Sentences with phrase «state attorney general who»

DiNapoli congratulated Andrew Cuomo, the state attorney general who was elected governor Tuesday, though Cuomo didn't endorse him.

Dennis Vacco, a former state attorney general who represents Levy and JoRon, did not confirm or deny to Capital that they were identified in the new papers.

«Mr. Klein has been a traitor to the democratic party,» said ex-Councilman Oliver Koppell, a former state Attorney General who said he may seek to run against Klein in the senate race.

And Whitman is not done yet - she still has just under seven weeks to go in her campaign against Democratic nominee Jerry Brown, the current state attorney general who has only just started airing ads after spending the summer using independent expenditure groups as his equalizer against the Republican's money juggernaut.

The coalition of charities on Tuesday offered Cuomo, currently the state attorney general who handily defeated Republican Carl Paladino in last week's gubernatorial election, the benefit of their experience.

Lazio has been calling on Cuomo, the state attorney general who is also running for governor, to probe the funding behind the mosque which, as Ben and I noted last night, is close to non-existent right now (a point Lazio backer Rudy Giuliani echoed on the «Today Show» this morning).

«We have a state comptroller who goes through them, we have a New York State attorney general who approves every contract.»

Other politicians might have been finished by the scandal surrounding Spitzer, the moralizing former state attorney general who resigned as governor in March 2008, after it was revealed he had been hiring prostitutes.

The ad is something of a departure from past spots that note his efforts as state attorney general who busted white - collar wrongdoing.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg will run millions of dollars in political television ads against four state attorneys general who are suing the Obama administration over new regulations on carbon emissions from power plants.

Pruitt is part of a group of state attorneys general who are suing the EPA over its Clean Power Plan, which seeks to trim greenhouse gas emissions related to electricity generation.

Apple is on the hook for $ 400 million in damages plus an additional $ 30 million to pay the legal fees for Hagens Berman and $ 20 million to the state attorney generals who became involved in the case.

The remarks put Perry at odds with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House chief political strategist Steve Bannon but in the same camp as Trump son - in - law Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, along with a group of 15 state attorneys general who say fighting pollution is a public health matter.

These are the kinds of things the environmental groups and state attorneys general who will sue Pruitt will be rehearsing in court.

Attorneys for ExxonMobil have revealed a plan to ratchet up pressure on state attorneys general who have vowed to hold Exxon and fossil fuel companies accountable for their conduct on climate change.

We wouldn't be so hot and bothered by this had Corporate America not launched a brazen, hypocritical campaign attacking underfunded and under - resourced state Attorneys General who also hire outside counsel.

And now, the same kind of corporate attacks have been launched against underfunded and underfinanced state Attorneys General who hire outside counsel on a contingency fee basis.

Not exact matches

Four of the names had previously been reported in the press: attorney Nicole Seligman, a former president of Sony Entertainment; BuzzFeed chairman Kenneth Lerer, a co-founder of the Huffington Post; former Discovery Communications CEO Judith McHale, a former undersecretary of state who also served as general counsel for Viacom's MTV Networks division; and Bank of America (bac) director Thomas May, a former CEO of Eversource, a New England energy company.

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.»

Beau Biden had been the state of Delaware's attorney general and a decorated veteran who had served in Iraq.

Attorneys general for Illinois and Washington state, who had teamed up with the bureau on the multi-year investigation, filed their own suits against Navient Wednesday.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the probe, carefully chose his words Friday as he stated, «There is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the alleged unlawful activity.»

Last year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions refused to rule out prosecuting people who sell cannabis, even when they do so in accordance with state laws.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the Mueller probe, carefully chose his words Friday as he stated, «There is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the alleged unlawful activity.»

Shareholders may also raise questions over the very high interest rates the bank charges to financially strapped customers who resort to so - called payday loans, which are in the sights of state attorneys general.

The first German consumer to file a lawsuit against VW has been identified; and many are sure to follow on the continent and in the U.S. West Virginia's attorney - general also has filed suit against VW on behalf of consumers in that state who were allegedly deceived.

The Insurance Corporation of B.C., the province's publicly owned, for - profit auto insurance body, is a «financial dumpster fire,» according to B.C. Attorney General David Eby, who minced no words yesterday when summarizing its dire financial state.

Copied on API's communications with the board was Bill Whitsitt, a Devon Energy executive who helped draft letters for then - state attorney general Pruitt.

Sources said Magnum now plans to withdraw the offering plan from the New York state Attorney General's office and return deposits to buyers who've gone into contract.

The Enrollment Program also authorizes a superior court to have jurisdiction over enrollees by allowing it to «appoint a receiver, monitor, conservator, or other designated fiduciary or officer of the court for a defendant or the defendant's assets,» as well as authorizes the Commissioner of Business Oversight to «include in civil actions claims for ancillary relief, including restitution and disgorgement, on behalf of a person injured, as well as attorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedingsattorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedingsAttorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedingsattorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedings.»

-- State Attorney General Xavier Becerra on the federal government report filed Monday detailing numbers of Dreamers who have been able to renew their status — and are guaranteed two more years of DACA protection: «As a result of the nationwide injunction we secured, at least 30,000 Dreamers who have renewed their DACA status — our colleagues, our classmates, our teachers — can go home to their loved ones at night and keep helping build a better America.

The ban, imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery, caught the attention of Gov. Rick Perry and state Attorney General Greg Abbott, who supported an emergency appeal filed by the Medina Valley Independent School District on Thursday.

The threat of a lawsuit from 10 conservative state attorneys general has led to reports that President Donald Trump plans on ending or at least modifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a program that protects children of undocumented immigrants who were brought into this country when they were too young to have a say.

Indeed, the Texas attorney general handed down a legal opinion last summer stating that state law required him to prosecute clergy and church workers who failed to report suspicion of child abuse or neglect.

• In Texas, clerks who have religious objections can refuse to issues marriage licenses to same - sex couples, with support from that state's attorney general.

Who is the Attorney General of the United States?

At 1 p.m., Hochul, DiNapoli, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, as well as law enforcement officials from across the state, onor 26 police officers who made the ultimate sacrifice at the annual Police Officers» Memorial Remembrance Ceremony, New York State Police Officers» Memorial, Empire State Plaza, Alstate, onor 26 police officers who made the ultimate sacrifice at the annual Police Officers» Memorial Remembrance Ceremony, New York State Police Officers» Memorial, Empire State Plaza, AlState Police Officers» Memorial, Empire State Plaza, AlState Plaza, Albany.

Section (d) of the authorization document states that Mueller has to discuss any crime that doesn't fall within his «Jurisdiction» as layed out by the Attorney General with the AG, who can then determine if it should be added to the Jurisdiction, or given to an authority that can prosecute it.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that Renssealer County District Attorney Joel Abelove, who had been handling the inquiry into a fatal police shooting of an African - American man in Troy, would step aside, clearing the way for the AG's office to investigate the case.

«Lookin at the level of political corruption in New York, it is clear that the state needs a new broom attorney general who can provide the proper oversight and expertise.»

«And we wish the attorney general well, but in a situation where he chose not to serve any longer or couldn't serve any longer, we have someone to come right off the bench who has been an executive and could step right in and lead the state as I've tried to for the last two - and - a-half years.»

This is good news for NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has led the charge against a settlement with banks along with Attorneys General in several other states like California and Delaware.

Nevertheless, the paper has decided to throw its considerable weight behind the man who, in its words, «appears to be an ambitious, articulate attorney general who has presented detailed plans for New York's future which reveal a realistic understanding of the state's problems and prospects and the seriousness of purpose needed to address them.»

The former councilman, who also served a brief stint in the state attorney general's office, has not officially announced a challenge to Klein, but he has discussed a possible run with the IDC leader's political nemesis, DSCC Chairman Mike Gianaris.

Schneiderman's campaign has made choice a signature focus, using it as a cudgel with which to smash his GOP / Conservative opponent, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who is personally pro-life, but insists he won't actively seek to change state law in this arena the way attorneys general have done in other states.

Spitzer would prefer that you remember him not as the failed governor, but the very effective state attorney general, a hero of the left who actually investigated the financial industry and articulated a version of liberal populism that had been drowned out by the Bush administration.

The removal occurred AFTER TU reporters Jimmy Vielkind and Jim Odato had already photocopied the document, which they in a box of notebooks that had been kept by Ellen Biben, who ran the Public Integrity Bureau when Cuomo was attorney general, was elevated to the postition of state inspector general when he became governor and is now the executive director of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Barbara Underwood, 73, the state solicitor general and the woman who will temporarily replace Schneiderman as attorney general, is a highly experienced professional lawyer who has argued 20 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

While I appreciate the support of those who have encouraged me to run for New York State Attorney General, I am committed to continuing my important work as Nassau County DA.

«While I appreciate the support of those who have encouraged me to run for New York State Attorney General, I am committed to continuing my important work as Nassau County DA,» she said.