Sentences with phrase «than the justice department»

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The Justice Department's civil case filings say more than $ 700 million was transferred from bank accounts used in the money laundering to the bank account of «Malaysian Official 1.»

I've never seen the Justice Department do this, other than with Hoffa,» he said, likening Holder to Robert F. Kennedy and suggesting that like the investigations of the infamous Teamsters boss, the bank may not be getting its due process.

As one expert explained, the Justice Department's case against Cohen, and possibly Trump, is «much stronger» than the case against Edwards, which he said was «rightly» prosecuted.

Another salvo came in early February, when the U.S. Department of Justice indicted Switzerland's oldest bank, Wegelin, for conspiring to hide more than $ 1.2 - billion owed to the Internal Revenue Service by American clients.

«It's clearer than ever now that the attorney general can not, in good faith, oversee an investigation at the Department of Justice and the FBI of the Trump - Russia connection, and he must recuse himself immediately,» Franken said.

The Department of Justice launched an inquiry last summer (before it was clear that the precipitous fall in oil prices would last longer than a few months) into whether American airlines» pricing decisions qualify as collusion.

Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury added more than a dozen individuals and companies to its roster of blacklisted North Korea - related entities, an escalation of the Justice Department's focus on tightening sanctions against Pyongyang.

More Americans side with the Department of Justice than Apple in a legal tussle between the two over a disputed iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters in December.

Since fiscal year 2009, the Justice Department has filed over 18,000 financial fraud cases against more than 25,000 defendants.

The Department of Justice unveiled a lawsuit to block the $ 85 billion mega merger more than one year after it was announced.

When the Justice Department announced the arrest last month of a man who allegedly swindled more than $ 100 million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a mystery.

In a new twist, the U.S. Justice Department successfully pushed for the parent companies — rather than subsidiaries — to enter the guilty pleas.

Less than an hour after news site The Intercept published a report on Monday detailing Russian hacking related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the U.S. Justice Department said federal investigators had arrested someone suspected of leaking classified information to the media.

Tuttle cited a 2009 U.S. Department of Justice - funded study that concluded that more than 99 percent of 1,201 field uses of Taser weapons resulted in no significant injuries.

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) reported better - than - expected figures for its first quarter on Friday while it awaits a multi-billion dollar fine from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

FBI agents on the case expected that Petraeus would be asked to resign immediately rather than risk the possibility that he could be blackmailed to give intelligence secrets to foreign intelligence agencies or criminals... [T] he FBI, Justice Department, and the White House held off on asking for Petraeus» resignation until after the election... FBI agents on the case were aware that such a decision had been made to hold off on forcing him out until after the election and were outraged.

The Justice Department argued that it violated the Civil Rights Act, putting the state at risk of losing more than $ 1 billion in federal funding.

Because again there's a big difference between the medical use... that's very different than the recreational use, which is something the Department of Justice will be further looking into.»

Insurance giant UnitedHealth has been sued once again by the Justice Department for allegedly bilking Medicare of more than $ 1 billion in improper payments.

This memo followed the release of a U.S. Justice Department report in August concluding that privately - operated prisons experienced more safety and security incidents than facilities operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons did.

In 2015, Mikerin was sentenced to 48 months and required to pay more than $ 2 million in restitution for conspiring to commit money laundering, according to the Justice Department.

«Since 2006, more than a dozen banks have reached settlements with the Justice Department (United States) as restitution for violations related to money laundering.

The Justice Department review comes at an awkward time for AB InBev as it is seeking to buy No. 2 SABMiller Plc SAB.L for more than $ 100 billion in what would be the biggest - ever merger of brewers.

Negotiators for Bank of America and the Justice Department have not met in more than a week and have no plans to do so after a flurry of meetings did not bring them close to a settlement amount, sources said.

«I would suspect the «know your customer» they're doing on their ad purchasers is probably driven more by what information they need for internal business purposes and to best sell ads rather than to satisfy information requests from any third parties, such as the Federal Election Commission, the Department of Justice, etc..»

• The Justice Department, which has been harder than expected on M. & A., will assess whether consumers face higher prices.

For more than two weeks, the Trump White House has engaged in an unprecedented assault on the president's own Justice Department, and in particular on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the FBI.

More than 100 million Americans have a criminal history, according to a Department of Justice survey.

The last study released by the Department of Justice was in 2001, and it found that the rate of inmate - on - inmate assaults was 38 percent higher at private prisons than at public prisons.

«For more than a year, [Horowitz] has been investigating how the Justice Department and the FBI handled the 2016 probe of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.

On Nov. 16, the U.S. Justice Department's new antitrust chief, Makan Delrahim, said in a speech that he favored divestitures rather than behavioral remedies to address antitrust concerns in takeover situations.

AT&T, which first proposed buying Time Warner more than a year ago, says it is now «uncertain» when that deal will finally close, because it's in talks with the U.S. Department of Justice.

And — with 30B in debt; nearly 40B in grossly overstated Goodwill & Intangibles; an ongoing investigation by the US Justice Department; a serious probe by the SEC coupled with a possible breach of contract with Walmart leaves me with a valuation / share of not more than $ 10 - 15.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a lawsuit against digital payment processor Payza for allegedly operating an unlicensed money service business that processed more than $ 250 million in transactions.

Perhaps these two, rather than Mr. Bettencourt, should be put on the Justice Department's «watch list» of people to be kept out of the country.

Now, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services reports, «a large number of violent offenders are serving two, three or four times longer under truth - in - sentencing than criminals who committed similar offenses under the parole system.»

The Washington Post reported that the Justice Department requested on Monday that a federal appeals court continue to negotiate with Christian schools like East Texas Baptist University, Houston Baptist University, and Westminster Theological Seminary for another two months, rather than dropping their case and allowing the schools to continue to not offer contraception coverage per a lower court decision.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will allow Bayer AG to acquire Monsanto for more than $ 60 billion once the companies sell off some assets,...

Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto, valued at more than $ 60 billion, will be allowed to go through, the Justice Department...

The justice and education departments said in a joint statement late on Wednesday that they «withdrew guidance for educational institutions, issued in 2015 and 2016, that took the position that the prohibitions in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and implementing regulations against discrimination on the basis of sex require access to sex - segregated facilities on the basis of gender identity rather than biological sex.»

With just more than 24 hours to go before James Comey's highly anticipated congressional testimony, President Donald Trump found someone willing to serve as the new director of the FBI: a former Justice Department official named Christopher Wray.

«As soon as this happened — my name means more to me than my political career — the first thing I did was assemble a team to reach out to Justice, the Department of Justice, to the FEC, and to Congressional Ethics,» the congressman told Louis.

Washington (CNN)- The Justice Department Friday announced that it is dispatching more than 780 federal observers and monitors to 23 states to watch for potential problems which would violate voting rights protected by federal law.

In his first filings since since the U.S. Justice Department dropped all corruption charges against him, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez raised far less money for his reelection than he did six years ago.

DEVELOPING: DOJ SENDS VOTING RIGHTS MONITORS, OBSERVERS TO 23 STATES... The Justice Department on Friday announced that it is dispatching more than 780 federal observers and monitors to 23 states to watch for potential problems that would violate voting rights protected by federal law.

The Justice Department's investigation of Maziarz» campaign fund examined more than $ 137,000 in checks written to «cash,» including roughly $ 60,000 in expenditures not reported to the Board of Elections, according to a person briefed on the case.

On top of that, the state is being sued by the Department of Justice to hold political primaries no later than Aug. 18 in order to comply with the federal MOVE Act.

The resolution is in response to the U.S. Department of Justice's request to a federal judge to order the state to move its congressional primary to no later than Aug. 18, in order to comply with a federal law requiring absentee ballots be sent to members of the military no less than 45 days prior to the Nov. 6, 2012 general election.

Serving under the Justice Department, the FBI is more akin to policing than the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The U.S. Justice Department announced it filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous elections.