Sentences with phrase «people briefed on the matter»

F.B.I. agents from the Buffalo office have executed search warrants at locations around Buffalo, Albany, New York City and Washington, several people briefed on the matter said.
WASHINGTON, Dec 15 - The Federal Communications Commission plans to fine Sinclair Broadcasting Corp $ 13.3 million after it failed to properly disclose that paid programming that aired on local TV stations was sponsored by a cancer institute, three people briefed on the matter told Reuters.
The governor, who prizes loyalty, was surprised by the appointment, and irritated that a person he had considered part of his inner circle was headed to work for a rival, according to several people briefed on the matter who were granted anonymity to describe private and sensitive conversations.
«The overstated scope of the investigation came from information provided to The Times by other people briefed on the matter who have since acknowledged making a mistake.»
Toymaker Hasbro Inc is in talks to buy Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the matter.
AppleInsider claims to have been talking with people briefed on these matters, reporting that the next version of Apple's mobile operating system is set to finally allow third - party applications to run in the background, via an Exposé - like interface, in what would be a real multitasking capability.
Two people briefed on the matter said multiple security agencies were involved in investigating the threats.
ALBANY — The state's Department of Financial Services is once again changing personnel after acting superintendent Anthony Albanese resigned from his post last week, two people briefed on the matter told POLITICO New York.
President Donald Trump has requested options for reducing the number of US troops in South Korea, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing several people briefed on the matter.
The Trump administration plans on meeting with officials from Qatar as early as this week and is planning to meet with officials from the United Arab Emirates to seek financial transparency, and using commercial loan terms, said a person briefed on the matter.
The U.S. Justice Department has approached 18 state attorneys general to try to win their support for an antitrust lawsuit to block pay TV and wireless powerhouse AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy media and entertainment company Time Warner Inc, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet is likely to approve a 28 trillion yen ($ 273 billion) stimulus package on Tuesday, though direct fiscal spending will total only about 7 trillion yen, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Pai is also expected to call for an initial vote in December to rescind rules prohibiting one company from owning stations that serve more than 39 percent of U.S. television households, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two people briefed on the matter.
General Motors (gm) will announce as early as Tuesday it will invest about $ 1 billion in its U.S. factories, a person briefed on the matter said.
The U.S. government has also opened a probe into alleged coordination by AT&T, Verizon and a telecommunications standards organization to hinder consumers from easily switching wireless carriers, a person briefed on the matter said last week.
Broadcom has put in the highest first - round offer of 2.5 trillion yen ($ 23 billion), while Foxconn offered 2 trillion yen, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters this week.
The Trump administration plans to argue the weaker rules will lead to cheaper vehicles, boost sales and employment and improve safety by prodding faster turnover of older vehicles, people briefed on the matter and Carper's letter said.
The security team generally pushed for more disclosure about how nation states had misused the site, but the legal and policy teams have prioritized business imperatives, said the people briefed on the matter.
But late Friday, the bank quietly approached the trading regulator to reopen settlement talks, the people briefed on the matter said.
The roughly $ 20 billion settlement discussed at the bank, but summarily rejected, might have settled both the Washington Mutual investigations and the New York case, the people briefed on the matter said.
«He's marking his territory,» one person briefed on the matter told me.
A proposed settlement figure of about $ 20 billion was discussed at the bank, according to people briefed on the matter, but it is not clear who proposed that number.
The developments have taken a toll internally, said the seven people briefed on the matter, who asked not to be identified because the proceedings were confidential.
The nation's largest bank is bracing for a lawsuit from federal prosecutors in California who suspect that the bank sold shoddy mortgage securities to investors in the run - up to the financial crisis, according to people briefed on the matter.
He and other Facebook executives, such as Ms. Sandberg, disagreed early on over how proactive the social network should be in policing its own platform, said the people briefed on the matter.
After JPMorgan recently resisted a settlement with the nation's commodities trading regulator, the people briefed on the matter said, the agency began drafting a lawsuit connected to the bank's multibillion - dollar «London whale» trading loss last year.
Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia, the people briefed on the matter said, are also investigating JPMorgan's sale of mortgage securities.
In recent months, lawyers for Goldman have presented information about its dealings with the Malaysian fund to federal prosecutors and the New York Department of Financial Services, according to people briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly about private meetings.
The New York - based firm already decided to cut its fixed - income business deeper than a typical annual push to eliminate underperformers, a person briefed on the matter said last month.
In a sign of how seriously Goldman is treating the new venture, the company approached several top consumer finance executives about the job, which comes with the title of partner, a highly coveted position at Goldman, the people briefed on the matter said.
John Dowd, who resigned as President Trump's lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, broke with Mr. Trump over whether the president should agree to be questioned in the inquiry, a person briefed on the matter said.
One person briefed on the matter said the White House believes that redactions could cure the problem, given the White House plan is to approve the release of the memo and leave it up to Nunes» committee to officially release the document.
Another person briefed on the matter said the Asahi report was correct on the participants in the consortium.
In recent weeks, Mr. Corzine and the federal regulatory agency that sued him have struck a tentative agreement to settle the case, according to people briefed on the matter.
Mr. Trump, in an extraordinarily angry response, lashed out hours later at what a person briefed on the matter said was an investigation into possible bank fraud by Mr. Cohen.
In recent weeks, Mr. Corzine and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission struck a tentative agreement to settle their case, according to people briefed on the matter.
The bank will defer 50 percent to 98 percent of bonuses for employees who have both total pay of at least $ 350,000 and incentive pay of $ 50,000, a person briefed on the matter said earlier this year.
Though the two sides had talked before the latest exchange of letters, according to people briefed on the matter, Pershing Square never called back.
In the same research note, Bryan Keane and Ashish Sabadra, equity analysts who cover CGI for Deutsche Bank and have a «sell» rating on the stock, wrote that «we continue to question the quality of the company's earnings,» and 683 Capital, a hedge fund in New York, has similar questions, according to a person briefed on the matter.
As the firm spun out of control, it improperly transferred some customer money on Oct. 21 — days sooner than previously thought, said people briefed on the matter.
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. approached CSX Corp. about a combination that would unite two of North America's largest railroad operators, said people briefed on the matter, as the boom in North American energy reshapes the railroad industry.
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is near a deal to buy Tribune Media, people briefed on the matter said, as it seeks to expand its empire of local television stations in the wake of rule changes by the Trump administration.
«It's certainly a quandary,» one of the people briefed on the matter, Gavin J. Donohue, the president of the Independent Power Producers of New York, said of Mr. Cuomo's positions on the upstate and downstate nuclear plants.
Frustrated by the pending shutdown of two nuclear power plants on Lake Ontario, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to order state regulators to mandate that, by 2030, half of all power consumed by New Yorkers be generated from renewable sources that emit much less carbon dioxide, people briefed on the matter said.
Federal prosecutors began presenting evidence to a grand jury in Brooklyn in the death of Garner, an unarmed black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white police officer in Staten Island in July 2014, according to a person briefed on the matter.
The subpoena to SUNY Polytechnic specifically asks for records related to «any application to and or provision of funding from the Empire State Development Corporation,» one of the people briefed on the matter said.
Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove declined to obtain a waiver of immunity from a Troy police sergeant when the officer testified before a grand jury that cleared him of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a Watervliet man, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Although the advocates proposed working with Ms. Cunningham, people briefed on the matter said the Cuomo administration later expressed support for the choice.
Now those donations, solicited in part by the mayor's campaign apparatus, are under scrutiny as part of a multipronged criminal investigation being conducted by federal and state authorities, several people briefed on the matter have said.
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