Sentences with phrase «own plea»

The plea hearing began at 10:30 a.m. Flynn has been charged with making false statements to federal investigators about his conversations in December with Russia's ambassador to the US at the time, Sergey Kislyak.

At the same time, he has a plea: understand that his department is under financial pressure.

After a plea of no contest, Reubens withdrew from public life.)

The plea sent directly to Uber Technologies Inc.'s 11 - member board comes as the ride - hailing giant faces a deadline to respond in court to the women's complaint against the company.

This was despite pleas from Brexiteers like Farage to trigger Article 50 as soon as possible.

Last week, President Donald Trump came under fire after his responses to a plea for help from the mayor of San Juan were perceived by many as being racist and issuing blame on the hurricane victims.

He later echoed his plea for discretion at a press conference.

She puts out her plea for help.

(Despite the policy, IHOP has not yet responded to Gawker's public plea that a 27 - year - old waiter, arrested for giving away $ 3000 in free beverages at a Brooklyn IHOP, be exonerated.)

Her final plea to get me to change my mind was, «The strength of the bond my children share is the thing in life that makes me happiest, and I'm petrified that you two working together will jeopardize a lifetime of work.»

It is unseemly at best to resist so adamantly the pleas of members of another historically - disadvantaged group that he stop making money from a brand that adds insult to injury.

And the current strategy to achieve that appears to be the presentation of a united front — Sanders» «international consequences» reference — and a plea to Russia's better angels.

Instead of starting with a plea to help save the bees, she starts with what's in it for customers: Bee Downtown is a simple and fun way for corporations to get their employees involved in a sustainability initiative.

Inc.'s article ends with a plea to bosses everywhere: «Do you want your employees to come into the office and work long hours while they're there?

Mueller has so far secured two guilty pleas and two indictments in the investigation.

Sam Zeif, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida who survived last week's mass shooting, delivered an impassioned plea for stricter gun control during a White House listening session with President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Croce and Jones dismissed it, even after Blakely made a plea on Grissett's behalf enumerating the many applications of the cake - cutter.

He has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and has yet to enter a plea.

Gleit says Facebook wants to measure and reduce the tool's «noise» — a nice word for what could be a rather annoying stream of pleas for money.

That plea fell on deaf ears, and several weeks after.

Jha's guilty plea confirmed an earlier report by cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebbs, who wrote an article in Jan. 2017 tracing the Mirai botnet attacks to Jha and White.

But the fix is provisional; insurers have been exiting the Affordable Care Act marketplaces over deep uncertainty about the health law's future, and insurance commissioners in some states have had to plea with firms to remain committed to the exchanges.

«On behalf of the hundreds of employees at Apple whose futures are at stake; on behalf of their colleagues and on behalf of the millions more across America who believe, as we do, in the power of dreams, we issue an urgent plea for our leaders in Washington to protect the Dreamers so their futures can never be put at risk in this way again,» Cook said in the note to his employees.

But without the votes, Democratic opponents and a handful of Republicans who crossed party lines to oppose the measure, were left only to deliver emotional pleas to block it.

The SBA has also put out numerous calls over the years to disregard the data, making its latest plea last fall.

A wave of insider trading cases brought by Manhattan federal prosecutors, meanwhile, resulted in Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam's conviction in 2011 and a $ 1.8 billion settlement and plea deal in 2013 with hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors LP.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI, the first Trump White House official to make a guilty plea so far in a wide - ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.

I put out the plea on Facebook and soon had plenty of recommendations, some of which were overwhelmingly positive.

Trump again characterized the criminal justice system as «rigged» during a rally in Florida on Friday, echoing comments he made last weekend following former national security Michael Flynn's guilty plea as part of Mueller's probe.

The expected guilty plea makes the retired Army lieutenant general the first person to have actually worked in the Trump White House to face formal charges in the investigation, which is examining possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

Unlike corporations, charged individuals stand to be deprived of both personal wealth and freedom, and are thus less likely to strike a plea bargain.

The auctioneer droned on, his pleas for millions unanswered.

Whether the perpetrator is found guilty after a trial or takes a plea deal to avoid trial, the court has the power to make restitution a condition of the sentence or probation.

Meanwhile, Flynn struck a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller and pleaded guilty in federal court last month to making false statements to federal investigators about his discussions in December 2016 with Russia's ambassador to the US at the time, Sergey Kislyak.

Mech writes on his website (with the lovely title Wolf News and Info) that his original book is «currently still in print, despite my numerous pleas to the publisher to stop publishing it.»

Brazil's Supreme Court early on Thursday rejected former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's plea to avoid prison while he appeals a corruption conviction.

Evidence of lack of business integrity (such as indictments, pleas of guilt in legal cases, convictions for violations of legal behavior, adverse civil judgements, or out - of - court settlements).

Legal experts told Business Insider that the plea deal struck by Michael Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, with the special counsel Robert Mueller was most likely evidence that Flynn has damaging information to offer prosecutors on other persons of interest in the Russia investigation.

Daiichi Sankyo's press release comes in the wake not only of Ranbaxy's highly unusual criminal guilty plea and $ 500 million in fines and penalties — the largest ever against a generic - drug maker — but also a lengthy Fortune article that exposed for the first time the depth and extent of the fraud charges leveled at the company and the knowledge of senior company executives.

Soon after Flynn entered his guilty plea in federal court, ABC News reported, citing a source close to Flynn, that he was prepared to testify against Trump.

The White House seems to be ignoring pleas from many Republican politicians and industrialists (such as Charles Koch) to avoid broad tariffs, which seem likely to spark an international trade war.

William Yeomans, a former deputy assistant attorney general who spent 26 years at the Justice Department, said Flynn's guilty plea «is likely big trouble for several members of the Trump administration.»

While Gates entered a guilty plea with Mueller last month, Manafort has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

French national Mark Karpeles filed the plea in response to charges of embezzlement and data manipulation at the Tokyo District Court, according to a pool report for foreign journalists.

In a new twist, the U.S. Justice Department successfully pushed for the parent companies — rather than subsidiaries — to enter the guilty pleas.

In March, a woman known as the «Burger King baby» who had been abandoned by her mother 27 years previously found her birth mother by posting a plea to Facebook.

Bond insurers with more than $ 1 billion at stake repeatedly argued for the sale of valuable art but dropped that plea and settled for much less.

Thanks to a public - relations push and a video of Sterling making an earnest plea for why Goldie is needed, the campaign received national press.

As part of a plea bargain, Weiner has agreed not to appeal any sentence between 21 and 27 months.

While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.