Sentences with phrase «affairs official in»
In the filing, prosecutors say Percoco made «threats» to state workers, including the former deputy commissioner of the Office of General Services and a public affairs official in the state Division of Homeland Security.
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American culture, I explained, judges extra-marital affairs very harshly, so a senior official caught in such a position could easily be subject to blackmail - something that a CIA director, of all people, must avoid.
Yannick Lamonde, an official within Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), received word in January last year of an impending report by a prominent non-governmental organization.
A reform committee led by Xi called on the Foreign Ministry to «forge a politically resolute, professionally exquisite, strictly disciplined foreign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20 years to reach that level.
A stony - faced Taliban official burst into laughter at the mention of the Petraeus affair during an interview with AFP in northwest Pakistan this week.
Emails obtained by Judicial Watch from the State Department through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit show that MacManus forwarded the news of Ambassador Christopher Stevens's death to the official in the State Department Legislative Affairs Office with instructions not to «forward to anyone at this point.»
The officials included in the meeting were Turkey's minister of foreign affairs, Mevlut Cavusoglu, and Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, who is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son - in - law.
While there are still some security concerns, electronic signatures are now widely used in private affairs, legal dealings, business transactions, and even as part of official government documents.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Trudeau aide Gerald Butts, Transport Minister Marc Garneau, and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr have reached out to American officials or the business community in recent days.
Nor, officials said, was Secretary of State Tillerson informed of the situation until days after the department's acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, Francisco Palmieri, finally called in the Cuban ambassador in Washington, José Ramón Cabañas, to present a diplomatic note of protest on Feb. 17.
For instance, Glaxo officials suggested Shi, who headed government affairs in China, had sent a video of Mark Reilly, who was the Glaxo chief executive in China at the time, having sex with his girlfriend to company officials in the UK.
Bob McDonald, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, is a rare breed in the Obama administration: An official who brought top - level corporate executive experience to the job.
«If you try to fight the rising power's peaceful ascent you sow big problems in the future,» said Fred Bergsten, a former top international affairs official at the U.S. Treasury and currently a fellow at the Peterson Institute in Washington.
The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.
«Our officials in the [Global Affairs] department, when they prepare memos for me, describe this U.S. administration as unconventional.
Reporters listen to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel during a news conference after a meeting with South Korea's senior officials at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul March 17, 2015.
The Minister for Consumer Affairs in India has directed the officials under his ministry to present a ground report on practices followed in displaying price and purity of gold ornaments by jewelers.
The ouster of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, who has been mired in scandal over his charging taxpayers for luxury travel expenses and the infighting among his senior aides, had been widely expected and was made official at 5:31 p.m. by presidential tweet.
President Donald Trump might fire any one of seven different Cabinet - level officials — Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt, or Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke — in the coming days.
BuzzFeed is arguing that the Daniels affair helps bolster the legitimacy of some of the claims in the dossier — specifically, that Cohen met with Russian officials in Prague and tried to pay them off to cover up the relationship between the Trump campaign and the people with ties to the Kremlin.
The father of a military veteran with PTSD who was shot by a guard at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Oregon says he feels betrayed by the VA and county officials.
These officials represent the people in guiding the affairs of state.
Perhaps Mark is interested in suggesting to whatever Roman officials who might read his gospel that the Roman power was relatively guiltless in the affair.
«This action seriously interfered with China's internal affairs,» said Ma Zhaoxu, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, in a statement, adding that officials have lodged formal complaints with their U.S. counterparts in Beijing and Washington.
Many of the key contributors became high ranking officials in the subsequent Bush administration, including the vice president, secretary of defense, deputy secretary of state, under secreatary of state for global affairs, the president's chief of staff, the president of the World Bank and the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and to the UN (amongst others).
U.N. officials are concerned the fighting could affect the ability to deliver humanitarian aid in Mogadishu, but it has not yet done so, Valerie Amos, under secretary - general for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said Monday.
The industry supports the official recommendations made in the report by the Senate's Rural and Regional Affairs and recommendations made in the report by the Senate's Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee» said the CEO, Mr Geoff Parker.
Each Regular, Associate, and International Member Company is required to specify the name of one primary and one secondary official to represent the company in all membership affairs.
«Aside from occasional rumors that float around about Granatelli's project, we hear very little conversation about the rotary engine,» says United Slates Auto Club official Dick King, a man deeply involved in affairs at Indy.
Or did the whole embarrassing affair result from mismanagement, misinformation and poor communications between U.S. team officials and the athletes in their charge?
Park District officials are hoping other residents, young and old, feel the same about the rink, which will be under construction in about two weeks at the recreation complex at 1000 W. Central Rd., said Steve Durlacher, Park District director of external affairs.
State Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew A. Beaton will join the Groundhog Day celebration at Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln Friday, Feb. 2, when Ms. G, the Official Groundhog of the Commonwealth, will make her annual prediction on the length of the remaining winter.
This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.
Clinton, meanwhile, who has a cut new image for herself as the lead foreign affairs official for the Obama administration, gets high marks from the state she represented in the U.S. Senate.
The secretary of veterans affairs, David Shulkin, the only holdover from the Obama administration, for a year enjoyed rare bipartisan support in Washington as he reformed his department, but now officials in the Trump administration are trying to replace him.
32BJ's involvement in drafting the legislation was so close that union officials jointly edited a Microsoft Word document with the proposed bill language with officials from the city's Department of Consumer Affairs.
The lawmakers had last week summoned US Envoy, Mr James Entwistle to appear before its ethics, priviledges and foreign affairs committee in futherance of allegations leveled against its three members who were on official programme in Cleveland, Ohio last April
At noon, Monroe County officials, in conjunction with the state Office for the Aging and New York State Division of Veterans Affairs, will present a forum to discuss long term care services and supports as well as other benefits available to veterans and their families, Brass Chandelier Room, Monroe Community Hospital, 435 East Henrietta Rd., Rochester.
Assemblymember Kavanagh currently Chairs American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, the State Caucus of Environmental Legislators, and the Assembly Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection In endorsing Rivera, Kavanagh joins a growing list of local progressive elected officials at all levels of government who have announced their support for the leading Democratic candidate.
Nine officials in de Blasio's office have civilian government - paid chauffeurs, including four deputy mayors, his chief of staff, his press secretary and director of intergovernmental affairs.
Hon. Edward Ennin speaking on Adom TV about a week ago alleged that he suspects official cover - up over the murder of the former Children Affairs Deputy Minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration.
In the September primary, Mr. Monserrate will face Francisco Moya, a government affairs official for Cablevision.
So far, nine police officials, including four deputy chiefs, have been transferred or stripped of their guns and badges as internal affairs detectives and FBI agents examine whether officers accepted gifts and trips from businessmen in exchange for police escorts, special parking privileges and other favors.
The Chairperson of Ghana's Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei is in the United Kingdom at the invitation of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) for an official engagement on Ghana's upcoming elections.
«One can not also overlook reports of official indiscretion in the cash for dinner seats affair.
Such talk, that the Common Council has no business in citywide affairs and those should be left to him, is the talk of tyrants, not democratically elected officials.
Kaiman, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in the Third District last year and once led the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, will head Suffolk's intergovernmental affairs and communications team, administration officials said Monday.
«Whether Mr. Silver engaged in extramarital affairs does not make it more or less likely, for instance, that he used his official position to obtain referrals from real - estate developers,» they said in written arguments.
Party officials and seasoned operatives who spoke to POLITICO in recent days have used words like «crisis» and «desperate» to describe the state of affairs, as the two potential gubernatorial candidates deemed the strongest have opted out and potential candidates for down - ballot races are non-existent.
«We understand that on 23 October 23 the home secretary asked you to consider whether the police should be invited to investigate the possible involvement of British officials in this affair.