Sentences with phrase «federal authorities who»

Edison Schools Inc., already pummeled by falling stock prices and opposition to its work, is being booted out of school districts in Texas and Georgia, and has come under investigation by state and federal authorities who want to know how it secured two contracts in Pennsylvania.

We have tremendous resources and can give help to federal authorities who do not know the «lay of the land» as we do.»

U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood said that federal authorities who seized documents from the lawyer, Michael Cohen, would provide copies to Cohen's team.

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Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that» [u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.

By authorizing tax credits to those who purchase on federal exchanges, the plaintiffs say, the IRS has exceeded its authority.

Deluce has friends in high places: the former CEO of the Port Authority who helped him get Porter off the ground, Lisa Raitt, is now the federal minister of transport.

«It is commonplace for federal authorities to directly contact Twitter and ask for assistance, rather than going through formal channels,» said an activist who has helped get numerous accounts disabled.

The federal government has already sent troops to Cancun to help reinforce security forces there, and municipal authorities recently brought on Julian Leyzaola, who inspired fear and praise during his time as police chief in Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, as an adviser.

A Department of Labor rule putting the order into action entered the Federal Register in August 2016, but it was halted by a judge in October before it went into effect, who ruled it went beyond the authority Congress had given the president.

A Hartford man, who authorities believe sold the drugs that led to two fatal overdoses in 2016, was sentenced Wednesday to 46 months in federal prison.

Without authority to borrow money, President Barack Obama's administration would face immediate choices on which bills to pay: Federal employee salaries or Medicare recipients, out - of - work residents who receive federal unemployment benefits or investors who expect to receive interest payments on the country's current debt, veterans or air traffic contrFederal employee salaries or Medicare recipients, out - of - work residents who receive federal unemployment benefits or investors who expect to receive interest payments on the country's current debt, veterans or air traffic contrfederal unemployment benefits or investors who expect to receive interest payments on the country's current debt, veterans or air traffic controllers.

, who was indicted by federal authorities in 2011 on charges that he used money from wealthy donors to hide an extramarital affair.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- U.S. immigration authorities have detained a 23 - year - old Mexican man who was brought to the United States illegally as a child and given a work permit during the Obama administration, according to a lawsuit challenging the detention in Seattle federal court.

On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and therefore subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.1 Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that «[u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.2

Federal authorities are moving to extradite Johann (John) Breyer, an 89 - year - old U.S. citizen, who is wanted in Germany for war crimes committed during World War II.

«We have a governor who is richer than the state, a governor who has over N4 billion in his account he is the only one who can explain what he has done with all the funds he had received from federal authorities.

Furthermore, states can't give their police the authority to arrest immigrants without warrant for being removable, because that's giving them more power than federal immigration officers (who normally need a warrant), and undermines the fact that Congress normally requires a warrant before making those arrests (increasing federal discretion).

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Federal authorities on Friday announced the arrest of Juan Thompson, a former journalist who worked for the website The Intercept, in connection with the country - wide series of threats at JCCs.

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.

As Florida authorities work to identify the people who died in a catastrophic bridge collapse, state and federal investigators will begin the task of figuring out how and why the five - day - old span failed.

► Peter Salzone - Update: An NYPD lieutenant from the 19th Precinct who federal authorities wanted to question as a witness in the probe.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto were arrested Thursday and charged with receiving «bribes and kickbacks» from a businessman who also gave Mangano's wife a lucrative no - show job, federal authorities said.

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.

However, a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who monitored the situation reports that flight operations went on smoothly at both the international and domestic wings of the airport Also, staffers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), were at their respective offices and duty posts, as directed by the government.

In March, Governor David Paterson, a Democrat, said an «apolitical» method would be used to pick a new supplier after state and federal authorities began probing whether Aqueduct Entertainment Group had won the lucrative contract to assist one of Paterson's political allies, the Rev. Floyd Flake, who is a former congressman.

Mangano and Venditto were originally indicted in October, 2016 on charges of receiving «bribes and kickbacks» from a businessman who also gave Linda Mangano a lucrative no - show job, federal authorities charge.

The Federal Government has queried the Italian authorities over what it described as a «hasty burial» of the 26 girls who were found dead on the Mediterranean Sea by Italian authorities.

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.

New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio told CNN's Jake Tapper that it is OK to shield undocumented immigrants who drive drunk from federal authorities if it does not «lead to any other negative outcome.»

Mayor Steve Noble, who backed the law, said that city would also rely on guidance from state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who issued a legal opinion last year illustrating how municipalities could lawfully limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Burke's lawyer, Joseph Conway, of Mineola, who also represented Macedonio, declined to comment on either case Friday, except to say that «since his arrest, in 2015, Mr. Burke has not spoken with federal authorities.»

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who turned himself in to federal authorities on corruption charges Monday, will remain as the head of the Senate, his republican members announced after a more than three hour closed door meeting Monday night.

Rechnitz, who has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with federal authorities, donated nearly $ 5,000 for the mayor's inauguration committee and also gave $ 102,000 to the mayor's failed campaign to unseat Republicans in the state Senate.

New York's new status as a «sanctuary» city means few illegal immigrants who break the law are being handed over to federal authorities for deportation.

Seabrook, who federal authorities say took $ 60,000 in cash in a designer bag from Rechnitz, was also arrested and is facing fraud and corruption charges.

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.

The Long Island Republican, who faces corruption charges after he surrendered to federal authorities last Monday, has a tenuous hold on power, however.

A local source contacted The Bronx Chronicle said that one document turned over to federal authorities shows that some candidates in unnamed Bronx districts got more votes than the number of voters who went into the booths.

The Federal Government has recalled two out of the nine directors who were sacked from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, on Friday, changing the original number of those earlier sacked, from nine to seven.

«I think we need a special prosecutor to be appointed in New York to see what state laws may have been broken,» said Astorino who said the prosecutor could work on a «parallel track» with the federal authorities.

«As state legislators representing millions of New Yorkers who live within the 50 mile blast radius surrounding Indian Point we demand that FERC respect New York's authority and jurisdiction in this matter,» reads a letter sent Friday from Democratic Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, Democratic Assemblywoman Sandy Galef of Westchester and three dozen others to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son were arrested Monday by federal authorities, who alleged the state's top Republican extorted bribes and campaign contributions from companies in exchange for steering key real estate legislation and rigging a lucrative Nassau County environmental contract to his son's benefit.

Also on trial is Mangano's wife, Linda Mangano, 54, of Bethpage, who is accused of lying to federal authorities about what they allege was her $ 450,000 no - show job at Singh's restaurants.

Lawyers for G. Steven Pigeon are demanding that state prosecutors reveal the identify of a secret witness who has negotiated a plea agreement with federal authorities in the bribery and extortion case filed against the political operative.

We took the Federal Government to court on issues like the regulation of the hospitality industry, fiscal planning, and on who had the authority to issue Certificates of Occupancy.

«Shielding people who are accused of committing crimes from federal authorities is dangerous and irresponsible,» he told The Journal News / lohud in a statement.

The 45 - minute debate centered on Corcoran's $ 1.4 million television ad that portraying immigrants who entered the country illegally as a danger to Floridians and HB 9, a proposal that threatens local officials who do not fully comply with federal immigration authorities with removal from office and fines.

«Why would we direct our law enforcement not to share information with federal authorities about those who commit crimes in our county?»