Sentences with phrase «new person the investigation»

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The Department of Justice has started a criminal investigation into Uber's software called Greyball, a technology that helped drivers evade local regulators, a person familiar with the investigation told The New York Times.

As the investigation continued into the blast that injured 29 people in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday night, the FBI questioned five people early Monday following a car stop in Brooklyn.

The investigation is ongoing, but what we know right now is that the hacker acquired the records of approximately 15 million people, including new applicants requiring a credit check for service or device financing from September 1, 2013 through September 16, 2015.

This was Facebook being Facebook,» said Vaidhyanathan, who is calling on the FTC to open a new investigation into how people's Facebook information flows to third - party applications.

The growing legal questions around Mr Cohen's services for Mr Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand - jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

Mr Trump's and Mr Cohen's lawyers believe the New York investigation is largely aimed at pressuring Mr Cohen to cooperate with the special counsel team, according to several people familiar with their discussions.

Trump's and Cohen's lawyers believe the New York investigation is largely aimed at pressuring Cohen to cooperate with the special counsel team, according to several people familiar with their discussions.

The growing legal questions around Cohen's services for Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

«Up to 35 staff depending on requirements are involved with the investigation which remains fully focussed on identifying the person or persons responsible for the threat,» said the New Zealand Police statement.

In fact, one person close to the investigation said the New York Racing Association «would have been happy to see the whole thing go away and die.»

Marc Kasowitz, Trump's personal lawyer in the Russia investigation, has boasted to friends and colleagues that he played a central role in the firing of Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, according to four people familiar with the conversations.

Marc Kasowitz, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer in the Russia investigation, has boasted to friends and colleagues that he played a central role in the firing of Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, according to four people familiar with the conversations.

And as he talks about the pressure that was on him from Trump, he pointedly dropped a reference to another person he once sparred with over an investigation: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on its investigation into Paul Manafort and his financial transactions, according to several people familiar with the matter.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced an agreement with Westchester County that resolves the United States» long - running investigation into Westchester County Jail (the «Jail») under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act («CRIPA»).

«Investigation by leaking seems to be the new way of trying to discredit people without actually producing any evidence,» said Assembly member Deborah Glick (D - Manhattan).

Over the past few weeks, a series of loosely related public corruption investigations coordinated by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara have spilled into public view, with targets including high - ranking New York Police Department officials, the union representing city jail guards, and the political fundraising activities of several people with ties to New York City's mayor.

The new rule also prohibits officials from disclosing a person's immigration status to federal authorities, except in certain situations such as a law enforcement investigation.

«Without knowing what actually transpired during JCOPE's deliberations and its investigation of the Lopez case, such an anti-majoritarian vote, had it taken place, could have blocked the extension of the investigation to other persons whose conduct merited further inquiry,» Common Cause New York and the New York City Bar Association wrote in a joint testimony to the review commission.

As my investigative reporting focuses almost entirely on New Rochelle public sector employees managed by appointed and elected officials, my targets for investigation are often people who owe their jobs to Democrats.

Former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi plans to plead guilty to felony corruption charges stemming from the investigation into improprieties in his office, The New York Times reported, citing people with knowledge of the case.

MYSTERY SOLVED: City Council Member Lou Trangucci is the person who brought forward the complaint which led to the investigation of the New Rochelle Department of Public Works by the Westchester County District Attorney.

But federal authorities were «already listening to numerous people in various places» on unrelated investigations before looking into Silver, and his «case provided a bunch of new places to wiretap,» a law enforcement source told «On The Inside.»

The FBI has released some new photos and video from its investigation of the 2011 shooting in Tucson that left six people dead and 13 injured, including former Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords.

Large gaps in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's schedule are now filled with private meetings and calls away from City Hall since multiple investigations into his fundraising and administration began, according to documents and people familiar with the matter.

They were arrested and during investigation, the accused persons stated that they were brought into the country from South Africa by Captain Edmund Kojo Koda (retd) and Captain Kwesi Acquah (retd) to train New Patriotic Party (NPP) security personnel for the 2016 general election in Ghana.

An Iranian charged with hacking the computer system that controlled a New York dam used a readily available Google search process to identify the vulnerable system, according to people familiar with the federal investigation.

Officials say SUNY Polytechnic and its leader, Alain Kaloyeros, one of the point people for the Buffalo Billion program, is under investigation by state AG Eric Schneiderman over a contract awarded for a new dormitory building at the public college he runs in Albany.

Twelve people have been arrested following a one - year investigation into a spate of vehicles thefts in the New York area.

The investigation found that at least 110 hosts across New York City are offering temporary lodging for groups of 13 or more people.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that the state will launch a multi-agency investigation into working conditions at the Verla International cosmetics factory in New Windsor, where two explosions and a fire killed one man and injured more than 30 people on Monday.

A key developer connected to one of Connecticut's most important transportation projects and the son of one of the state's most influential Democratic political figures were among nine people indicted Monday in a long - running federal corruption investigation in New York that has focused on senior...

In New York City, the Department of Investigation is starting an anti-corruption ad campaign warning people not to take bribes.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to be questioned Friday by federal prosecutors in connection with a corruption investigation into fundraising on his behalf, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The New York attorney general's office is investigating possible bid - rigging related to a proposed dormitory at a State University of New York campus in Albany, part of a broader probe of contracting issues involving an ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- A person familiar with an investigation of New York City Comptroller John Liu's campaign fundraising says one of his supporters has been arrestNEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- A person familiar with an investigation of New York City Comptroller John Liu's campaign fundraising says one of his supporters has been arrestNew York City Comptroller John Liu's campaign fundraising says one of his supporters has been arrested.

State Police and the United States Postal Inspection Service announced the arrest of 22 people and the seizure of drugs, weapons, cash and one vehicle resulting from a joint drug investigation throughout Central New York.

New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, now under federal investigation, was under scrutiny this year by a state anticorruption probe looking into the sources of his six - figure outside income, people involved in the probe said.

According to people familiar with the investigation who spoke to POLITICO New York and other news outlets, U. S. Attorney Preet Bharara is looking at how SUNY Polytechnic Institute awarded a contract for the $ 900 million plant (being constructed for SolarCity) to LPCiminelli, a construction firm that has donated to the governor's campaign.

Government corruption, electoral dysfunction, more investigations, broad popular anger over the political status quo and how it hurts regular people: As they return to the Capitol this week, you'd think it would be a really good time for lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to move forward with big new reforms on ethics, elections, campaign finance and voting.

«Dennis Vacco is one of the few people in Western New York qualified to represent me in a federal white collar kind of investigation.

Last winter, Sinema's campaign found new recipients for roughly $ 53,000 she had taken in from people with ties to Backpage.com, many of whom are under criminal investigation for conspiring to facilitate prostitution through the website, The Republic reported.

Nearly a quarter of Long Island Power Authority employees in the last decade had connections to politically powerful people on the Island and in New York State before working at the utility, a Newsday investigation has found.

A former New York City mayoral candidate was interviewed by authorities as part of an investigation into Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising activities, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.

Coordinated federal and state investigations into Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising operations are examining efforts by a politically connected group to ban horse carriages in New York City, people familiar with the matter said.

The other people whose conduct is under examination in the investigation, two of the people said, include Alain E. Kaloyeros, the president of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, who was a central player in the Buffalo Billion; Todd Howe, a lobbyist and longtime associate of the governor and his father; Louis P. Ciminelli, a developer in Buffalo; and a company called Competitive Power Ventures.

Central New York Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) said Thursday it would be very bad if a memo from the House Intelligence Committee shows people with political motivations skewed special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into ties between Russia and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

Pinning down tainted flour as the source of the U.S. outbreak, which sickened 63 people between December 2015 and September 2016, was trickier than the average food poisoning investigation, researchers recount November 22 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The antibodies against H7subtype viruses exhibit «remarkable neutralizing potency,» and thus may represent a new way to protect people who have been exposed to or infected by avian influenza, they reported today in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

The study, to be published online Dec. 8 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, illustrates the importance of microglia and could lead to new ways of warding off the onset of Alzheimer's disease, which is predicted to afflict 15 million people by mid-century unless some form of cure or prevention is found.