Sentences with phrase «on years of investigation»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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 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.

«The investigation has been going on for a year and during that course of time I have been focused on running Barclays, I think we've made great progress and I look forward to running Barclays for a number of years to come,» Staley told CNBC Thursday morning.

His presidency has taken the world on a wild political rollercoaster: From the travel ban to the repeal of DACA, the firing James Comey, and the investigation into Russian meddling in the election — it's been quite a year.

«On October 26, three days after Business Insider began our conversation with «Vamp,» London Metropolitan Police announced the arrest of a 15 - year - old boy in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, as part of the investigation into the hack.

A key question that should have been addressed in the company's investigation was just how $ 56 million in suspect payments was administered over two years with at least some knowledge on the part of senior management.

Zuckerberg might touch on Facebook's year of privacy scandals, congressional testimony, Russia investigations and apologies.

She has 6 + years of industry experience working on government and commercial incident response engagements and forensic investigations as a malware reverse engineer and computer forensic examiner.

Although one underwriter was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the SEC last year, on the whole the bankers of our small - company group behaved better than that: as of the spring of 1997, not one of their issues had gone under.

FBI investigators had found new emails on a computer used by Clinton's aide, Huma Abedin, after Comey closed the investigation in July of that year.

President Donald Trump's re-election campaign spent more than $ 1 out of every $ 5 on attorney fees this year as the president contended with the ongoing special counsel investigation and a new legal challenge from an adult - film star.

Mike Mayo, an analyst at CLSA Ltd. in New York, warned investors in a note that «The two - year investigation into banks rigging Libor, which has taken a toll on Barclays, has the potential to hurt Citigroup, JPMorgan and Bank of America.»

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have launched investigations into the March 23 crash of a Tesla Model X on a California highway, in which a 38 - year - old engineer and father of two lost his life.

Rudy Giuliani, Trump's new attorney, said in an interview on Fox News that Trump fired Comey last year because Comey would not state «that he wasn't a target» of the special counsel's Russia investigation.

Experts have warned that trade tensions are likely to rise this year between the U.S. and China, the world's two largest economies, as Trump decides how to act on a series of investigations his administration launched last year.

Democratic lawmakers lashed out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday amid a report that the agency was backing off an investigation into a massive data breach at Equifax last year that exposed sensitive data about millions of people.

Regulators worldwide began investigations, brands and surfers (including Playboy, Elon Musk, and WhatsApp founder Brian Acton) deleted their accounts on the social network, and Facebook's share price plunged, erasing all of its gains over the past year in just two weeks.

Rosenstein was asked about investigations that go on for months or even years; if there is a precedent on how long an investigation should last and when would the American people get to know the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election that has been underway since May of 2017.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

But a few years later and a few years wiser, Kress embarked on a yearlong, nationwide investigation into the origins of pet store dogs like her own.

The singer's bereavement comes just weeks after false allegations that he sexually abused children were finally dropped after years of investigation, including a televised raid on his Berkshire home - something he is now suing the BBC over.

The immediate suspension of accused priests has given rise to a second problem: While the priest remains suspended, the investigation into his case drags on, often for years.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the church's doctrinal watchdog, on Wednesday announced the conclusion of a years - long «doctrinal assessment» investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 80 % of the Catholic nuns in the United States.

An investigation that began after the crisis over sexual abuse of children in the Boston Archdiocese fully emerged in 2002 has pored over records dating back more than 60 years, with subsequent decisions on who to name based on the nature of the accusations and other factors, according to O'Malley.

Some years ago the Rotary Club of New York City through its Boys» Work Committee made an investigation of juvenile delinquency on Manhattan Island.

The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday that police and prosecutors were considering whether to bring a criminal investigation against the 82 - year - old, following the publication of a report last June which heavily criticised him.

Not only that, he's a real guy who had his life disrupted when two reporters recently knocked on his door unannounced as part of their investigation into a 15 - year - old case they're looking into for a podcast series.

More and more zealously, during the past fifty years, historical criticism has pressed on toward the investigation of the traditions underlying the sources.

And the two people who stay at the forefront of my mind to keep me going in the work of redemption are: 1) Adeke Loy — a mama in Uganda who faces horrific abuse and is slowly seeing beauty and redemption & 2) Reeshma, a 12 year old girl who I met while on investigation with Indian Rescue Mission.

that's too funny - and they also have been over the years on the receiving end of many state and federal investigations int copyright / trademark infringement and labor law violations.

Earlier this year, Bob Jones University raised eyebrows when they pulled the plug on a third - party investigation into their lengthy, troubling history of handling of sexual assault victims.

Western writing on Eastern religion has had, in the course of the last hundred years, because of its substance, an influence on the development of those religions themselves that certainly deserves careful historical investigation; on the whole, because of the form in which it has mostly been cast, it has in addition been causing resentment and is beginning to elicit protest.22 Certainly anyone for whom comparative religion studies are something that might or should serve to promote mutual understanding and good relations between religious communities can not but be concerned at this contrary effect.

The report, «Carrageenan: New Studies Reinforce Link to Inflammation, Cancer, and Diabetes,» is the result of a three - year investigation on the part of the Cornucopia Institute and contains information gleaned from 1,337 questionnaire responses from individuals about their own health.

A separate probe of alleged bullying tactics by the supermarket chains against suppliers is expected to be wound up by early next year or at least at a stage where the ACCC can make a public comment on the sensational investigation.

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

Since the investigation footage first aired on Four Corners in May, Animals Australia has stood alongside Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon, and their Live Export Prohibition bill, which calls for a phase out of the live trade over three years with the strictest provisions for the handling of animals during the transition.

A two - year investigation — conducted by the Wildlife Protection Association of Australia (WPAA) and Animal Liberation NSW, and based on information provided by a kangaroo industry «whistleblower» — found evidence of unsustainable and damning practices in the kangaroo industry.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

He had sued The Mail on Sunday, and he might have taken heart when, early in August last year, Brian Davies, Auckland (N.Z.) district police commander, stated, «We have found that much of what was reported seems to have been founded on rumor and speculation which, upon investigation, has evaporated in a mishmash of contradictions and uncorroborated allegations... some witnesses had allegedly received offers of money and other inducements for their information.»

With 300 plus homicides occurring in Houston that is 12 - 15 homicide investigations a year plus attempted murder and other felony assault cases to handle, And with each homicide taking maybe on average of three to four weeks to handle its easy to understand how this took so long.

The UK Government's so called «investigation» into Football corruption has been going on for years, but we can probably tie the starting date of the current enquiry to 2011.