Sentences with phrase «attorneys than the general public»

These personality traits appear at higher levels in attorneys than the general public.

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Kraken's CEO pointed out the short turnaround time requested by the Attorney General's office, and the public nature of the request, making it clear that the Attorney General's request is more of a public relations campaign directed towards cryptocurrency exchanges rather than an honest attempt at getting information about the companies» operations.

Today, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and public officials from our community meet with him behind closed doors to decide the fate of our Puerto Rican Day Parade (which is less than 4 months away) and we in the Puerto Rican community are being double - crossed by our elected officials, once again.»

«We have more vigorous cops on the beat, defending the public trust, than ever before — but prosecutors can only respond to the symptoms of a system that is very, very ill,» said Attorney General Schneiderman.

In January, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a report that said that more than 50 percent of the tickets to Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Jay - Z and other performers» shows at New York state venues were reserved for insiders and not available to the public.

Wills was elected in 2010, and used public matching funds from his 2009 City Council campaign to pay more than $ 11,000 to a shell company that was supposed to translate and distribute campaign literature, the state attorney general said.

The report, issued Monday and made public Thursday, came a week after Thomas was charged by the state Attorney General's Office with stealing nearly $ 13,000 in campaign funds and failing to report on his city financial disclosure forms more than $ 75,000 he received from individuals, companies and his inaugural committee.

Speaking about politics and about «public service,» Spitzer continuously pointed to his time as attorney general — rather than his time as governor — as the office of record he hoped voters would examine.

Louis has moderated more than two dozen debates between candidates for mayor, public advocate, city and state comptroller, state Attorney General and U.S. Senate.

«I think you're seeing more aggressive pursuit by the attorney generals office and other prosecutors of issues related to public corruption than you've ever seen before,» the AG said.

«In the last three years Attorney General Schneiderman has gone after more than 40 politicians, government employees and nonprofit officials who abused the public trust,» he said in an email.

Meanwhile, despite Cuomo's alternative solutions being riddled with problems, the attorney general never got the public corruption referrals he sought — and, to his discredit, appears to have given up publicly trying (other than a different referral he received from the comptroller's office).

Less than three weeks after the election, a passage appeared in a New York Times editorial urging Cuomo to «hand over the power to investigate public corruption in Albany to the new attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.»

Instead, Cuomo said the Moreland Commission on public corruption that he created was a better way to root out corruption than to provide a blanket referral to the attorney general.

As attorney general, when he was the one investigating crimes rather than running the executive branch, he sought increased powers for public corruption, pressing legislators to pass a bill granting his office broad jurisdiction and subpoena powers to pursue such cases.

The order empowers the office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to conduct a public corruption probe of Abelove's conduct, including his decision to present the case to a grand jury that cleared the officer of wrongdoing less than a week after the shooting.

Cuomo and his delegation of more than a dozen officials, which included New York's attorney general, its comptroller and its secretary of state, spoke Tuesday at a public round table at the University of Puerto Rico's medical sciences campus in the capital of San Juan.

The job carries far less public prominence than governor or attorney general, the post from which Spitzer earned the nickname «Sheriff of Wall Street» for his battles with American International Group and the New York Stock Exchange, among others.

Ms. James's interest in becoming attorney general is not her first flirtation with a public office other than the one she currently holds.

«I am deeply troubled by the volume and consistency of voting irregularities, both in public reports and direct complaints to my office's voter hotline, which received more than 1,000 complaints in the course of the day yesterday,» Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement.

Attorney Robert Freeman, executive director of the New York State Committee on Open Government, has been answering such questions for reporters and the general public from his office in Albany for more than 35 years.

ALBANY — Attorney General Eric Schneiderman isn't impressed with the proposed ethics deal Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders announced yesterday, saying at an unrelated press conference Monday that the reported compromise, full details of which have not yet been made public, seems more like a tweak than a comprehensive reform.

In an email, he cited her «more than 20 years of public service... including seven years as an assistant district attorney in Erie County, three years as an assistant attorney general, and two years as executive director of JCOPE — a unique blend of legal, policy and criminal justice experience that is unparalleled and will greatly serve the state and all New Yorkers.»

Prior to joining the Attorney General's Office, Ms. Biben served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office for more than 10 years, the last five years as Deputy Bureau Chief of the Rackets Bureau where she investigated and prosecuted organized crime, money laundering, tax evasion, public corruption and other forms of racketeering.

Former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver made more than $ 750,000 from «investments not available to the general public,» using money obtained from allegedly corrupt schemes, according to a superseding indictment filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office on Thursday.

Could you imagine, dear reader our Governor, the former State Attorney General, the one who is supposed to be above everybody else, better than Caesar's wife, being associated, according to the New York Times, in a situation that, if it were anybody else, this same Governor would be the first one to request an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Integrity or appoint a special prosecutor?

If a charitable, tax - exempt nonprofit — which are designated as 501 (c) 3 organizations — gives more than $ 2,500 to a covered 501 (c) 4, the charity will have to disclose all of its donors during that six - month filing period to the state Attorney General's Office, which will review the donors» identities for privacy issues before disclosing them to the public.

«For more than three decades, Attorney General Schneiderman has fought to combat public corruption and champion a range of reforms — from his sponsorship of dozens of anti-corruption bills as a State Senator, and as Attorney General, where he's prosecuted more than 70 officials and their cronies for abusing the public trust.

«We urge the attorney general and his department to take a thorough look at the many thoughtful comments from concerned citizens and quickly reconsider this approach,» wrote Holt and Rakoff, pointing to more than 250 public comments published in the Federal Register.

South Dakota Attorney General opined that any statute requiring the transportation of private school students on public school buses would violate South Dakota's Blaine Amendments because the benefits received by the private schools would be more than «incidental.»

Moreover, the Connecticut Attorney General has acknowledged in these same court papers that to fund a system of magnet and charters would be more expensive than providing adequate support to the existing traditional public school system.

(a) Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint in writing signed by an individual to the effect that he is being deprived of or threatened with the loss of his right to the equal protection of the laws, on account of his race, color, religion, or national origin, by being denied equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision thereof, other than a public school or public college as defined in section 401 of title IV hereof, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly progress of desegregation in public facilities, the Attorney General is authorized to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section.

Environmental leaders delivered a petition with more than 350,000 signatures to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch Thursday afternoon calling on her to launch an investigation into whether ExxonMobil misled the American public on global warming.

Among the public comments his office collected were several from the DEA, which, according to information Johnson has now forwarded to state Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, were, unsurprisingly, predictable — including a complaint that the state's definition of industrial hemp is «inconsistent» with federal law and that the state is furthering the «erroneous» impression that hemp is «a different species of plant than marijuana.»

The fusion of the two roles has often been defended as ensuring that the Attorney General has a voice at the cabinet table in discussions of public policy but that seems to support the cabinet status of the Attorney General rather than its combination with another ministerial portfolio such as Justice.

February 10, 2015 — «Idaho's appellate public defenders make nearly $ 16,000 less than the state's Attorney General's deputies, who often represent the other side while arguing the same case in court.

The provision would extend the powers and rights of audience of DCWs by enabling them to conduct: - summary trials in magistrates» courts; - certain proceedings in magistrates» courts, including proceedings relating to offences triable only on indictment by a judge and jury at the crown court; - applications and other proceedings relating to «preventative civil orders» such as anti-social behaviour orders; and - certain proceedings (other than criminal proceedings) assigned to the director of public prosecutions by the attorney general under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, s 3 (2)(g).