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...outside attorney hired by her office....
...attorney-general of the DoJ’s National Security Division....
...In a speech on Tuesday, assistant attorney-general Kenneth Polite said that the government would recommend the higher discount, unless the company concerned was a repeat offender....
...“Judges don’t like to do that”, according to Catherine Christian, a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan who is now in private practice....
...The southern province of Hainan, thousands of kilometres from Beijing, issued a missive last Friday ordering local officials to desist from detaining and prosecuting private sector entrepreneurs — where...
...The $2bn penalty is the largest forfeiture imposed by the US Department of Justice on a financial institution compared to its market capitalisation, Kenneth Polite, assistant attorney-general for the DoJ...
...After her appointment in 2018, Osofsky, a dual US-UK national who cut her teeth as an assistant US attorney in Chicago, pledged to take a “drains up” look at the SFO’s caseload....
...“In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, and the protests, it was clear that assistants in our office, particularly those of colour, were deeply affected....
...“The failure to diversify is not just a moral issue, it’s about performance,” says Robert Raben, founder of the Washington-based Diverse Asset Managers Initiative and a former US assistant attorney-general...
...Matthew Thomas, partner at law firm Blank Rome who formerly served as assistant general counsel for international affairs at the FMC, stresses that detention and demurrage charges have been a contentious...
...of priorities: it poured resources into prosecuting immigration violations, drug gangs and Chinese espionage....
...They were also intended to ease the burden on assistant US attorneys outnumbered by their corporate adversaries’ legal armies....
...Jeff Mateer, Texas’ first assistant attorney-general, told the FT: “Over the last 18-24 months, we received enough information from outside experts, from publishers and from advertisers about Google’s advertising...
...Several state attorney-generals objected. The Maryland attorney-general argued there were “ample red flags” about the new owner....
...In the early 2000s, Mr Peikin was an assistant US attorney in Manhattan, where he had prosecuted the chief executive of WorldCom, the notorious accounting fraud, before working in private practice at Sullivan...
...Kevin Downing and Thomas Zehnle, the lawyers, said they were there to assist only with the initial appearance while Mr Parnas and Mr Fruman found lawyers to permanently represent them....
...“There was a particular tax attorney [who voiced concerns] . . . People said: ‘She’s not a big thinker, she doesn’t get it because she’s not very smart.’”...
...Stephen Barclay, UK Brexit secretary, and Geoffrey Cox, attorney-general, return to Brussels on Tuesday for talks with Michel Barnier on the three-track negotiations over the Irish backstop....
...Two other defendants, Munish Sood, a financial adviser, and Thomas Gassnola, a former Adidas consultant, have already pled guilty in the case....
...“Mr Cohen has more attorneys of his own than he has clients,” quipped Thomas McKay, an assistant US attorney for the southern district of New York, during the hearing....
...“If it were just [my assistant] he would have knocked and opened at the same time but there was a knock without opening. That’s different. So I had a feeling.”...
...But it remains unclear whether the new attorney-general will embrace or scrap key elements of the Obama judicial legacy, including an emphasis on prosecuting individual executives along with corporations...
...“My parents were still hoping I would marry a prince,” Stein wrote, but she instead married a lawyer, William vanden Heuvel, who became Robert Kennedy’s assistant when Kennedy was US attorney-general....
...In 1997, he was hired as an assistant US attorney in Baltimore and then returned to Washington to work in the DoJ’s tax division in the Bush administration....
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