Sentences with phrase «officials opened an investigation»

Rick Arney, co-author of the proposed California Consumer Privacy Act, said support for the measure widened when federal officials opened an investigation into how a data firm, Cambridge Analytica, accessed the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge to help elect President Trump.

The Mayor's office and state officials opened an investigation on Flanner House after they saw a 42 percent increase in the school's ISTEP passing rate in 2013.

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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 U.K. Financial Conduct Authority opened an investigation in 2017 looking at Staley's alleged attempt to find out the name of the employee that wrote a letter raising concerns about the recruitment of a senior official by the bank.

The Swiss federal prosecutor's office opened an investigation into business in North Africa in May 2011, long before Canadian officials became involved.

The U.S. Justice Department appears to have opened an investigation into Uber following reports that the ride - hailing company used a special tool to evade regulators and law enforcement officials around the country.

A Chicago Park District attorney reiterated Tuesday that park district officials have not violated the state «s Open Meeting Act but said he will cooperate with the Cook County state «s attorney «s investigation of an alleged violation.

In recent days Governor Andrew Cuomo has publicly engaged two of the massive transportation agencies he controls on hot button topics, demanding in an open letter that the MTA act to address a recent spike in sexual assaults reported as occurring on the New York City subway system and demanding answers from the Port Authority on a report that NYPD officials ensnared in a corruption investigation arranged for a special escort, with a lane closure, through the Lincoln Tunnel.

Federal officials have opened an investigation into activities by senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway following a complaint that she violated ethics laws when she slammed Democrat Doug Jones — who is battling Republican Roy Moore to become Alabama's next U.S. senator — on national TV.

Opening long - awaited congressional hearings, a top Republican said an investigation of Planned Parenthood was intended to protect taxpayers from the kind of «horrors» suggested by secretly recorded videos of group officials discussing the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses.

New York City's child - welfare agency has opened an investigation into former Rep. Anthony Weiner after he allegedly sent a lewd photo of himself lying next to his son over the internet, a city official said

The state Attorney General's office has opened an investigation into the data breach that occurred after Questar Assessment Inc. of Apple Valley, Minnesota, administered the statewide test to elementary and middle school students, officials said.

The state police investigation remains open and active and the formal police report on the incident has not yet been filed with county officials, Hodges said.

Based upon a complaint I filed, Connecticut's State Election's Enforcement Commission has opened an official investigation into the alleged campaign finance violations of Residents for a Better Bridgeport, the political action committee that was created to support Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's unsuccessful effort to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected Board of Education and replace it with one appointed by himself.

WASHINGTON — Federal safety officials have opened an investigation into a possible malfunction of the anti-lock brake systems on 165,000 1991 - 1993 Chrysler Corp. minivans.

WASHINGTON — Federal safety officials have opened an investigation to determine if some 1998 Ford Windstar minivans are defective because of loose or missing bolts on front brakes.

Capcom has announced today the opening of the official website of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth for the Nintendo DS.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

The FTC has opened an official investigation into Facebook; Palantir, billionaire Trump supporter Peter Thiel's data company, has been implicated in the scandal; and so has Trump's new national security advisor, John Bolton.

The charges involving AdSense cover an area that the Commission already was aware of when it opened the investigation in November 2010, the official told the E-Commerce Times.