Sentences with phrase «with federal enforcement»

He focuses his practice on anti-corruption enforcement matters, negotiations with federal enforcement agencies, and fraud investigations.

A precedent exists for localities not cooperating with federal enforcement in what are known as sanctuary cities.

Not exact matches

Under a program called Secure Communities, state and local law enforcement agencies shared arrest information with federal immigration authorities, and detained immigrant criminal offenders.

While it's still unclear if Session's views will translate into changes in policy or enforcement, this attitude shift at the federal level doesn't align with public opinion on the issue.

Reggie Jones - Sawyer (AB 1578) barring California law enforcement officials from cooperating with federal officials seeking to interfere with California's marijuana laws.»

The controversial bill not only allows officers to question a people about their residency status but also allows police chiefs, sheriffs, constables, and jail administrators to be charged with a Class A misdemeanor if they refuse to comply with a federal detention request from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys» offices, and state and local partners, it is the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud.

President Donald Trump (C) shakes hands with James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), during an Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC.

The sheriff's office has reportedly asked the federal Drug Enforcement Agency for help with the case.

Taking a page from laws creating sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants, a group of lawmakers have submitted a bill that bans California law enforcement from working with federal authorities if they attempt to take action against marijuana grow facilities or dispensaries that operate legally under state law.

In April, Sessions charged a task force that he created with reviewing lenient federal enforcement policies in regard to marijuana.

In March, the board took the unusual step of filing its latest decision with the Federal Court for judicial enforcement because it expected CP to ignore its orders.

To that end, the SEC's enforcement division must work with federal and state prosecutors — a game that often turns into weak cop / bad cop.

In Oakland, California, at least four were arrested after creating a human chain to block a county building where demonstrators demanded that county law enforcement refuse to collaborate with federal immigration agents.

He said in an interview with Financial News that while the US Federal Reserve is still considering an enforcement action against him, it would be an opportunity for him to tell his side of the story.

He also said the lack of federal guidance has led to deeply uneven enforcement of floodplain building at the state level, with enormous disparities around the country resulting in more resilient states, in essence, subsidizing disaster - prone development in others.

Sessions» policy will let U.S. attorneys across the country decide what kinds of federal resources to devote to marijuana enforcement based on what they see as priorities in their districts, the people familiar with the decision said.

backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, with analytical assistance from the Joint Regional Intelligence Center.

The credit card operations that are conducted under our arrangements with Capital One are subject to numerous federal and state laws that impose disclosure and other requirements upon the origination, servicing and enforcement of credit accounts and limitations on the maximum amount of finance charges that may be charged by a credit provider.

(Chicago constructed this story from thousands of pages of federal court records, police reports, and court testimony from related cases, as well as from official government reports and dozens of interviews with federal and local law enforcement officials and attorneys for some of the defendants; through a spokesman, prosecutors in the Zambada case declined comment.)

The White House is declining to offer public support for long - awaited legislation that would give federal judges clearer authority to order technology companies like Apple to help law enforcement crack encrypted data, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

A CFPB spokesperson said in an email to Vox that the bureau is authorized to take «supervisory and enforcement action against certain institutions engaged in unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices, or that otherwise violate federal consumer financial laws,» including the failure of institutions to engage in «reasonable data security practices» in connection with consumer report information.

In addition, Uber has been dealing with an intellectual property lawsuit from Waymo, the self - driving car business that operates under Google's parent company, and a federal inquiry into a software tool that Uber used to sidestep some law enforcement.

A bill currently in the US Senate would call on federal personnel, including from the Department of Homeland Security, to develop and share with other law enforcement bodies a threat assessment describing how cryptocurrencies could be used to support terrorist activity.

You can increase competition with anti-trust enforcement, and regulate natural monopolies and both (in the case of the newly merged Time Warner Cable), create greater transparency of prices, use government purchasing power, restore previous price controls (and please a federal usury law at no more than 15 %, to prevent debt bubbles of higher inflation).

As ETHNews previously reported, Chainalysis has signed contracts with a plethora of government entities, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Drug Enforcement Agency among others.

With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, Cambridge Analytica is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

In fact, the guidance issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) included this sentence, removing any doubt about whether the federal government was signaling that this activity can be conducted: «This FinCEN guidance clarifies how financial institutions can provide services to marijuana - related businesses consistent with their BSA obligations.»

In explaining the rationale of greater enforcement of federal marijuana laws, Spicer cited growing problems with other illicit drug use.

This is consistent with prior messaging given that Chairman Clayton requested on December 11 that the SEC's Enforcement Division «vigorously» enforce and recommend action against ICOs that may be in violation of the federal securities laws.

It was a far bigger credit than most companies start off with, and Chainalysis smartly ran with it, signing up customers like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Europol to help them catch criminals.

Palo Alto Software is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with regard to the Privacy Shield Frameworks.

The Government of Canada also proposes to work more closely with international partners on enforcement, meet more frequently with the U.S. and Mexico, and participate in new federal - provincial - territorial - stakeholder committees to monitor steel and aluminum trade.

On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and therefore subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.1 Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that «[u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.2

Will you be initializing a new arm of federal law enforcement to ensure that everyone in the US «gets right with God» as you put it?

CNN: Pizza magnate wins temporary ruling on contraception coverage dispute The billionaire founder of Domino's Pizza has won a temporary court victory, with a federal judge blocking enforcement of part of the health care reform bill requiring most employers to provide a range of contraception and reproductive health services.

The «immigration fugitives» are now on «order of supervision,» which means the six men and two women — who said they fled persecution for their faith in Indonesia — must check in with federal agents regularly but won't be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

Pursuant to the President's Executive Order and Executive Branch policy, and in keeping with the Attorney General's religious liberty guidance, HHS proposes this rule to enhance the awareness and enforcement of Federal health care conscience and associated antidiscrimination laws, to further conscience and religious freedom, and to protect the rights of individuals and entities to abstain from certain activities related to health care services without discrimination or retaliation

Cities that refuse to coordinate with federal immigration enforcement efforts can not be stripped of federal funding, a judge ruled in a blow to President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday.

As Gov. Cuomo issues a cease and desist letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a local sheriff plans to continue with a federal program to work with ICE.

A day after Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani likened federal law enforcement agents to stormtroopers, Caputo said his experience with investigators reminded him of the Soviet KGB and Russian prosecutors.

Federal officials today released an 11 - count superseding indictment of Sen. Carl Kruger and Assemblyman William Boyland, along with those in what law enforcement has described as «broad - based bribery ring.»

NBC News reported earlier in the day that President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen had been wire tapped by federal law enforcement — and then walked the scoop back with a correction.

«New York State Police will continue to work in close partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement to aggressively pursue investigations into any reported hate crime in our state,» he said.

Meanwhile, the group also wants to make New York a «sanctuary state» — a call that comes as several cities across New York have designated that status in order to not coordinate with federal immigration enforcement actions.

A federal judge in California temporarily blocked the Trump administration's efforts to withhold funding from cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement — another setback for the president in what is shaping up to be a long season of litigation surrounding the clash between the White House and so - called sanctuary cities.

De Blasio sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department asserting that NYC was cooperating with immigration officials to the extent required under federal law and that the city should not, as the Justice Department has argued, forfeit a $ 4.3 million federal law enforcement grant.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

In cooperation with federal and state agencies along with local enforcement, engineering and educational organizations, it is the mission of the Office to create and maintain the safest possible environment on Oneida County's highways.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Preet for New York attorney general is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.