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For a week, some of President Donald Trump's top aides have tried to talk him down from his public campaign against Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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«They're not thrilled that he's already jumping ship to run for higher office because that's exactly what he campaigned against and what he promised he wouldn't do, be a ladder - climbing career politician,» Petersen said, noting a JTD strategies poll that found half of Missouri voters think Hawley could be using his attorney general career as a stepping stone to higher office.
The Washington Attorney General is seeking at least $ 14 million from the food industry, alleging a trade association broke public disclosure laws by shielding the names of companies that contributed to a campaign against an initiative that would have required food makers to label products with GMOs.
OLYMPIA — The Washington Attorney General's Office is seeking at least $ 14 million from a food industry association, alleging it tried to secretly finance the campaign against a GMO labeling initiative in 2013, according to previously sealed court documents released Wednesday.
Former Attorney General and avowed critique of the John Mahama administration Martin Alamisi Amidu has confessed that his anti- corruption campaign against John Dramani Mahama and his appointees were based on mere public perception.
Roger Stone's attorney is demanding the Democratic National Committee preserve its database servers and electronic equipment, referencing the DNC lawsuit filed last week against the Trump campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks.
The methods of humbling this rival have included the Christie-esque maneuver of publicly investigating him when Cuomo was attorney general and declining to clear him until well into his re-election campaign — and conspicuously opting not to endorse DiNapoli in a general election against a well - financed Republican opponent.
«Fix Albany» became Suozzi's campaign cry in his quixotic 2006 bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination against then - Attorney General Elliot Spitzer.
There's one bank account that Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara can't get his asset - freezing fingers on as he plans a likely multimillion - dollar restitution order against Sheldon Silver: the pol's campaign war chest, which Silver can continue to use to pay legal fees.
Since then, he's run a messy primary campaign against Republican attorney David Trott.
Embattled Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. may be running for reelection unopposed, but that doesn't mean he's off the hook for declining to prosecute cases against Harvey Weinstein and President Donald Trump's eldest children and accepting campaign cash from lawyers linked to those would - be defendants in the process.
The plea has ramifications in this political season: It gives Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose office has conducted the investigation, a major win as his gubernatorial campaign seeks to burnish his bona fides as a crusader against entrenched corruption.
Notably, the attorney position which Savino is taking in Clarkstown was previously occupied by Marsha Coopersmith, who was chair of the Independence Party before Sparaco led a campaign against her.
In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.
Republican attorney Wendy Long yesterday made her long - rumored — and long - shot — challenge to Democratic U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer official, announcing her run against New York's senior senator in a video posted on her campaign website.
The conviction of Mr. Silver, 72, served as a capstone to a campaign against public corruption by Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, which has led to more than a dozen state lawmakers» being convicted or pleading guilty.
For years, the Cuomo administration, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and their hysterical and retrograde antinuclear allies, including Riverkeeper, have waged a shameless campaign of fear and loathing against the Indian Point nuclear power plant.
Councilman Vincent Gentile, a Brooklyn Democrat, has hired a campaign manager for his uphill House bid against Daniel Donovan, the Republican Staten Island district attorney.
He's using part of his $ 35 million dollar campaign war chest to pay for a criminal defense lawyer to represent the office of the governor against the US Attorney's investigations.
After year - long investigations into a potential pay - to - play scheme involving his definition political nonprofit Campaign for One New York and his failed 2014 fundraising effort for State Senate Democrats by now - former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara — eventually taken over by acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim — and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, the pair decided not to bring federal charges against de Blasio or his aides.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A 17 - year veteran of the Board of Elections is seeking the office's top job against a campaign operative who happens to be the district attorney's son.
Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has filed a criminal complaint with the Orange County District Attorney and the California Attorney General against his former campaign treasurer, Jack Wu, claiming that more than $ 170,000 of campaign funds were embezzled from his account.
David Golub, the Democrats» attorney, argued in court that when the state contractors» ban bumps up against more - permissive federal campaign - financing statutes, the federal law «pre-empts» the state law and thus the SEEC subpoena isn't valid.
And Whitman is not done yet - she still has just under seven weeks to go in her campaign against Democratic nominee Jerry Brown, the current state attorney general who has only just started airing ads after spending the summer using independent expenditure groups as his equalizer against the Republican's money juggernaut.
And like Silver, he was brought down by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's campaign against public corruption.
Some ISPs did not include pressure from Attorney General of New York Andrew Cuomo's aggressive campaign against child pornography as one of their reasons for dropping Usenet feeds as part of their services.
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. is taking it on the chin these days for accepting campaign contributions from defense lawyers who represented high profile clients — including two of President Donald Trump's adult children and disgraced ex-Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein — against whom he declined to bring criminal charges.
The first person to officially declare a possible primary campaign against Governor Paterson this year is not Andrew Cuomo — though the attorney general is making moves behind the scenes — but Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy.
I look forward to continuing the Party's campaign against 42 days pre - charge detention in Parliament, as I have been doing throughout in my role as Shadow Attorney General.»
Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has filed a criminal complaint with the Orange County District Attorney and the California Attorney General against his former campaign treasurer, Jack Wu, claiming that more than $ 170,000 of campaign funds were embezzled from his...
However, none of the charges U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has leveled against the two men pertain to campaign donations, though Mr. Silver stands accused of pressuring Glenwood into hiring a law firm that paid him legal fees while Mr. Skelos faces allegations that he used his position to obtain a sinecure for his son at a company Glenwood held stock in.
In March, Joon Kim, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced that they would not file charges against de Blasio over a potential pay - to - play scheme involving de Blasio's now - defunct political nonprofit Campaign for One New York and his failed 2014 fundraising effort for the State Senate Democrats, respectively.
In the civil lawsuit that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo brought against Espada in April, the Senator was accused of having employees from his Soundview health clinics illegally work on his campaigns while they were being paid by the clinics.
And today, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, also expected to run against Paterson, is expected to announce that he has a campaign chest of... (drumroll)... $ 16 million, with $ 6 million raised in the past six months.
State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is a huge favorite in the Democratic primary against Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi and whichever candidate Republicans settle on in their own intraparty fight — a toss - up between former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and former Assemblyman John Faso now that former Secretary of State Randy Daniels has ended his campaign.
The Vermont Attorney General has filed a civil lawsuit against the losing candidate in last fall's Lieutenant Governor's campaign.
Tina Bennet, an attorney who now lives in neighboring Madison County, ran against Fitzpatrick in 2007, and she pointed to his campaign spending as evidence that he shouldn't oversee a panel charged with reforming election laws.
Perhaps the most fierce instigator so far in the Syracuse campaign has been District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, who lashed out against Masterpole after the latter made a quip about the DA retiring.
«As the jury found, Jia Hou and Oliver Pan stuck a knife into the heart of New York City's campaign finance law by violating the prohibition against illegal campaign contributions, all to corruptly advantage the campaign of a candidate for citywide office,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a press release.
Paladino's attorneys have lodged several other key allegations against other members of the board, including that they routinely hold improper executive sessions and that they themselves released confidential information when they launched a press campaign publicizing the district's bargaining positions during teacher contract negotiations.
In fact Cuomo had cracked down on the member item program when he was attorney general, and in 2010 campaigned against a practice that good - government groups said invited corrupt conflicts.
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is launching a new digital ad Friday, foreshadowing one of his arguments in his campaign for Senate against Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill: her vote against Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch last year.
In addition to the Burke - Loeb case, Newsday has reported that the comprehensive federal scrutiny of Spota's office has included whether there was anything unlawful in the handling of the investigation into the shooting of Huntington Station taxi driver Thomas Moroughan by an off - duty Nassau County police officer; the circumstances under which former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave up a $ 4.1 - million - dollar campaign chest to the district attorney's office, and also agreed not to run for re-election; the legality of a wiretap placed on the phone of former Suffolk detective John Oliva; the resolution of the criminal case against well - known Suffolk criminal lawyer Robert Macedonio; the office's distribution of asset - forfeiture money; and the investigation into a number of political associates of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.
«While we appreciate the current investigations going on with campaign finance, we ask the US attorney to create a federal version of the Moreland Commission against corruption — and to specifically focus on the pay - to - play party atmosphere on land use here in New York City.»
Singas, a Democrat, is running for district attorney against Republican Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray, who campaign finance records show received a total of $ 23,575 from the Merrick, Seaford and North Bellmore clubs over the past nine years.
Taking It to the Street (Cats): Grassroots Advocacy for Community Cats — which I had the honor of presenting alongside Laura Nirenberg, legislative attorney for Best Friends» Focus on Felines campaign, and Lisa Tudor, Director of Development and Outreach for the Foundation Against Companion - Animal Euthanasia (FACE) and founder and executive director of IndyFeral — was a great success.
I just noted that environmental activists are ramping up a social media campaign against energy giant Exxon Mobil, as the Attorneys General for 17 states are looking to nail that company under racketeering statutes.
Shortly following her June testimony to Congressional Democrats, targets of the campaign began filing lawsuits against the Attorneys General, alleging harassment and a violation of their First Amendment rights.
Documents Illuminate AGs Politicized Climate Campaign Against Exxon by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow, as appearing in RealClear Energy On Oct. 13, a federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas ruled that Massachusetts Attorney General -LSB-...]
I went as far as to wage my own personal campaign against our then Attorney General and Minister of Justice n his constituency.