Sentences with phrase «from justice department»

If anything, these campaigns might bump up against conflicting messages from the Justice Department.

If a mediator from the Justice Department is running the meeting with Elders it has the protection of a law called the Dispute Resolution Centres Act.

According to a recent report from the Justice Department, an estimated 3.6 million households have been victims of identity theft or fraud.

After a verbal altercation about where he stood, actually, in the pecking order, of getting his document taken care of by me, he abruptly decided to accept the offer from the Justice Department.

Jackie was highly - decorated as a federal prosecutor, having received numerous awards from the Justice Department.

King & Spalding adds an antitrust specialist from the Justice Department, a former Skadden counsel joins Perkins Coie as a partner in Chicago, and Morgan Lewis lands a tax partner from McDermott.

McDermott Will & Emery is expanding its white - collar and securities defense capabilities with the hire of JENNIFER TAYLOR from the Justice Department.

The Court is also expected to address gay marriage due to the conflict between Defense of Marriage Act and various state laws allowing and prohibiting gay marriage, and to look at portions of the Voting Rights Act requiring some states with a history of voter discrimination to receive approval from the Justice Department to change election or voting laws.

If one could calculate all the cases in which the Court had to choose between straightforward and concrete language and something more esoteric and convoluted, I wonder how often the more esoteric renditions would emanate from the Justice Department on behalf of various Crown agencies and how often from «ordinary Canadians».

No word from the Justice Department on whether it will appeal either case.

He recommends that the current vetting system be removed from the Justice Department.

The investigation is just getting under way (here's a Twitter item from the Justice Department), but there are already signs that the killing was related to the intersection of turtle egg poaching and the drug trade.

Many large lenders have faced or are currently facing these actions, and from the Justice Department's recent statements it does not appear they will abate anytime soon.

The first Washington Post article making use of the Pentagon Papers appears on June 18, despite threats from the Justice Department, which insists (via a phone call from then assistant attorney general and future chief justice of the US Supreme Court, William Rehnquist!)

Holdren — armed with a memo from the justice department saying that he has the right to conduct diplomacy on behalf of US President Barack Obama, even without congressional approval — is showing no signs of backing down.

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In a presidential election year, in a state that Hillary Clinton won by more than 20 points, with the long - awaited support of Cuomo, the State Senate Democratic Conference managed to pick up a grand total of one seat — and that was thanks to a last minute assist from the Justice Department.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who said his office is still reviewing the order, said Wednesday that $ 165 million in federal aid was immediately at risk: $ 156 million in Urban Area Security Initiative grants, $ 6 million in criminal alien assistance grants and $ 3 million in general assistance grants from the Justice Department.

As New York moves to decriminalize low - level offenses, arguing enforcement is «rigged against communities of color,» other large cities are coming under pressure from the Justice Department — now led by former head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, Loretta Lynch — to do the same thing.

Brushing aside opposition from the Justice Department, Republicans on the House intelligence committee voted to release a classified memo that purports to show improper use of surveillance by the FBI and the Justice Department in the Russia investigation.

Trump directed his White House counsel to tell Attorney General Jeff Sessions to not recuse himself from the Justice Department's investigation into potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke twice with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. last year — encounters he did not disclose during his confirmation hearings — fueling calls for him to either resign or recuse himself from a Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department's public integrity unit.

That's one reason why the Trump Administration issued a news release from Justice Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. Monday night, announcing the arrest of 11 «caravan» members accused of crossing the border illegally near San Ysidro, without asking for asylum.

Simply doing nothing remains an option for Trump as well, in part because of anticipated events like the release of a report from the Justice Department's inspector general.

And how much was the timing of Trump's decision shaped by events spiraling out of his control — such as Monday's testimony about Russian interference by former acting attorney general Sally Yates, or the fact that Comey last week requested more resources from the Justice Department to expand the FBI's Russia probe?

The lack of substantive details to this «settlement» and no confirmation from the Justice Department that an agreement actually existed did not hamper expensive media real estate from running with the story.

It's now a week later and as of this writing there is still no formal announcement from the Justice Department.

With final approval pending from the Justice Department, some of those who worked on the case said they are deeply disappointed by the dollar amount of the proposed fine.

According to prepared statements from the Justice Department, an official at the DOJ said it needs more help catching criminals who use the secretive currency.

The revelation came in a response from the Justice Department to an inquiry from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte (R - Va.)

Wisenberg said that it would make more sense in this circumstance for Sekulow to call for an investigation from the Justice Department's inspector general.

The proposed agreement requires approval from the Justice Department's civil rights division and from de Blasio, who has vowed to improve inmate safety at Rikers.

It requires states and local governments with a history of racial and ethnic discrimination, mainly in the South, to get advance approval either from the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington before making any changes that affect elections.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Alptekin said Flynn and his firm filed the registration under pressure from Justice Department officials.

Ross Muken, Evercore ISI analyst, provides insight to Cigna's bid for Express Scripts and whether it is likely to get approval from the Justice Department.

The New York Times» Jim Stewart discusses the latest on the antitrust lawsuit from the Justice Department against AT&T over their bid for Time Warner.

Calling Comey a «showboat» and a «grandstander,» the president made clear that firing the former FBI director was his decision — despite statements from White House officials that called Trump's move a result of recommendations from the Justice Department.

But Comey said the intense public interest in the matter — and permission from the Justice Department — made it appropriate to do so.

Not exact matches

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

Moore, the congresswoman from the district, tweeted that the Justice Department, with weeks to go until Trump's inauguration, told her they're considering an investigation into the deaths at the jail.

Under Justice Department guidelines, prosecutors must consider alternatives to search warrants by using the «least intrusive approach» to gathering evidence from an attorney's office.

From 1998 to 2001, he worked for the Department of Justice's antitrust division, focusing on the telecommunications sector.

It included an amendment that prevents the justice department from using funds to go after medical marijuana.

The Justice Department's civil case filings say more than $ 700 million was transferred from bank accounts used in the money laundering to the bank account of «Malaysian Official 1.»

Between 2009 and 2014, top executives and associates of Najib looted $ 4.5 billion from the fund, laundering it through the U.S., Singapore, Switzerland and other countries, according to a U.S. Justice Department civil case seeking to recover part of that money.

In his letter, Sessions opposed an amendment by Oregon Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer and California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher that prevents the Justice Department from interfering with states» medical marijuana.

In April 2014, the Justice Department announced a new clemency initiative to prioritize applications from people who would have been gotten much shorter sentences if they were convicted today, among other criteria.

Trump's administration addressed one potential conflict when the Justice Department on Saturday said federal anti-nepotism laws do not prevent the president from appointing his son - in - law to his administration.