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...The US general counsel of EY has resigned after two years in the role, as the firm nears the conclusion of a probe into its failure to properly handle a staff cheating scandal....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...There’s gonna be no more Mr Nice Guy, no more “I’ll choose this establishment figure to be defence secretary and that establishment figure to be attorney-general”....
...Latest news Nato’s Stoltenberg accuses Putin of ‘dangerous and reckless nuclear rhetoric’ Steep mortgage rates fuel August decline in US existing home sales New York attorney-general files fraud suit...
...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...
...But the three-year investigation by the New York attorney-general Letitia James threatens to shine a spotlight on his activities....
...Trump et al v....
...Merrick Garland, nominee for attorney-general Joe Biden has chosen Merrick Garland, the federal appeals court judge whose nomination to the US Supreme Court was blocked by Republicans in 2016, to be attorney-general...
...(FT) In the news Google targeted by attorneys-general Attorneys-general from 50 US states and territories have launched an investigation into Google’s search and advertising businesses, in the latest move...
...“It’s about making sure New York’s education system is the envy of the entire country.” New York state currently ranks 13th in US News & World Report’s 2019 list of best high schools....
...After that, she was became the first black woman to serve as California’s attorney-general, a position she held from 2011 to 2017....
...Basin of Texas and New Mexico....
...(FT) The hypersonic arms race A new generation of missiles are capable of travelling more than 15 times the speed of sound....
...Top Democrats have called on the US attorney-general to provide Congress with a full copy of the Mueller report....
...Instead, as Mujtaba Rahman of Eurasia Group says, the cover for the retreat by some Eurosceptics will be new legal advice from Geoffrey Cox, the attorney-general....
...He also recently fired Jeff Sessions as US attorney-general....
...(Bloomberg, FT) A week at the border At the beginning of April, US attorney-general Jeff Sessions issued a memo calling for a “zero-tolerance” policy along the US-Mexico border....
...Most of that increase is going into the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico....
...The goal, though, was a good one: China, India, Brazil et al would rise in a fashion that did not collide with established powers....
...What was new was that Mr Comey alluded to not-yet-public information about attorney-general Jeff Sessions and his contacts with the Russian ambassador....
...Venezuela’s combative attorney-general Luisa Ortega, who has been a constant thorn in Mr Maduro’s side during four months of street protests against his rule, looks certain to lose her job within days....
...Rick Perry, the energy secretary, is a former governor of Texas, the largest oil-producing state in the US, and Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is a former attorney-general...
...“The office of the attorney-general of the United States is not a political position, and anyone who holds it must have total fidelity to the laws and the constitution of the United States,” he said, insisting...
...Her managerial post at the attorney-general’s office comes with a two-hour lunch break perk which she is taking in a tiny restaurant that spills out on to the street....
...Shortly before that, he had said that if he won the election he would instruct his attorney-general to “get a special prosecutor to look into [Mrs Clinton's email] situation, because there has never been...
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