Sentences with phrase «federal law enforcement authorities said»

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.

Not exact matches

With law enforcement officials aggressively pursuing gang members on Long Island after a recent spate of homicides by the transnational gang MS - 13, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a class - action lawsuit on Friday that federal authorities had gone too far.

A day later, Espada's clinic was raided by federal and state authorities and law - enforcement sources said criminal charges of mail fraud and tax evasion were expected as soon as next month.

The Justice Department says it won't give cities some law enforcement grant money unless they give federal immigration authorities access to jails and alert them when someone facing deportation will be released from local custody.

President Trump cleared the way for the release of a secret memo written by Republican congressional staffers and said to accuse federal law enforcement officials of abusing their surveillance authorities.

A Salvadoran immigrant from Brentwood and her lawyer said she was detained by immigration authorities for more than a month in New Jersey as she was falsely accused of being an associate of the violent MS - 13 gang that local and federal law enforcement authorities are working to dismantle.

«My attorney has been in contact with federal law enforcement authorities and he has been informed that I am NOT the target of any investigation arising from proceedings involving Shirley Huntley,» the Queens councilman said in a statement.

Prior to enactment of the federal PACT Act, law enforcement authorities said New York Indians operated five of the top 10 Internet web sites selling cheap cigarettes and that the reservations are a primary source of cigarettes for smuggling rings that place counterfeit stamps on cigarettes and sell them in retail stores in New York.

4New York bombings: Investigators haven't been able to question a man charged with setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey because he's too severely injured from his shootout with police, a law enforcement official said Thursday as the man's father said he'd warned federal authorities about the man's interest in jihadist material.

A screenshot of Backpage.com says federal law enforcement authorities seized the website as part of an enforcement action by the FBI and other agencies.

«While there is no drug effect from the Cannabis flower essential oil, we understand the efforts of federal and state law enforcement authorities to stop the marketing and sale of these products that prominently associate with marijuana and are not exempted from the CSA,» says David Bronner, Chair of the Food and Oil Committee of the HIA.