Sentences with phrase «of years of investigation»

The result is the culmination of years of investigation by the team searching for water and other volatiles in volcanic glasses returned by NASA Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The findings are the culmination of years of investigation that were triggered when O'Banion and his colleagues made a surprising discovery while studying mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.

The currently accepted modern theory of evolution is a conclusion that has been arrived at via hundreds of years of investigation and experimentation, it adheres to the scientific method, and has withstood much scrutiny.

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At the time of his termination, Comey had been leading a federal investigation into whether the president's campaign advisors had colluded with Moscow in order to influence last year's election.

Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

Alongside a Canadian Press investigation last year that revealed a «crisis» in faulty elevators, expect there to be plenty of opportunity as landlords scramble for qualified contractors to maintain aging systems.

The investigation is the latest problem for a six - year - old company, known until last year as Trump University, that already faces a string of consumer complaints, reprimands from state regulators and a lawsuit from dissatisfied former students.

Three years ago, retailers found a champion in the Competition Bureau when it launched an investigation into Visa and MasterCard, which process 90 % of the credit card transactions in the country.

Although the DOJ has not told the AP why it secretly obtained two months of phone records from the news organization, it is assumed that the seizure was related to a year - long investigation into the leak of classified information about a foiled Al Qaeda plot in Yemen last year.

Meanwhile, an investigation by CNN focused on the dark side of ride hailing drivers, finding 103 U.S. Uber drivers accused of sexual assault or abuse in the past four years and and 18 drivers for Lyft.

Khairullozhon Matanov, a 23 - year - old taxi driver who lives in Quincy, Massachusetts, faces one criminal count of destroying records and three counts of lying to officials in a terrorism investigation, according to court papers filed in U.S. District Court in Boston.

After a preliminary investigation, Police chief Sylvia Moir said that the collision that killed 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg wasn't Uber's fault and the accident «would have been difficult to avoid» regardless of whether the other car was autonomous or human - driven.

After a two - year investigation by Canada's antitrust agency, Amazon Canada has agreed to change its pricing strategy in Canada and pay a fine of Can $ 1.1 million (about US$ 840,000) for displaying misleading prices about savings.

The new reporting requirements come after a year - long Senate investigation ending in May 2013 that found defense contractors who transported troops and supplies were the target of numerous cyberattacks.

But US investigators, who have opened investigations into several members of Trump's inner circle and their ties to Russia over the past year, say they have been able to corroborate some of the details in the dossier by intercepting some of the conversations between some senior Russian officials and other Russians, CNN reported on Friday.

The punishment is the culmination of a three - year investigation into state - sponsored doping leading up to and during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Mueller's investigative team reportedly sat down with the social media site's staff earlier this year as part of the Russia investigation.

A spokesman for the prosecutors in the city of Brunswick (Braunschweig) told Fortune that recent disclosures suggesting that chief executive Martin Winterkorn was aware of the long - running deception of U.S. regulators already in May 2014 — over a year before the company finally admitted it to the world — weren't enough by themselves to justify opening an investigation into the former boss.

Sepp Blatter's 17 - year reign over FIFA, the governing body of world soccer is effectively over, after the organisation suspended him and other officials in connection with investigations into alleged corruption.

Kalanick was pressured to resign last year after the company became mired in legal woes and a raft of government investigations into how it does business.

A congressional investigation into the actions of the Obama administration and Clinton's State Department during the attack has been stalled for years.

Apple has been casting itself as a protector of user privacy in recent years, particularly earlier this year when it battled the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a high - profile case involving accessing encrypted data stored on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

After years of investigation, the trading commission concluded that some of the world's biggest bank's manipulated the London interbank offered rate, known as Libor.

Yahoo, since merged with the media property AOL under the name «Oath,» said that the company had «recently obtained new intelligence and now believes, following an investigation with the assistance of outside experts, that all Yahoo user accounts were affected» in the four - year - old breach.

After ten years of academic investigation at the University of Maryland, the researchers behind VisiSonics brought their «3D audio» technology to market in 2012.

The BBC's latest report follows another investigation it carried out last year, which found pedophiles were using secret Facebook groups to post and swap sexual images of children.

The Commission said that initial findings of an investigation launched last year showed platforms were delisting products or services without due notice, restricting access to data or not making search result rankings transparent enough.

An IRS spokesperson declined to comment on the investigation's new scope, which is limited — in the agency's words — to users with «at least the equivalent of $ 20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any one year during the 2013 - 15 period.»

The IRS launched the investigation in part because the price of bitcoin soared from $ 13 to over $ 1,100 during the years in question, and because only 802 people reported their bitcoin gains or losses in 2015 to the agency.

Following the conclusion of its investigation into an explosion last year in September, Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technology Corp., or SpaceX, will take its rocket to the launch pad again on Sunday,

After a two - year investigation, the Competition Bureau found that Amazon's practice of comparing its prices to regular prices on its Canadian site gave consumers the impression that the website was selling items at a price lower than the general market.

The idea for an ACCC investigation was hatched during media reform negotiations in parliament earlier this year, which resulted in a relaxation of ownership laws to allow the country's big players to boost their market share to better compete against online disruptors.

While Comey has drawn anger from Democrats since he reopened the email investigation in the closing days of last year's campaign, they didn't buy that justification for his firing.

Its investigation revealed that robberies of Uber drivers in Brazil's largest city rose ten-fold and attacks of drivers increased from an average of 13 per month in the first seven months of 2016 to 141 per month for the rest of the year.

Airlines» customer service practices have come under fire in recent months, and just last year, U.S. carriers were cleared in a federal investigation regarding exorbitant fare mark - ups in the wake of a deadly Amtrak derailment that drove up demand for air travel on some routes.

At the beginning of the year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that such attacks are on the rise.

On March 28, after a seven - year investigation, the RCMP's commercial crime section filed criminal charges against three of the firm's principals: former CEO Daniel Potter, who built the software developer into a TSE - listed firm with a market value of $ 100 million at the height of the dot - com bubble; Halifax securities lawyer Blois Colpitts, 48, a former director and the firm's legal adviser; and Bruce Elliott Clarke, a 65 - year - old former broker with National Bank Financial.

Equifax said in a regulatory filing that it might claw back some of Smith's compensation for this year, depending on results of the board's investigation into the breach, which the company has said occurred between mid-May and July.

The White House initially cited a Justice Department memo criticizing Comey's handling of last year's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails as the impetus for Trump's decision.

A corporate financing expert who worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 30 years claims the U.S. corporations and bank accounts were not designed to deceive.

The same could be said of uniquely Canadian scandals where fraud was suspected (notably Bre - X and Livent) and where the investigations dragged on for years.

That money, which is mostly held in short - term U.S. bonds and money market funds, was kept in Ireland for years, until an investigation by the European Union into whether the company failed to pay taxes caused it to move its holdings to Jersey, a small island off the coast of Normandy that rarely taxes corporations.

This year presented its share of challenges: a $ 2 - billion lawsuit related a 2013 factory collapse in Bangladesh; the threat of strike action from some 12,000 workers; and an investigation from the Competition Bureau.

The result of a five - year grand jury investigation?

McCabe was forced out of the FBI earlier this year amid an internal investigation into his handling of the bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state.

Six banks involved in the benchmark rigging were asked to pay a total of $ 5.6 billion in fines in May after a two - year investigation by regulators.

McCabe was forced out of the FBI earlier this year amid an internal investigation by the Office of Inspector General into his approval of unauthorized disclosures to the media in October 2016 about the bureau's Hillary Clinton email investigation.

A state investigation of the shooting found that gunman Adam Lanza had not been receiving mental health care in the years before the shooting, despite prior advice from mental health professionals throughout his childhood and adolescence.

«DOI's investigations exposing and preventing the types of corruption that fuel violence have resulted in more than 30 arrests of Correction Department officers and staff over the last two years and led to dozens of reforms,» he said.

Two Chinese officials with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that police are requesting a second Interpol arrest notice for Guo, 50, for the alleged sexual assault of a 28 - year - old former personal assistant.