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...Mr Justice Smith adjourned his decision on the disclosure application....
...The House financial services committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday with the same panellists....
...But this week’s congressional hearing is a sign of its increased respectability....
...He suggested during the hearings that there needs to be more stringent capital and liquidity standards for lenders with more than $100bn in assets....
...Freeport LNG is majority owned by Michael Smith, a billionaire who first made a fortune selling oil and gas producer Basin Exploration for $410mn in 2001....
...obstructing its investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified documents from his days at the White House, casting doubt on the former president’s claims that he had co-operated with federal investigators...
...— will begin their confirmation hearings today....
...(FT, NYT) KPMG audited Mauritian company used in suspicious Wirecard deals KPMG, which revealed rival EY had missed Wirecard’s fraud, was itself the auditor to a suspicious vehicle that investigators believe...
...Read the full story by the FT’s Nikou Asgari and DD’s Rob Smith and Kaye Wiggins here....
...On the morning of the first hearing, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, Mack collapsed and was taken to hospital....
...(FT) A deadly Boeing crash buried After a Turkish Airlines flight crashed near Amsterdam more than a decade ago, Dutch investigators blamed the pilots....
...There are expected to be further hearings this week....
...Our Brussels Briefing highlights other probable flashpoints in combative hearings this week, expected to be the toughest for an incoming commission. (sign up here)....
...There will be uninterrupted coverage of the hearings on America’s three main broadcast networks, as well as on cable news channels....
...Meanwhile, on Thursday a court in Manhattan is due to begin hearing arguments in a lawsuit brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against the electric carmaker....
...The claims had been seized on by the chairmen of the Democratic-controlled House intelligence and judiciary committees, who have the power to hold hearings and issue subpoenas....
...“The automatic knee-jerk reaction of concrete as ‘ugly’ is declining very rapidly indeed,” says Elain Harwood, an architectural investigator at Historic England....
...Police said on Friday that Ramos was “there to kill as many people as possible”, and was not co-operating with investigators....
...September 4 Equifax investigators have assembled list of 143m Americans whose personal information had been stolen....
...(The Home Office and Howell declined to comment; Reed Smith did not respond to a request for comment.)...
...Among those criminals ordered to pay back money was Tom Hayes, the former UBS trader serving an 11-year sentence for conspiring to manipulate Libor, who was told to pay £880,000 after a confiscation hearing...
...A hearing on the government’s motion to reconsider the order is scheduled for May 13....
...in Washington this week during a hearing about cross-border data requests by law enforcement....
...The FBI agents who listened to the recordings could not believe what they were hearing....
...Ruling in favour of the SFO, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith noted the matter had been brought to the attention of defence lawyers by the SFO in August....
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