Sentences with phrase «potential violation of law»

JCOPE also has jurisdiction to investigate potential violations of law by legislators and legislative employees and, if violations are found, issue findings to the Legislative Ethics Commission, which will have jurisdiction to impose penalties.

However, when the ethics commission was formed in June, 2011, the accompanying announcement said JCOPE would indeed «have jurisdiction to investigate potential violations of law by legislators and legislative employees ``, and deliver its findings to the Legislative Ethics Commission.

Comey said that though there is evidence of potential violations of laws on handling classified material, the FBI's judgement is that «no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case» against Clinton.

DFS, an executive regulatory agency created at Cuomo's suggestion through the 2011 merger of the old state Insurance and Banking departments, is currently required to refer potential violations of the laws covering those sectors to the attorney general, an appropriate agency or district attorney.

Notably, however, the Commission acknowledged that these agreements «did not... prohibit former employees from communicating directly with the Commission or any other governmental agency regarding potential violations of law.»

We routinely conduct internal investigations for global corporations and financial institutions that have discovered potential violations of laws relating to:

However, Foye did not inform outside authorities about this potential violation of law — which is now under investigation by the U.S. Attorney in Newark, Paul Fishman.

However, the obligation to arbitrate does not obviate the obligation to report any potential violations of the law to the governmental agency charged with regulating the practices of brokers and salespeople in the state.