«
The investigations targeting our company threaten to have a chilling effect on private sector research,» Exxon's vice president of public and government affairs, Suzanne McCarron, said in a lengthy statement on its website.
In editorializing about
the investigation targeting my company, the Washington Post got it half right — and half wrong.
Not exact matches
In August,
Target (tgt) severed ties with the textile
company after an internal
investigation revealed it misrepresented its 100 % Egyptian cotton sheets.
The
investigation came as a result of Cambridge Analytica Chief Data Officer Dr Alex Tayler and Managing Director Mark Turnbull saying to an undercover journalist that the
company was now
targeting Brazil, among other countries.
Bruno Gensberger, president of the European Chamber of Commerce's pharmaceutical working group, has said the
investigations have only
targeted foreign
companies, including those with the strongest standard operating procedures, or SOPs, to prevent employee misconduct.
An ESPN
investigation by Mina Kimes in 2016 suggests the
company encourages deception and
targets people who want to be rich, with few people that actually make a significant amount of money.
Since Brexiteers and the 2016 Cruz and Trump campaigns contracted with Cambridge for help
targeting voters in the UK and US, and special counsel Robert Mueller has subpeoned documents from the
company in his
investigation into possible Trump / Russia collusion, politicians quickly took notice.
Daniel C. Oliverio, a lawyer for Mr. Ciminelli and his
company, said neither his client nor the construction
company had done anything wrong, and neither were
targets of the
investigation.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for a federal
investigation into an outdoor advertising
company's latest effort to
target billboard ads to specific consumers.
Late last week, the
company, in a statement provided to Newsday, said it was not the
target of any federal inquiry, but intended to cooperate fully with any
investigation.
Both of those cases, however, deal with criminal proceedings when the password holder is the
target of an
investigation — and don't address when a hashed password is stored on the servers of a
company that's an innocent third party.
A POLITICO
investigation found that «Pearson's contracts set forth specific performance
targets — but don't penalize the
company when it fails to meet those standards.
As noted, Comer served as Chief Operating Officer of the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain but quit both her job and her position on the State Board of Education when the charter school
company became the
target of the
investigation into financial wrongdoing.
Not surprisingly, Shelby was also the
target of numerous suits and countersuits, most notably by customers of Unique Performance, a Shelby Mustang continuation
company he partnered with, who claimed they didn't get the cars they paid for when the
company was shut down during a criminal
investigation for title washing.
Companies in France were the major
targets of the ongoing
investigation with no end in site.
Gallivan says CRA has been careful in spending the extra money, adding to the ranks of auditors for large multinational
companies,
targeting promoters of illegal tax schemes and beefing up the criminal
investigation teams with lawyers at the earliest stages.
He told «The Times» that although it was not seeking to dispense with LPP, the SFO was preparing to
target companies «whose lawyers obstructed
investigations by hiding behind the shield of legal professional privilege.
Working proactively with state AGs can help a
company avoid becoming a
target of
investigations and manage issues before they escalate into costly litigation or damaging media coverage.»
Are regulatory or criminal securities and related
investigations targeted at the
company or the individuals involved, or both?
In many instances,
companies must provide information before being
targeted by the
investigation.
For instance, in a previous case, the court found that only a qualified privilege applied where a
company that reported criminal violations was not the
target of the government's
investigation at the time of the report.
Regulatory or criminal
investigations can
target both
companies and individuals.
Assuming there is no mandatory disclosure obligation, some
companies are reluctant to call the government because (1) they may not know all the facts yet, (2) they don't want to waive privilege, and (3) they are worried that the
company will become the
target of an
investigation into... Continue Reading
The
investigation came as a result of Cambridge Analytica Chief Data Officer Dr Alex Tayler and Managing Director Mark Turnbull saying to an undercover journalist that the
company was now
targeting Brazil, among other countries.
Another is claimed to show the
company debating what to do after an independent
investigation from the University of Toronto attacked it for selling hacking tools to Ethiopia, which then used it to
target journalists in the US and elsewhere.
«Our concern, however, is that in the course of this
investigation, the extent of Facebook user tracking and
targeting could surprise the public and risk broad regulation in ways that are harmful to the
company's ability to serve effective advertising.»
Quoting the Europol release: «The leader of the crime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks
targeting over a 100 financial institutions worldwide has been arrested in Alicante, Spain, after a complex
investigation conducted by the Spanish National Police, with the support of Europol, the US FBI, the Romanian, Moldovan, Belarussian and Taiwanese authorities and private cyber security
companies.»
The
company, which claims to harvest massive amounts of data to develop personality profiles and
target voters» «unconscious psychological biases», has been swept up in an
investigation by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).