Sentences with phrase «into federal office»

Though I appreciate Appelbaum's dedication to the DA, at the same time, it might have made more sense, financially for him to have gone to the private sector — or perhaps into a federal office (where the pay is higher) to pay off some of his loans.

According to Wynn, she would scrap her proposed ORPP if the Liberals were elected into federal office.

Not exact matches

The president said agents «broke into» Cohen's office, even though a federal judge approved the FBI's search warrants

Less than a month into office, he signed an executive order directing the federal government to «thwart transnational criminal organizations» and calling for the removal of foreigners involved in those organizations.

The Swiss federal prosecutor's office opened an investigation into business in North Africa in May 2011, long before Canadian officials became involved.

The reports triggered a review by the HHS inspector general's office, which is looking into whether Price's travel violated federal travel regulations.

Germany's Federal Cartel Office has begun an investigation into Apple Inc's arrangement with Amazon for purchasing audiobooks, the competition watchdog said in a statement on Monday.

President Bill Clinton came into office with 3,083,000 and by the END of his TWO TERMS he reduced the number of Federal employees to 2,703,000.

It has been a deep embarrassment to watch some Catholics brutally twist their minds and consciences into the service of defending their claim that faithful and staunchly anti-abortion Catholics should support a radically pro-abortion presidential candidate who says his first act in office will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would, by federal mandate, eliminate even the most minimal legal discouragements of the killing of unborn...

It has been a deep embarrassment to watch some Catholics brutally twist their minds and consciences into the service of defending their claim that faithful and staunchly anti-abortion Catholics should support a radically pro-abortion presidential candidate who says his first act in office will be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would, by federal mandate, eliminate even the most minimal legal discouragements of the killing of unborn babies.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office has launched its own inquiry into Buffalo Billion contracting, hiring former federal investigator Bart Schwartz, who has the power to review contracts under the western New York economic development program before they are formally approved.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office on Thursday reacted to the decision by federal and city prosecutors to not bring any charges in multiple investigations into fundraising and political activities.

The NYT tells the story of the 2011 bootlegging case that turned out to be the tip of a criminal scheme that within three years would be used as evidence in an unimaginably larger case, a federal corruption investigation that would ultimately reach deep into New York City's highest offices of power.

So is Federal Hall where George Washington was sworn into office, and his namesake city has reached unprecedented levels of dysfunction.

These results imply that the New York Times article detailing ways the governor's office tried to control the commission and the ongoing federal investigation have not caused serious damage to the governor's campaign heading into election season.

Spota left office in October after his indictment on federal charges of obstructing an investigation into former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 2012.

The influence of Gresham's union was reaffirmed when Comptroller Scott Stringer's office, investigating the de Blasio administration's bungling of a Lower East Side land deal that appeared to allow a hospice for AIDS patients to be turned into luxury condos, released a trove of emails and text messages that showed how closely 1199 worked with City Hall to make sure the disastrous deal, also under state and federal investigation, came to fruition.

The administration of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who is not expected to seek re-election as he fights federal corruption charges, has moved more than 40 politically appointed employees into competitive union positions that will protect them from being fired when a new county executive takes office in January.

In recent years, the sheriff's office was involved in a federal investigation into political corruption in Suffolk that led to the conviction of Edward Walsh, the former corrections lieutenant under the outgoing sheriff, Vincent DeMarco.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. joined the ongoing federal investigation into de Blasio's fundraising tactics last January after the Board of Elections» chief investigative officer sent a «criminal referral» to Vance's office alleging the efforts of the mayor's nonprofit to unseat the Republicans violated campaign finance laws, Vance has said.

In the past, Halloran has also warned the Mayor's office of many unconstitutional city plans, such as the so - called Crisis Pregnancy Center Bill that Bloomberg signed into law and was struck down in Federal Court three days after he signed it, which curtailed the free - speech rights of Catholic institutions.

He used the televised appearances to spotlight scandals that occurred in the mayor's first term in office, including state and federal probes into de Blasio's campaign fundraising tactics that focused on whether donors were giving preferential treatment by his administration.

The federal subpoena prompted a state - commissioned inquiry into possible «improper lobbying» and «undisclosed conflicts of interest» between the two men, who shared a campaign office during Cuomo's 2014 re-election.

On April 29 Cuomo's office received a federal subpoena looking into the commercial development project using state money and tax breaks that Cuomo has called the Buffalo Billion.

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio defended himself and his top advisers a day after his office confirmed that top aides were subpoenaed by federal and state prosecutors amid an investigation into the mayor's campaign fundraising operation.

Also, new entrants into the party are now required to spend at least one year as card - carrying members of the APC before they become eligible to seek elective offices at state or federal level.

Federal authorities and the Manhattan district attorney's office are looking into whether de Blasio's solicitation of Catsimatidis and other donors violated campaign - finance laws.

As Florida Politics reported last week, Democrats believe they are on the precipice of retaking the Florida Senate for the first time in the 21st century — but JJR's congressional run, which since Rick Scott's signature put resign - to - run back into Florida law for federal offices, and which would require JJR to leave the Senate in April, could jeopardize their narrow path to do so.

Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota, who came into office as a corruption buster but whose own office reportedly is under federal scrutiny, will not seek re-election this November, ending a record 16 years as the county's top prosecutor.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was established by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to, among other things, organize elections into various political offices in the country.

A federal investigation into Burke's actions was launched in June 2013 by the civil rights division of the FBI office in Manhattan and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn at the civil rights division of the United States attorney for the Eastern District.

Sources have told The Post that Percoco is at the center of a federal probe into what Cuomo's office last week called «questions of improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interest by some individuals which may have deceived state employees involved in the respective programs and may have defrauded the state.»

The Democratic attorney general — who is widely believed to be planning a run for governor this year — revealed for the first time yesterday that his office and federal prosecutors from New York's Southern District had launched a joint criminal probe into Espada.

At least three investigators with the Suffolk district attorney's office have been subpoenaed as a federal investigation has expanded into whether county investigators and prosecutors engaged in federal civil rights violations by illegally using a wiretap on Oliva.

Low - income neighborhoods in the borough suffer from a lack of banks, and it is up to the federal government to coax more lending institutions into opening offices in underserved areas, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D - Forest Hills) said in Forest Hills Monday.

ALBANY — The state attorney general's office and a federal prosecutor are both looking into the payouts of thousands of dollars in questionable stipends to state senators who were identified in pay records as committee chairs when they weren't, the Daily News has learned.

The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York have been investigating Mr. Skelos and his son, Adam, as part of a wider probe into allegations of corruption in Albany.

Other projects aided by the federal program include: Seneca Exchange Larkin Partners for a mixed - use development on Seneca Street; Multisorb Technologies for expansion of its West Seneca and Cheektowaga plants; and Iskalo Development's conversion of the former Kane - Doyle auto dealership in Kenmore into a multi-tenant office and retail complex.

Ardent fans of the former city councilman, whose once - promising campaign has been overshadowed by a federal investigation into his fundraising, overwhelmed the City Hall steps, mobbing him as he arrived and elbowing for a chance to get close to the first Asian American elected into city - wide office.

PLATTSBURGH As the state nears the end of its universal broadband project, a state senator is calling for a formal probe into how the Broadband Program Office allocated $ 670 million in state and federal funding.

He also said his office is cooperating with a federal probe into the NYPD.

Suffolk Sheriff Vincent DeMarco told county legislators that federal investigators had to step into the prosecution of former county Conservative Party Chairman Edward Walsh as a result of a «true moral failure» by Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota's office.

The prosecutor, Oyeyemi Adeniyi, had told the court that the defendant criminally trespassed into the office of Minister of Sport and Youth Development, Federal Secretariat, Abuja, on April 3.

De Blasio said he looks forward to the «speedy conclusion» of federal and state probes into his fundraising activities, defending himself one day after his office said it had been subpoenaed.

A federal investigation into corruption in Suffolk County law enforcement has expanded, as the Justice Department examines at least a half - dozen cases to determine whether political considerations influenced decisions made by the local district attorney's office.

«Broadway Stages and its owner and president, Gina Argento, appear to be involved parties in State and Federal investigations into campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio,» DiNapoli's office wrote to state officials on Dec. 21, according to a letter obtained by The Post that was first reported by the Staten Island Advance.

In September, family and friend of victims of police crimes in Westchester rallied in front of US Attorney Preet Bharara to demand federal investigations into questionable investigations of the killings of many black men by the Westchester DA's office.

Silver was taken into custody shortly before 9 a.m., telling reporters, «I hope I'll be vindicated,» as he entered a federal office building.

In one of the letters that Walsh sent last September to a Milton resident, John Olenik, Walsh wrote his «office is conducting an investigation into confidential information, pursuant to the town of Milton Code, NYS Law and various federal laws, was (sic) released without proper authorization.

Between them, they poured about $ 20 million of subsidies into the remaking of the former Dulski federal office building on Delaware Avenue into offices, condos and an Embassy Suites Hotel.