Sentences with phrase «about alleged efforts»

Sharpton has fulminated about alleged efforts to obstruct blacks from voting in the past, most recently during the Democratic primary for retiring Congressman Charles Rangel «s seat, which saw Dominican - American State Senator Adriano Espaillat defeat African - American Assemblyman Keith Wright.

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The report alleged Trump's private attorney, Michael Cohen, had paid $ 130,000 in hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign — an effort to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter between then - businessman Trump and Daniels.

Trump — who previously said he was not aware of the $ 130,000 Cohen paid to Daniels before the 2016 election in an effort to keep her quiet about an alleged affair between her and the President — denied on Thursday that any campaign money was used to reimburse Cohen and said he was paid via retainer.

Among the materials they sought were communications between the two men about efforts to tamp down negative publicity about Trump during the campaign and details about a payment Cohen made to an adult - film star who alleged she had a sexual relationship with Trump years earlier.

While the neonatal nurse practitioner documented excellent notes from our face - to - face report about preceding events, two days later upon discharge, the report read that the baby laid without heart rate and resuscitation efforts for forty minutes under the care of «an alleged midwife» until arrival of paramedics.

The alleged lack of scientific studies and the amount of clinical judgment involved in concussion management, and the lack of uananimity, either about grading the severity of concussions or in return to play guidelines, while it complicates our efforts to educate parents on concussions, should not be used as an excuse to do nothing.

Asked about the middle - man in an alleged bribery scandal — Jona Rechnitz — who also made six - figure donations to the mayor's political efforts, Hizzoner said his campaign team had vetted him as much as possible.

During an event on Long Island, the Democratic governor fielded questions about the political storm regarding his top aide Larry Schwartz's alleged efforts to stop the Moreland Commission from issuing subpoenas to groups linked to the governor.

While the population of the city's jails is lower than ever, there has been an increased focus on them, following news stories about brutality at the hands of correction officers, a rise in inmate - on - inmate violence, efforts to end or reduce solitary confinement and a federal lawsuit that alleged a «culture of violence» in the city's jails.

However, his intimate personal ties to Percoco, his tight control over the state university board, his past efforts to obstruct State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's oversight of SUNY contracting and the hundreds of thousands of dollars his campaign has reaped from the parties charged have raised countless questions about his awareness of the alleged illegal dealings.

(10) Did Ed Miliband ask Tom Baldwin about his alleged role in efforts to illegally secure confidential information from the US Drug Enforcement Agency?

(3) When Ed Miliband hired Tom Baldwin to be his Director of Communications, did he ask him about his past journalistic practices, including whether he authorised or was part of efforts to break into Conservative Party bank accounts, as alleged by Lord Ashcroft?

On March 18, about a month after it received the request for an inquiry, the Ethics Board separately interviewed McKenna and Magarelli in what all parties agree was a fact - finding effort to determine whether the complaint alleging impropriety had merit.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

While the US courts hear arguments about alleged price fixing and anti-trust issues between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers» effort to reduce Amazon's hold on the ebook industry, a similar investigation has been going on in the EU over the same accusations.

But Gelbspan's more recent unwise comment was one that appeared at his personal page on October 31st (click on the «1 comment» link there, also captured in this screencapture for posterity) where he was commenting on a New York Times article which speculated about the outcome of the New York state attorney general's efforts to look into Exxon's alleged coverup of «what they knew about the certainty of man - caused global warming and when they knew it»:

In one case, it appears that the Chinese government may have targeted several Canadian law firms in an apparent effort to derail a $ 40 billion acquisition.11 In another, a firm's managing clerk is alleged to have accessed inside information about the firm's clients as part of an insider - trading scheme.12 Also, it recently was revealed that hackers working for the Chinese military targeted one company for information useful in ongoing litigation.13 Failure to secure such data from malicious employees, cyber-attacks, or carelessness can cause drastic reputational damage as well as liability.

Yet along with the retail investors» continuing efforts, the fallout continues; the City of Hamilton filed a statement of claim in Ontario Superior Court in September alleging it was misled by Deutsche Bank about the risk involved in its purchase of $ 10 million worth of ABCP.