Sentences with phrase «senior authority officials»
Amid an escalating outcry over false reports related to lead paint inspections at NYCHA apartments, the de Blasio administration announced two senior authority officials had resigned and another had been demoted.
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A senior national government official said earlier that authorities had not turned over the investigation to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a sign that investigators believed it was unlikely that terrorism was the motive.
Israel's most senior water official — the water commissioner, who oversees the Israel Water Authority — serves a five - year term after appointment by a cabinet minister.
In a letter, committee chair Damian Collins said Facebook officials had previously misled the lawmakers about risks in the site's data - sharing practices, and said it was «now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process.»
Some are likening Michigan State to Penn State University, where three senior officials, including the school's president, were sentenced to jail last year for failing to tell authorities about a sexual abuse allegation involving coach Jerry Sandusky.
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority opened an investigation in 2017 looking at Staley's alleged attempt to find out the name of the employee that wrote a letter raising concerns about the recruitment of a senior official by the bank.
The people you need to watch out for are the unaccountable senior officials authorizing these unconstitutional programs, and unreliable mechanisms like the secret FISA court, a rubber - stamp authority that approves 99.97 % of government requests (which denied only 11 requests out of 33,900 in 33 years http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spying-opinion-reject-request.
The Financial Services Authority, Indonesia's financial services regulator known as the OJK, is preparing a regulation that would allow local financial technology companies to lend money directly to customers to provide more financing choices for the public, its senior officials said on Tuesday (14/02).
The scandal hit headlines last September, when a senior official in the Hellenic competition authority was charged with blackmail after allegedly demanding about $ 2.5 m from a company under investigation.
Kevin M. Tuffey, a former State Police senior investigator who was chief of the Albany Police Department in the late 1990s, and Stanley C. Sardinia, a former NYPD detective, worked at the authority for years and were involved in the investigation of whether a former top authority official's government cellphone had been used to contact a suspected prostitute, according to the people familiar with the case.
Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.
To get scrutiny committees recognised as the place where a council's cabinet members, senior officials and (potentially) all the other notables in the area are held to account requires a culture change in many local authorities.
ALBANY — New York could lose its authority to oversee pipelines if it improperly withholds approvals, a senior Department of Environmental Conservation official said this week.
Senior officials at the New York City Housing Authority said the cuts were the largest decrease in funding the agency has seen in five years.
The E-business Point of Contact (POC) is a senior official who has binding authority to commit the institution to contracts — for example the institution's vice-president for research or chief financial officer.
They resemble «legislative history» documents, though they are perhaps even more authoritative, because they are issued at the time of, and as part of, the final rule signed by the head of the agency or another senior official with delegated authority from the agency head.
Still, the senior Singaporean official stressed that the country's authorities will adopt an embracive and cautious approach to cryptocurrencies going forward.
In a letter, committee chair Damian Collins said Facebook officials had previously misled the lawmakers about risks in the site's data - sharing practices, and said it was «now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process.»
As the need for regulation is stepping up, more cryptocurrency and blockchain startups are looking for government authorities, prosecutors, security officials and even senior diplomats to join their ranks.