Sentences with phrase «lead the official investigation»

The University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom has announced that Muir Russell, a former official of the University of Glasgow, will lead the official investigation into Climategate.

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«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» White House official Raj Shah said in an emailed statement ahead of the announcement.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI, the first Trump White House official to make a guilty plea so far in a wide - ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.

«A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice.

While DOJ officials believed there wasn't enough evidence to move forward with the probe and wouldn't authorize further investigatory measures, FBI officials, including McCabe, believed they had the authority to continue the investigation using whatever leads they had already acquired, the report said.

«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» White House official Raj Shah said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.

«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» the official said.

Commenting on this morning's tweets, an Obama spokesman told the New York Times that «no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice.»

Cobb has been the lead lawyer representing Trump in an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and possible collusion with Russians by Trump campaign officials.»

The Russia investigation, allegations of domestic violence by a top White House staffer, reports of outlandish spending by Cabinet officials, and just general frustration with Trump's chaotic management style have led to a number of departures from the Trump White House.

«Afghan authorities should be helped to understand that we expect them to lead the investigation into this terrorist bombing in their country,» one official wrote in late 2007.

The lawmakers» official roles also point to the significance of their criticism of the IRS investigation: Hatch chairs the Senate's Finance Committee, Brady leads the House of Representatives» Committee on Ways and Means, while Buchanan serves as chair of the House committee's Oversight Subcommittee.

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. investigation that led to the sudden resignation of David H. Petraeus as C.I.A. director on Friday began with a complaint several months ago about «harassing» e-mails sent by Paula Broadwell, Mr. Petraeus's biographer, to another woman who knows both of them, two government officials briefed on the case said Saturday.

Four more officials in Flint, Michigan were criminally charged in the state attorney general's ongoing investigation in the city's lead - tainted water that currently is still unsafe to drink.

Former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein led the investigation after the NCAA reopened the academic misconduct probe into the university in June, when new information became available.

Park District commissioners spent much of the last year dealing with the repercussions of financial and criminal investigations that led to the dismissal of former director, Kim Paetschow, and other park officials.

President Trump acknowledged publicly for the first time today that he was under investigation in the expanding inquiry into Russian influence in the election, and he appeared to attack the integrity of the Justice Department official in charge of leading it.

President Trump yesterday evening fired the director of the FBI, James Comey, abruptly terminating the top official leading a criminal investigation into whether Trump's advisers colluded with the Russian government to steer the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration and the NTSB will lead the crash investigation, Westchester County officials said.

Maureen Cunningham, 53, a West Babylon Democrat, said she supports forfeiting the pensions of convicted officials, saying the money should be used toward the costs of the investigations that led to their arrests.

Since then, the investigation has led to the activities of Rechnitz and his pal, Jeremy Reichberg, their dealings with NYPD officials, and their role in fundraising for de Blasio.

City officials say they welcome the investigation and claim they were in the dark about the shady dealings that led to the sale.

Speaking in an interview on CNN, Christie said law enforcement officials have some «promising leads» in the Seaside Park investigation, but have not officially named a suspect.

Dr. Pradeep Haldar, a former interim dean and current tenured professor at the Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has filed a lawsuit in state court against the school, SUNY Research Foundation, and certain officials at the institutions, alleging he was wrongly barred from leading sponsored research projects after an internal investigation sharply criticized his stewardship of two distinct awards.

in state court against the school, SUNY Research Foundation, and certain officials at the institutions, alleging he was wrongly barred from leading sponsored research projects after an internal investigation sharply criticized his stewardship of two distinct awards.

Update: Officials from the Coast Guard, the lead agency on the investigation, say its pollution teams discovered the diesel is actually rain runoff from somewhere up river, not from a tugboat as originally reported.

His coverage of the selection of the Buffalo Billion program triggered a federal investigation that lead to the indictment of nine state officials and development company executives.

Also Sunday, British lawmaker Damian Collins, who has been leading an investigation into political influence in which officials from Cambridge Analytica and Facebook have testified, suggested that neither company has been sufficiently forthcoming.

After voicing her displeasure with the amount of attention she believed the NYPD was giving her daughter's homicide investigation, Odom says a subsequent follow - conversation with department officials led to a change in her opinion — and outlook.

Mt. Vernon officials have a history of avoiding honest dialogue based on facts, and while I applaud the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's decision to investigate this matter, I support the call for the United States Department of Justice and the United States Attorney General Lorretta Lynch to lead the investigation to ensure Mrs. Turner's death is completely independent and properly examined.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are conducting a sweeping investigation of environmental health and safety conditions, including cases of elevated blood lead levels, in public housing and homeless shelters and the possibility that the New York City housing and homeless agencies filed false claims to federal housing officials for payment related to the conditions.

That allegation eventually led to an ongoing investigation over whether there was a pattern of fundraising and possible pay - for - favors schemes involving NYPD officials being wined, dined and flown to various cities by two wealthy businessmen, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg.

David Farber, the authority's general counsel and executive vice president for legal affairs, is the fourth high - ranking official to pack it in amid probes by the Department of Investigation and US Attorney's Office into how the agency handled lead - paint inspections.

reported, based on public records and other media accounts, that public and quasi-public entities» spending on outside counsel related to state and federal investigations that led to corruption charges against a total of ten former state officials and business executives could approach $ 7 million.

In early July, The Alt reported, based on public records and other media accounts, that public and quasi-public entities» spending on outside counsel related to state and federal investigations that led to corruption charges against a total of ten former state officials and business executives could approach $ 7 million.

Investigations have begun into the official lead campaigns on both sides, Britain Stronger in Europe and Vote Leave, which each registered total expenditures of more than # 6.7 m, the commission said.

The Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner leading the investigation into phone hacking has told the inquiry into media ethics that evidence of payments made by The Sun suggests a «network of corrupted officials.»

WAEC's own internal investigations led to the dismissal of three WAEC officials.

In science news around the world, the European Commission proposes that the European Union consider funding military research, more investigations at Japanese universities cast doubts on claims for a leading hypertension drug, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials plan a culling of barred owls in the Pacific Northwest in hopes of saving the endangered northern spotted owl, and more.

But last week, after extensive coverage in the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper and criticism from its own faculty about its handling of the case, it launched an official investigation into the original allegations: that a leading professor there, astrophysicist Marcella Carollo, mistreated graduate students for more than a decade, while the administration ignored complaints against her.

University officials first learned of the duplications in 2005, and they eventually led to an investigation by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), which funded some of Smith's work, including experiments on board the U.S. space shuttles.

One of the United Kingdom's leading universities has been cleared of charges of animal cruelty at the end of a long - running and contentious series of investigations, an official report has concluded.

This is the official synopsis: «An improbable, screwball and slapstick police investigation focusing on bizarre crimes on the outskirts of a small town in the north of France that has fallen prey to evil, and to a band of young scoundrels led by Li» l Quinquin and his beloved Eve.»

Perhaps it's this environment, amid increasing skepticism of virtual charter claims, that led officials with the attorney general's office in California to lash out at K12 Inc. last week while announcing the conclusion of a long - running investigation of the virtual charter outfit.

Assistant Director of HM Revenue and Customs Investigation, Scotland said that his officials were helping the authorities of other European countries to deal with carousel fraud and it was in fact this cooperation that lead to unearthing of massive scam in Scotland back in 1990.

The results of the investigation led officials to believe that as early as August, Sallie Mae had supposedly violated the ServiceMembers Civil Relief Act in servicing some federal student loans, according to people familiarized with the probe.

The interview that has lead to an official IGDA investigation into the workplace conditions at Team Bondi have had a secondary effect that looks to be just as much a backwards step for the Australian developer.

Since then, the local media has faced strong intimidation from Exxon, local residents have become sick from the toxic fumes, a severe thunderstorm threatened cleanup efforts, leading officials to release contaminated water into Lake Conway and the Attorney General of Arkansas has launched an investigation, as a number of lawsuits have been filed on behalf of residents.

That campaign has led directly to investigations by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and like - minded officials in other jurisdictions.

Police investigations into the billion dollar scandal reveal top Eni officials led by Mr Descalzi were centrally involved in negotiations with Chief Dan Etete, the former Nigerian oil minister believed to have been one of the deal's main beneficiaries.