Sentences with phrase «allegations against senator»

«There are no allegations against Senator Peralta who is not involved in the filing of allowances, which is spelled out in statute,» IDC spokeswoman Candice Giove said.

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Smith, previously Minnesota's lieutenant governor, was appointed to serve as her state's senator following the resignation of Al Franken, who became embroiled in controversy after several women came forward with sexual harassment allegations against him.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Two Republican senators say their party should immediately consider returning contributions from casino mogul Steve Wynn in light of sexual harassment allegations against him.

Two Republican senators say their party should consider returning donations from Republican National Committee finance chair and casino mogul Steve Wynn in light of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

The Department's Office of Special Investigations says it is «reviewing the allegations» against Mr. Bettencourt after being pressured by Governor Pataki and Senator D'Amato of New York.

While calling on Misau to withdraw his allegations against the police, the governor also asked the police to restrain from making further statements on the matter or taking further action against the senator.

Schneiderman's Upper West Side neighbors and former constituents from when he was a state senator are particularly bewildered by the allegations against him, wondering if they ever really knew him at all.

«The allegations made against Senator Klein are serious and credible, and we therefore strongly agree with those who have called for an independent investigation.

New York's junior senator said she believes Congress should hold Trump accountable for the numerous allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against him, and hold hearings if he's unwilling to resign.

«We have spent the last week listening to Senator Espaillat and Councilman Rodriguez launch terrible attacks, malicious, vicious and false allegations against the hardworking men and women at the New York City Board of Elections,» he said.

But Cuomo would not say whether he agrees with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on whether President Donald Trump should resign because of sexual harassment and assault allegations first made against him last year.

That was the title of outspoken State Senator Rubén Díaz, Sr.'s latest «What You Should Know» statement that very directly compared allegations placed against President Bill Clinton to those against Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

«We have allegations against a sitting US senator, we have a Senate candidate who has engaged in behavior — allegedly harassing high school students,» she said.

Alimikhena, who is also the Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, said the IGP was summoned on October 16 to answer allegations made against him by Senator Isah Misau (APC - Bauchi).

On Thursday night, Klein's office released a letter the senator wrote to JCOPE asking for the agency to investigate the allegations against him.

Gillibrand was the first senator to formally call for the resignation of Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) after seven different women came out with sexual harassment allegations against him.

Controversial Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu has said he does not care if Gbenga Daniel, former governor of Ogun state, exist, describing the allegation levelled against him by the ex governor as a «hoax».

Topics addressed in his Q&A include the Brooklyn child stabbings and the absence of cameras in the NYCHA building where they occurred, the IDC and his relationship with state Senator Jeff Klein, the UFT contract, recent allegations of wrongdoing against former Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes, Willets Point development, consistency of standards among the many community based organizations providing pre-K services, the Rangers Stanley Cup appearance and his long - delayed move to Gracie Mansion.

The Senate ad hoc committee investigating allegations of corruption and misconduct by Senator Isa Misau against the Inspector - General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, will sit on Tuesday.

To arrogate to itself the powers to simply dump people in jail indefinitely is, to say the least, uncivilized and barbaric; to hang serious allegations against a person without proof of evidence, as the judge noted in the case of Senator Bala Mohammed, is malicious, callous and unacceptable; and to constrain citizens with brazen impunity, in defiance of court orders, is to send a wrong signal to Diaspora Nigerians and other foreign investors who, paradoxically, our President and his ministers, have been courting assiduously, that the law can not protect both they and their investments.

We have allegations against a sitting U.S. senator.

Franken's support among his fellow Democrats cratered today as a host of female Democratic senators called upon him to resign and more women came forward with allegations against him.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand urged Trump to step down over the «credible» and «numerous» allegations of sexual harassment against him, joining a fellow Democratic senator — New Jersey's Cory Booker — who made a similar plea on Sunday.

The office of the AGF had on October 10, 2017, filed two separate charges against Senator Misau for making false allegations against the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.

«Except for interests other than the ends of justice underlying the pending charge against Senator Hamma Misau, we hereby call on the prosecution to play its prosecutorial cards face up, as we shall gladly love to meet them in court to articulate our robust defence against the obviously spurious allegations against the distinguished sSenator Hamma Misau, we hereby call on the prosecution to play its prosecutorial cards face up, as we shall gladly love to meet them in court to articulate our robust defence against the obviously spurious allegations against the distinguished senatorsenator.

Ali Ndume was suspended for six months by the senate committee on ethics and privileges headed by Senator Anyanwu, for making false allegations against his colleagues.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulationsenator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulationSenator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulationSenator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulationSenator and keep him out of circulation»

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is seeking a federal Department of Justice investigation into the U.S. Olympic Committee's handling of sexual abuse allegations against a former team doctor.

The EFCC had, based on an allegation of N1.5 bn contract scam against Nwaoboshi, seized the senator's building located at 27, Marine Road, Apapa, Lagos.

Few days after Senator Dino Melaye made the allegation against the police and Kogi state governor, the Kogi state police command reportedly paraded some gangsters whom they said indicted one Mr. Melaye.

Democratic Sen. Michael Gianaris said he was «troubled» by the allegations against Skelos, adding: «Senator Skelos should now step down as Majority Leader for the good of our state and in the interest of allowing the remaining weeks of our legislative session to proceed without distraction.

The Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, speaks with TOLUWANI ENIOLA on the outcome of the party's recent convention, corruption allegations against former President Goodluck Jonathan, zoning structure of the party and the 2019 polls

Additional charges against him included allegation that he continued to receive salary and emoluments as governor of Kwara State after the expiration of his tenure and at the same time, from the Federal Government as a Senator between June 2011 and October 2013.

Senator Al Franken (D-MN) will make an announcement on Thursday following calls from at least 16 Democratic senators to resign in the wake of numerous sexual harassment allegations against him.

Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE (D - N.Y.) on Monday slammed the GOP for its «near silence» on sexual misconduct allegations against former Republican National Committee (RNC) finance chairman Steve Wynn.

Senator James Inhofe, who has long championed Mr. Pruitt, now says he'd like to see an investigation into the ethical allegations against his protégé.