Sentences with phrase «under a criminal investigation by»

Herbalife spokesman Alan Hoffman said this was «just another stunt by Bill Ackman in his campaign, a campaign that is under criminal investigation by the FBI and the Department of Justice, to drive down the stock price in an effort to enrich himself and his investors.»

Cohen, who is under criminal investigation by U.S. prosecutors for possible bank and wire fraud, is Trump's longtime lawyer.

On Saturday, Trump lashed out on Twitter over a New York Times report that reported speculations that Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer who is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, could end up cooperating with government officials.

It should be very clear that anyone who finds themselves under criminal investigation by the IRS should immediately contact the best tax attorney that available.

When he learned he was under criminal investigation by the FBI, Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli could have kept a low profile and gone to the Caribbean.

At the time of the meeting, Cohen was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who still are probing a $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.»

Paterson has been accused by many of not being up to the task and is under criminal investigation by Cuomo's office into whether he improperly involved himself in a domestic abuse case and perjured himself over World Series tickets.

Hunter is currently under a criminal investigation by the Justice Department for using campaign money for personal expenses.

The husband of a senior aid to New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been fired from his job at a top New York City not - for - profit, and is under criminal investigation by the State Attorney General.

The Metropolitan Council's long - time executive director and Silver confidante, William Rapfogel, is under criminal investigation by the Attorney General for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Council via kick - backs from over-payments to its insurer, the Century Coverage Corporation.

The Law Office of Mark J. Sacco routinely provides advice and counsel to clients who are under criminal investigation by federal authorities as well as those who have been named as persons of interest or are being interviewed as witnesses.

Pinsent Masons was approached by an individual who was under criminal investigation by HMRC for his involvement in a marketed avoidance scheme and had been invited by HMRC to attend an interview under caution.

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Cohen is under federal criminal investigation by prosecutors in New York.

The specific focus of the investigation and possible federal crimes have not been disclosed by the U.S. attorney's office, but in a filing on Friday they do confirm that Cohen is under federal criminal investigation.

«The searches were authorized by a federal magistrate judge, who had found probable cause to believe that the premises and devices searched contained evidence, fruits, and instrumentalities of conduct for which Cohen is under criminal investigation,» the Justice Department's filing said.

The portion of the program that likely galvanized the White House was the startling report by prosecutors that had worked under Breuer in the criminal division of the DOJ that there wasn't even a pretense of a real investigation against the major Wall Street firms: no subpoenas, no document reviews, no wiretaps.

The DNC may have concerns about exactly how much justice and / or transparency it is going to obtain under the criminal probe into the same matter by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and wants its own civil RICO action to move forward in case the former turns out to be a dud investigation.

The player continues to protest his innocence, and an investigation into his conviction by the Criminal Cases Review Commission is under way, but he has been met with unwavering resistance from numerous football fans, while 160,000 people signed a petition against his return.

In a statement, the DORH said: «State Attorney's Office in Osijek opened the investigation against Croatian citizen (1985) due to the existence of reasonable doubt that when giving testimony before the County Court in Osijek committed a crime against justice by giving false testimony under Article 305, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code / 11.

More than half the money given to the candidates in last month's special election to replace former state Sen. Dean Skelos was transferred by political party committees, a long - standing practice that is under new scrutiny following criminal investigations into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising operation.

Now those donations, solicited in part by the mayor's campaign apparatus, are under scrutiny as part of a multipronged criminal investigation being conducted by federal and state authorities, several people briefed on the matter have said.

We write in our capacity as citizens of the Republic of Ghana invoking the powers of this Commission under Article 218 (a) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana and section 7 (1)(i) of the CHRAJ Act 1993 (Act 456), as amended, which states «to investigate complaints of violations of fundamental rights and freedoms, injustice, corruption, abuse of power and unfair treatment of any person by a public officer in the exercise of his official duties», to investigate a case of professional misconduct bothering on official corruption and corruption - related activities involving ACP Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah, the current acting Director - General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.

«The state comptroller's office was run as a criminal enterprise under Alan Hevesi, and the current unelected comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, is under investigation by Attorney General Cuomo, too,» Wilson said.

«It is disturbing to imagine that somebody under investigation by the attorney general's office would have been in a position to have information that would be damaging to the attorney general,» according to Harry Sandick, a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan who is now a white - collar criminal defense attorney.

New Yorkers for Growth has targeted the WFP for some time (Feld referred to the party as a «criminal enterprise,» noting its for - profit arm, Data & Field Services, is under investigation by the US attorney's office), and has been calling for the AG not only to sever his ties to the party, but to investigate it.

In addition to the Burke - Loeb case, Newsday has reported that the comprehensive federal scrutiny of Spota's office has included whether there was anything unlawful in the handling of the investigation into the shooting of Huntington Station taxi driver Thomas Moroughan by an off - duty Nassau County police officer; the circumstances under which former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave up a $ 4.1 - million - dollar campaign chest to the district attorney's office, and also agreed not to run for re-election; the legality of a wiretap placed on the phone of former Suffolk detective John Oliva; the resolution of the criminal case against well - known Suffolk criminal lawyer Robert Macedonio; the office's distribution of asset - forfeiture money; and the investigation into a number of political associates of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

The investigation was supervised by Public Integrity Bureau Deputy Chief Stacy Aronowitz and Chief William E. Schaeffer, under the supervision of Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice Kelly Donovan.

Upon submission of fingerprints for this purpose, the school district shall request the Department of Law Enforcement to forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for federal criminal records checks, and the fingerprints shall be retained by the Department of Law Enforcement under s. 1012.32 (3)(a) and (b).

The individuals involved have been identified, terminated from their place of employment and are under investigation by local law enforcement authorities on criminal charges.

«The individuals involved have been identified, terminated from their place of employment and are under investigation by local law enforcement authorities on criminal charges,» the company says.

The acceptance of responsibility by the iconic US company under a «criminal enforcement agreement» marks the end of the first investigation under the groundbreaking Lacey Act of 2008, which makes importing or dealing in illegal overseas timber a criminal offence.

Ideally it will lead to the earlier separate representation, by specialist criminal law firms, of individual employees when their employers are under investigation.

«Although the SIR referred to multiple assaults with more than one victim, the investigation by the CFNIS resulted in identifying one complainant for charges under Criminal Code,» Mercier said in an email.

Mr. Hart represents clients from all walks of life who have been charged with serious state and federal criminal offenses, as well as clients who have been placed under investigation by law enforcement agencies.

Paul Schabas and Ryder Gilliland have written a brief case note on Ontario (Public Safety and Security) v. Criminal Lawyers» Association 2010 SCC 23, a case in which the Criminal Lawyers Association requested information from the OPP under Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act concerning a review of an investigation by the OPP.

She represented companies under civil and criminal investigation by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It also covers The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (as amended by the Criminal Justice Act 2003), The Code of Practice issued under section 23 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, and The Attorney General's Guidelines on the disclosure issued in April 2005 and much more.

He represents the firm's healthcare clients in connection with criminal prosecutions of individuals and corporations accused of healthcare fraud, and has defended numerous healthcare clients under investigation by the Justice Department and the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Witnesses are entitled to abstain from testifying (before both Consob and the public prosecutor) only in the limited cases in which such an abstention is allowed under the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure, including if the witnesses are close family members of the person under investigation, are requested to testify on matters covered by professional, confessional or office privilege (including privilege granted to lawyers, journalists, doctors and ministers), or are requested to testify on matters covered by public office privilege or state secrecy privilege.

In cases where criminal sanctions of a relative lesser importance (custodial sentence of up to six months or a monetary penalty of up to 180 daily penalty units) are at stake, and the facts under investigation were either admitted by the offender or otherwise well established, the prosecutor may issue a penalty order without referring the matter to court adjudication.

The major implications for banks targeted by HMRC will be the administrative burden of producing the information requested; the risk of breaching confidentiality laws in the countries where the offshore accounts are held — for example under Swiss and Cayman Islands law there are criminal sanctions for breaching client confidentiality — and other conflict of laws issues; and the risk of Financial Services Authority investigations if it seems that the bank had encouraged the use of offshore accounts in a misleading way, eg by advertising them as tax - free, or by suggesting that HMRC would never know about the income earned on sums in the accounts.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return fInvestigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return finvestigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return finvestigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return finvestigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return finvestigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.

The Russian - founded app came under fire after the Russia «s FSB security's investigation into the St. Petersburg attack, pointing that they have «received reliable information about the use of Telegram by the suicide bomber, his accomplices and their mastermind abroad to conceal their criminal plots at all the stages of preparation for the terrorist attack.»

I believe the people responsible for the criminal acts committed at the former CUC International will eventually be identified through active investigations currently under way by various federal agencies.»

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