Sentences with phrase «leveled against his attorney»

Scaramucci's deleted tweet seemed to loosely resemble the types of attacks Trump has leveled against his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, over the past week.

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In response to the lawsuit, the Weinstein Company's board of directors called many of the allegations leveled against them «inaccurate,» and said that «any suggestion that the Company or its Board somehow impeded or discouraged the buyer's access to the New York Attorney General is untrue.»

Before him, it was ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was the first part of the one - two corruption punch leveled against Albany by then U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in a wild 2015 legislative session.

However, pressure group OccupyGhana claimed five charges levelled against the suspects were too soft and petitioned the Attorney General to charge the suspects under the Minerals Act.

Many observers have suggested a female attorney general could restore credibility to the office, given the accusations of domestic violence leveled against Schneiderman.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance joined Errol Louis to discuss his new position against prosecuting low - level marijuana offenses.

State AG Eric Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general, today filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its administrator, Scott Pruitt, for failing to meet the Clean Air Act's statutory deadline for designating areas of the country impacted by unhealthy levels of ground - level ozone (commonly referred to as smog).

NARAL Pro-Choice NY is stepping up its crusade against the GOP attorney general candidate, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, releasing a Web video and a site that paints him as the next in a line of attorneys general outside New York that have sought to limit abortion rights at the state level.

As New York moves to decriminalize low - level offenses, arguing enforcement is «rigged against communities of color,» other large cities are coming under pressure from the Justice Department — now led by former head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, Loretta Lynch — to do the same thing.

But Mr. Silver's defense attorney Steven Molo said the government simply disapproved of the entirely legal fact that Mr. Silver and other state lawmakers can hold outside employment and, instead of trying to change such laws — which he said will present «inherent conflicts of interest» — the government was «leveling false criminal charges against one of the senior legislative officers, senior government officials in this state.»

On Thursday, the detectives, who have resigned from the NYPD in the wake of dozens of charges leveled against them by the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, had been called to court for a hearing on their request to have the judge drop the case.

However, none of the charges U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has leveled against the two men pertain to campaign donations, though Mr. Silver stands accused of pressuring Glenwood into hiring a law firm that paid him legal fees while Mr. Skelos faces allegations that he used his position to obtain a sinecure for his son at a company Glenwood held stock in.

The US attorney didn't make any specific recommendations about how to purge the state of dirty pols, but he did make clear that the growing list of cases against elected officials at the state and local levels brought by his office indicate that the problem is far from solved — despite claims to the contrary by any number of self - appointed «reformers.»

Fossil fuel companies responded by leveling the ludicrous charge of «conspiracy» against state attorney generals while also using subpoenas to intimidate cities.

When catastrophic motor vehicle accidents occur, an attorney can help level the playing field when dealing with the large insurance companies that regularly defend against these claims.

It was clear in my mediation that my attorneys» competence level far exceeded the «white shoe» lawyers we were up against.

Lynch Schwab attorneys have defended various police officers, management and all levels of government officials against these claims.

A skilled attorney can level the playing field when going up against the big guys.

The child's attorney must consider the child's individual needs understanding that a child's various needs and interests may be in conflict and must be weighed against each other keeping in mind that the child's developmental level, including his or her sense of time, is relevant in the assessment of needs.

That's what a judge once told a client of a divorce attorney when accusations of parental alienation were leveled against the client in a custody hearing.