Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal prosecutors»

Nearly two months after U.S. federal prosecutors charged NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with espionage and theft of government property for blowing the lid off of the clandestine surveillance program, the company that secured Snowden's electronic communications with journalists and international -LSB-...]

One recent catalyst for change at airport checkpoints was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whom U.S. federal prosecutors accuse of attempting to detonate explosives stashed in his undergarments as Northwest Airlines Flight 253 descended toward Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Dec. 25, 2009.

Last year, U.S. federal prosecutors investigated Allergan's promotional practices and accused the company of «vigorously» marketing the potion for non-approved (or «off - label») uses, effectively seeding the market for future approvals.

On Wednesday, the U.S. federal prosecutors have filed civil lawsuits seeking to seize assets worth more than $ 1 billion, allegedly stolen from Malaysian state fund 1MDB, which has been under investigation for more than a year.

As attorney general, Sessions would be responsible for directing U.S. federal prosecutors on federal priorities and overseeing the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Bickert, a former U.S. federal prosecutor, posed questions, provided background and kept the discussion moving.

U.S. federal prosecutor Preet Bharara is currently probing that situation.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who is hearing the civil action brought by Waymo, asked federal prosecutors to investigate whether criminal theft of trade secrets had occurred.

He has since sued FBI agents and federal prosecutors, including the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan Preet Bharara, and the case was allowed to move forward earlier this year.

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.

In March, federal prosecutors charged two Russian intelligence agents and two hackers with masterminding a 2014 theft of 500 million Yahoo accounts, the first time the U.S. government has criminally charged Russian spies for cyber crimes.

The two sides were set to face off in court on Tuesday, but late on Monday a federal judge in Riverside, California, agreed to the government's request to postpone the hearing after U.S. prosecutors said that a «third party» had presented a possible method for opening an encrypted iPhone.

Russian operatives opened PayPal accounts to fund propaganda during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, federal prosecutors say

The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded last August that federal prosecutors no longer need to show a «meaningfully close personal relationship» between the provider of insider intel and the recipient of the tip.

She worked as a federal prosecutor in New York under then - U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, focusing on white - collar and organized crime.

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.

Blood - testing firm Theranos Inc confirmed on Monday it is under investigation by federal prosecutors and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

«Unregulated, unregistered exchanges are a very big concern for the industry and the community broadly,» said Kathryn Haun, a former federal prosecutor who is on the board of the U.S. virtual currency company Coinbase.

Now, the owners of some state - authorized marijuana dispensaries are hoping that the new guidance for federal prosecutors, issued Aug. 29 by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, will help remove banking and credit card roadblocks.

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.

A former U.S. Army sergeant and two other U.S. citizens were found guilty by a jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday of taking part in a plot to murder a woman in the Philippines for money, prosecutors said.

NEWARK, N.J. / BOSTON (Reuters)- Federal prosecutors said on Thursday they have charged five men responsible for a hacking and credit card fraud spree that cost companies more $ 300 million and two of the suspects are in custody, in the biggest cyber crime case filed in U.S. history.

Manhattan federal prosecutors told the judge who sentenced Dean and Adam Skelos last week that the government won't push for them to go to prison until at least three - plus months after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pending case on anti-corruption laws.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making aggressive law enforcement a top priority, directing his federal prosecutors across the country to crack down on illegal immigrants and «use every tool» they have to go after violent criminals and drug traffickers.

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara weighed in with his first official endorsement in a political campaign since his firing in March, backing a former assistant federal prosecutor who is running for Suffolk County district attorney.

Trump intends to nominate Acting U.S. Attorney Grant Jaquith to serve as the top federal prosecutor in a 32 - county region of upstate that includes Syracuse.

The case will be a test for the Democratic governor, but also for federal prosecutors in New York, where former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara brought a parade of indictments against people in state politics.

«The U.S. Attorney's statements violated no ethical rule, did not unfairly prejudice the defendant, and were consistent with the stated mission of the [Department of Justice],» Bharara's team wrote in a Manhattan federal court filing responding to Silver's motion to have the case tossed based on the prosecutor's post-arrest statements.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez on bribery and corruption charges after an earlier trial ended in a deadlocked jury last fall.

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.

ALBANY — Prosecutors and legal experts shook their heads last year after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed federal corruption laws.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan, led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, are looking at how SUNY Polytechnic Institute and its dependent subsidiary, the Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, let contracts for multi-million dollar factories in Buffalo and Syracuse.

As Gail Skelos, the ex-senator's wife and Adam's mother, passed Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was sitting in the back of the courtroom throughout the trial, she told the federal prosecutor: «You can go to hell.»

Bruno questioned the right of federal prosecutors like U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to look into state legislators» outside employment.

Battling federal prosecutors in U.S. District Court is not like facing an opponent to keep your seat in the state Legislature.

A former federal prosecutor, Katko stepped down from the U.S. Attorney's Office in January to enter the 24th District race.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the same federal prosecutor who brought down the leaders of the legislature, has been investigating, and on Friday evening Governor Cuomo revealed that subpoenas had been issued to a former top member of his staff, and a lobbyist who used to work for the governor when Cuomo was at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

But the far - reaching extent of the investigation by federal prosecutors, the FBI, and special Justice Department criminal investigators, working directly for Eastern District U.S. Attorney Robert Capers, has not been publicly reported, the sources said.

The charges against Percoco were brought by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was fired by the Trump administration last year along with other federal prosecutors.

Federal prosecutors and local district attorneys have brought some charges; one, Manhattan - based U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, has complained that someone other than him should be minding the store.

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

The U.S. attorney who originally brought the charges against Percoco, Preet Bharara, was fired by President Donald Trump last year in a nationwide purge of federal prosecutors.

U.S. prosecutors are recommending that former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver receive a sentence «substantially in excess» of 10 years in prison for his conviction on federal corruption charges late last year.

Prosecutors on U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's staff noted that at least 14 New York State legislators have been convicted of federal corruption - related crimes in the past ten years.

His previous job was as a federal prosecutor with the Eastern District of the U.S. Attorney's office, which covers Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Kaminsky's home turf, Long Island.

The revelations into the steps leading to Ahmad Khan Rahami's New York and New Jersey bomb spree came in court documents in which federal prosecutors charge him with using a weapon of mass destruction, bombing a public place and two other charges leveled by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York.

He said he did not meet with the U.S. attorney during his visit to Albany, though he downplayed the significance by saying governors typically don't have much interaction with federal prosecutors.

Cuomo also said he had ordered an internal investigation, parallel to the U.S. Attorney's inquiry, which is being headed by Bart Schwartz, a former federal prosecutor.

BREAKING: FIRST CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED IN BENGHAZI ATTACK PROBE... Federal agents and prosecutors investigating the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi have filed charges against Ahmed Khattalah, leader of a Libyan militia that officials believe was involved in the assault, people briefed on the investigation said.

Before his election to Congress, Katko served for more than 15 years as a federal prosecutor in Syracuse for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of New York.