Sentences with phrase «in alleged plot»

A Seattle judge is weighing whether Zillow should be held liable for the actions of two executives accused of destroying evidence in an alleged plot to steal trade secrets from Move, Inc..

The arrests came two days after federal authorities arrested state Sen. Malcolm Smith in an alleged plot to bribe his way into the New York City mayor's race.

Home secretary John Reid said the security services believed that the main suspects in the alleged plot to blow up several transatlantic flights mid-air had been arrested last week.

State Sen. Malcolm Smith, City Councilman Dan Halloran and four others were arrested Tuesday in an alleged plot to rig the 2013 New York City mayoral race.

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As early as Monday, we may find out if two Canadian residents had help in their alleged plot to blow up a train between New York City and Toronto.

Mrs. Jonathan urged the House of Representatives to quickly intervene before the EFCC would succeed in the alleged plot to eliminate her.

BENIN — Edo State All Progressives Congress, APC, has absolved Governor Adams Oshiomhole of any involvement in the alleged plot to impeach the deputy governor of the state, Dr Pius Odubu, saying that those nursing such plans were only out to destroy the cordial relationship which exists between the governor and his deputy.

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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Citing documents declassified in the past few years, the lawsuit alleges that the US government paid $ 35,000 to the men who plotted the actions against Schneider.

As the Wall Street Journal noted last year, Cambridge Analytica's role in Trump's campaign drew the scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller, the Department of Justice investigator looking into the alleged Russian plot to meddle in the 2016 elections.

Lawyers filed a $ 1 billion lawsuit against Facebook Inc., alleging it allowed the Palestinian militant Hamas group to use the platform to plot attacks that killed four Americans and wounded one in Israel, the West Bank and Jerusalem.

According to European authorities, Najim Laachraoui is a bombmaker for the Islamic State — and this alleged skill set may have put him at the center of two of Europe's biggest terrorist plots in recent memory.

A local priest was also placed under house arrest and a notary public was suspended for alleged involvement in the money - laundering plot.

Such conversions were, however, always suspect among Christians throughout Europe, and when Lopez became implicated in an alleged Spanish plot to poison the Queen in 1594, old fears of Jewish duplicity and cruelty were seemingly confirmed.

Issues facing the new Education Secretary include «Operation Trojan Horse», the alleged plot by Islamic radicals to take over education centres in England and run them according to their agenda.

But Rosenbaum not only uses this inaccurate and alarming lead sentence to grab readers» attention, he doubles down by stating that this alleged return to junk food in schools is a nefarious plot by Big Food.

Police were last night granted the power to hold 23 suspects arrested in connection with the alleged plot to blow up several transatlantic planes in custody for another week.

Eleven people have today been charged in connection with the alleged plot to blow up several transatlantic flights, the CPS has announced.

His first frontbench job was as chief whip at the time when the party was being buffeted by the scandal over Thorpe's alleged involvement in a plot to kill Norman Scott, but he was not a conspicuous success in the role.

Extra police were deployed in the city, after an alleged terrorism plot targeting Melbourne landmarks on Christmas Day was foiled.

A soldier accused of killing his wife and a New York state trooper made a «die list» in an alleged foiled plot nearly two decades ago, when he was a middle school student in Michigan.

The meeting was called in the wake of the security alert at UK airports last week, in which police thwarted an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic flights, and included representatives from the EU, France, Germany, Finland, Portugal and Sweden.

New research will also be commissioned into this area, Mr Frattini said, admitting that explosives «are an area of particular vulnerability» for EU states, despite the success of the UK security services in foiling the alleged plot.

Testifying in the White Plains federal corruption trial of the plot's alleged mastermind, ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran, Manhattan GOP Chairman Daniel Isaacs said he called then - Republican mayoral candidate and Gristedes tycoon John Catsimatidis about the illicit offer made outside Spark's Steakhouse in Manhattan on Valentine's Day 2013.

Ministers have denied reports that they are considering plans to extend this period further to 90 days in the wake of last week's alleged terror plot.

Nwoye, who said the outcome of the elections would have an impact on the November 18 governorship poll in Anambra State, vowed that the APC would resist the alleged rigging plot.

This came as the PDP alleged, yesterday, that the APC perpetrated violence in Southern Ijaw area of the state and was plotting to manipulate the outcome of the exercise to its favour.

In her opening statement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Carrie Cohen outlined Silver's two alleged plots, frequently using the terms «bribes and kickbacks,» and «secrets and lies.»

NEW YORK CITY — The cooperating witness who was instrumental in the alleged bribery plot that took down state Sen. Malcolm Smith, a Queens councilman and city GOP bosses is a bankrupt, smooth - talking real estate investor who personally owes a staggering $ 126 million to Citigroup, DNAinfo.com New York has learned.

The group, in a statement issued to DAILY POST on Friday during a protest in Abuja alleged that there were suspicious plots by UNICEF to embolden and promote terrorism in the country.

Last week, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced his office, working with the FBI, had brought charges against state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Hollis), City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) and Queens Republican Party Vice Chairman Vince Tabone, alleging they had orchestrated a plot to bribe Smith's way onto the GOP ticket in the race for mayor.

The endorsement comes as Democrats hope Brooks's race in the 8th Senate district is newly competitive after Venditto's father, Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, along with Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, were charged in an alleged bribery plot.

Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State, has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the Presidential election in 2019 despite alleged plot by the All Progressives Congress, APC - led Federal Government to rig the poll.

Adoke who disclosed this in a statement he signed Sunday, also alleged that the plot was being perfected by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC in concert with the Presidency.

The indictment alleged that they plotted to solicit bribes for state assistance and to rig economic development contracts for companies that contributed to Cuomo's campaigns in a pair of interlinked schemes.

Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that captive Islamic State militants told his intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris, France.

They were among six people reportedly charged, including Bronx GOP chair Jay Savino and Queens GOP vice-chair Vince Tabone, in an alleged bribery plot to secure Mr. Smith a slot to run in the Republican mayoral primary.

A prominent University at Buffalo donor has been charged in an alleged pharmaceutical bribery plot.

The presidential election was fixed for 14 February 2016, until Sambo Dasuki, then President Goodluck Jonathan's National Security Adviser (NSA), went to Chatham House, London, to launch the plot that would climax in the postponement, till 30 March 2016, of the polls for alleged security reasons.

Saraki had alleged that Idris was plotting to use suspected cultists, who have been in detention, to implicate him and the Governor of Kwara state, Abdulfatah Ahmed.

Queens City Councilman Daniel Halloran, who was arrested last week as part of an alleged plan for state Sen. Malcolm Smith to bribe his way onto the Republican ticket for mayor, dangled $ 40,000 to $ 80,000 in his City Council discretionary funding as a tool in the plot, according to prosecutors.

In the statement, Castro explains how he came to be part of an investigation that eventually took down a fellow lawmaker, Assemblyman Eric Stevenson and several others in an alleged bribery ploIn the statement, Castro explains how he came to be part of an investigation that eventually took down a fellow lawmaker, Assemblyman Eric Stevenson and several others in an alleged bribery ploin an alleged bribery plot.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Tuesday, alleged of plot by prison officials to kill some of its members, who have been in detention since...

According to a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, in Ado Ekiti on Friday, Fayose alleged that there was a grand plot to release another set of Chibok Girls to shift the attention of Nigerians from the various scandals rocking the government.

Fingering the hands of the Presidency in the latest plot, with Oni and Fayemi as the local arrowheads, the governor alleged that a concocted fresh suit was being rehashed and to be filed against him on the same «old allegation» that had been trashed up to the Supreme Court.

Joe Percoco, former executive secretary to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was charged last week along with seven others in an alleged corruption plot unveiled by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan.

Two company officials were charged in an alleged bid - rigging plot by Bharara's office.

Mr. Smith continued that he could not yet name who was behind the plot he alleged — which he claimed was behind the recent indictments of other prominent black elected leaders — but said that the culprit would be revealed at his retrial in January.

The governor who was speaking in Port Harcourt at an end - of - year party by his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state alleged plot to bomb his plane was part of perceived desperation by his detractors to eliminate him.