Sentences with phrase «of the watchdogs in»

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara took on the role of investigating the Buffalo Billion after none of the watchdogs in state government would.

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The corporate watchdog has fined Perth stockbroking firm DJ Carmichael $ 300,000 for actions undertaken by one of its former employees in 2011.

The liberal - funded watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington complained to the GSA that it should terminate its deal or take legal action because the president had violated the conditions of the lease.

The Perth - based distributor of the Thermomix kitchen appliances in Australia is being taken to court by the consumer watchdog for allegedly misleading customers when the products were found to be dangerously faulty.

Perth - based Automotive Holdings Group will incur a $ 35 million write - down hit from the closure of some of its underperforming businesses, in response to the weak market for car retailers combined with recent regulatory changes by the corporate watchdog.

Last week, the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMICFRS)-- the watchdog for policing in England and Wales — issued a statement that victims could be at risk if suspects were released without any bail conditions.

They are probing Societe Generale SA over allegations of bribery related to the bank's work with the Libyan Investment Authority, while Airbus SE reportedly risks a fine in excess of $ 1 billion in a case also run by U.K. watchdogs.

The prosecutors» office in Vienna is consolidating «hundreds of complaints» about a scheme known as «Optioment» that have been filed at police stations across the country, and which add to a warning by financial watchdog FMA, spokeswoman Christina Ratz said by telephone.

Young already had a history of acting as a watchdog for crew safety and firing off blunt memorandums when the Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff in January 1986, killing all seven aboard.

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management has been appointed by the corporate watchdog to sell a portion of shares in Sovereign Gold Company held by former Applabs Technologies directors which were found to have been acquired invalidly.

In the wake of the new regulations several sites have been targeted with fines and closures under the watchdog's orders.

Secretary of State for Culture Karen Bradley, who is responsible for media issues, said Tuesday she had written to media watchdog Ofcom for more information on its views on Fox's bid for London - listed Sky Plc, the biggest pay - tv operator in the U.K.

Grain handling cooperative CBH Group has opened itself up to increased competition in the provision of grain transport services, following a review by the competition watchdog.

The competition watchdog has raised concerns over South32's proposed $ US200 million acquisition of Peabody Energy Corporation's Metropolitan Colliery in NSW, on the grounds that it may lessen competition in the region.

Padbury Mining and two of its directors have entered into a settlement agreement with the corporate watchdog over misleading statements made last year, but they could still face penalties in the Federal Court later this week.

The FTC is probing a complaint brought by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which looked at some 1,000 products on Amazon's website in June and found that Amazon (amzn) put reference prices, or list prices, on about 46 % of them.

The corporate watchdog has begun civil penalty proceedings against Padbury Mining and two of its directors over statements made last year claiming the company had lined up $ 6 billion in equity to fund construction of a port and rail network at Oakajee north of Geraldton.

The competition watchdog has further delayed its decision on the $ 9 billion takeover of rail and ports giant Asciano, after receiving complaints that the deal would reduce competition in the container logistics business.

Quoting Smith's earlier comments, delivered at the University of Georgia business school in August, Warren, an outspoken consumer watchdog, accused him of not only injuring Americans affected by the Equifax breach, but of profiting off their plight.

WASHINGTON, April 26 - The head of the U.S. derivatives watchdog on Thursday said he would like to allow more flexibility in the way swaps are traded while at the same time tightening requirements for reporting of such trades.

A head of the European Union's watchdog said a short - term strategy could be to focus on applying anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules, warning consumers of the risk of trading in cryptocurrencies and preventing banks from holding them.

Estonia's financial watchdog had said it suspected Danske Bank's local branch of misleading authorities, adding the agency made inspections at the branch in 2014, during which it found what it called extensive and systematic violations of anti-money laundering rules.

According to Washington watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Mnuchin has frequently opted for using military aircraft for his travel instead of taking commercial planes, which would come at a much lower cost to the taxpayer.

Britain's competition watchdog has fined Pfizer a record 84.2 million pounds ($ 107 million) for its role in ramping up the cost of an epilepsy drug by as much as 2,600 %.

The charity watchdog's view stands in contrast to the way the foundation was characterized during the presidential campaign, but it's consistent with the views of some who have been close to the Clintons over the years and have observed how the foundation operates.

On June 4, the ITC, the U.S. agency that serves as a watchdog on international trade, ruled in favor of Samsung's patent and limited the ability of Apple to sell some older smartphone products.

China's quality watchdog said on Monday that Tesla will recall a total of 8,898 Model S vehicles in the country from June 28.

BEIJING, April 9 - China's quality watchdog said on Monday that Tesla Inc will recall a total of 8,898 Model S vehicles in the country starting on June 28, as part of a broader, global recall announced last month.

Vice is likely to run into the same obstacles it has faced elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa, «where journalists are most subjected to constraints of every kind», according to global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders.

According to Citizen Lab, a censorship watchdog at the University of Toronto, Netsweeper's customers have allegedly included telecom firms in a number of countries — including Qatar, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates — that have troubled records in terms of human rights and political freedoms.

But when it comes to the highest - paid public employees within each U.S. state, the search isn't made easy for watchdogs, even in an era of increasing transparency at the level of state government.

Sandberg told CNBC that A.I. can catch «99 percent» of the «bad actors» in some content areas, but internet watchdogs are less sure, and after a week that was the worst for Facebook shares since 2012 — and saw tens of billions in Facebook market capitalization erased daily — it seems like the «responsibility» of companies merits more spending on human talent.

«We've made a lot of progress in the last 10 years on transparency, but there's still some real problem areas,» said Bob Williams, the president of watchdog group State Budget Solutions.

The system collapse could result in TSB paying fines and compensation, while the Bank of England's watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority said it plans to talk to the firm to understand what went wrong.

As part of financial reform, President Obama tasked one consumer watchdog with «looking out for regular people in the financial system.»

Australia's privacy watchdog has opened an investigation into Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal.

Watchdog's lawyer couldn't find a mention of that requirement in Apple's UK warranty materials.

«The UN nuclear watchdog has confirmed that Iran has implemented all of its obligations,» Mohammad Javad Zarif says in a video.

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The documents were presumably provided by Wylie (pictured below), who has also handed email and other documentary evidence to the DCMS committee investigating online disinformation in political campaigning, as well as to the UK's data watchdog and Electoral Commission — both of which are also probing digital political campaigning issues (including around the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote, which Wylie alleges CA also worked on).

The U.S. consumer watchdog agency, enmeshed in partisan politics since its creation after the 2008 financial crisis, is now at the center of a tug - of - war...

Two more provinces have agreed to join a voluntary national securities regulator expected to begin operations in the fall of 2015, bringing the total number on board to four and giving the upcoming capital markets watchdog a more pan-Canadian scope.

In November of last year, the nonprofit watchdog group, Public Citizen, issued a detailed report which found that 44 Trump administration officials have close ties to the Koch brothers.

But the fact that the data watchdog is forced to sit on its hands waiting to gain access to servers that the companies of interest to its investigation are in control of or able to access raises serious questions about the asymmetry between big data and regulation.

Martin Gruenberg, the final Democrat among top US bank watchdogs, is a growing source of frustration to Wall Street, as the last man standing in the way of a deregulatory wave.

In mid-2017, the EU's antitrust watchdog hit Google with a $ 2.7 billion fine for unfairly favoring its own service over those of its rivals.

January 22, 2018: The campaign finance and anti-corruption watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice asking them to «determine whether the payment was made by the Trump Organization or some other corporation or individual, which would additionally make it an illegal in - kind contribution to the campaign.»

«The takeaway from it is that even though the technology is getting better and pipeline companies are spending a lot more money on inspecting pipelines, there's been an uptick in failures over the last decade,» said Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Washington - based watchdog group.

Watchdog group Freedom House was similarly critical in its most recent analysis, giving the country an overall democracy score of 6.61 out of 7, with 7 being «least democratic.»

A government watchdog agency alleges that insurer Health Net of California has refused to cooperate in a security audit called for under a federal contract.