Sentences with phrase «by federal authorities with»

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?
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged by federal authorities with conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, resulting in death.

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Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.
The bill forbids local authorities from working with federal agents, including using «agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate, detain, detect, report, or arrest a person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California.»
The appointment of even one SEC Commissioner with significant experience as a state securities regulator would dramatically improve coordination between state and federal securities authorities and bring a perspective informed by experiences from Main Street America where investor protection is personal and capital formation means real jobs.
Federal authorities have charged the founders of Centra Tech with securities and wire fraud, shortly after their ICO was shut down by the SEC.
Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.
Westchester County Executive George Latimer signed a bill that offers protections to people who immigrated or stayed in the country illegally by limiting information the county will share with federal immigration authorities.
I fully concur with Senator Ball on this one.Leibell and company dishonestly framed this all as reasonable requests for leniency, as if what he had done was not so bad (and as if he had contritely cooperated with authorities), when in fact the former State Senator has been defiant in NOT helping Federal prosecutors — AND some of the letters in Leibell's behalf came from people who are still being actively investigated by Federal prosecutors.
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 the United States, this system of Government is called a Jeffersonian Democracy, which favors a weak centralized government (without writing tons, a Jeffersonian believes the Local Government should have more control over an individual by law as they are easier for the individual to fight) and as the scope of authority rises in a federal system, the government deals less and less with the individual and more and more with lower governments.
Lipsky turned himself in to authorities March 10 in connection with a federal corruption probe alleging that he indirectly injected lobbying fees totaling $ 252,000 into an account accessible by Sen. Carl Kruger (D - Brooklyn) in hopes of encouraging him to take official actions to benefit Lipsky's clients.
Mangano and his wife were arrested and charged with corruption by federal authorities in October.
When the DN's Glenn Blain asked Kennedy if she had an opinion on the civil lawsuits brought against Espada by Cuomo, who is now working in connection with federal authorities on an ongoing investigation into the Bronx Democrat, she brushed off the question, saying:
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — There's an Ivy League professor who worked on many of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's biggest economic development projects with people and organizations now under investigation by federal authorities.
A married couple from Staten Island is charged with swiping more than $ 767,000 in federal aid by lying that their primary home was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy, fed eral authorities said...
O'Connor told those in attendance he supported a bill by state Sen. Tom Croci (R - Sayville) that would cut funding to local governments that don't fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities in deportation proceedings.
The NYPD denied collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a rally for an immigrant activist detained by ICE last month, even as New York City Council members insisted the police department was working with federal immigration authorities that day.
First came the Assembly speaker, the powerful Democrat Sheldon Silver, who in January was dragged by federal authorities to a courthouse, black fedora perched on his head, and charged with exploiting his position by accepting millions in bribes and kickbacks.
F.B.I. agents then confronted the senator with evidence gathered from the wiretap, and she retained a lawyer and later attempted to cooperate with the authorities, according to the papers, which were filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn by three assistant United States attorneys.»
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.
Schneiderman in a statement on Monday afternoon blasted the claim by the U.S. attorney general, Jeff Sessions, that states and local governments do not have the authority to refused participation in immigration enforcement actions with the federal government.
Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction — by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions.
Meantime, military authorities in Nigeria have debunked reports in foreign media that Nigerian militant group with sympathy to Biafra and IPOB hijacked a ship and are demanding the release of Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal Government before the ship will be released.
The plan calls for combining $ 50 million in funds already set aside by the Peace Bridge Authority with upwards of $ 50 million in new funding that could be obtained either through President Trump's infrastructure proposal or through other federal legislation.
New Jersey's Bridgegate scandal appeared to have widened Monday — with Port Authority chairman David Samson subpoenaed by Manhattan federal prosecutors, according to a published report.
Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.
Nationally in 1983/84, minor gerrymandering by incumbent federal governments was legislated against with the formation of the independent Commonwealth statutory authority, the Australian Electoral Commission.
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.
In asserting their authority with respect to helicopters and drones on a turf traditionally maintained by the federal government, council members may find themselves in ambiguous legal territory.
The president has also threatened to strip sanctuary jurisdictions of federal funding if they do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities in detaining undocumented immigrants arrested by police.
State Sen. Phil Boyle, flanked by a half - dozen Sandy victims at a news conference in Babylon, called on federal authorities to rectify the problem, which he said is preventing many residents from rebuilding or is saddling them with heavy debt.
«By ending the collusion of local law enforcement and jails with federal immigration authorities, New York City will be a safe place where our immigrants no longer fear deportation by interacting with policBy ending the collusion of local law enforcement and jails with federal immigration authorities, New York City will be a safe place where our immigrants no longer fear deportation by interacting with policby interacting with police.
Maintaining that the bailout is different from the regular federal allocation that can not be monitored by the allocating authority, it accused Fayose of playing with facts and the law to avoid scrutiny on how he spent the special funds specifically approved to pay backlog of salaries, pensions and other entitlements to former political office holders.
This announcement follows an order by the EPA for the Buffalo Sewer Authority to come into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act.
De Blasio by his stubborn refusal to comply with federal law and cooperate with immigration authorities;...
«Capt. Mohammed is a renowned civil aviation trainer and examiner with accreditation by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority and the Federal Civil Aviation Administration,» the ministry noted.
F.B.I. agents confronted the senator with evidence gathered from the wiretap, and she retained a lawyer and then sought to cooperate with the authorities, according to sentencing papers filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn by three assistant United States attorneys: Daniel A. Spector, Paul A. Tuchmann and Alexander A. Solomon.
Federal authorities are investigating «substantial» payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm that seeks real estate tax reductions for commercial and residential properties in New York City, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Federal authorities arrested Halloran along with state Sen. Malcolm Smith and Republican party officials in April and charged them in a bribery scheme allegedly orchestrated by Smith to buy his way onto the Republican mayoral ballot.
«We recommend that these bills remain consistent with recent approaches taken by the City Council and this administration, which has been to work with federal immigration authorities in limited circumstances where there are risks to public safety, while otherwise prioritizing remaining an accessible city,» she said.
In a report out this week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a nonprofit regulatory authority charged by the federal government with oversight of reliability in U.S. power systems, found that it still lacked adequate analysis to know whether the plan's targets are achievable.
«But we expect federal agencies to act within the authority delegated to them by Congress and to do so in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
New Mexico's charter law reads that: «Annual performance targets shall be set by each chartering authority in consultation with its charter schools and shall be designed to help each charter school meet applicable federal, state and chartering authority expectations as set forth in the charter contracts to which the authority is a party.»
a minimum suspension period for acts that would qualify the pupil to be defined as a violent pupil pursuant to Education Law, section 3214 (2 - a)(a), provided that the suspending authority may reduce such period on a case - by - case basis to be consistent with any other State and Federal law;
a minimum suspension period, for any student who repeatedly is substantially disruptive of the educational process or substantially interferes with the teacher's authority over the classroom, provided that the suspending authority may reduce such period on a case - by - case basis to be consistent with any other State and Federal Law.
According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»
Never has an education secretary been given so much money by Congress with such open - ended authority, according to current and former federal education officials.
A coalition of education groups led by the National School Boards Association and its Ohio affiliate had urged the justices to review a federal appeals court opinion that denied qualified immunity to an administrator who had reported to state authorities her suspicions that a 17 - year - old girl with an intellectual disability was being sexually abused at home.
WASHINGTON, DC — In advance of this morning's major announcement from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital leFederal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital lefederal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital learning.
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