Sentences with phrase «feds for»

The fairest way to put this into play would be to create a fund plenished through victim surcharges assessed as part of sentencing in criminal courts, seized proceeds of crime and other earmarked fines levied by the province / feds for quasi criminal / criminal activity.

And then, when it all went bung, they turned around and blamed the feds for buggering up the national energy market.

Currently companies pay 12.5 - 18.8 % to the feds for on and offshore oil development, while the lowest Interior Department proposal fixes the royalty rate for oil shale at 5 %.

Currently, employers and employees each pay half of the 15.3 percent that is taken by the feds for Social Security and Medicare taxes.

Also, do I need to submit paperwork to the feds for each year because I haven't done that except for one time.

There's a reason why out - of - level testing, which was once the norm, has been outlawed by the feds for years — it becomes an easy way to get around the hard work of helping these kids to become career and college - ready.

Wall Street can look to the feds for a bailout but public schools can not.»

And the notion that they're going to be able to go to the feds for help....

And as long as eco-friendly President Obama's in office, any ambitious entrepreneur ought to consider approaching the feds for a share of the money earmarked for energy - efficiency programs.

Kudos to the NYPD and the feds for a historic mass takedown of two criminal gangs that have been terrorizing the North Bronx for years — leaving a trail of...

Maria Baez has the record for the worst attendance of any council member, investigated by the feds for slush funds crooked illegal actions and lives in the Poconos.

It could just as persuasively be argued that he, Andrew Cuomo, is the one primarily responsible for «blocking progress» toward a statewide teacher evaluation format that would pass muster with the feds for $ 700 million in Race to the Top funds, the State Education Department and the unions.

Leaders pressure feds for farm aid — Gov. Scott, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson have recently ramped up efforts to get much - needed funding distributed to Florida farmers affected by Hurricane Irma.

Hoping for more help, Cayuga County calls on state, feds for additional action around blue - green algae

Before his third trip to Puerto Rico, Cuomo spoke at JFK Airport and applauded New York's quick and united response to the crisis — the state has a close bond with the island, but he slammed the feds for not stepping up to do more.

State Senator John Flanagan and Assemblyman Carl Heastie, who last year rose to lead their respective legislative chambers after their predecessors were popped by the feds for being in bed with developers, have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of the 2016 budget season, with donations from key real estate interests.

Colon was known to hang out in the now - shuttered Harlem restaurant Hudson River Café, which was owned by Hamlet Peralta, a suspected con man recently arrested by the feds for operating a $ 12 million Ponzi scheme linked to the corruption scandal.

Liu and his campaign have been under a microscope since November, when contributor Oliver Pan was arrested by the feds for allegedly channeling $ 16,000 in illegal donations through stand - in donors, who each gave $ 800.

- $ 13 million in savings from leasing prison beds to the feds for their criminals, including illegal immigrants.

A watchdog group is suing the NYPD and the feds for decades - old records in the ambush and killing of a police officer at a Harlem mosque — including audio of a phony 911 call they hope may finally lead to an arrest.

In one of its final acts, the Bloomberg administration pushed through a costly contract to modernize the city's 311 call system — hiring the same company fired by the feds for the botched rollout of the Obamacare website.

Later Wednesday, de Blasio said the city had earned recognition from the feds for effectively ending chronic homelessness among veterans.

The state gets a lot of money given to it by the feds for the amount of Child support collected simply because they do not need to pay out in welfare and food stamps for custodial parents who do nt want to work or simply cant.

That was true because, as Romney advisor Jonathan Gruber pointed out, liberal Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy «had basically figured out a way to sort of rip off the feds for about 400 million dollars a year» in order to fund Romneycare.

SCG management is also under investigation from the state and feds for not disclosing problems early enough while knowing about it for a long time, and taking big bonuses

Having already extended some aid to the ailing auto sector and the financial sector, miners will be looking to the feds for a lifeline as well.

The association has praised the feds for providing a roadmap for financial institutions that want to work with legal marijuana businesses.

Not exact matches

There's some talk that that may be a condition that the feds actually put on the transfer, the condition of experimenting with private for profit delivery within the context of a public system.

Though there had been some talk about recommendations for reducing red meat intake, the feds took a soft approach, suggesting merely that «lower intakes of meats, including processed meats; processed poultry; sugar - sweetened foods, particularly beverages; and refined grains have often been identified as characteristics of healthy eating patterns.»

He chairs the BMO board, holds a handful of other directorships and serves on two economic advisory panels — one for the feds, the other, Queen's Park.

Details on forthcoming pooled retirement pension plans or PRPPs were slim as the feds wait for the provinces to adopt legislation.

In 1997, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia shared $ 961 - million in compensation for harmonizing their taxes; two years ago, Ontario agreed to a $ 4.3 billion compensatory package, while British Columbia's move to a Harmonized Sales Tax earned them $ 1.6 billion from the feds.

On April 28, 2009, the Bloc's critic for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, Jean - Yves Laforest, introduced a motion in the House of Commons calling for the feds to negotiate in good faith with the Government of Quebec to resolve the dispute, demanding a compensation package prorated to that awarded Ontario.

But if the $ 61 billion the feds say has been spent is responsible for the rescue, one respondent says the victory is pyrrhic.

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

While the feds made an effort to curb corporate tax breaks a few years ago, they actually ended up making it easier for multinationals to pay less tax by doing business in offshore jurisdictions.

In 2014, American Seafoods Company, the biggest player in Alaskan pollock, paid $ 1.75 million for skewing its scales to fool the feds.

If any provinces thought the feds might take ages to figure out how to proceed along those lines, Hyndman had news for them.

The realization that the feds have been trying to track Bitcoiners for years is no doubt concerning to anybody who relies on Bitcoin's privacy guarantees (and vindicating to the NSA conspiracy theorists), and it's a good example of how being extremely paranoid doesn't necessarily mean you're completely wrong.

Canada's energy industry is skeptical that major new pipelines can be built in Canada unless the feds make it easier to win approval, and that gives oil producers headaches about planning for future production.

He says that based on the economic data, the fed has set up some parameters for itself and from a data dependent point of view, they have everything they need, but James believes that what will hold back the feds will be market instability.

A constitutionally - valid exercise of the feds» criminal law power requires (1) a prohibition (partial or absolute), (2) backed by a penalty, (3) for a valid criminal purpose.

Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein won't get any reduction in his 50 - year federal prison sentence despite arguing he deserved one for cooperating with the feds, who say he lied to them, a judge ruled Monday.

There are some small time indie feds which would really show off his potential for greatness.

But in this economy with the states and feds cutting back in education, not expanding, where to districts get the money needed for the costs involved?

We get it that waiting for the feds to step in and do the right thing may mean never seeing it happen, but on the other hand, even if some communities can afford to pay for the study and pass the bond, I know for sure this is not true everywhere, and I worry about what happens to the poorer parts of America when the wealthier communities take a «I've got mine, now let everyone else go get theirs» attitude.

Unlike with Castro, whom the feds allowed to stand for election three times, knowing all the while he was 1) a crook, and 2) splitting his time between representing his constituents and trying to catch fellow crooked colleagues in the act; Huntley only ran for re-election once, and was defeated in a primary by former NYC Councilman - turned - Sen.

Days after Nxivm leader Keith Raniere was arrested for sex trafficking and forced labor last week, the feds scoured a Halfmoon townhouse known as «The Library,» where Raniere is accused of abusing at least one of his victims — a 30 - something Brooklyn actress.

NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said it would be «insanity» for the feds to force one state to recognize another's lax gun laws.

NYC mayoral candidate Bo Dietl works as a consultant for Digipath Inc., a marijuana lab testing company that has been under investigation by the feds on stock fraud allegations.