Sentences with phrase «alleged efforts by»

With DeVos proposing to eliminate another 34 positions in 2018 - 2019, the education secretary is ensuring fewer investigations into violations of civil rights — including alleged efforts by districts to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and local police wrongly identify, suspend, arrest, and deport undocumented immigrant children under the guise of being gang members.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman zeroed in on alleged efforts by Maziarz's campaign to hide $ 95,000 in payments over two years to a former Maziarz campaign worker, Glenn S. Aronow.

The State Police, a once highly regarded statewide agency, has been wracked by scandal over the past four years, including Troopergate, during which Spitzer was found to have used investigators to gather information on a GOP foe, and alleged efforts by Paterson's top bodyguard to persuade a Bronx woman not to file assault charges against a top gubernatorial aide.

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The court said it was unconvinced by the U.S. arguments regarding the alleged negative effects of the EU decision on its tax revenues, the bilateral tax deals with EU countries and its efforts to develop rules on transfer pricing in line with OECD rules.

The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian - directed efforts.

Wal - Mart is testing the use of facial recognition software to support loss prevention efforts by scanning shoppers as they enter the store and cross referencing the images with a database of alleged shoplifters.

Many of my fellow food advocates have pointed to the fact that the SNA takes a significant amount of money from corporate «patrons» like ConAgra and PepsiCo, and they therefore allege that SNA's entire effort is being directed by Big Food.

[55][56] Before and after becoming Chancellor, Osborne had alleged that the UK was on «the verge of bankruptcy», [57][58] though this assertion was criticised by the Treasury Select Committee and others as an effort to try and justify his programme of spending cuts.

The lawsuit alleges that Mr. Astorino undertook a «frantic» effort to win the backing of the party — the allegations include racketeering, conspiracy, wire and maul fraud — by coercing dozens of staff members, political associates, friends and family members to switch their party affiliation to the Independence Party.

The week began with the leak of a confidential report by the state's elections enforcer that alleged that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had engaged in an illegal effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits in his 2014 push to bolster the re-election prospects of some sitting state Senate Democrats, who presumably would be more favorable to the democrat mayor's city agenda in Albany.

Brissenden alleged newly revealed evidence that showed Singh told investigators that he relayed to de Blasio that his efforts to direct funds to his campaign coffers were «not kosher» because he skirted campaign finance laws by using the names of contributors — the straw donors — whom he subsequently reimbursed.

That was part of a broader effort, prosecutors alleged, to have Anatabloc studied by state researchers or included in the state's health plan.

Authorities allege part of the scheme included an effort to get the New York City Campaign Finance Board to supply matching funds to the ones contributed by the straw donors.

«President Dilma Rousseff is trying to head off the opposition's efforts to impeach her over alleged accounting irregularities, which means she can not afford to alienate supporters in her Workers» Party by cutting spending or raising taxes.»

In addition to eliciting testimony from two current teachers with the education program who «have always been paid substantially less than what Percoco's wife was paid for performing similar work,» the government will likely seek to undercut the notion that the payments were bonafide by citing alleged efforts at concealment.

Fitzpatrick has alleged in interviews that Conner's letter was part of an «orchestrated effort» by Miner and her allies to prop up a lawsuit against COR Development Co., the company that was the subject of the letter Conner sent.

(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?

Now the state alleges he and his associates bypassed contribution limits on individual candidates by allegedly illegally coordinating its efforts with the candidates.

In August, we reported on the lawsuit brought by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), against the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, in an effort to stop USC's alleged attempt to bring a multimillion - dollar Alzheimer's disease research project along with its new recruit, neuroscientist Paul Aisen, from UCSD to USC.

Based upon a complaint I filed, Connecticut's State Election's Enforcement Commission has opened an official investigation into the alleged campaign finance violations of Residents for a Better Bridgeport, the political action committee that was created to support Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's unsuccessful effort to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected Board of Education and replace it with one appointed by himself.

The FTC alleges GC Services was overly aggressive in their efforts to find student loan debtors by:

The grand scale of the work — 8ft by 20ft — daunted him at first, and he alleged that he painted the dynamic tangle of slashing lines in the hectic efforts of a single evening, a claim that has come under scrutiny.

The interruption of the alleged long - term trend, by the pause that is killing the cause, has had a devastating effect on their efforts to stampede the folks into drastic mitigation schemes.

It might appear to the casual observer as though there has been a concerted and co-ordinated effort to double down on the message for the cause by character assassination of respected academics, perhaps in the hopes that Their climate guru might have his alleged criminal perversions swept into the ever - growing hillock of ignorance under the carpet.

The first effort was launched by the New York Times in a meeting with Trump where they attempted to persuade him, among other things, that recent storms have been unusually strong because of alleged climate change and that there was connectivity between human activity and climate change.

It was effectively discredited only after it had been infiltrating the public mind for a solid year, and only by the efforts of a non-scholar who knew his FOI rights well enough to demand disclosure of another university's cache of alleged death threats, which naturally turned out to be nothing of the kind.

He is also alleged to have said that efforts to establish such a link by environmentalists «is why I do not trust the Greens,» and that «man - made increases in temperature are so small as to be barely detectable.»

The lawsuit is the latest effort by pension - fund plaintiffs and private lawyers to extract penalties from banks for alleged wrongdoing including anticompetitive actions.

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.

This defence is what is commonly argued by ICBC»S lawyers in hit and run situations, where it is alleged that the Plaintiff did not make all «reasonable efforts» to ascertain the identity of the owner and / or driver of the other vehicle, by doing such things as notifying ICBC, notifying the police, placing posters at the scene looking for witnesses, placing online ads looking for witnesses, talking to residents and merchants in the area of the accident, etc...

The Secretary of State urged the court to consider whether it was necessary or proportionate to require such expenditure and effort when there are already two expensive public inquires looking into related aspects of alleged ill - treatment by British Forces in Iraq.

In my continued efforts documenting prosecutions following alleged Pay Per View piracy, reasons for judgement were released this week by the United States District Court, N.D. California, assessing damages following piracy of UFC 155.

(1) Charges related to fishing, hunting, tree cutting or other forms of harvesting that the defendant and his community considers to be protected by s. 35 (1); and, (2) suits by one or more First Nations either to stop a project that threatens their lands and in regard to which, the First Nations parties allege, there have not been the consultations that the Court said, in R. v. Sparrow were required nor have their been efforts at accommodation or compensation.

The attorneys general in New York and Massachusetts are demanding that Facebook hand over information regarding the alleged misuse of data culled from millions of users by a third party in an effort to influence the presidential election.

Chris Wylie, the 28 - year - old who sparked a scandal around alleged misappropriation of Facebook data by his old employer, said that its micro-targeting efforts were 10 times more effective that those of rivals.

Such figures provide evidence to critics who allege that actions to fork the ethereum blockchain in an effort to recover the funds may be motivated by conflicts of interest.

I will NOT participate in or collude with the ability of a narcissistic parent to emotionally, psychologically, physically, or sexually abuse the child and then avoid responsibility and nullify the protective efforts of the normal - range and healthy parent by alleging that the child's allegations are simply a case of «parental alienation.»

The concerns expressed by the critics are that the Gardnerian PAS model is too poorly defined so that it allows narcissistic targeted parents to continue their abuse of children by evading protection efforts through alleging «parental alienation.»

It contends that the alleged failures to comply are substantive breaches which may frustrate genuine endeavours to resolve the objection by negotiating directly on particular alleged impacts as it gives no knowledge of the nature of the same and the Government party can not, by condition or otherwise, make effective efforts to mitigate or avoid any particular impact.

[42] Overall the Northern Territory contended that the failures to comply with Form 4 were substantive breaches «which may frustrate genuine endeavours to resolve the objection by negotiating directly on particular alleged impacts as it gives no knowledge of the nature of the same and the Government party can not, by condition or otherwise, make effective efforts to mitigate or avoid any particular impact» see Roy Dixon para 18 (p. 15).

NeighborCity then brought its own claims against NorthstarMLS, attacking the very efforts and litigation tactics by the MLS that kept its information away from sites like NeighborCity, alleging violations of federal and Minnesota antitrust laws.

NeighborCity's allegation that these efforts are motivated by boosting dual agency and NAR realtors» profits added to the unreasonableness of the alleged arrangement.

H.R. 2213, introduced by Congressman Steve Pearce, R - N.M., and co-sponsored by Congressman Brad Sherman, D - Calif., prevents enforcement of the integrated disclosure requirements and the filing of any related lawsuit if (1) the person has made a good - faith effort to comply with the requirements and (2) the conduct alleged to be in violation of the requirements occurred on or before Dec. 31, 2015, thus allowing stakeholders and the CFPB to test the effective operation of the rule.