Sentences with phrase «senior justice department»
«If the ultimate objective is to continue to try to undermine the credibility of Mueller and his prosecutors, it could have some value,» said Jimmy Gurulé, a Notre Dame law professor who was a senior Justice Department official in the administration of the first President George Bush.
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«Trump lawyer John Dowd said the information was passed to Trump by White House counsel Donald McGahn, who had been warned about Flynn's statement to the vice president by a senior Justice Department official.»
Mr. Sessions views the death penalty as a «valuable tool in the tool belt,» according to a senior Justice Department official.
Secret memos obtained last week by the CBC showed that senior Justice Department lawyers helped patch up the French case, misled the court and suppressed evidence that could have proved Diab's innocence.
the Bush administration, and then onto a senior Justice Department position in the Bush White House.
Editor's Note: CNN Justice Producer Terry Frieden passes along this note on the meeting faith leaders had with Attorney General Eric Holder: A senior Justice Department official who was present at the meeting later clarified Holder's comment as follows: «Yes, the Attorney General did refer to the plan [to burn the Qurans] as «idiotic.»
EXCLUSIVE: A senior Justice Department official was demoted this week amid an ongoing investigation into his contacts with the opposition research firm responsible for the anti-Trump «dossier,» the department confirmed to Fox News.
The Justice Department's planned lawsuit against California will target three state laws, senior Justice Department officials said on Tuesday in a press briefing.
Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, subsequently turned the floor over to the attorney general, who went on to say that he had consulted with senior Justice Department staff prior to his testimony about what he called a «longstanding policy» regarding communications with the president.
Not exact matches
AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.
President Donald Trump asked the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to call the Department of Justice last year and ask a senior official to persuade then - FBI director James Comey to publicly clear the president of wrongdoing in the Russia probe, The Washington Post reported.
Back in November 2016, John Hudak, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that if Sessions became attorney general, he would have the power to rescind the Department of Justice memos issued under the Obama administration that have allowed marijuana companies to exist without fear of DEA raids.
Craig Moffett, MoffettNathanson founder and senior analyst, provides insight to AT&T's challenge against the Justice Department.
The $ 117 million deal addresses «a key concern of the U.S. Department of Justice in its challenge to the Aetna - Humana transaction» by giving seniors more options for Medicare coverage, Aetna said in a statement.
«Today's decision is a victory for American consumers — especially seniors and working families and individuals,» said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brent Snyder, who is currently heading the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.
He previously was a partner at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Department, and senior counsel at the Justice Department.John Roth joined the firm as chief compliance and ethics officer, with responsibility for ensuring that the company remains in compliance with the evolving legal landscape.
The searches required prior consultation with senior members of Mr. Trump's own Justice Department.
The White House and some of Trump's conservative supporters in Congress have urged the appointment of a second special counsel to conduct a criminal investigation into how senior FBI and Justice Department personnel handled matters related to Clinton.»
The 2005 case of United States v. Franklin, Rosen, and Weissman against United States Department of Defense employee Larry Franklin and American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy director Steven Rosen and AIPAC senior Iran analyst Keith Weissman [41][42] raised the possibility that AIPAC would come under greater scrutiny by the Department of Justice.
Former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara took a shot at Trump's Justice Department, questioning its judicial independence in light of efforts by former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani to persuade «senior officials» to help him free a jailed businessman being prosecuted by Bharara's old office.
A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be «senior operational leaders» of al - Qaida or «an associated force» — even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.
«Yesterday President Obama ordered the United States Department of Justice to stop defending the so - called Defense of Marriage Act,» said the campaign's senior strategist, Brian Ellner.
The others include Albany - based Appellate Justice Leslie Stein, a former City Court judge; Buffalo - based Appellate Justice Eugene Fahey; Daniel Alter, general counsel for the state Department of Financial Services; attorney Maria Vullo of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Manhattan; attorney Rowan Wilson of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in Manhattan; and Preeta Bansal, a Manhattan - based former state solicitor general who is a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and senior legal and policy advisor at the MIT Media Lab.
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has hired two former Clinton campaign aides, while Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hired a senior lawyer from Obama's Justice Department.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen will serve as a member, and four other state officials will serve as ex-oficio members: Florida Department of Education Commissioner Pam Stewart; Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary Mike Carroll; Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary Christina Daly; and Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Justin Senior.
Anne Milgram: Former Attorney General, State of New Jersey; former federal prosecutor, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, Senior Fellow, Center on Administration of Criminal Law at New York University School of Law.
Two powerful House Republicans are asking the Justice Department to make senior FBI officials available to testify before Congress as early as this week, the latest salvo in an expanding confrontation between the GOP and the bureau.
Hours after Trump took his oath on Friday, the Justice Department issued an opinion saying that his appointment of his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, as a senior White House adviser would be lawful despite a federal antinepotism law.
A group of House Republicans has gathered secretly for weeks in the Capitol in an effort to build a case that senior leaders of the Justice Department and FBI improperly — and perhaps criminally — mishandled the contents of a dossier that describes alleged ties between Trump and Russia, according to four people familiar with their plans.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are on the verge of defying the Department of Justice and voting to release a classified memo they say will reveal misconduct by senior FBI officials involved in investigating Trump's 2016 campaign.
State IG Catherine Leahy Scott joined with the federal Department of Justice, FBI and IRS to announce that a former NYPA senior investigator was arrested and pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiring to defraud the agency, and for filing a bogus 2010 tax return to hide income from the scheme.
A senior FBI agent was removed from the staff of Russia special counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year after Justice Department investigators began reviewing whether the agent exchanged messages critical of Trump, federal authorities said.
Again, A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Joe Agi, who is being prosecuted along with Justice Ademola of a Federal High Court, had told the Department of the State Service that Buhari's lawyer paid N500, 000 to Justice Ademola in 2015 at the time the judge was presiding over Buhari's certificate case.
The three - and - a-half-page memo, written by Republican congressional aides, criticized information used by law enforcement officials in their application for a warrant to wiretap the former campaign adviser, Carter Page, and named the senior F.B.I. and Justice Department officials who approved the highly classified application.
US AG Jeff Sessions said there was «not enough basis» to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton, a day after reports surfaced that the attorney general had authorized senior prosecutors at the Department of Justice to evaluate an inquiry into the Clinton Foundation.
Johnnie Carson, former assistant secretary for African Affairs, U.S. State Department; Hon. J. Yvonne Mokgoro, former justice, South African Constitutional Court; Dr. Christopher Fomunyoh, senior associate and regional director for Africa, NDI; and Mr. Pat Merloe, senior associate and director of elections, NDI.
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Drake, an NSA senior executive, under the Espionage Act of 1917 for retaining allegedly classified information.
«This is a strategic way for them not to have to argue on the science,» said Larry Liebesman, a former Department of Justice attorney who's now a senior adviser with the Washington water resources firm Dawson & Associates.
His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government and the Justice Department, medical doctors, high - level executives of prominent corporations and other clients from all walks of life.
On 16th February, 2018, United States Justice Department senior counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals over a campaign to influence the 2017 US election.
He was also a senior trial attorney at the Justice Department from 1984 through 1988.
Featuring: Jitu Brown (National Director, Journey for Justice Alliance), Yolie Flores (Senior Fellow, Campaign for Grade - Level Reading), Sue Swenson (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education).
Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked together to illegally set the prices of electronic books for the market.
Senior Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice's Environmental Enforcement Section and former Director of the U.S. EPA's Air Enforcement Division,
The case was investigated by Special Agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and prosecuted by Senior Counsel Robert S. Anderson of the Justice Department's Environmental Crimes Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Conder of the District of Wyoming.
The FBI executed search warrants at both the plant in Blakely, Ga., and at Peanut Corp. of America's headquarters in Lynchburg, Va., according to a senior congressional aide with knowledge of the raids... The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation and more than 1,550 products have been recalled.
In December 2013, Mackay awarded QCs to Simon Fothergill, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Legislation and House Planning, and Machinery of Government) and Counsel, Privy Council Office; Colonel P.K. Gleeson, Deputy Judge Advocate General Operations, Military Justice and Administrative Law, Department of National Defence; Claude Joyal, Senior General Counsel, (Quebec Regional Office), Department of Justice; Urszula Kaczmarczyk, Senior General Counsel, Ontario Regional Office, Department of Justice; Sandra Phillips, Associate Assistant Deputy Attorney General for Tax Assessments; Donald K. Piragoff, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Justice; Brian J. Saunders, Director of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
On April 3, 2017, I informed the same Senior ADM of the federal Department of Justice of the existence of this new National Standard of Canada, (declared by the Standards Council the previous month), attaching a chronology listing all of the above events, and a copy of the Slaw article cited above.
Formerly a senior Tax Litigator with the Federal Department of Justice acting on behalf of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) for almost 10 years, Jeff has advised the Aggressive Tax Planning Division of CRA involving some of the most significant tax matters in the Prairie region.
The US team includes former senior officials of the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission, the SEC and two former General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporatio