Sentences with phrase «provided official acts»

The jury only has to find that Silver provided official acts of some kind in order to convict him, Williams complained.

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In fact, Palestinian officials have acknowledged providing payments to the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis or convicted of terrorist acts and imprisoned in Israel; that is not a conspiracy theory.»

«The White House officials who provided this week's briefing stated that several White House employees came forward and «confessed» that they failed to forward official records from their personal email accounts to their governmental email accounts within 20 days, as the Presidential Records Act requires,» Cummings continued.

FinancialStability.gov is now part of Treasury.gov and is the official government site providing information and data related to the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) & Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Brazil's federal government must provide financial support to the nearly - bankrupt state of Rio de Janeiro in order to avoid the shame of a disappointing Olympics, according to a top official in the administration of Acting President Michel Temer.

Instead it provides $ 1,600 a season in each city to be split up among the baseball writers who act as official scorers, and another $ 1,400 for the three lucky men who happen to be scorers in the World Series.»

The Safe School Food Act would fill the gaps in the inspection, testing, procurement and preparation of food served to students, Durbin said, and it would provide school officials with the tools and information to help them prevent food - borne illness.

On appeal, the Second Circuit found that the jury instructions were too broad, permitting the juries to convict the defendants of corruption charges on a theory that fell outside the definition of «official act,» which the Supreme Court had provided in McDonnell.

Molo opened his summation with the legal instructions Caproni gave jurors when the trial began Nov. 3: that actions could be taken to «cultivate goodwill, or to cultiave a relationship with the entity that provided the benefit, and not in exchange for any official act» without constituting honest services fraud.

The Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo to ensure special security is provided for officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and other anti-graft agencies.

Issues like the DREAM Act, which provides tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants, and ethics reform such as the constitutional amendment the governor first proposed in December for term limits and limiting outside income for state officials, lack the «political will,» he said.

The scheme provided SILVER with two different streams of unlawful income: (i) approximately $ 700,000 in kickbacks SILVER received by steering two real estate developers with business before the state legislature to a law firm with which he was associated, and (ii) more than $ 3 million in asbestos client referral fees SILVER received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg.

In separate federal court trials in Manhattan last year, each man's alleged «official acts» included a mixture of actual exercises of governmental power — like casting votes and providing funding — and more subtle behavior, like arranging meetings, providing job references and making phone calls.

The «End New York Corruption Now Act» would also expand the powers of the attorney general's office to prosecute public corruption, create new criminal categories for undisclosed self - dealing and bribery, and change the pension forfeiture rule passed earlier this year to prevent state funds being used even to provide for a convicted official's spouse or children.

They say the comments interfere with the board's ability to conduct official business and violate the state Dignity for All Students Act, which requires the district to provide students with an education environment free of harassment and discrimination.

The lobbying act bars firms from offering or providing gifts to public officials, such as a job to Skelos» son.

«Conduct and activities of The Advance Group during the last election cycle may have involved the coordinating of independent expenditure Super PACs with official campaigns, and The Advance Group provided unpaid lobbying services to a public official and, as a consequence, The Advance Group will benefit from selling access to the public official to influence official acts,» the complaint alleges.

A provision of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, 5 U.S.C. § 7353, prohibits federal employees, including members of Congress and staff, from soliciting or accepting anything of value from anyone who seeks official action from the employee's agency, does business with that agency, or has interests which may be substantially affected by the performance of the employee's official duties.105 House Rule 23, clause 3, similarly provides:

Under parliamentary rules, MPs are allowed to engage in outside work, including taking on company directorships, working as consultants, acting as barristers or simply giving speeches or writing books — provided that all income is declared in official registers, and no work relates to lobbying parliament.

What deradicalization provides is a program in the middle acting as some sort of communicative bridge between security officials, family members, and communities.

The culprit was indeed a doctor, Dr. Edwin J. Goodman and he hoped to profit from his brainchild as follows, from the preamble to the bill» A bill for an act introducing a new mathematical truth and offered as a contribution to education to be used only by the State of Indiana free of cost by paying any royalties whatever on the same, provided it is accepted and adopted by the official action of the legislature in 1897.»

The Journal of Clinical and Translational Science (JCTS) is the official journal of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) and aims to provide a forum for the rapid communication of relevant topics of interest to the large and diverse community of clinical and translational scientists.

When it comes to health, safety and welfare of employees, school officials have a wealth of responsibilities, with Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act stating that employers have a general duty to provide a safe place of work, a safe system of work, competent fellow employees and the common law duty to ensure they take reasonable care for the safety and health of their employees.

We provide our scholars with opportunities each year to travel to their local city halls, state capitols, and Washington, D.C., to lobby our elected officials on issues ranging from charter school funding to the DREAM Act.

Yesterday, the State Department of Education provided town - specific results to each local superintendent of schools but refused to release the statewide results and threatened local officials that they could not publicly discuss the results — in direct violation of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act — because the results were «embargoed» — a concept that is not allowed under Connecticut's open record law.

«The Stull Act has become a very cursory process, and it hasn't provided support to teachers,» said UTLA President Warren Fletcher, echoing the view of district officials and advocates.

Ms. Funk is DOT's Senior Accountable Official for the DATA Act who, on a quarterly basis, must provide reasonable assurance that the agency's internal controls support reliability and validity of the financial and award data submitted to the Treasury for publication on USASpending.gov.

To provide for the continuity of essential functions through the orderly succession of officials of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to the position of Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administrator in case of the Administrator's absence, a vacancy in that office, or the inability of the Administrator to act during a disaster or national security crisis.

The Animal Pedigree Act provides that only one official registry per breed may exist in Canada, and other breeds not recognized by CKC are registered by other registries such as the Canine Federation of Canada and the Working Canine Association of Canada.

Hotel is providing exclusive agency to IBC Hotels to act as the hotel's agency of record and showcase the hotel on meta channels as the official hotel website for direct bookings to the hotel.

«The voice acting in the game is pretty well done and even though it's not the official actors voicing the characters they provided some good sound alikes.»

The official title was introduced is «a bill to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through expansion of cap - and - trade programs, to provide an alternative regulatory classification for units subject to the cap and trade program, and for other purposes.»

According to senior EPA officials, the rule, crafted by both the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, will provide greater clarity about which waters are subject to Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction and greater certainty about which activities require CWA permits.

New ZEaland's National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) has been requested under the Official Information Act to provide details relating to treatment of raw temperature data.

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to agriculture, so as to provide for industrial hemp cultivation; to provide for definitions; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to amend Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to offenses against public health and morals, so as to provide for the possession of industrial hemp under certain circumstances; to provide for definitions; to provide for penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

provide guidance on a wide range of public issues including the Official Information Act, the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act, Parliamentary issues including Select Committee powers, and the disallowance of regulations, and

However, if the claim is against a B.C. municipality — or their employees acting in an official capacity — the deadline is just six months, and you need to provide notice of the accident to the city or town within 2 months.

(a) if the regulations made under clause (1)(a) provide for the continuation of the office of the director of arbitrations appointed under section 6 as that section read immediately before being repealed by section 2 of Schedule 3 to the Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act, 2014, provide for that official to continue to be a member of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, despite subsection 2 (2) of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario Act, 1997;

No, there are no provisions within the Texas Tort Claims Act that provide blanket legal protection or immunity for government officials.

We also help businesses comply with the Competition Act, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, and other laws, by providing practical advice.

Acts under «color of any law» include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the bounds or limits of their lawful authority, but also acts done without and beyond the bounds of their lawful authority; provided that, in order for unlawful acts of any official to be done under «color of any law,» the unlawful acts must be done while such official is purporting or pretending to act in the performance of his / her official duties.

On the first approach, s 4C operates on the assumption that s 5 of the 1948 Act had always provided for citizenship by descent through the female line and that consular officials of the day in fact acted on that basis.

The Minister described s. 87 as a «big step forward» because the Family Relations Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 128 [FRA] did not provide any guidance on setting a valuation date and there had been considerable criticism of the broad judicial discretion to determine the date: BC, Legislative Assembly, Official Report of Debates (Hansard), 39th Parl., 4th Sess., Vol.

Judicial immunity, which generally provides a judge's personal assets can not be taken for an official judicial act, would be removed.

Thibodeau v. Air Canada 2014 SCC 67 Aeronautics — Civil Rights — Damages Summary: Air Canada failed to provide services in French on some international flights as it was obliged to do under the Official Languages Act (Can.)

Section 164.510 (f)(4) of the NPRM would have allowed covered entities to disclose protected health information to a law enforcement official without individual authorization for the conduct of lawful intelligence activities conducted pursuant to the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) or in connection with providing protective services to the President or other individuals pursuant to section 3056 of title 18, United States Code.

A covered entity is not considered to have violated the requirements of this subpart if a member of its workforce who is the victim of a criminal act discloses protected health information to a law enforcement official, provided that:

The central issues in the case are whether the respondents, by mailing a document entitled «Official Sweepstakes Notification» (the «Document») to the appellant, engaged in a practice prohibited by the Consumer Protection Act, R.S.Q., c. P ‑ 40.1 («C.P.A.»), and, if so, whether the appellant is entitled to punitive and compensatory damages under s. 272 C.P.A. To decide these issues, the Court must, inter alia, define the characteristics that are relevant to the determination of whether a commercial representation is false or misleading, as well as the conditions for exercising the recourses in damages provided for in s. 272 C.P.A.

The Legislation Act, 2006 provided (in section 35) that a copy of a source law or consolidated law is an official copy of the law if accessed from the eLaws website in a prescribed form or format.

And hopefully, the Act strikes an appropriate balance between providing valuable information to officials and maintaining citizens» privacy.