Sentences with phrase «first came under scrutiny»

According to prosecutors, Boyland first came under scrutiny in 2010 when he accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to help a carnival promoter obtain permits and leases.

Maziarz's campaign fund first came under scrutiny when the state Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption investigated possible crimes involving election law, campaign expenditures and fundraising in 2013.

Theranos first came under scrutiny in October 2015, when the two - time Pulitzer - prize winning WSJ journalist John Carreyrou published an explosive investigative piece, suggesting that the company — then valued by investors at a stunning $ 9 billion — had greatly exaggerated its abilities to quickly process an expansive range of laboratory tests from a few drops of blood.

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The new law is the nation's first formal approval of the industry after its come under scrutiny across many states for allowing what regulators see as illegal online gambling.

Today, 8 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases more than 1 million searchable emails from the Italian surveillance malware vendor Hacking Team, which first came under international scrutiny after WikiLeaks publication of the SpyFiles.

For Mizuho, this is not the first time it has come under scrutiny from the FSA.

Yet, his future at the Premier League giants came under scrutiny during his first two years at the club after he failed to establish himself in the French boss» line - up.

The 68 - year - old's position has come under intense scrutiny recently after Arsenal failed to finish in the top four last season for the first time in his 22 year tenure.

The Reds are being linked with a shock summer 2017 move for the England goalkeeper, with current first - choice Loris Karius already coming under severe scrutiny.

The Portuguese boss had come under scrutiny recently because of supposedly blocking aspiring players from the B team from playing in the first team.

The Millennium Dome is the first venue to come under scrutiny, and local campaign groups, the police, religious groups and members of the Greater London Assembly will have a chance to have their say.

As legislators and education advocates parsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget in the first of 13 joint hearings, elements of his free tuition proposal came under greater scrutiny, with the governor's office moving to counter concerns about the program's cost, scope and impact on private colleges.

While the concept of chronic traumatic encephalopathy was first introduced in the early 1900s due to its prevalence in boxers, the cause of the disease has recently come under significant public scrutiny in the US due to several high - profile stories involving football players.

One charter school operator, Achievement First, which has come under state scrutiny in the past year for its disciplinary practices, once again topped the charts with a rate of close to 50 percent for its middle school students in Hartford and a rate of better than 40 percent at its high schools in Bridgeport and New Haven.

This is hardly the first time a presidential candidate — or sitting president — has come under scrutiny for questionable book purchases.

The Angolan pavilion garnered accolades on its first participation yet on the other hand, the Kenyan pavilion came under scrutiny for its unfortunate comedy of errors.

Although Braque's late paintings and Cubist compositions have come under fresh scholarly scrutiny in recent years, Georges Braque: A Retrospective is the first museum exhibition since 1988 to present the full arc of the artist's career, from his first Fauve paintings of 1906 to 1907, to his final monumental canvases of the 1960s.

The grand scale of the work — 8ft by 20ft — daunted him at first, and he alleged that he painted the dynamic tangle of slashing lines in the hectic efforts of a single evening, a claim that has come under scrutiny.

Maslowski came under intense scrutiny afterwards, and in some interviews seemed at pains to discuss his modelling and its own prediction for a first ice - free September, which Gore had stated before the world (although the US press almost unanimously declined to include this in their articles about the speech)-- could come by 2014.

In Hawaii, First Wind has come under scrutiny following several battery fires at a wind farm on Oahu Island, including one that shut the site for a year.

They first came under intense scrutiny following the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment report in 2013.

It is instructive to note that this is not the first time that political advertising has come under regulatory scrutiny, and that opportunities to regulate political campaigning have been repeatedly missed or passed - up:

The Law Society isn't the first to introduce such an initiative; indeed, there has been a flurry of similar «shifts» throughout academia, government and the private sector in recent times, but although they share a morally - worthy outward appearance, there are other motivations at play that have recently come under scrutiny, particularly on university campuses.

Now, in the EL trigger cases, insurance coverage in the UK context has come under close judicial scrutiny for the first time — only 30 years after the US wrestled the same issues to an uneasy stalemate.

The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) was first established in 1966, but came under national scrutiny during the SCC labour decision in Fraser v. Ontario.

In any case, this isn't the first time cryptocurrencies have come under scrutiny in India.

Amazon Alexa laughing for no reason is not the first time that these smart speakers have come under scrutiny.