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To clarify, plea bargaining does not constitute extortion and prosecutors have absolute immunity from criminal or civil liability for their official acts in prosecuting cases.

The bill signing marks one of Obama's last official acts in a year beset by a partial government shutdown, a near - default by the Treasury, a calamitous health care rollout and near - perpetual congressional gridlock.

This morning in Austin, our state's newly elected Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is holding a press conference to announce his first official act in office.

If no public official performed an official act in exchange for the money, then crimes of bribery or extortion can not be charged.

To substantiate corruption charges, prosecutors must prove the person suspected of wrongdoing performed an official act in exchange for some benefit.

Fail to comply with directions of school district officials acting in the performance of their duties.

Andrew Wheeler, the nominee to be Pruitt's number two, still awaits Senate approval, and the career official acting in Wheeler's place is also set to retire.

States regularly assert that every official acting in their official capacity is immune from prosecution by foreign authorities (for non-international crimes) under the doctrine of ratione materiae.

I don't think the parties pursuing libel suits are typically government entities or officials acting in their official capacities, possibly for exactly the reason you give: it would be unconstitutional.

Part of his claim is that, in relation to this ten year period, British officials acted in combination with the US authorities and / or assisted or encouraged his unlawful detention and mistreatment by the US authorities.

The individual Respondents (the «accused») are jointly charged with one count of bribing foreign public officials under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act in relation to SNC - Lavalin's bid for a construction supervision contract for the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh.

Not exact matches

She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

The first trial involving a charge under the Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act was concluded this past summer, and resulted in a conviction.

The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and docketed under 18 - cv - 02213, is on behalf of a class consisting of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired BRF American Depositary Receipts («ADRs») between April 4, 2013 and March 2, 2018, both dates inclusive (the «Class Period»), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants» violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the «Exchange Act») and Rule 10b - 5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.

In fact, Palestinian officials have acknowledged providing payments to the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis or convicted of terrorist acts and imprisoned in Israel; that is not a conspiracy theory.&raquIn fact, Palestinian officials have acknowledged providing payments to the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis or convicted of terrorist acts and imprisoned in Israel; that is not a conspiracy theory.&raquin Israel; that is not a conspiracy theory.»

The United States, which in July said would take «strong and swift economic actions» if President Nicolas Maduro goes ahead with the Constituent Assembly, could also further sanction senior Venezuelan officials after acting against 13 prominent figures last week.

The class action, filed in United States District Court, for the District of Illinois, Eastern Division, is on behalf of a class consisting of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Akorn's securities between March 1, 2017 through February 26, 2018, both dates inclusive (the «Class Period»), seeking to recover damages caused by defendants» violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b - 5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.

By parallel, if you forbid a company from competing for government contracts for 10 years, those are 10 years during which they will engage in precisely zero instances of attempted bribery or other acts of corruption, at least with regard to bribery or corruption of Canadian officials.

Officials said Obama could act on that authority if Russian forces press into other areas of Ukraine, an escalation of the crisis in Crimea.

LONDON — A British teenager has been jailed for two years for compromising the email and phone accounts of senior U.S. government officials in what a judge called acts of «cyber-terrorism.»

During the trip, the cheerleaders say Redskins officials collected and held their passports, required them to go topless as «a contingent of sponsors and FedExField suite holders — all men — were granted up - close access to the photo shoots, and, in some case, made them act as «personal escorts» for male sponsors at a nightclub.»

Back when the teams were born, global anti-corruption advocates accused Canada of failing to enforce its Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), introduced in 1999.

«That is why we have committed to reviewing the Gender Recognition Act to look at ways of streamlining and demedicalising the process for changing a person's legal gender, as well as reviewing gender markers in official documents.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) officials tell Healthcare IT News that, while we can expect to see some major changes to health policy under President Trump (including rollbacks to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare), health IT will continue to get «plenty of airtime in Congress» and could even become an important jobs priority for the incoming president.

Emails obtained by Judicial Watch from the State Department through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit show that MacManus forwarded the news of Ambassador Christopher Stevens's death to the official in the State Department Legislative Affairs Office with instructions not to «forward to anyone at this point.»

While in Israel acting as a technology delegate for the United States, an Israel Defense Forces official told me an amazing story about the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

Even Uncle Sam is getting in on the act, allowing some government workers to charge official purchases on government - issued credit cards.

On Jan. 26, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates contacted White House counsel Don McGahn to raise concerns about discrepancies between the public accounting and what intelligence officials knew to be true about the contacts based on routine recordings of communications with foreign officials who are in the U.S.

Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), a product of this era, became law in 1999.

Postmedia confirms in an email that officials executed a search warrant at its offices on Monday but adds it is «strongly of the view» that no contravention of the Competition Act occurred in the agreement announced Nov. 27.

The memo stipulates that the federal government would not stand in the way of states that legalize marijuana so long as officials acted to keep it from migrating to places where it remained outlawed, and out of the hands of criminal gangs and children.

At a time when the White House has vowed to act more forcefully against North Korea, Iran and other threats, some officials see the Cuba problem as yet another lesson in the dangers of using intelligence selectively to advance policy goals.

The newswire reported Wednesday that the ride - hailing company, which is facing a federal probe into possible breaches of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, has already notified officials about payments made by its staff in Indonesia.

Nor, officials said, was Secretary of State Tillerson informed of the situation until days after the department's acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, Francisco Palmieri, finally called in the Cuban ambassador in Washington, José Ramón Cabañas, to present a diplomatic note of protest on Feb. 17.

Cummings said White House lawyers said this week that «several» Trump administration officials used private email accounts to conduct government business, which is in violation of the Presidential Records Act.

That's why officials adjudicating personnel - security cases must act in a mature, objective and nonpartisan fashion... But when it comes to vetting Trump appointees, they often aren't.»

The New York Times reported in December that acting ATF Director Thomas Brandon and other officials have indicated they don't believe the agency can act alone, both publicly and privately.

In 2013, Bloomberg News used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain official records of Federal Advisory Council meetings.

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It's not just high - ranking officials who will possess the ability to act in a manner that benefits the president's pocketbook — it's ordinary civil servants as well.

The documents — dating from 2006 to 2010 and obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act — show officials getting increasingly exasperated with the Afghan government's lack of interest in investigating the crime.

The orders - in - council, the official notifications of decisions recommended by the federal cabinet, are numbered 2015 - 1264 and 2015 - 1265 and set out that, pursuant to subsection 7 (1) of the Official Residences Act, two individuals were appointed last week as special assistants at the Prime Minister's reofficial notifications of decisions recommended by the federal cabinet, are numbered 2015 - 1264 and 2015 - 1265 and set out that, pursuant to subsection 7 (1) of the Official Residences Act, two individuals were appointed last week as special assistants at the Prime Minister's reOfficial Residences Act, two individuals were appointed last week as special assistants at the Prime Minister's residence.

Officials in Iowa and New York had their act together and scrambled — successfully — to keep production facilities and jobs in their states.

Browder said that to protect the vast amounts of money, some of which he said was in American banks, Putin launched a campaign to repeal the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that imposed sanctions on Russian officials whom the U.S. held responsible for the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail after being retained by Browder to investigate corruption.

Company officials say that attorney, Jill Martin, acted in her personal capacity and that the Trump Organization is not representing any party in the Daniels» dispute.

Kirsten Hillman, the lead negotiator for the TPP talks and a senior official on softwood lumber issues, will act as MacNaughton's deputy in Washington and will also play a significant role.

Second, I haven't read the BNA Act recently, but I'm almost positive that the people who comprise «official Ottawa» report to and take their marching orders from certain men and women who just so happen to be in charge.

The University of Alberta - based Parkland Institute released a new report this morning, Ending Pay to Play: The Need for Political Finance Reform in Alberta: «Given the consensus that exists between the government and official opposition to ban corporate and union donations, it should act immediately to do so.

Ishwar Puri, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University and Roy Cain, Acting - Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University cordially invite you to join in the official kick - off to Manufacturing Month in Canada and the introduction of the first ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chair in Advanced Manufacturing Policy, Greig Mordue

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