Sentences with phrase «got the justice department»

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

Because no legal action can be taken against him in France, French Nazi hunters have come to the U.S. to get our Justice Department to punish Bettencourt by prohibiting him from entering the country, much as was done with Kurt Waldheim, erstwhile UN General Secretary and President of Austria.

His son - in - law, Jared Kushner, has hired Abbe Lowell, a longtime Washington lawyer who recently got the Justice Department to drop corruption charges against Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, after a lengthy court fight.

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«It isn't like the Justice Department is trying to get money.

I've never seen the Justice Department do this, other than with Hoffa,» he said, likening Holder to Robert F. Kennedy and suggesting that like the investigations of the infamous Teamsters boss, the bank may not be getting its due process.

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.

The Justice Department forces AT&T to get out of the computer business.

In trying to recover Snowden's unencrypted mail from the company, which did not keep Snowden's cryptographic key, the Justice Department got a court order forcing the company to turn over another key instead, one that would allow officials to impersonate the company's website and intercept all interactions with its users.

Koch is particularly upset that the Justice Department allowed Big Beer to bulk up, first by approving the merger of Anheuser Busch and InBev and then by allowing Molson Coors to take full control of the MillerCoors joint venture when SABMiller got acquired by AB InBev.

Ashley Schapitl, a spokeswoman for Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the committee, said the senator is working with the Justice and Treasury departments to get technical assistance as the bill moves forward.

«He couldn't have been more supportive of making sure we got convicted the murderers of the last black man who was lynched by the Klan,» said former Justice Department attorney Barry Kowalski, who worked with Sessions.

The Justice Department pushed back on allegations that it is trying to get AT&T to sell CNN and other properties.

Jon Klein, TAPP TV CEO and former CNN U.S. president, discusses the Department of Justice's demand that AT&T sell either Turner assets or DirecTV in order to get its deal for Time Warner done.

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.

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.

The Justice Department is also looking at whether Cohen violated banking laws in how he got the money.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The U.S. Justice Department is probing allegations that Anheuser - Busch InBev (ABI.BR) is seeking to curb competition in the beer market by buying distributors, making it harder for fast - growing craft brewers to get their products on store shelves, according to three people familiar with the matter.

On the subject of the Russia investigation, Trump again insisted there was «no collusion» and hinted he might get involved with the Department of Justice at some point, making his displeasure with the investigation clear.

The Nunes memo did confirm that the Justice Department partly relied on the Steele Dossier's information to get a FISA warrant targeting Page in October 2016.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says no one from the Department of Justice has asked him to sell CNN as a condition of getting his proposed Time Warner deal done.

The Justice Department launched an internal investigation on Wednesday into how the FBI got permission to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

President Donald Trump appears to be threatening to «get involved» in a dispute between the Justice Department and Congress over the release of documents.

In my last post I noted a recent memo from a higher - up at the Department of Justice, trying to intimidate public service workers who want to get involved in the current election campaign.

If one searches for news on LIBOR (= London Interbank Offered Rate, i.e., the rate at which banks lend dollars to each other in the euro - dollar market), they are currently dominated by Deutsche Bank getting slapped with a total fine of $ 775 million for the part it played in manipulating the benchmark rate in collusion with other banks (fine for one count of wire fraud: US$ 150 m.; additional shakedown by US Justice Department: US$ 625 m., the price tag for a deferred prosecution agreement).

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The Nunes memo alleges that FBI and Justice Department officials relied on an unsubstantiated dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of Page, who served on the Trump campaign's foreign policy advisory team.

But it was Murfreesboro that got the most attention from national media, the Justice Department, and local politicians.

Sepp Blatter managed to avoid criminal charges in the United States Department of Justice's initial FIFA sting, but he hasn't gotten away from the FIFA scandal unscathed just yet.

Long Island cops are getting $ 500,000 in federal funds to help them shut down MS - 13 and other violent street gangs tormenting Suffolk County, the Justice Department announced.

Eric Garner's daughter has been asked to meet with the U.S. Justice Department to get an update on its years - long investigation into his chokehold death on Staten Island.

Trump's pick to lead the FBI, Christopher Wray, a former Justice Department official, declared today that he will not let politics get in the way of the bureau's mission, saying its work will be driven only by «the facts, the law and the impartial pursuit of justice.Justice Department official, declared today that he will not let politics get in the way of the bureau's mission, saying its work will be driven only by «the facts, the law and the impartial pursuit of justice.justice.»

it's very unusual for the Department of Justice to permit prosecutors to raid an attorney's office and that's because you want to be careful not to get privileged material,» said Litman, who teaches at the UCLA School of Law and continues to practice at the law firm Constantine Cannon.

It held that the AG should have gotten the likes of, Mrs. Betty Mould - Iddrisu, the then Minister of Justice, Mr. Ebo Barton - Odro, then Deputy Minister of Justice, Mr. Paul Asemeni, Head of Legal department at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr. Samuel Neequaye Tetteh, Chief State Attorney and Mr. Magnus Rex Danquah, Chief Operating Officer of CAN 2008 Local organizing Committee (LOC) in - charge of the day today administration of the tournament and member of the Technical Committee on the Stadia Construction to court to testify for the prosecution.

Washington (CNN)- The chief spokesman for the National Rifle Association is expected to get an invitation any day now to sit down at the Justice Department for talks aimed at reaching a consensus on new gun control legislation.

«If he interfered with these investigations, he's got a problem with Preet Bharara, assuming the deeply political Holder Justice Department doesn't put its thumb on the scales.»

The drawn - out process, and the expected lawsuits, is also happening as the Department of Justice is getting ready to force New York to hold its primary as early as Aug. 18 in order to comply with the federal MOVE Act.

A jurisdiction subject to preclearance needed to get approval from the U.S. Department of Justice before changing election laws or district maps.

The lawmakers feel strongly that the $ 4.8 million settlement payment to Morgan Stanley recommended by the Justice Department plus the $ 16.8 million it got from the price fixing deal, conveniently forgets that ratepayers must be reimbursed — and that, in effect, «disenfranchises consumers, who have been hurt the most by the deal».

The senators» letter comes after Sinclair is already facing resistance from the FCC and the Justice Department for the Tribune merger, with antitrust officials wanting the company to sell some stations in order to get the nearly $ 4 billion deal approved.

Everyone knows I hired a few delivery boys off the books and was politically prosecuted by the Obama Justice Department for a violation other business owners get fined for, but that doesn't change the fact that I was a much more effective member of Congress.

Trump said he wishes he could get involved with the Justice Department and direct it toward Clinton, but can't because he's president.

«While the Lord Chancellor is regularly wheeled out to defend the prime minister or the flawed Human Rights Act, shouldn't he be concentrating on getting his own house in order at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, so that it delivers access to justice for all?»

The first paragraph states:» A Special Counsel shall comply with the rules, regulations, procedures, practices and policies of the Department of Justice» which means he is subordinate to the DOJ which is subordinate to the President who gets his powers from the Constitution.

He added: «From our standpoint, if he can't do it, we'll continue to press the U.S. Department of Justice and the state attorney general to help get it done.»

The order appears to mandate that sanctuary cities not get grants from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice, but contains exceptions for money judged necessary for law enforcement or required by law.

Another civil contempt resolution, giving the green light for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to sue the Justice Department to get the Fast and Furious documents, passed by a 258 - 95 margin.

A source said Gov. Cuomo is studying how to get a similar program done in New York, with the Justice Department raising complex issues.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her allies in the Council's dominant Progressive Caucus blasted a Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the homicide of black borough resident Eric Garner in July, and called for President Barack Obama's Department of Justice to get involved.

The Department of Justice is getting ready to force New York to hold a primary no later than August in 2012 — a full month earlier than when the primaries are traditionally held.

Judges could get some better perspective on recidivism predictors» performance if the Department of Justice or National Institute for Standards and Technology established a vetting process for new software, Farid says.