Sentences with phrase «fired by a president»

These aspects of Comey's conversations with Trump before he was fired by the president in May 2017 are detailed in memos the Justice Department turned over Thursday to House committees.

Former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by President Donald Trump, gave his first media interview since the dismissal in an ABC «20/20» interview that aired Sunday night.

«I understood that I could be fired by a president for any reason or for no reason at all,» he said.

Ex-FBI Director James Comey gave his first public interview since being fired by President Trump, in an exchange with ABC News that aired Sunday.

The CHOICE Act also takes away the independence of the CFPB by subjecting the director to being fired by the president for no reason.

FBI Director James Comey was fired by President Trump last May, and the White House says it was because he mishandled the probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

Comey, of course, was fired by President Trump from his post in May.

In the interview, Dr. Evil said he'd just been fired by President Trump.

Exxon also has struggled in the past 16 months to unwind some of the biggest bets taken by former CEO Rex Tillerson, who left to become U.S. secretary of state in early 2017 before being fired by President Donald Trump last month.

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, who was confirmed by the Senate by a unanimous vote last year, was fired by President Trump in March.

James Comey, the former FBI director fired by President Trump, has been on a media blitz promoting his new book, «A Higher Loyalty.»

In barely three months, the tariffs — the first shot fired by President Trump in his escalating trade offensive — are fundamentally reshaping the solar industry and its prospects, reports The NYT's Ivan Penn..

Andrew McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director who was fired by the president late Friday, reportedly kept contemporaneous memos about his interactions with Trump and his conversations with the former director James Comey.

Bharara, who was fired by President Donald Trump and now has a podcast, has not ruled out running for attorney general this year.

Bharara was fired by President Donald Trump last year, but his wish is about to come true: The high - profile trial of Percoco and three co-defendants on charges that Percoco was bribed to exercise influence on behalf of a power company and Syracuse developers starts Monday in a federal court in Manhattan.

Among those who were being mentioned as a possible replacement was former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who brought corruption charges that led to the convictions of two former majority party legislative leaders, as well as Cuomo's former closest aide, before Bharara was fired by President Donald Trump.

Lerner said while she's disheartened that yet another legislator has been accused of corruption, she's relieved that state prosecutors under Schneiderman are taking on investigations now that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who achieved prison terms for both former legislative leaders, has been fired by President Donald Trump.

Last Thursday, as British voters went to the ballot box, former FBI Director James Comey sat before a United States senate intelligence committee hearing to provide testimony on the events leading up to his firing by President Trump.

Preet Bharara, formerly of the Southern District until he was fired by President Donald Trump, looked into the governor's early shutdown of the corruption - busting Moreland Commission, but ultimately brought no charges.

Fresh off getting fired by President Trump, former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara is going back to school.

Kim replaced U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who oversaw the Skeloses» case, after Bharara was fired by President Trump.

Fired by President Trump, Bharara is seated in the second row of the...

The U.S. attorney who originally brought the charges against Percoco, Preet Bharara, was fired by President Donald Trump last year in a nationwide purge of federal prosecutors.

Former US Attorney Preet Bharara brought corruption charges that led to the convictions of the two former majority party legislative leaders, as well as Cuomo's former closest aide, before he was fired by President Trump.

Bharara was fired by President Trump as the Manhattan U.S. Attorney.)

The U.S. Attorney fired by President Trump's Justice Department, has also brought cases against nine former associates of Governor Cuomo, including the governor's former closest top aid.

The charges against Percoco were brought by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was fired by President Donald Trump last year along with other federal prosecutors.

Oh, and speaking of that infamous catch phrase - turned - podcast title employed by former US Attorney Preet Bharara, the Buffalo Billion corruption case he built before being unceremoniously fired by President Donald Trump is steaming along, with the first trial of former top Cuomo administration aide Joe Percoco is scheduled to start Jan. 22.

The former prosecutor — fired by President Trump in March — will soon host a program titled, «Stay Tuned With Preet.»

The U.S. attorney fired by President Trump's Justice Department, has also brought cases against nine former associates of Governor Cuomo, including the governor's former closest top aide.

Preet Bharara, the Manhattan US attorney fired by President Trump, is joining CNN as a senior legal analyst, Politico reported.

Progressives on Twitter immediately floated Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York fired by President Donald Trump, as a possible candidate, though he hasn't laid any groundwork to run for office.

Ousted Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara on Sunday likened his surprise firing by President Trump to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2014 shutdown of a state anti-corruption panel that reportedly threatened Cuomo's...

Fired by President Trump, Bharara is seated in the second row of the Hart Senate Office Building committee room behind Comey.

Bharara's ouster does seem tailor - made to launch a political career — getting fired by President Donald Trump alone could be a badge of honor for liberal votes, then throw in the fact that his firing might have been a gift to Rupert Murdoch and Fox News — but his sudden super-nova status might not shake up the board all that much.

Ex-US Attorney Preet Bharara — who was fired by President Donald Trump despite a promise he could stay on the job — launched a Twitter attack on Trump overnight for canning FBI Director James Comey.

Putting an end to separate, yearlong probes, Acting US Attorney Joon Kim — who took the reins last week when Preet Bharara was fired by President Trump — and Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr. released coordinated statements saying they were dropping cases against de Blasio and his aides

It was Bharara — who was fired by President Trump in March — who successfully prosecuted Silver on corruption charges, one of a string of high - profile convictions he won while fighting Albany corruption.

Lerner says while she's disheartened that yet another legislator, Senator Ortt, has been accused of corruption, she's relieved that state prosecutors under Attorney General Schneiderman are taking on investigations, now that the U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara who achieved prison terms for both former legislative leaders, has been fired by President Trump.

«That Preet was fired by the president says far more about the president than it does about Preet,» Schumer said.

Kim replaced U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who oversaw the Skeloses» cases, after Bharara was fired by President Trump.

Bharara, 49, served almost eight years as U.S. attorney in New York, where he spearheaded an historic crackdown on insider trading and targeted corruption in state government, before he was summarily fired by President Donald Trump on March 11, 2017.

After leaving Congress, she served as the co-chair of the National Advisory Committee on Women from 1977 — 1978 until she was fired by President Jimmy Carter for criticizing his budget cuts to women's programs.

Not exact matches

Last week, President Donald Trump came under fire after his responses to a plea for help from the mayor of San Juan were perceived by many as being racist and issuing blame on the hurricane victims.

U.S. President Donald Trump has stunned the world by agreeing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a man he's ridiculed as «Little Rocket Man» and whose regime only months ago he threatened with «fire and fury.»

When President Trump has his physical exam on Friday, there is little chance he will repeat the same story within a span of 10 minutes or fail to recognize old friends, as the explosive new book «Fire and Fury» by Michael Wolff asserts he has done in the past.

Similar disdain followed January layoff announcements from Pfizer, Walmart, Microsoft, Coca - Cola, and many less prominent employers, coalescing into an angry narrative: Greedy companies are firing workers just days after getting a historically giant tax cut that will save them billions — a tax cut that was promoted by President Trump and Republicans as a job creator.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

(A firing and a pair of resignations touched off by President Richard Nixon during the late stages of the Watergate investigation went down in history as the «Saturday Night Massacre.»)

A day later, tech news site Recode reported that Eric Alexander, Uber's president of business in the Asia - Pacific region, was fired after it was learned that obtained the medical records of an Uber customer who was raped by her driver in India three years ago.