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.
Not exact matches
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 polic
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 polic
by 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 le
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 le
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 learning.