Sentences with phrase «after federal authorities»

The arrests came two days after federal authorities arrested state Sen. Malcolm Smith in an alleged plot to bribe his way into the New York City mayor's race.

One week after federal authorities announced they had uncovered two suspected bribery plots in Queens and the Bronx, Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a legislative initiative designed to give the state's 62 district attorneys more power to prosecute corruption cases.

On May 1, the CJNG carried out attacks in Guadalajara after federal authorities staged an operation against the cartel's leader, Nemesio Oseguera.

Not exact matches

According to The New York Times, Giuliani «used his clout with the Justice Department to press the federal authorities to offer a less onerous punishment to the company after allegations that security problems at its warehouses might have contributed to black market sales.»

The news of the accident didn't come out until last week, when it was reported by federal highway authorities — six weeks after the offering.

The issue came to the fore after Apple Inc. and the U.S. government clashed over whether federal authorities could force Apple to create software to unlock a phone used by a shooter in the San Bernardino attacks last year.

Federal authorities arrested Mr. Aleynikov three years ago after Goldman reported him to the United States attorney in Manhattan.

Federal authorities did not specify exactly what they're investigating, but reports after his hotel, office, and home were raided suggest authorities are looking at potential bank fraud, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations.

Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

Federal authorities have charged the founders of Centra Tech with securities and wire fraud, shortly after their ICO was shut down by the SEC.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration offered the testing after a Department of Investigation probe last year found the city's housing authority had failed to conduct lead inspections for four years, violating city law and federal rules.

Astorino, speaking with reporters on Monday after addressing the Conservative Party's annual confab in Albany, pointed to a federal law that gives the Department of Energy authority over the closure of nuclear power plants.

With law enforcement officials aggressively pursuing gang members on Long Island after a recent spate of homicides by the transnational gang MS - 13, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a class - action lawsuit on Friday that federal authorities had gone too far.

In March, Governor David Paterson, a Democrat, said an «apolitical» method would be used to pick a new supplier after state and federal authorities began probing whether Aqueduct Entertainment Group had won the lucrative contract to assist one of Paterson's political allies, the Rev. Floyd Flake, who is a former congressman.

Senate Republicans have been in turmoil this month after their top member, Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, disclosed that federal authorities have been investigating his outside consulting business for several months.

Former Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson turned himself in to federal authorities Monday, after being accused in a nine - count indictment of embezzling nearly half a million dollars from mortgage foreclosure accounts, and then trying to cover it up.

Speaking to newsmen immediately after withdrawing the quit notice issued to Igbos, spokesperson of CNG, Abudl - Azeez Suleiman, said, «In the meantime, we shall firmly pursue our petitions to the United Nations and the Nigerian federal authorities calling for the appropriate sanction of Nnamdi Kanu, other IPOB leaders and their sponsors in addition to labelling them a terror outfit.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who turned himself in to federal authorities on corruption charges Monday, will remain as the head of the Senate, his republican members announced after a more than three hour closed door meeting Monday night.

Three weeks after the Moreland Commission — which Governor Cuomo founded in 2013 — was due to release its report on public corruption in New York State, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal authorities on charges of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks.

Construction of an urgently needed rail tunnel under the Hudson River became more likely after NJ Gov. Chris Christie and Gov. Andrew Cuomo endorsed a plan for the two states and the Port Authority to cover half of the project's expected $ 20 billion cost — as long as the federal government covers the other half.

Construction of an urgently needed rail tunnel under the Hudson River appears to have suddenly become much more likely after Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo yesterday endorsed a plan for the two states and the Port Authority to cover half of the project's expected $ 20 billion cost, with the federal government being asked to pay the other half.

The Long Island Republican, who faces corruption charges after he surrendered to federal authorities last Monday, has a tenuous hold on power, however.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday will try to return to a semblance on normalcy, a day after their majority leader surrendered to federal authorities on corruption charges alongside his son.

The resolution was submitted earlier this month by Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, shortly after President Donald Trump threatened to defund municipalities that did not cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Congress has dropped plans to slash mass transit funding for «high density» states such as New York, meaning the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority will not be losing $ 3.6 million annually in federal aid after all.

A senior FBI agent was removed from the staff of Russia special counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year after Justice Department investigators began reviewing whether the agent exchanged messages critical of Trump, federal authorities said.

Local authorities teamed up with the FBI and federal prosecutors to identify White, and managed to nab him after running a surveillance photo of him from the dealership through the facial recognition system, according to acting Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez.

Former New York state Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson turned himself in to federal authorities Monday, after being accused in a nine - count indictment of embezzling nearly half a million dollars from mortgage foreclosure accounts, and then trying to cover it up.

DOT officials announced on Feb. 2 that all of the remaining signs would be taken down to make way for a new tourism campaign and signage — a day after Highway Administration acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT and New York State Thruway Authority officials, saying the federal government would withhold an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it gives New York annually for bridge and highway improvements.

The mayor fiercely defended his administration's refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in the majority of cases a day after Trump vowed to crack down on so - called «sanctuary cities.»

Federal authorities announced their largest - ever push for bus safety, shutting down 26 discount bus companies and assuming an aggressive new oversight stance after a series of deadly crashes.

Ahmad Khan Rahami vowed to martyr himself rather than be caught after setting off explosives in New York and New Jersey, and he'd hoped in a handwritten journal championing jihad that «the sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets,» authorities said as they filed federal terrorism charges against him.

But in making his announcement Tuesday afternoon, the governor said he doesn't believe federal authorities will expend limited resources to go after people complying with state law.

Just a day after state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed suit against State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada for «looting» his taxpayer - backed Soundview Health Clinic for more than $ 14 million to fund his own lavish lifestyle, state and federal authorities appeared at the facility with criminal search warrants.

PARKLAND, Fla. — The 19 - year - old suspect in a deadly rampage at a Florida high school was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder Thursday after being questioned for hours by state and federal authorities.

Sen. Jesse Hamilton (D - Brooklyn) is dropping the bill four weeks after investigators revealed that the New York City Housing Authority failed to conducted mandated lead paint inspections for four years and lied to the federal government about it.

But things quickly soured after de Blasio clarified that the money in his proposal could only be used for people who were not accused of committing certain crimes, specifically any offense listed among the 170 crimes which the city has deemed «deportable offenses» that would require law enforcement to turn over offenders to federal immigration authorities.

In 2015, long - serving State Senator Tom Libous forfeited his Senate seat after being found guilty of lying to the federal authorities.

(ABC / AP) President Donald Trump has called for bold action to improve school safety after last month's Parkland shooting, but a set of proposals the White House formally plans to endorse on Monday leaves most authority for reform up to the states and for consideration by a new federal commission...

Under the proposed Trump policy, cities would lose funding if undocumented and even legal immigrants are not reported to federal authorities for deportation after being charged with low - level criminal offenses, such as

The measure would come after more than 320,000 people have been left without heat or hot water this winter and following months of revelations that the housing authority had failed to conduct inspections for lead paint as required by federal rules and city law for four years.

What happens now after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been charged by federal authorities with bribery and mail fraud in connection with his official duties?

Last year, federal authorities began investigating a county contract awarded to VIP Splash Waterways Recovery Group after the company had contributed to the Hicksville Republican Committee — run by Mangano's chief deputy, Rob Walker — the day Walker signed the contract.

The 10 - kilowatt wind turbine was installed in 2010 at an initial cost of around $ 18,000 — the price after federal and Long Island Power Authority grants were factored in.

In January 2013, not long after Adam Skelos's rocky call with the supervisor, federal authorities say that Senator Skelos called the chief executive of the malpractice insurance company, demanding to know why Adam Skelos was being «harassed.»

Narrator: After a string of similar guerrilla actions, Cuomo in January 2016 decided to shut down the New York - Canada border, a usurpation of federal authority that the rest of the nation was too wrapped up in the Super Bowl season to notice.

As well as taking on the big poker companies, federal authorities had gone after people operating smaller games.

OMB's role in the budget process does not end when Congress passes and the President signs the annual appropriations bills (or, in more recent years, the continuing resolutions to provide funding for a limited period of time after the fiscal year until the appropriations bills are agreed upon).195 OMB is intimately involved in budget execution — the way federal agencies carry out their work under the budgetary authority they have been granted.196 OMB affects budget execution through two different levers: the formal specification lever, through which it «apportions» and otherwise defines how agencies spend the funds Congress has appropriated, and the informal monitoring lever, through which it oversees agencies» implementation of their programs.

Politics K - 12 explained that it represents an about - face after a quarter century of increasing federal authority.

The scope of this authority is remarkable: After the New Deal, the Code of Federal Regulations had about 18,000 pages; today, it's 175,000 pages.