Sentences with phrase «federal executive authority»

Roskomnadzor — Russia's federal executive authority responsible for overseeing online and media content.

Not exact matches

The French ideas about turning the euro zone into a virtual federal state, with its own finance minister, budget, and executive and legislative authorities will probably be among the key talking points in a reform program that is supposed to lead to a tightly integrated economic and political union.

Early into his tenure, Trump signed an executive order that sought to block municipalities that failed to cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities from receiving federal grant funding.

As president and chief executive officer of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, Robin Silvester oversees the federal body responsible for facilitating Canada's trade through the Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest port.

He formerly served as a executive at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a charge force authority for the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

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».

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.

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.

It's long been rumored, even accepted really, that Oyster Bay restaurateur Harendra Singh was cooperating with federal authorities in the corruption cases against former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto.

The Justice Department is following through on an executive order to withhold as much as $ 4.1 billion in federal grants from so - called «sanctuary cities,» generally defined as places where local law enforcement limit their cooperation with federal authorities on immigration enforcement.

On Thursday, FHWA Acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT Acting Commissioner Paul A. Karas and New York State Thruway Authority Acting Executive Director Matthew J. Driscoll, notifying them that the federal government would be withholding an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it provides New York each year for use on such projects as bridge and highway improvements.

In the past few weeks, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed an executive order imposing a state - controlled monitor for the authority's finances, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decreed that the city seek permission to spend any federal funds on the authority.

Former Erie County Executive and gubernatorial contender Joel Giambra is urging federal authorities to investigate whether corruption at the MTA has contributed to billions of dollars in cost - overruns and waste on subway and rail construction projects.

Using executive authority, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has tapped 17 current and former federal prosecutors to lead U.S. attorneys» offices across the country on an interim basis.

A federal judge permanently blocked Trump's executive order to cut funding from cities that limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities.

Federal authorities have dismissed charges against six former employees of the website Rentboy.com, while continuing to move forward with a case against the chief executive on counts of money laundering and promoting prostitution.

As the governor conferred with his top staff members, federal law enforcement authorities say his then - executive deputy secretary, Joseph Percoco, and a former longtime friend and adviser, Todd Howe, were secretly exploiting their political muscle in a bribery scheme that would help the energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, purchase pollution «emission reduction credits» from New York state.

Authorities said federal agents also executed two search and seizure warrants at the Manganos» home and at the county executive's office in Mineola.

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto were indicted Thursday on corruption charges, according to federal authorities.

Executive Director Pat Foye and administrators of the PA's PATH system were deemed eligible to collect pensions from both New York and the federal Railroad Retirement Board under a questionable «legal finding» by the authority's lawyers, sources said.

This comes as federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into stock sales by three Equifax Inc executives before the company disclosed the massive data breach, news that has weighed heavily on the stock price.

I asked Astorino and Jindal about Governor Cuomo's statement today that only the federal government can ban flights from West African countries, not the New York and New Jersey governors as Astorino and others have demanded, and Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye's statement that no such direct flights arrive at Newark or JFK.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A restaurant owner central to the case against Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and his wife is also a major donor to Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose fundraising activities are under investigation by federal and state authorities.

Norstar helped secure financing for the project and was the general contractor, according to the executive director of the Albany Housing Authority, Steven Longo, who said his organization had not been subpoenaed or contacted by federal authorities.

The Federal Civil Service Commission of Nigeria (FCSC) is an executive body in Nigeria that has the authority to make appointments and transfers and to exercise disciplinary control over all Federal Civil Servants.

«The authority of the Senate, under the Constitution to screen and pass nominees, has never been questioned by the government or the Federal Executive Council.

If our sanctuary cities do not enforce Trump's executive order, by notifying federal authorities of undocumented immigrants accused of criminal offenses, a sanctuary city will

A letter detailing the agency's decision from Brandye Hendrickson, acting administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, was emailed Thursday to Paul A. Karas, acting commissioner of the state Department of Transportation, and Matthew J. Driscoll, acting executive director of the New York State Thruway Authority.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

Last week, Trump signed an executive order that will block all federal outlays to municipalities that refuse to cooperate with national immigration authorities.

The current Tappan Zee Bridge handles 140,000 vehicles per day and has been labeled by the federal government as «functionally obsolete,» said state Thruway Authority Chairwoman Joanie Mahoney, the Onondaga County executive.

In January 2013, not long after Adam Skelos's rocky call with the supervisor, federal authorities say that Senator Skelos called the chief executive of the malpractice insurance company, demanding to know why Adam Skelos was being «harassed.»

The senior executive at Glenwood, who was deeply involved in the company's political activities and campaign contributions, was also cooperating with federal authorities, according to the complaint.

In its decision, the Supreme Court ruled that where a federal statute is ambiguous, it is presumed that Congress has delegated authority to executive agencies to reasonably interpret it, and courts should generally defer to agency expertise.

(The New York Times called the state waiver strategy «the most sweeping use of executive authority to rewrite federal education law» since the 1960s.)

«It is important for the U.S. Supreme Court to take this case, as the Ninth Circuit opinion ignores 20 years of precedents on special education law and represents yet another example of a federal agency exceeding its authority over educational decision making,» NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel said.

«Assuring that school districts — which house school food authorities - have sufficient capacity to efficiently and effectively administer federal school lunch and breakfast programs is vital to the success of those programs and to our students,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, executive director, National School Boards Association.

Moreover, harmful regulations are easier to fight at the state level than at the federal level, where the exercise of «pen and phone» executive authority is increasingly (and unfortunately) the norm.

Melvin Watt, executive director of the Federal Housing Finance Authority, said that that the new programs will help both homeowners and Fannie and Freddie, too.

The court said the case «raises significant questions about the scope of the Executive's authority to disregard federal statutes.

The federal judiciary has proven its willingness to thwart the President's executive authority with a heavy hand.

Just when you thought the excessive executive compensation was bad, it appears that the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) CEO Bill Johnson, already the highest paid federal employee in the entire country taking home over $ 6.5 in total compensation in 2017, spent the last few years on a spending spree buying new corporate jets, airplanes and a luxury helicopter.

However, the restrictions on American offshore oil and gas production has always been precarious; the executive branch has complete authority to decide what happens in the federal waters of the outer continental shelf, from 3 to 200 miles out to sea.

We regularly defend Fortune 500 companies and their executives and boards before every major federal and state regulatory enforcement authority and in courtrooms nationwide.

Moreover, section 4 (b) of the Executive Order authorizes preemption of state law in the federal rule making context when there is «the exercise of state authority is directly conflicts with the exercise of federal authority under federal statute * * *.»

The final rule, with modifications, allows a covered entity to disclose protected health information to an authorized federal official for the conduct of lawful intelligence, counter-intelligence, and other national security activities authorized by the National Security Act and implementing authority (e.g., Executive Order 1233).

January 29, 2017 — «Gov. Andrew Cuomo is dispatching lawyers from his office and the Port of Authority to aid persons detained at airports by federal authorities enforcing President Donald Trump's executive morder on immigration.

A covered entity may disclose protected health information to authorized federal officials for the conduct of lawful intelligence, counter-intelligence, and other national security activities authorized by the National Security Act (50 U.S.C. 401, et seq.) and implementing authority (e.g., Executive Order 12333).

This approach is a key component of the final Privacy Rule, and it adheres to section 4 (a) of Executive Order 13132, which expressly contemplates preemption when there is a conflict between exercising state and federal authority under federal statute.