Sentences with phrase «say the state attorney»

The clashes began Sunday night and spread to four townships, said state Attorney General Hla Thein.

«This agreement returns money to thousands of consumers in New York and across the nation who believed they were buying items at the price advertised on television but ended up with extra merchandise and hidden fees they didn't bargain for,» said state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who worked with the FTC on the settlement.

Galef says state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has also expressed interest in looking into the matter.

«The system has really been more or less an honor system,» said state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Fifty - one percent of voters say the state attorney general is most trusted to combat corruption, while 34 percent point to federal prosecutors.

Cuomo issued an order saying state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman does have the authority to investigate a local officer involved shooting of Edson Thevenin, a Troy man who died earlier this month.

The banks haven't completed foreclosure,» said state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Galef says the state Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, ha also expressed interest in looking into the matter.

«The defendant in this case brazenly stole from those closest to him, showing no remorse for his prior victims and completely disregarding the law,» said state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said he will rescind the federal policy that takes a hands off approach to states» legalized marijuana, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

Sessions has said that he plans to leave the enforcement of the law up to U.S. attorneys in each state.

Nadelmann suggested that although Trump has said he supports state's rights, he could easily send a message to U.S. attorneys to go after the largest companies in the industry and take them down.

Some experts, such as Marcus Lemon, an attorney at Polsinelli and former chief counsel to Federal Highway Administration from 2007 to 2009, say this proposal could actually help state and local budgets, because it provides more clarity about federal contributions, thereby forcing them to adapt accordingly.

Trump has said Dreamers «have nothing to worry about,» but Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week said immigrants who arrived in the United States as children were «subject to being deported.»

Google has not filed for a trademark using its new handle, for which the United States Patent Office currently lists more than 400 matches, says Marsha Gentner, senior counsel and a trademark attorney at Dykema, a law firm in Washington, D.C.

In separate lawsuits against the state, Michigan's Republican attorney general and Trump asked state courts to prevent the recount, saying Stein should not be allowed to seek one because she finished so far behind Trump and Clinton that she couldn't have won, even if some votes were miscounted.

Massachusetts» attorney general has already said she would investigate Facebook over the matter while a coalition of 37 state attorneys has sent Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter urging him disclose more information about his company's data collection and security practices.

Before you start splitting time between two or more states, consider which you want to be your primary place of residence, or domicile, said attorney John J. Scroggin, an accredited estate planner and partner with Roswell, Georgia - based law firm Scroggin & Co..

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.

The department reached out to a group of state attorneys general — the top law enforcement officials at the state level — that earlier joined the review, the source said.

He said any criminal referral would be to either the district attorney or the state attorney general.

«He built the C.F.T.C.'s strongest enforcement program in memory,» said Lorin Reisner, the head of the criminal division at the United States attorney's office in Manhattan who worked with Mr. Meister at that office in the 1990s.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Attorney General Sessions said that marijuana sale and use is still against federal law and said he does not think that cannabis is something that should be legalized, despite the fact that more than half of all states have some form of a regulated market already in place and the majority of Americans agree that marijuana prohibition should end.

After the killings, Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone released a statement saying «based on the present state of the investigation, it is believed that the victims knew the assailant or assailants, and the attacks were not random.»

«There are a number of states, though, that even if the data is encrypted, under the terms of the statute, you have to provide notice to the consumers and perhaps to the attorney general and that's the kind of thing that could spark an investigation,» he said.

John Manly, an attorney who represents more than 100 victims in lawsuits, said Michigan State, USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee «miserably failed children.»

The government was also working to get state attorneys general to support a lawsuit, but so far none has signed on, the Justice official said on Monday.

«You could sink your business,» says Richard M. Colombik, an attorney and CPA based in Itasca, Ill., who has served as the State of Illinois Bar's liaison to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Bob Hoban, an attorney who runs his own cannabis law firm with clients in 17 U.S. states, says state - guaranteed insurance for California's industry is a big deal for businesses.

On March 1, Greg Nyhus, an assistant United States attorney, said in an email to Ms. Rogoway, reviewed by The Times, that his office was reviewing documents obtained from several subpoenas.

How much notice will depend on state requirements, but it's generally within the same period you're required to give notice for renewal, says Michael Vraa, managing attorney and hotline director at HOME Line, a nonprofit tenant advocacy group in Minneapolis.

«Though the vast majority of Americans think it is wrong and should be against the law, [most state] laws do not protect the LGBT workforce from this kind of discrimination,» Peter Romer - Friedman, an attorney with Cohen Milstein, a law - firm in Washington, D.C., says.

If you're trying to qualify for Medicaid, for example, some states consider a disclaimed inheritance as a recently transferred asset, which could affect your eligibility for the program, said Jeffrey Love, an attorney with Winne, Banta, Basralian & Kahn in Hackensack, New Jersey.

State and federal prosecutors often begin investigations because of consumer and whistleblower complaints, several civil and antitrust attorneys said, and gripes about rising insulin prices have been roiling the online diabetes community for the past few years.

The attorney generals of Washington state and Pennsylvania also said they planned...

WASHINGTON, Nov 21 - New York State Attorney Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday said he has been investigating for six months who posted significant numbers of fake comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission in its review of net neutrality rules.

We look forward to helping the Attorney General and his staff bring attention to this important issue,» said Facebook's director of state public policy.

«The credibility of those officers has now been directly called into question,» Baltimore's state attorney Marilyn J. Mosby said at a news conference last week.

Underscoring the breadth of the scrutiny, the people said, the Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have discussed the possibility of striking a wide - ranging settlement to conclude many of the looming mortgage investigations from federal authorities and state attorneys general.

Hakim Kevin Abdullah was responsible for the death of 32 - year - old Karen Delores Brown, who was found dead near the Liberty Dam on October 5, 1994, deputy state's attorney John Cox said Monday.

As Reuters notes, Equifax has said it is under investigation by every state attorney general and faces more than 240 class action lawsuits.

«If these mergers were to take place, the competition among insurers that has pushed them to provide lower premiums, higher - quality care and better benefits would be eliminated,» Loretta E. Lynch, then the United States attorney general, said in July.

Zachary Cruz, 18, poses the same threat as his older brother — and his decision to trespass onto the Stoneman Douglas campus after school Monday is a warning sign that can not be ignored, Assistant State Attorney Sarahnell Murphy said in court.

«In 2016 we're going to push the ball forward in several states until we end prohibition,» said Leland Berger, a Portland attorney who helped write the new Oregon law.

The bank said in a regulatory filing Thursday that the SEC has joined other federal state and local government agencies and states attorneys general, prosecutors» offices and Congressional committees, performing formal or informal inquiries, investigations or examinations.

«He has all the same flags present as his brother,» said Assistant Broward State Attorney Sarahnell Murphy at the hearing.

As the state's chief legal officer, the attorney general's office is taking this step to protect the health and safety of Oklahomans,» Pruitt said in a statement.

«The scheme outlined in the indictment focuses on bogus sleep studies that the defendants utilized to engage in a much more lucrative fraud involving Lap - Band procedures,» said Acting United States Attorney Sandra R. Brown.

Simmons, who solicited over $ 6 million in investments for a hedge fund, misappropriated nearly $ 2 million of these funds for his own use and that of a co-conspirator, said Geoffrey Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

April 12 West Virginia sued Equifax Inc on Thursday for failing to safeguard consumer information of hundreds of thousands of state residents and for delaying alerting the public to a breach that exposed the personal data of about 148 million people, the state's attorney general said.