Sentences with phrase «former federal finance»

Former federal finance minister Jim Flaherty said income splitting for families would be of no benefit to most Canadians.

Among the suspected kidnappers and armed robbers that were paraded at the Awkuzu headquarters of the Special Anti Robbery Squard, (SARS) include those that were involved in the kidnapping of P. N Emerah's brother and Robbison, a former federal finance director.

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US President Donald Trump has named Jerome Powell, a current Federal Reserve governor and former finance executive, as his choice to replace Janet Yellen as chair of the world's most powerful central bank — ending months of speculation about who would take charge.

Predictions had barely been tabled for who would replace Jim Flaherty as finance minister before it was announced late Tuesday that his successor would be Joe Oliver, the federal government's (now former) natural resources minister.

Stanley Fischer (former vice chairman, Federal Reserve), Sheila Bair (former chairwoman, FDIC), Jonathan Pruzan (Morgan Stanley), Cai Jinyong, former CEO (International Finance Corporation), Jason Furman (PIIE), Nicholas R. Lardy (PIIE), Yin Yong (vice mayor, Beijing), Zhang Tao (IMF), Jason Cummins (Brevan Howard), Gao Zhanjun (Harvard University), and Zhou Yuan (former chief strategist, China Investment Corporation)

New comments by President Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani about a payment to Stormy Daniels place the president at the center of questions about possible campaign - finance violations, two former Federal Election Commission leaders said.

Mark Williams, a finance professor at Boston University and a former bank examiner for the Federal Reserve, called HP's accusations against Autonomy «due diligence deflection».

Earlier this month, two former senior officials in the finance department assailed the Conservative government for eroding the «integrity and credibility» of federal budgets through what they argued is a system of secrecy that keeps parliamentarians and Canadians in the dark about how federal dollars are spent.

David Dodge, a former Deputy Minister of Finance, Deputy Minister of Health, and Governor of the Bank of Canada, has recently released a study on the growing costs of health care in Canada in the coming decades and the impact they could have on all governments — federal and provincial.

On Bloomberg television last week, James B. Lockhart III, the former head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (Fannie and Freddie's regulator) commented on the bailout funds already provided to Fannie and Freddie, saying «Most of that money will never be seen again.

While this sounds like monetary madness, it should be remembered that Ben Bernanke, former Chair of the US Federal Reserve, urged such action on the Japanese government a decade ago to deal with that country's deflationary crisis, and referenced Milton Friedman's argument that a central bank financed stimulus via a «helicopter drop» of money could have saved the United States from the Great Depression.

In a lawsuit filed last year in Tampa federal court by Ganis against Lightning ownership, management and former team lawyer David LeFevre, Okubo is described by one potential Japanese source of financing for Tampa Bay as a «gangster.»

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has reacted to «a story entitled, CJN, Okonjo - Iweala, Fayemi, Fayose, Others Under Probe - EFCC, which appeared in The Punch Newspaper of today Wednesday September 6, 2017 regarding a list of high profile persons, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi and Justice Abdu Kafarati of the Federal High Court, who are said to be currently under investigation by the Commission.

The Democrats went on to lose control of the chamber to the Republicans, and now they're in the crosshairs yet again after their former Finance Committee chairman, Sen. Carl Kruger, has been hit with federal corruption charges in a complaint that makes it clear he tried hard to influence key members of the conference — including «Senate Leader No. 1» — whoever that might be.

On Tuesday, a federal high court in Lagos had remanded him in prison alongside former Minister for Finance, Nenandi Usman, Mr. Danjuma Yusuf and a company, Joint Trust Nigeria Limited, on alleged money laundering to the tune of N4.9 billion.

The other three were Paul Adler, a former Rockland County politico who pleaded guilty to felony fraud and bribery in 2002; James Capalino, the lobbyist who tried to get a deed restriction lifted on a nonprofit nursing home on the Lower East Side; and Sant Singh Chatwal, a hotelier who pleaded guilty in 2014 to federal campaign finance donations for making straw donations.

Former U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long blasted the federal government's «shameful overreach» in the case of Dinesh D'Souza, the prominent conservative commentator who pleaded guilty on Tuesday in connection to campaign finance violations.

The past year has seen Liu's campaign weather a number of legal problems related to the Comptroller's campaign finance reports, including an ongoing federal investigation, as well as the arrest of both his former treasurer Jenny Hou and a campaign fundraiser, Oliver Pan, who was indicted for his role in a straw bundling scheme.

Apart from the dropping of former Director of Finance and Supply in the Office of the NSA, Mr. Salisu Shuaib from the amended charge list, the charges were almost same with the old 18 count charges brought against the defendants by the Federal Government in 2015.

And then (this part is new and part of Paladino's pre-primary media blitz), the focus turns to the «former liberal Congressman Rick Lazio,» who «voted for higher taxes and increased federal spending» and «took a $ 1.6 million bonus from a huge Wall Street bank getting a $ 25 billion - dollar taxpayer - financed bailout.

Obi said Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, former Minister of Finance, and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, begged the Federal Government to build its savings but -LSB-...]

Ibrahim is the Director of Finance and Account in the Federal Ministry of Power, Works, and Housing, while his brother, Tijani, is a member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative and a former Interim National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former right - hand man, who is under federal investigation, got nearly 100 percent financing on his sprawling Westchester home through a shady lender with close ties to the state capitol, The Post has learned.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco is Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and was involved in the leadership battle in the Senate when former leader Dean Skelos resigned as Majority Leader after being arrested on federal corruption charges.

Alleged diversion of Abacha funds untrue — Okonjo - Iweala Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, has reacted to allegations that she diverted billions of naira Abacha loot recovered by the federal government a «baseless story» explaining that some of the money was released to the office of the National Security Adviser in response to a -LSB-...]

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: «John Liu Sues Campaign Finance Board For Denying Him Funds» — 3/12/2014 EXCERPTS — The former City Controller charges in the suit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan Federal Court, that the board unconstitutionally took away his $ 3.8 million in campaign cash over possible improprieties in his fundraising operations.

[From The WSJ] John Liu, a former New York City comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, accused the city Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching funds.

Attorney Reid Weingarten was understandably disappointed in the jury verdict earlier this month that found his client, former Gov. John G. Rowland, guilty of several offenses including violation of federal campaign financing laws.

In May, a federal jury convicted Mr. Liu's former campaign treasurer, Jia «Jenny» Hou of various charges involving campaign finance fraud.

In fact, whatever else he may achieve in his pursuit of the presidency, the former Louisiana congressman and governor may be remembered as the last presidential candidate to ever receive federal matching funds; the very fact that he is the only candidate seeking and collecting those funds this year prima facie evidence that the public financing system for presidential elections is already functionally dead.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former right - hand man, Joe Percoco, who is under federal investigation, got nearly 100 percent financing on his sprawling Westchester home through a shady lender with close ties to the state Capitol.

Rose Gill Hearn, chairwoman of the New York City Campaign Finance Board and a former federal prosecutor, plans to step down in December, leaving an opening at the helm of the nonpartisan agency ahead of next year's city elections.

Alleged diversion of Abacha funds untrue — Okonjo - Iweala Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, has reacted to allegations that she diverted billions of naira Abacha loot recovered by the federal government a «baseless story» explaining that some of the money was released to the office...

According to a federal campaign finance filing, Dunn contributed to Nelson's 2012 re-election campaign against former U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV.

Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala has called on the Federal Government to call Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to order over the Governor's recent efforts to tarnish her reputation by linking her...

The most recent state campaign finance reports show that former Suffolk Conservative chairman Edward Walsh received $ 16,550 in wages for April and May even though he was automatically removed as party leader after his March 31 conviction on federal corruption charges.

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed records involving former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato and other top Long Island political figures as part of a wide - ranging grand jury investigation into the finances of three prominent local foundations that have given out millions of dollars.

Word spread quickly at the state Capitol on Wednesday after former Gov. John G. Rowland was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after being convicted in a campaign finance fraud case involving a Congressional candidate.

This comes after former Republican Congressional Candidate Lisa - Wilson Foley and her husband pleaded guilty to federal campaign financing violations in a conspiracy that allegedly involved Rowland.

Jacobs said that instead of being a co-accused person, the former Director of Finance will now be used to as a witness to testify for Federal Government in the trial of the five defendants.

Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, has reacted to allegations that she diverted billions of naira Abacha loot recovered by the federal government a «baseless story» explaining that some of the money was released to the office of the National Security Adviser in response to a request by the former NSA, Col Ibrahim Dasuki (rtd) for funds to prosecute the insurgency battle against Boko Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, has reacted to allegations that she diverted billions of naira Abacha loot recovered by the federal government a «baseless story» explaining that some of the money was released to the office of the National Security Adviser in response to a request by the former NSA, Col Ibrahim Dasuki (rtd) for funds to prosecute the insurgency battle against Boko former NSA, Col Ibrahim Dasuki (rtd) for funds to prosecute the insurgency battle against Boko Haram.

Steele's former finance chairman alleged in documents provided to federal prosecutors that Steele arranged for his Senate campaign to pay tens of thousands of dollars to a company owned by his sister, according to a report by the Washington Post published Saturday.

It seemed not a news story was published following the November 2011 and February 2012 arrests of his top fundraiser and his former treasurer on federal campaign finance fraud charges without a prefix attached to his name: «Embattled Comptroller John Liu.»

The former Florida governor calls for converting federal tax - free college savings accounts to overall «Education Savings Accounts» that parents could use to finance any level of schooling, including charter schools pre-K programs.

But this week's confirmation of former U.S. Rep. Mel Watt as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) could have a direct impact on many mortgage consumers and on the housing market in general.

And despite his busy schedule Johann König — our recent collaborator alongside Süddeutsche Zeitung on the special Jorinde Voigt edition — arrived and fell almost immediately into conversation with Peer Steinbrück, the former German Federal Minister of Finance, and Rezzo Schlauch, former parliamentary floor leader of the German Green Party, on the question of «exhaustion» — a subject close to all our hearts ahead of this bustling weekend of art.

Obtained dismissal of a fraud claim brought in federal court against the former vice president of finance of an investment bank that misappropriated a $ 4 million investment and transferred it for its own use.

Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) chair Sheila Bair was given a platform on Yahoo! Finance to share her thoughts on the world's most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin.

In this effort, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve declared, «Bitcoin is not a rational currency,» and likened Bitcoin to the fiat currency that the Continental Congress issued in 1775 to finance the American revolutionary war effort.

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