Sentences with phrase «testimony from»

At the same time Obama was speaking in Atlanta, the U.S. Senate held an Ebola hearing that featured testimony from leading public health officials and perhaps the world's most famous Ebola survivor, Kent Brantly, who became ill with the disease while treating patients in Liberia in July.

Last month, detectives confiscated Stapel's laptop, cell phone, and financial records; according to the paper, they will also seek testimony from witnesses in the case.

To demonstrate that the NIH guidelines don't induce researchers to derive hESCs (which destroys embryos), CAMR includes testimony from several NIH - funded hESC researchers who say they don't do any derivation work.

A House panel heard testimony from Nancy Kingsbury of the Government Accountability Office, which released a report yesterday recommending that a single federal entity be responsible for determining how many more biocontainment labs the country needs and where those labs should be located.

What convinced them, says Rossi's lawyer, Barbara Lawless, was testimony from a medical witness that each person's weight is controlled primarily by genetics — he attributed 80 percent to genes and only 20 percent to environment.

The Human Rights Watch report included anonymous testimony from clinical workers that many health care practitioners in Mississippi refuse to treat HIV - positive individuals, resulting in long waiting lists for those willing to see such patients.

The General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, houses over a thousand pages of unpublished testimony from captured rebels who were interrogated in prison in 1783; their words tell the story of this revolt.

And according to testimony from a paramedic that responded to the 911 call and found Jackson without a pulse, Murray did not mention giving Jackson anything other than the lorazepam.

Testimony from captured rebels recounts that Yupanki ordered the men of Collata and neighboring villages to lay siege to the capital of Lima, with the goal of placing his brother — or more likely himself — on the throne of Peru.

As part of the Committee's deliberations, it heard testimony from AAAS on The Role of Science in Making Good Decisions.

In addition to O'Neill, Grant's lawyers issued subpoenas for testimony from three NYPD cops — Deputy Chief James McCarthy, Inspector Brian McGinn and Lt. Michael Andreano — whom the feds recently named as unindicted co-conspirators in the case.

By naming Mr. Litwin a co-conspirator of Dean Skelos, prosecutors were able to elicit testimony from Mr. Dorego about conversations he had with Mr. Litwin on the amounts and recipients of payments.

We believe that the testimony from the second round of public hearings on the legislature's own drawn lines for 2012 provide you with important guidance in negotiating better districts where needed and appropriate.

In order to make a decision, the pay commission does not require any public testimony from lawmakers.

Wednesday's hearing is the commission's chance to take testimony from the public.

A public hearing followed in February, with testimony from a wide range of good - government groups and New Yorkers, along with a survey of Council Members in March.

But prosecutor Thomas McKay argued the «brazen» nature of the schemes — Adam Skelos blew off work at the insurer, which needed regular legislation from the Senate — was what persuaded jurors, along with testimony from cooperating witnesses who said they were buying Skelos» vote.

In addition to testimony from officials of the three companies that Skelos allegedly shook down, prosecutors have a repository of dozens of wiretapped conversations from the Skeloses.

Following testimony from a felon that he bought Mayor Bill de Blasio with donations, I asked New Yorkers a simple question: Do they care?

And they came away not liking what they heard during three weeks of testimony from ethics lawyers, Senate staffers, senators and assorted business partners of Bruno.

NEW YORK CITY — Early trial testimony from disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe Monday was full of interesting tidbits, like the story behind how top governor's aides got the nickname «Herb.»

The panel, chaired by Diaz, heard testimony from Taxi and Limousine Commission boss, Congressman Adriano Espaillat, and a score of livery car service owners, dollar - van operators and drivers on the topic of TLC enforcement.

The Democrat said Tuesday he's been told he will serve on the Judiciary Committee - the panel which will hear testimony from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotmayor on her appointment to the high court.

O'Donnell said Wednesday's hearing will feature testimony from correctional experts and family members and lawyers representing inmates who claim to have been abused at the hands of prison guards.

State lawmakers investigating Erie County Child Protective Services in the wakes of two child murders heard testimony from nearly two dozen people in Buffalo Thursday.

Until now, the CPS's lawyers have communicated with police forces investigating claims through the National Police Chiefs Council but have not examined any of the evidence or testimony from witnesses or suspects.

During testimony from current and former aides to Cuomo, it was revealed that while Percoco was off the state payroll managing Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign, he also was frequently using his old offices, adjacent to the governor's offices in Albany and New York City.

On Sunday, Hizzoner dismissed as inconsequential questions from reporters regarding two days of bombshell testimony from mayoral donor Jona Rechnitz in a federal bribery case involving a union official.

Consider this testimony from an executive at a major real estate company, Glenwood, during the 2015 federal corruption trial of Dean Skelos, the former majority leader of the state senate.

Jurors over the course of the trial have heard testimony from 60 prosecution witnesses, including Singh, and taken in more than 1,100 pieces of evidence.

City Council member Jumaane Williams (Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood), chair of the Building Committee and a co-sponsor of the measure, has said the measure is still a work in progress and wanted the hearing to include testimony from all sides, including unions, non-unions, construction organizations and administrative officials in the field.

Two board members, Buffalo mayor Byron Brown and SEIU secretary treasurer Mike Fishman, heard testimony from workers, labor leaders, business owners and academics mostly decrying the working and living conditions of minimum wage fast food workers and endorsing economic theories bolstering the case for a substantial increase in the minimum wage.

Today's proceedings will being at 1 p.m. with testimony from Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash, and then Paladino's team is expected to call its witnesses.

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After the public hearing, the Town Board unanimously voted to table a decision on the code change until board members review testimony from the hearing and address residents» statements.

There was also testimony from Michael Slattery of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY).

«We have neither heard nor received written testimony from the leadership of either the Assembly or Senate making an institutional argument for a salary increase,» Cuomo appointee Fran Reiter said in a meeting of the commission last week.

Councilman Brad Lander, who helped draft the reforms, told Capital he would review testimony from today's hearing, as well as his colleagues» suggestions to possibly tweak the measures.

They did pack public hearings, lining up testimony from current fast food workers who described in tearful detail the impossibility of supporting a family while working in the industry.

In the afternoon session, more testimony from Nevergold.

according to testimony from early in the trial.

The testimony from the farmers, small business owners and trucking companies will not be heard by the Thruway Authority, however.

After a month of testimony from government witnesses outlining an alleged bribery and corruption scheme that they said was carried out by one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's former top aides, the defense quickly rested on Monday, setting the stage for closing arguments that will begin on Tuesday.

The pay commission does not require any public testimony from lawmakers to make a decision.

Previous testimony from an FBI agent also hinted at Percoco's active presence in the governor's office during the campaign.

The Assembly last week passed Lancman's Non-Profit Homeland Security Preparedness Study Act, which would require the state Office of Homeland Security to solicit testimony from the nonprofit sector to determine how to best help them prepare for potential terrorist attacks.

Any testimony from Johnson as to the Paterson administration's response to the domestic - violence incident would be «valuable to investigators in helping them to determine the extent of the governor's knowledge about the matter and when he first learned about it in any detail,» the Times notes.

The jurors have heard 11 days of testimony from 20 witnesses over nearly four weeks — the trial was halted for Thanksgiving — during which they reviewed more than 700 exhibits, including dozens of secretly recorded telephone calls and conversations.

They also asked to see more information about payments alleged to be bribes, Lisa Percoco's alleged «low - show» job with a Hudson Valley energy company and testimony from Linda Lacewell, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's chief - of - staff.

Amid a preliminary budget hearing where the City Council's Committee on Governmental Operations heard testimony from several city agencies and other entities under its purview, representatives from the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, or OATH, did not ask for massive new resources, but explained the impact of an increased budget and an increased caseload, while also asking for more personnel.