Sentences with phrase «federal investigation after»

Sorkin makes his directorial debut with this biopic of Molly Bloom, the one - time competitive skier who ended up at the wrong end of a federal investigation after getting heavily embroiled in the world of high - stakes underground poker.

The assemblyman who represents Hoosick Falls is calling for a federal investigation after revelations that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration knew about elevated levels of a toxin in the village's water for a year and a half before residents were warned.

Congressman Michael Grimm, reportedly under federal investigation after allegations of illegal campaign fund - raising, blew up at and physically threatened a reporter tonight after the president's State of the Union speech, according to NY1.

The assemblymember who represents Hoosick Falls is calling for a federal investigation after revelations that Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration knew about elevated levels of a toxin in the village's water for a year and a half before residents were warned.

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The Russian - Canadian real estate developer was caught up in the federal investigation into Trump's ties to Russia after it was discovered that Shnaider received hundreds of millions of dollars by a Russian state - run bank which may have helped pay for building the Trump Tower in Toronto.

Last September, the company let more than 1,500 factory workers go after a federal investigation found hundreds of undocumented employees at its facilities.

Oil and gas company Citation Resources has launched proceedings in the Federal Court against its former chairman Peter Landau after an investigation revealed issues concerning $ 2 million worth of transactions.

After often extensive investigations, the NASD barred «for life» during this period 1,662 members and suspended another 1,000 or so for violations of its rules or of laws on the federal books.

Days after Comey's firing, the Justice Department appointed a special counsel, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to oversee the federal investigation.

WASHINGTON — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic - waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the agency.

In yet another twist to the case, in early November of 2014, The Miami Herald reported that Rodriguez had actually admitted to federal agents that he had used performance - enhancing drugs from 2010 - 12, after being granted immunity from prosecutors during a drug investigation.

Just days after JPMorgan paid $ 410 million to the nation's energy regulator to resolve claims the bank devised «manipulative schemes» to transform «money - losing power plants into powerful profit centers,» federal prosecutors in Manhattan opened an investigation into the same activity.

The S&P 500's worst day under the Trump presidency was May 17, 2017, the day after the New York Times reported a memo from ousted FBI Director James Comey revealing that Trump had asked him to scrap a federal investigation into Flynn.

Earlier, he had denied wrongdoing in a post on InvestorsHub after Retrophin disclosed it had received a subpoena from federal prosecutors and the preliminary findings from its own investigation of Shkreli.

Mr. Penn has been called upon for expert information by researchers for the Congressional Advisory Committee on Student Financial Aid and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as being sought after for conferences and private intensive seminars.

The Federal Trade Commission, charged with regulating credit bureaus like Equifax, has declined to state whether it will launch an investigation after the hack.

After word of the breach surfaced last month, Canada's privacy commissioner launched an investigation to determine whether Facebook respected the federal privacy law covering private companies.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was found guilty by a Manhattan federal jury on all seven counts he faced after a closely watched four - week trial spilling out of U.S. investigations of the use of the bitcoin digital currency for drug trafficking and other crimes.

The House Republicans released the highly controversial Nunes memo on Friday, after the White House gave the all - clear, over the objections of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Tuesday's indictment followed a nearly four - year federal antitrust probe that began after a 2012 Reuters investigation found that Chesapeake had discussed with a rival how to suppress land lease prices in Michigan during a shale - drilling boom.

Republicans have been pushing for some kind of investigation since February, after a GOP memo was released accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of tricking a federal judge so that they could surveil Carter Page.

Former federal prosecutor Patrick Cotter said it makes sense for Trump to claim this so shortly after his lawyers asserted attorney - client privilege in the Cohen criminal investigation.

After approving Friday's release of a disputed memo written by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes over the objections of his own FBI director and intelligence community, Trump's next moves will be critical for the ongoing federal investigation into Russia's election interference and possible collusion with Trump associates.

He's done his penance, though, after Bud Selig made it his mission to suspend him — going so far as illegally obtaining evidence and obstructing a federal investigation to do so — and the Yankees tried ever so hard to keep Rodriguez from money he was contractually obligated to receive after the suspension.

After investigations by the United States Federal Trade Commission and Canada's Competition Bureau in 2010, 4 US bamboo companies were charged, and 78 warnings were issued for misleading advertising claims related to «bamboo fabrics».

After acknowledging the economic development program is under federal investigation and possible wrongdoing revealed by the inquiry, the Cuomo administration hired a former prosecutor to review contracts related to the Buffalo Billion.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and a Brooklyn state Senator cut hefty checks to the campaign of Assemblywoman Pamela Harris after she found out she was under federal investigation — and she promptly drew on the funds to pay for high - priced defense lawyers.

The investigations had appeared to be winding down for the last several weeks after de Blasio met personally with federal prosecutors to discuss the probe.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration offered the testing after a Department of Investigation probe last year found the city's housing authority had failed to conduct lead inspections for four years, violating city law and federal rules.

In a statement after former Senate Leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to five years in federal prison on May 12, Bharara said that the «most effective corruption investigations are those that are truly independent and not in danger of either interference or premature shutdown sentencing».

Bharara's comments came just a few days after former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey testified at a congressional panel that Trump had asked him to drop an investigation into former Trump aide Michael Flynn and his alleged tiInvestigation Director James Comey testified at a congressional panel that Trump had asked him to drop an investigation into former Trump aide Michael Flynn and his alleged tiinvestigation into former Trump aide Michael Flynn and his alleged ties to Russia.

Spota left office in October after his indictment on federal charges of obstructing an investigation into former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 2012.

Two decades after he was sodomized by an NYPD officer, touching off one of the biggest police misconduct investigations in city history, Abner Louima is living a quiet but productive life in Miami, while the officer who attacked him, Justin Volpe, has eight years left on his federal prison sentence.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. joined the ongoing federal investigation into de Blasio's fundraising tactics last January after the Board of Elections» chief investigative officer sent a «criminal referral» to Vance's office alleging the efforts of the mayor's nonprofit to unseat the Republicans violated campaign finance laws, Vance has said.

After the child care dust - up, the Assembly Democrats held an oversight hearing on the governor's economic development polices, which are the target of a federal investigation.

It has been a difficult year for the WFP after its heady success of the 2009 NYC elections, thanks largely to a federal investigation and a protracted legal battle with former Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro.

After a light hearted beginning, question topics included his expectations concerning Kathy Hochul's separate primary, where he expects votes to come from, his «position» in the John Liu / Tony Avella senate primary, reports of pressure from Cuomo's staff and allies on Democrats to refrain from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, Teachout's comment that her qualifications include «not under federal investigation», whether Teachout is qualified to be governor, whether votes for Teachout are an anti-Cuomo protest, his encounter with Teachout at the Labor Day Parade and Tim Wu's related comment that Cuomo «failed a basic test of decency and civility».

In 2010, when the party was under federal investigation and risked falling off the ballot in the following election, it agreed to endorse Cuomo after he made the party's leaders sign on to a pro-business platform that included fighting organized labor.

The favorable ratings for Cuomo come after weeks of negative news stories about the governor's alleged interference in an ethics panel and an ongoing federal investigation.

The state's two U.S. senators on Wednesday called for a federal investigation into the death of Eric Garner after a State Island grand jury decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the case.

Earlier this month, after news of the federal investigation broke, Howe was fired as president of lobbying firm WOH Government Solutions.

Colatarci's attorney says she is cooperating with federal prosecutors after being subpoenaed for an investigation relating to the senator and his campaign committee.

After working in New York politics in a variety of City Council and state legislative campaigns and on the staff of US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Rivera came on strong four years ago, defeating Democratic Senator Pedro Espada, long a target of criminal investigation and now serving a federal prison term for theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a health care non-profit he controlled.

NYCLASS dropped the Advance Group as their consultant in May after the Daily News reported that the firm was facing a federal investigation into whether they inappropriately coordinated with Bill de Blasio's successful campaign for mayor.

After a year and a half of investigations by state and federal prosecutors, SUNY Polytechnic Institute finds itself on the verge of something new.

On Friday, shortly after Working Families officials announced the conclusion of the federal investigation, New Yorkers for Growth, a conservative group, sought to keep the pressure on Mr. Cuomo.

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio defended himself and his top advisers a day after his office confirmed that top aides were subpoenaed by federal and state prosecutors amid an investigation into the mayor's campaign fundraising operation.

And after the column appeared, federal corruption investigations moved further into Governor Rowland's administration.

After a rocky summer, de Blasio's poll numbers had begun to rise, though he now faces questions about federal investigations into police corruption, his fundraising practices, and elevated lead levels in the blood of NYCHA residents.

In February, sources told The Post that the courthouse was under federal investigation over its alleged ties to Silver, who was forced to give up his role as Assembly speaker after being indicted on federal corruption charges.