drug companies» and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan has ordered three makers of insulin to turn over documents regarding those relationships.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management — effectively, the government's human resources department — disclosed that it had fallen victim to a massive data breach that may affect roughly 4 million current and former federal employees.

BC's provincial government has made a concerted effort to make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and working with the federal government to expedite visas for skilled foreign workers.

With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys» offices, and state and local partners, it is the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud.

A National Innovation Foundation could be formed by either consolidating relevant offices at key research agencies or creating a lean entity dedicated to identifying opportunities and investing strategically to transform the best ideas across the federal agencies to products that can be made here in the U.S..

The acquisition would come a year after a U.S. federal judge thwarted a merger between Staples and peer Office Depot (odp) on antitrust grounds.

The firm is currently fielding both a federal lawsuit in Texas centering on Restasis as well as challenges from would - be competitors like Teva, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, and Akorn through the U.S. Patent and Trade Office's inter partes review (IPR) process.

In a letter filed in federal court in New York, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office said the deal included appointing a federal monitor to oversee the reforms at Rikers, one of the largest jail complexes in the country.

Federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office and the SEC have investigated Theranos over whether it misled investors, The Wall Street Journal reported in April.

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, enacting the bill would shrink the federal budget deficit by $ 175 billion by 2020, lift GDP by 5.4 % over the next 20 years, increase national productivity, balloon the workforce by about 5 % by 2033, raise the return on capital, and (although the CBO didn't put it this way) create a $ 46 billion windfall for entrepreneurs supplying security operations along the U.S. southern border.

Meet Sharon Virts - Mozer, the founder and CEO of FCi Federal, which provides «back office» services to federal government agencies like the State Department and U.S. CoastFederal, which provides «back office» services to federal government agencies like the State Department and U.S. Coastfederal government agencies like the State Department and U.S. Coast Guard.

For net neutrality to be officially repealed, the FCC must post the rules in the Federal Register while the U.S. Office of Management and Budget must sign off on the replacement protections that the FCC has proposed in its place.

The specific focus of the investigation and possible federal crimes have not been disclosed by the U.S. attorney's office, but in a filing on Friday they do confirm that Cohen is under federal criminal investigation.

To keep a step ahead of emerging scams, the Call Center also collaborates with a number of key leaders and community partners including the Attorney General's Office, the Federal Trade Commission, the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, the Washington State Crime Prevention Association, the Better Business Bureau, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

The panel consists of the heads of federal agencies, including the departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and State, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

The factors of this test are outlined by the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid office and are paraphrased below:

«This track record likely reflects his disturbing decision to close the environmental enforcement unit in his office while establishing a new litigation team to challenge EPA and other federal agencies,» the former EPA employees wrote in the letter, which was sent by the Environmental Integrity Project to all U.S. Senators.

According to documents obtained by Reuters, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency first directed five banks - which also include Citigroup Inc,, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co - to come up with these «recovery plans» in May 2010.

In his Fox interview Wednesday night, Giuliani referred to the FBI agents who searched Cohen's home, office and hotel room as «storm troopers,» a particularly harsh term, considering Giuliani once served as the U.S. attorney in New York, overseeing federal law enforcement agents.

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Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

Former federal prosecutors told POLITICO that Cohen's team likely intended to appeal to Wood by suggesting members of the tight - knit club of former and current employees of the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.

The U.S. Congress and the Obama administration took a step in the right direction last month by approving increased funding for the federal patent office to reduce the backlog of 1.3 million patents pending.

And then Katherine Archuleta, the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, was forced to resign last month after an attack by a group of hackers in China made off with a massive trove of personal information on federal employees, including many key intelligence operatives.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

JPMorgan's involvement in the rigging of foreign currency has now been looked at by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the U.S. Justice Department, the Federal Reserve, and the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority.

«The Office of Single Family Housing will endorse new loans under current multi-year appropriation authority in order to support the health and stability of the U.S. mortgage market,» according to a post on the federal Housing and Urban Affairs» website.

The SEC appreciates the assistance of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), recent changes to tax policy and the budget will increase the U.S. Treasury debt burden by a combined $ 1.8 trillion over 10 years ($ 1.46 trillion from tax policy and $ 320 billion related to the recent federal budget increase, on a «gross» basis).

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The investigation is being led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office.

Non-discrimination Statement: In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.

For Devine — Daley's top deputy in the state's attorney's office, former Chicago Park District Board president and now a highly respected trial lawyer in private practice — that could include a federal judgeship or even U.S. attorney in Chicago if Jim Burns steps down.

Ultimately, if a parent continues to be dissatisfied with the plan as implemented by the school district, s / he can seek redress with the Office of Civil Rights (U.S. Department of Education), and beyond that, with the federal courts.

At 12:15 p.m., concerned citizens, led by Altamont Main Street USA and including members of MoveOn.org, Citizen Action of NY, the Working Families Party and others gather outside the offices of U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand for a peaceful rally in opposition to Trump's cabinet appointees, Leo O'Brien Federal Building, N. Pearl Street and Clinton Avenue, Albany.

Specifically, these modern tribunes would be entitled to veto one piece of congressional legislation, one executive order and one Supreme Court decision; to call one national referendum, over any issue they wish (only two - thirds votes of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may render the statute unconstitutional); and to initiate impeachment proceedings against one Federal official from each of the three branches of government during their term of office.

SAUGERTIES — U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey has a financial interest in the Partition Street Project, which is to be constructed within the village for which he secured $ 800,000 in federal funding for a sewer infrastructure project his office called «critical to the village's commercial future.»

Bellone repeatedly cited Sini's work, telling Catsimatidis that his hand - picked top cop helped reestablish partnerships with federal law enforcement agencies, included the FBI and U.S. attorney's office, that went mostly neglected under the troubled tenure of former Chief of Police James Burke.

The federal probe is being led by the FBI and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office, and began with a corruption tip involving Philip Banks, the then NYPD Chief of Department.

The U.S. Attorney's office says more than $ 9.6 million in assets seized in an international internet gambling takedown is being distributed to law enforcement agencies in New York and Florida as well as the federal government.

California plans to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so - called sanctuary cities, a spokesperson for the state's attorney general office said.

U.S. Attorney Bharara praised the work of the Criminal Investigators of the United States Attorney's Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who jointly conducted this investigation.

A judge's ruling set the primary date for June 26th, but only for federal offices: U.S. House and Senate races.

He was also charged with obstruction of justice for trying to get information about a 2011 federal mortgage fraud case against his unidentified crony from an administrative employee in the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office.

Other politically charged investigations underway in the Manhattan federal prosecutor's office include a probe of online communications between a teenage girl and former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, a Democrat.

Yet the initial surge of «Buffalo Billion» investment was clouded last year by federal indictments in a «pay - to - play» investigation led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office had registered high - profile corruption convictions against former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

From January 2011 to April 2014, Mr. Walsh «falsely reported to the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office that he had worked certain regular and overtime hours when, in fact, he did not,» according to a press statement issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Eastern District U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch.

Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of Long Island and his son Adam were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on six criminal counts — the same number offered in the criminal complaint filed three weeks ago by the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was indicted today by a federal grand jury, according to the office of the U.S. attorney of the Southern District of New York.