Sentences with phrase «about the criminal probes»

There were two more failed attempts at the news conference to get the mayor to talk about the criminal probes of his fundraising practices.

Not exact matches

The DNC may have concerns about exactly how much justice and / or transparency it is going to obtain under the criminal probe into the same matter by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and wants its own civil RICO action to move forward in case the former turns out to be a dud investigation.

At the time of the meeting, Cohen was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who still are probing a $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.»

Of late, Cuomo has not been keen to talk about the commission or the probe, but disclosure reports show he has spent more than $ 100,000 on a criminal defense lawyer.

Questioned about its role lobbying the Office of the Mayor while representing de Blasio in the federal probe, the Kramer Levin spokeswoman noted that Berke — a criminal defense attorney — has never lobbied the mayor or any city agency.

When asked about the federal probe, Cuomo noted that the number of subpoenas issued in recent weeks does not mean that all served are suspected of criminal activity.

«The fact that we're even having a discussion about an ex-governor who resigned because he was part of a federal criminal probe and now he's running to be the chief banker of the city when he absolutely tried to segregate payments to avoid federal detection... there's just something wrong with that.»

MIDTOWN — One day after saying he would no longer speak about the federal probe into his fundraising activities, Mayor Bill de Blasio hired a white collar criminal lawyer to reach out to the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

The findings of the Warren County criminal probe comes as the state Attorney General's office has contacted Rensselaer County officials about their energy projects with Siemens.

Console releases are routinely self - censored for the German market without affecting the rest of the continent; and if this was about the depiction of Swastikas and Nazi salutes (which is illegal in Germany under the country's criminal code, Strafgesetzbuch, section 86a), why were the alien probe scenes edited out too?

Panasonic will pay about $ 143 million in disgorgement and pre-judgment interest to settle the SEC charges and an additional $ 137 million to resolve a related criminal probe by the Department of Justice.