Sentences with phrase «us justice department»

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

After his stint at Verizon, Pai had gone to work in various roles at the Senate judiciary committee (advising Jeff Sessions and Sam Brownback) and at the justice department, before becoming FCC deputy general counsel in 2007.

The Justice Department's application for the search warrant for Rosen's Gmail account reveals the extent of the administration's Orwellian maneuvers.

Trump's memo on Tuesday directed the Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions to «dedicate all available resources to complete the review» and propose a rule banning the devices.

«It isn't like the Justice Department is trying to get money.

Moore, the congresswoman from the district, tweeted that the Justice Department, with weeks to go until Trump's inauguration, told her they're considering an investigation into the deaths at the jail.

But Comey said the intense public interest in the matter — and permission from the Justice Department — made it appropriate to do so.

Under Justice Department guidelines, prosecutors must consider alternatives to search warrants by using the «least intrusive approach» to gathering evidence from an attorney's office.

The Justice Department says the merger could lead to $ 463 million in extra fees being passed along to cable subscribers each year.

Under Justice Department regulations, Mueller must consult with Rosenstein about how to handle evidence and matters that may fall outside his jurisdiction.

To avoid such a danger, the Justice Department creates a «taint team» of lawyers not involved in the case to review records and decide which ones shouldn't be seen by prosecutors on the case.

It included an amendment that prevents the justice department from using funds to go after medical marijuana.

... I see the Justice Department basically saying «open season, let's just sue them everywhere.»»

The FTC, which works with the Justice Department to enforce antitrust law, said that Qualcomm used its dominance in supplying baseband processors used in smartphones and tablets to extract elevated royalties for patents in what the complaint dubbed a «no license - no chips» policy.

Thursday Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Justice Department would be reversing several Obama - era rules pertaining to states that legalized marijuana.

In late March, Barclays agreed to pay just $ 2 billion in settling its case around mortgage - backed securities with the U.S. Justice Department.

The Justice Department's civil case filings say more than $ 700 million was transferred from bank accounts used in the money laundering to the bank account of «Malaysian Official 1.»

I've never seen the Justice Department do this, other than with Hoffa,» he said, likening Holder to Robert F. Kennedy and suggesting that like the investigations of the infamous Teamsters boss, the bank may not be getting its due process.

In addition to asking McGahn to contact the Justice Department about convincing Comey to exonerate him, Trump also personally appealed to Comey to do the same, and to let go of the bureau's investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, on multiple occasions in early 2017.

«With no prior notice to Congress, the Justice Department has trampled on the will of the voters in CO and other states,» Gardner said in a tweet on Thursday.

Between 2009 and 2014, top executives and associates of Najib looted $ 4.5 billion from the fund, laundering it through the U.S., Singapore, Switzerland and other countries, according to a U.S. Justice Department civil case seeking to recover part of that money.

But should the Justice Department prevail in this case, it could throw a cold blanket on that enthusiasm.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had directed the Justice Department to propose a ban on devices that modify guns, such as so - called bump stocks, which increase the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms.

That, combined with a streak of hubris, brought a decade - long antitrust battle between the company and the U.S. Justice Department, as well as 20 state attorneys general.

A U.S. Justice Department task force recently said the Cole Memorandum, which restricts federal marijuana law enforcement in states where pot is legal, should be reevaluated to see if it should be changed.

Inmates spend an average of about 23 hours a day locked up alone in their cells, according to an audit of the U.S. Justice Department.

However, the Financial Times reported that the Justice Department's primary demand is for the sale of CNN, a leading cable news network that has frequently drawn the ire of President Donald Trump, who refers to the network and its journalists as «fake news» on a regular basis.

The U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against a unit of Panasonic for falsifying financial books and records to conceal payments to sales agents.

The two deals are being reviewed by the Justice Department.

Politico reports that sources say the Justice Department has not explicitly demanded that AT&T sell CNN along with the rest of Turner, but that the company is interpreting regulators» request for «structural remedies» as pressure to shed the cable news network.

As one expert explained, the Justice Department's case against Cohen, and possibly Trump, is «much stronger» than the case against Edwards, which he said was «rightly» prosecuted.

For example, the Justice Department wants to make sure pot profits in states where marijuana is legal are not being funneled to gangs or cartels.

In his letter, Sessions opposed an amendment by Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer and California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher that prevents the Justice Department from interfering with states» medical marijuana.

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.

«Again, I don't know what happened there with the interaction between the AP and the Justice Department.»

Should the Justice Department move to block the deal, it would come as something of a surprise, especially considering that the Justice Department's top antitrust regulator, Makan Delrahim, even said earlier this year that he did not think the deal presented a «major antitrust problem» due to the fact that neither of the two companies directly competes in the same spaces.

In April 2014, the Justice Department announced a new clemency initiative to prioritize applications from people who would have been gotten much shorter sentences if they were convicted today, among other criteria.

The slide to further consolidation only stopped in 2011, when the Justice Department and FCC put their collective regulatory foot down.

There is a recent case that provides a roadmap for what could happen to President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen after the FBI conducted raids on his office, home, and hotel as part of a Justice Department investigation.

It seems Comcast refused to agree to a breakup fee in the event that Justice Department regulators didn't agree to the deal going ahead.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit to challenge the deal in case an agreement can't be reached between the government and the companies.

Sufficient questions were raised for the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel with wide - ranging powers of inquiry — work that is only recently underway.

The Justice Department forces AT&T to get out of the computer business.

In 1974, the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against the company.

«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.

Trump's administration addressed one potential conflict when the Justice Department on Saturday said federal anti-nepotism laws do not prevent the president from appointing his son - in - law to his administration.

But, the president's oft - stated animus toward CNN and its reporting could also be seen as an obstacle to the deal's completion should the Trump administration's Justice Department ultimately opt to challenge the acquisition.

During the Obama administration, the Justice Department issued guidelines to help banks avoid federal prosecution when dealing with pot businesses in states where the drug is legal.

Since 2011, the Justice Department has effectively had a moratorium on capital punishment while it reviews death - penalty policy.

In trying to recover Snowden's unencrypted mail from the company, which did not keep Snowden's cryptographic key, the Justice Department got a court order forcing the company to turn over another key instead, one that would allow officials to impersonate the company's website and intercept all interactions with its users.