Sentences with phrase «complaint filed this year»

Several of the reforms appear to respond to allegations in a federal complaint filed this year.»

Not exact matches

The lawsuit, filed by employees led by John Meiners, from St. Louis, seeks to recoup excess fees and unrealized profits stemming from Wells Fargo's alleged breach of fiduciary duties to all 401 (k) participants over the last six years, the complaint said.

The Council on American - Islamic Relations (CAIR) also has filed two dozen complaints against CBP this year for issues profiling Muslim Americans.

The Brooklyn - based attorney was in the news two years ago for filing complaints against New York City schools for actions taken against female students who'd alleged sexual attacks by male students.

Nearly 300 people filed solar - related complaints with the state last year, an increase of 25 %, according to the California Contractors State Licensing Board, which pledged to step up enforcement.

And a year ago, in April 2015, Amazon filed a complaint against buyamazonreviews.com for offering fake 4 - and 5 - star product endorsements.

Silverthorn is actually the one leading the charge against Natale with the Law Society, having filed a complaint last year.

The $ 928 million center was slated to start construction late last year at a 500 - acre site in the Derrydonnell Forest near a small town called Athenry, but groundbreaking was delayed after complaints about the building were filed to the local council, reported Business Insider.

In a complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court March 12, the owner of a 17 - year - old San Francisco business called Renaissance Furniture Restoration claimed Yelp deleted his business's positive ratings after he declined to buy advertising.

The decree also notes that it will terminate 20 years from the date of being issued, but that it will renew for another 20 years each time that the FTC files a complaint over any violations — meaning, if the FTC does file a complaint and is successful in determining the violation, it will prolong Facebook's own need to report and make clear privacy policies to its users.

The latest are identical bills filed Tuesday by state Rep. Katie Edwards, D - Plantation, and state Sen. Gary Farmer, D - Fort Lauderdale, that give new teeth to Florida's Long - Term Care Ombudsman program, which records show has regularly turned up fewer complaints each year under Gov. Rick Scott.

BERLIN (AP)-- Yahoo says it has filed a complaint to Germany's highest court against a year - old law that broadened copyright protection for news material used on the Internet.

After the years of tear - drying and tissue - passing, the closed - door conferences above reproach and beyond remembrance, he packs files of sermons, reread books, thank - you notes and complaints, receipts from now - broken air conditioners that can't cool this fear that swirls up the unexpected dust of the lives he thought he saved.

Indeed, when Janes decided to file the complaint last fall, he had little idea that he was walking himself into something far larger than a dispute over baseball played among 12 - year - old boys.

They had been rejected because, according to an anonymous complaint filed with the Irish Adoption Board, Frank McCann had impregnated a 17 - year - old swimmer in 1987, while he was married to Esther.

Commissioners also decided not to offer paintball trips such as one taken last year to Kirkland, Ill., for teenage residents after complaints filed by a resident and Park Commissioner Helen Schaeffer, which cited a rash of national shooting incidents involving youths.

Republican activist E. O'Brien Murray filed an ethics complaint against US Ambassador to South Africa Patrick Gaspard, claiming Gaspard broke the federal law barring political involvement by government employees by assisting de Blasio in last year's mayoral contest.

The number of complaints filed against senior military and defense officials has increased over the past several years, but more cases are being rejected as not credible and fewer officers are being found guilty of misconduct, according to data from Defense Department investigators.

The complaint was filed by a reporter of Progress New York after the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio (D - New York City) indicated that it would take one year for the City to process a FOIL Request seeking records about the Brooklyn - Queens Connector, or BQX, and about two of his Town Hall meetings.

She filed a complaint with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office and a state ethics agency more than a year ago.

The 34 - year - old Carroll Gardens resident, who purchased a train sign for $ 230.79 on Black Friday as a Christmas gift for his wife, is among a growing group of customers who say they're filing complaints with acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood's office out of desperation.

A judicial official told The Associated Press that a 27 - year - old woman filed a complaint Friday accusing the 59 - year - old director of drugging and penetrating her at the hotel Bristol in Paris.

Mr. Paquin, who was transferred to a lower - level position in 1999, returned to his old job years later after filing a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel alleging that his transfer was prompted by testimony he gave to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which conducted a separate review of HUD's overall monitoring activities.

The largest payout among the 88 total cases involved a woman who said she faced years of abusive comments that were mostly ignored by superiors, until one of them urged her to file a complaint.

Early this year, Teamsters Local 72, which represents state Thruway Authority workers, filed an unfair labor complaint alleging its members were improperly threatened with layoffs if they failed to make concessions during contract talks.

This is despite the fact that when the news article was written, the federal lawsuit had been filed a year before and the complaints had gone on for five years, and no one knew about it.

In recent years, Greenberg has filed at least three ethics complaints against Schneiderman or memers of his staff.

According to the criminal complaints filed on September 22, the main way the bid between the state and LP Ciminelli was rigged was by writing bid specifications that only LP Ciminelli could meet — including one that required the bidder be in business in the Buffalo area for 50 years.

WASHINGTON — The number of complaints filed against senior military and defense officials has increased over the past several years, but more cases are being rejected as not credible and fewer officers are being found guilty of misconduct, according to data from Defense Department investigators.

Advocates for homeless people filed a complaint with New York City's Civil Rights Commission accusing the Police Department of targeting people living on the street, a practice they say violates a two - year - old law that prohibits «bias - based profiling.»

A new report shows a decline in complaints filed against NYPD officers last year.

Last year, Skelos sought to hang on to the majority leader post after a criminal complaint was filed against him and his son for conspiring to aid AbTech's pursuit of contracts for storm water projects.

When we filed our complaint one year ago, we argued that the Senator's actions were clearly illegal.

Rensselaer County DA Joel E. Abelove filed a civil complaint in state Supreme Court that seeks to overturn an executive order Cuomo signed two years ago giving the state attorney general the authority to usurp local district attorneys in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

The complaint also alleges Rosa failed to disclose the full extent of her assets in a 2009 personal bankruptcy filing, hiding her ownership of a co-op apartment in Manhattan and income earned by her husband, as well as thousands of dollars in political consulting fees she'd earned in the years prior to the bankruptcy.

Numerous ethics boards tasked with monitoring the conduct of elected officials and public employees have not met in years, do not document their meetings and provide little information on their websites about how to file an ethics complaint.

«So we are very confident that it will be a law this year and it will give everyone the opportunity to to file a complaint when there's been a violation.»

The second complaint was filed last year, anonymously, by a person who alleged Freilich uses his official - looking vehicle and State Police placard to park illegally, including in front of his Brooklyn residence.

In internal complaints filed with PEF, the local union officials also said Lee refused to hold council meetings more than once a year.

As the Mail reported at the weekend, Mr Lyon has also just passed on his file on the complaint made by Tory MP Greg Hands a year ago about Gordon Brown's failure to declare his subletting of part of a constituency office to his local Labour Party.

Earlier this year, the union filed a complaint with the state Department of Labor's Public Employee Safety and Health (PESH) Bureau after discovering that 19 staff at the Taberg Residential Center in Oneida County, including the facility director, were out of work due to severe injuries suffered in attacks by residents there.

«But there are hundreds of complaints that have been filed with the [Civilian Complaint Review Board], indicating that this tactic has been deployed in recent years.»

Schneiderman sought to sue Trump University in state court in 2012, and filed a complaint the next year in federal court, claiming the for - profit school defrauded students.

Though the use of choke holds by the police has been prohibited by internal rules since 1993, there were more than 1,000 complaints filed with the Civilian Complaint Review Board in the last 5 years alone.

The indictment adds some criminal charges to those lodged when the 35 - year - old mayor of Mount Vernon was arrested March 12 but the alleged misconduct is the same as in the criminal complaint that was filed that day.

The Truman Democratic Club is not registered with the state and has not submitted financial disclosures for at least 18 years, despite taking in tens of thousands of dollars, according to the complaint filed with the state Board of Elections by downtown activist Jeremy Sherber.

A felony complaint was filed Thursday in Albany City Court following a year - long investigation by the attorney general's office that Nicolla colluded with the head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute to win a $ 27 million student - housing project.

Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove filed a civil complaint in state Supreme Court Wednesday that seeks to overturn an executive order Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two years ago giving the state attorney general the authority to usurp local district attorneys in cases in which unarmed civilians are killed during confrontations with police.

The board angered cops this year with a plan that would allow people to file anti-police complaints in their City Council members» district offices, rather than go the the main CCRB facility in lower Manhattan.

A self - described Democratic business expert running for Congress in Illinois has not reported earning income from his own consulting firm for the last three years, according to financial disclosure forms, leading one constituent to file a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC).