It's a Catch-22: if Snowden hadn't broken the law to point out that the government had broken the law, what the government had done wouldn't have broken the law.
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They're either old, sick, infertile, or have broken the law.
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He had lied to the country and broken the law.
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These individuals are there because they have broken the law.
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As you know ... Gucci Mane's broken the law several times.
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Clinton had broken the law, she should be held accountable.
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Trump may have broken the law in altering the map.
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But he does not appear to have broken the law.
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But who's the enforcer if Trump has broken the law?
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By definition, pardons absolve someone of having broken the law.
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I had broken the law; I had to pay a fine.
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Prosecutors argued he'd broken the law by helping Iran launch communications satellites.
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"You should not reward people who have broken the law," he said.
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Before the shooting, the authorities say, he had never broken the law.
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CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin says Trump has already broken the law.
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While Price has denied wrongdoing, Schumer argued he might have broken the law.
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After Mueller submitted his report, Barr concluded that Trump hadn't broken the law.
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Plus, I realized that I had broken the law by naming the animal.
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A line of text captioned her photo, saying she had broken the law.
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If TMZ's source is correct, he may have broken the law in California.
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Even so, it was never clear whether Mr Assange had broken the law.
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Go deeper: U.S. support of South Sudanese military may have broken the law.
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Cillizza: What's the recourse if Dowless is found to have broken the law?
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Trump has violated his oath of office and almost certainly broken the law.
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Anyone participating in the demonstration could be considered to have broken the law.
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Pruitt's secret $43,000 phone booth has already been found to have broken the law.
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In February, a judge ruled the prosecutors had broken the law in doing so.
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Bell acknowledged that Rechnitz was "a wheeler and dealer" who had broken the law.
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The office doesn't decide if someone has broken the law or broken the rules.
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Some object to them all, since they reward those who have broken the law.
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Advocacy groups said in their letter that such action may have broken the law.
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Only when protesters have broken the law have they been arrested or asked to disperse.
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Freddie Gray was arrested by three white cops — and he hadn't even broken the law.
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A judge later ruled that prosecutors had broken the law in reaching the previous plea.
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To the Editor: The Democrats are overly nice to immigrants who have broken the law.
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"My opinion is the Norwegian government has broken the law," said Sigrid Broch, their lawyer.
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The British sandwich chain was not found to have broken the law in that case.
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Take it from a Nazario: President Trump is the one who has broken the law.
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At one point, Henry asked Levin if he thought the president had broken the law.
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His aides may have broken the law, in other words, but he himself did not.
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According to Cicilline, those plans are "smoking gun" evidence that the company has broken the law.
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The army protests that the claims are untrue and that it has not broken the law.
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But on ABC's "The View," Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway denied he had broken the law.
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His supporters have said that Janot failed to provide proof that he had broken the law.
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She's broken barriers, broken molds, and broken the law since she began modeling in her teens.
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But he told the detectives that he'd never broken the law with any of his calls.
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The diplomats were let go, but Russia says it considers them to have broken the law.
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One Nation also claimed Al Jazeera had broken the law by covertly interfering with Australian politics.
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It appears that the authorities do not have clear evidence that he has broken the law.
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"This is a man who has broken the law and he should be impeached," she said.
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But the Trump Organization may have broken the law in its work with the Mammadov family.
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Until a few short years ago, every single one of those millions has broken the law.
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In a statement, Green denied having broken the law and said his businesses fully investigated employee grievances.
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"Even if they haven't broken the law this is morally very questionable," said opposition leader Katrín Jakobsdóttir.
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But lots of women can't do that as they've broken the law and are afraid to call.
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A judge ruled in February that prosecutors had broken the law in reaching a previous plea deal.
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But Schumer floated Tuesday that Price may have broken the law if he knew about the investment.
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"They can't understand why this bill is passing for individuals who have broken the law," he said.
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He said he could still back impeachment if evidence emerged that the president had broken the law.
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Pret A Manger had not broken the law, he said, but had not taken allergen monitoring seriously.
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This month, a court said the Environmental Protection Agency had broken the law by delaying smog protections.
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That system would be funded by an additional fine on corporations found to have broken the law.
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Collins, while the Senate is looking the other way, Trump appears to have clearly broken the law.
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"I don't think there's any question but that Mr. Trump has broken the law," Mr. Steyer said.
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No other cabinet secretary has ever broken the law so flagrantly or endangered national security so gravely.
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Congress is unable to determine whether the President has broken the law -- whatever the outcome might be.
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It instead focuses on demonstrable ways that he has broken the law or violated his constitutional oath.
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As he assumed power last week, he said that those who had broken the law would be punished.
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Before that incident, he said he had never broken the law, other than getting a few traffic tickets.
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What was the basis of his conclusion that his predecessor had broken the law by wiretapping Trump Tower?
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"This is a man who has broken the law and he should be impeached," Warren told the audience.
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Phumtham Wechayachai, the party&aposs secretary-general, said Monday that nothing they&aposd done had broken the law.
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Huy Vannak, the Interior Ministry official, said media companies had been closed because they had broken the law.
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The government denies it has any political prisoners, saying any politicians it has arrested have broken the law.
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But they completed the Clinton case because they found no evidence that anyone had intentionally broken the law.
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"I understand a policy of deporting people who are here illegally and have broken the law," Graham continued.
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For more than an hour, she defended her fiscal policies and denied that she had broken the law.
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If you make a false immigration claim, you have broken the law and will be referred for prosecution.
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Those who have broken the law are often required to pay a fine in the form of animals.
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She, or the provider who gave her pills, would have broken the law—it will never go reported.
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And as time went on, more of them became convinced that Officer Van Dyke had broken the law.
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Matt Gaetz, among others, said Pelosi may have broken the law, and Donald Trump Jr. amplified the claim.
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Mr. Nunes said he had not broken the law even as he acknowledged that the reports were classified.
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The Commission has said it believes Google had broken the law in a number of ways and held a .
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Since taking office in November, Mulvaney has diluted fines against several lenders that he determined had broken the law.
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In a statement last month Green denied having broken the law and said his businesses fully investigated employee grievances.
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Public discussion of the Comey scandal has rightly focused on whether or not President Trump has broken the law.
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Pruitt's EPA was also found to have broken the law when it missed a deadline implementing ozone pollution regulations.
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"Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law," Mr. Reid wrote in a letter to Mr. Comey.
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Boris Johnson's government has refused to apologise after it was found to have broken the law by suspending Parliament.
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During the trial he said some of his behaviour had been inappropriate but he had not broken the law.
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"They've broken the law to get here," Mr. Peterson said last week during a hearing at the State House.
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Having knowingly broken the law and fled the jurisdiction of the American courts, why should you be granted asylum?
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By speaking expansively about intelligence gathering, Mr. Nunes may have broken the law by disclosing classified information, however obliquely.
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In July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Facebook had broken the law when it engaged in a similar practice.
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For instance, even if you haven't broken the law, you've probably been in the back of a Ford Crown Victoria.
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In fact, she told the Herald that she's never broken the law and is out of the day spa business.
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But in showing him only the smallest slice of that data, Carroll and Dehaye believed, SCL had broken the law.
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Tom Price (R-Ga.) may have broken the law when he introduced legislation benefiting a company he had invested in.
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The money then seems to have been handed to candidates running for state Senate, which may have broken the law.
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Boris Johnson's government refuses to apologise after they were found to have broken the law by suspending the UK Parliament.
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Trump's tariffs add to tension with Canada; Michael Flynn may have broken the law; Arkansas executed two men last night.
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If He had broken the law, then He would have been sinful and He would not have been our Messiah.
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If He had broken the law then He would have been sinful and He would not have been our Messiah.
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Mr. Kanakorn is being investigated for having broken the law by using phone cameras and a weapon in the courtroom.
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Ronny Jackson may have broken the law if the allegations that he handed out Ambien on planes are true. Sen.
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The district attorney's office has, however, maintained that Mr. Scarcella has not committed any punishable conduct or broken the law.
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His center-right People's Party (PP) government has insisted that Puigdemont has broken the law several times in pushing for independence.
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If he had no idea he may have broken the law, why did he hide the true purpose of the meeting?
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If the contractor comes in and has been told to upgrade it, then they might not have actually broken the law.
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Investors, analysts and legal experts who spoke to Reuters said Wells Fargo' silence did not mean it had broken the law.
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Reid said that by releasing this information, which he says is not conclusive or pertinent, Comey may have broken the law.
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Ted Cruz went to town on Yates, arguing that she may have broken the law by refusing to defend the order.
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His centre-right People's Party (PP) government has insisted that Puigdemont has broken the law several times in pushing for independence.
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The corporations singled out for public shaming by Oxfam have not broken the law and Oxfam offers no evidence of wrongdoing.
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None of the people in those cases had broken the law or given a clear indication that they intended to kill.
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Still, Hyderites have occasionally broken the law, like that time Caroline Stewart slung on her 12-gauge shotgun and strapped a .
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But Ms. Lemos also insisted that Ms. Rousseff had broken the law by manipulating the budget to conceal mounting economic problems.
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If Trump or his staff asked for the two entities to make the reservations, then they could have broken the law.
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Both of these individuals made no bones about having broken the law and neither case was handled through the usual channels.
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They were individuals who either had broken the law in other ways other than status or were newcomers to the country.
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"Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law," Reid, a senator from Nevada, said in the letter to Comey.
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The players admitted they had broken the law, according to Mr. Guerrero, and were told that the charges had been dropped.
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The essays are another reminder that Trump has broken the law, violated his constitutional oath and is unfit to be president.
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But this raises a further question: Can we be in a constitutional crisis even if no one has broken the law?
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Though the price tag on Mnuchin's travel is high, the internal watchdog found no evidence that Mnuchin had broken the law.
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If they are caught, they can be fined anywhere between $15 and $99—depending on how many times they've broken the law.
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But I don't think it will have any legal consequences for Flynn, personally, despite evidence that he may have broken the law.
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The CMA said it would now hear statements from the agencies and the AMA before deciding whether they had broken the law.
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Sunday Riley and its CEO have clearly broken the law, and the Commission has ordered that they not break the law again.
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The government's top ethics watchdog on Monday said he had broken the law to buy himself a soundproof booth for his office.
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Conway said during an interview with CNN on Tuesday evening that she's not concerned the GOP nominee may have broken the law.
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"That would skew the independence of the Department of Justice to fairly go after individuals who have broken the law," Lee added.
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CREW suggested in its tweet that Kushner may have broken the law by using his official White House title to endorse Parscale.
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He told NowThis the case had been settled when Comey declared there was no prosecutable evidence that Clinton had broken the law.
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"Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law," Mr. Reid, a Nevada Democrat, wrote in a letter to Mr. Comey.
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During Vietnam, in the 1970s, you had thousands of people dying every month, a president who had so clearly broken the law.
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That's why I advocate for people on death row and children who committed violent crimes and people who have broken the law.
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In a barely audible voice, she told Judge Garaufis that she had been born into "immense privilege," but had broken the law.
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Michael Huffington, the Republican, admitted that he had broken the law when his family employed a nanny who was originally from Mexico.
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The panel's leadership said Tuesday that Flynn might have broken the law by taking payments from foreign governments without seeking approval first.
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EAJA, meanwhile, allows plaintiffs to recover the costs of litigation in cases where the government is found to have broken the law.
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And yet, since the start of its investigation, the district attorney's office has maintained that Mr. Scarcella has never broken the law.
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Boris Johnson was embroiled in another personal scandal and found to have broken the law when he suspended Parliament for five weeks.
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But commissioners can note in their report whether they believe someone has broken the law and refer the matter to police and prosecutors.
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Rather than fight, Campbell-Ewald offered to pay Mr. Gomez what he asked for, but declined to admit it had broken the law.
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We want to help the victims, the victims of crime, the victims of people who have already broken the law by being here.
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But it eventually shifted after OIG became concerned that three FCC officials may have broken the law by lying to members of Congress.
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Mr. Baidar said the provincial government had broken the law by parading Wasil in a police uniform after the Taliban siege was lifted.
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MAZIE HIRONO, D—HAWAII: They have broken the law only is deemed so by the president with his -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, ma&aposam.
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The catch is that CMS has broken the law by giving insurers billions of dollars that it was required to remit to Treasury.
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Hawley, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, turned evidence over to Gardner, saying April 17 that he believed Greitens had broken the law.
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Amid damning evidence that the president of the United States had broken the law and obstructed justice, he asked for an impeachment inquiry.
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On Sunday, U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid wrote to Comey to accuse him of partisan actions that may have broken the law.
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Elijah Cummings said Trump may have broken the law by not disclosing his debt to Cohen in his financial disclosure report last year.
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But it is worth remembering that this isn't the first time that the GAO has reported that the administration had broken the law.
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Agents of female violence have not only broken the law but transgressed the 'rules' of what is understood to be acceptable female behaviour.
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"As Wang and her colleague Qian privately spread vulgar and pornographic imagery, they were deemed to have broken the law," police told The Paper.
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A subsequent review by White House counsel Donald McGahn found that he had not broken the law in his conversations with the Russian envoy.
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Not only had I not broken the law, but Reneé and I had gone above and beyond to ensure that things would go smoothly.
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Meanwhile, McAuliffe argues there is nothing to be concerned about because he is confident that no one from his campaign has broken the law.
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The Department of Justice, in response to questions from Reuters, said in a statement the three were convicted because they had broken the law.
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Additionally, the House oversight committee said on Tuesday that Flynn may have broken the law by not properly disclosing payments from Russia and Turkey.
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If you assist or coach an individual in making a false immigration claim, you have broken the law and will be referred for prosecution.
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It was right that I should have been there: I had broken the law — as it turned out, not French law, but sporting law.
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HOPE Not Hate had been instrumental in dismantling a terrorist plot, but it had unwittingly broken the law by running Mullen as an informant.
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Even those who care nothing for people who have broken the law should recognize that others will be affected if policymakers do not act.
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The court ruled that the party had broken the law by taking a 191 million baht ($6 million) loan from its founder, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.
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Meanwhile, debate over Feinstein's decision to release the Simpson transcript dominated Capitol Hill, driven by Trump's allegation that she may have broken the law.
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Chants of "Lock her up!" at campaign rallies, as cruel as they may be, express the view that a candidate has broken the law.
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Trump may have broken the law by failing to disclose the money he owed Cohen for making the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.
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In July, the FBI concluded that although Clinton was "extremely careless" in her handling of email, she had not, in fact, broken the law.
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The White House, and Trump himself, have suggested that Comey may have broken the law by leaking memos he wrote after his meetings with Trump.
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"Trump has broken the law by not having people at the border processed for months and months and creating a bottleneck there," the official said.
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Since it first came onto our streets Uber has broken the law, exploited its drivers and refused to take responsibility for the safety of passengers.
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She forcefully advocated for the SEC, the country's top securities regulator, to consider denying regulatory waiver requests by banks that have repeatedly broken the law.
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Giving driver's certificates to illegals is the first step toward enabling sanctuary cities, abolishing ICE, and giving amnesty to those who have broken the law.
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Flynn also may have broken the law in 2015, when the former general failed to receive prior approval for a large speaking fee from Russia.
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The recently retired lawmaker said that if the memos did contain classified information, Comey may have broken the law by sharing them with a friend.
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On Tuesday U.K. regulators concluded that Facebook had broken the law over misusing user data, imposing the maximum available fine of £500,000, or about $660,000.
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"They've got to navigate the complexities of a new relationship in the wake of Meredith having been fired and having broken the law," she said.
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Wells Fargo is just another huge bank that has ripped off its ordinary customers and skirted or broken the law for decades, largely with impunity.
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With so many people waiting in line for years, the idea of providing sanctuary for those who had broken the law left a sour taste.
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The 2014 inquiry did not draw conclusions about whether Caterpillar had broken the law, but it appears to have piqued the interest of federal investigators.
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Wa Lone said after the hearing that the prosecution had not been able to show that he and Kyaw Soe Oo had broken the law.
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In July 2017, a Brazilian appeals court ruled Thursday that Lochte had not broken the law by exaggerating about what happened during the gas station incident.
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Chuck Schumer told CNN that Dr. Tom Price may have broken the law with his purchase of Zimmer Biomet stock, a story CNN's Manu Raju broke.
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Women in prison are far less likely than men to have committed violent crimes, and more likely to have broken the law to support their families.
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After his arrest, the activist, Peter Dahlin, was shown on Chinese television making a "voluntary" confession to having broken the law by helping unlicensed Chinese lawyers.
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"The lie detector starts..." Lizza reports that Scaramucci broke off this thought without finishing it -- amid a broader rant about how leakers had broken the law.
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Based on that one name, President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed in an interview with the New York Times that Rice may have broken the law.
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"It is your civic duty to report any and all illegal aliens to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, they have broken the law," the sign read.
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Johnson's opponents on Tuesday lined up to call for his resignation after the UK Supreme Court ruled that he had broken the law by suspending parliament.
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State prosecutors in Mainz, where the ZDF network is based, had already said last week that they were examining whether Mr. Böhmermann had broken the law.
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No intention on the part of Robert S. Mueller III to have Congress make the hard call on whether Mr. Trump might have broken the law.
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Iran's chief prosecutor also demanded the expulsion of the British ambassador on Tuesday, accusing him of having broken the law by participating in an unauthorized protest.
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"We are pursuing every legal path ... [so] those who might have broken the law [can] be prosecuted for it," he told reporters during a press conference.
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Vindman's fear was that the President had broken the law, but Morrison said his concern was that the call could be damaging if it were leaked.
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"Suspected criminals or people suspected of having broken the law must have their voiceprints collected when they enter our case-processing area," he said by phone.
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The requests suggest that the Democrats will pursue every important way that President Trump may have broken the law and otherwise violated his oath of office.
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Several Trump allies, including his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, have implied that Manigault-Newman may have broken the law by covertly recording conversations in the Situation Room.
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Despite VW's admission of wrongdoing in the United States, it says it has not broken the law in Europe and sees no need to compensate consumers there.
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"Since it first came onto our streets Uber has broken the law, exploited its drivers and refused to take responsibility for the safety of passengers," McNamara continued.
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In a statement to Refinery29, Findling said that Offset's main concern right now is Cardi B and their newborn, and denied that Offset had broken the law.
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Similarly, Peter Dahlin, another apologetic Swede, this month belatedly realised that his legal-aid activities had broken the law and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.
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After reviewing documents from the Pentagon, the committee's chairman and ranking member suggested Flynn might have broken the law by not disclosing payments from Russia and Turkey.
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However, he reiterated how the law has almost never been used to prosecute those who hadn't intentionally broken the law, like with cases of espionage or whistleblowing.
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"Sunday Riley and its CEO have clearly broken the law, and the Commission has ordered that they not break the law again," Chopra wrote in his dissent.
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He detailed how Clinton had broken the law—a matter of fact, given that the president lied to a grand jury about his sexual relationship with Lewinsky.
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Despite VW's admission of wrongdoing in the United States, it says it has not broken the law in Europe and sees no need to compensate European consumers.
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The jury of seven men and five women decided instead to focus narrowly on whether Mr. Weinstein had broken the law at the time of the incidents.
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Exposing what seems to be Giuliani's latest strategy, he said four times that even if his client had those discussions, he would not have broken the law.
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To take just one example: There is strong evidence that Trump has broken the law, both by obstructing justice and by using the presidency to enrich himself.
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"She didn't understand the entire nature of the charges against her, and she wasn't even sure if or how she had broken the law," the source says.
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"She didn't understand the entire nature of the charges against her, and she wasn't even sure if or how she had broken the law," said People's source.
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For President Richard Nixon, who was elected in 1968 largely on "law and order" branding, the revelations that he himself had likely broken the law were devastating.
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A loan paid to Qatar in November 2008 could have broken the law if the SFO can show it was connected with the Qatari payments to Barclays.
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"In its haste to do favors for its polluter cronies, the Trump EPA has broken the law," Meleah Geertsma, a senior NRDC attorney, said in a statement.
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Ro Khanna, (D-Calif.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, said if Trump or his staff solicited the hotel reservations, they could have broken the law.
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This is a time for a pause, to look at codes, to look at the practices of social media companies, to take action where they've broken the law.
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As a result, some officials believe that Flynn may have broken the law, citing the Logan Act, which states that a U.S. citizen cannot interfere in foreign diplomacy.
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They can't effectively argue that this group of immigrants has broken the law, since it was their parents' decision to bring them to the United States without papers.
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The amendment was used to justify reenslavement of a predominantly African-American population on the grounds that a person had broken the law and thus could be enslaved.
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A mounting body of evidence suggests that both the Saudi-led coalition and the alliance of the Houthis and forces loyal to Saleh may have broken the law.
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Rajoy says the Catalan government has repeatedly broken the law, including when it held the banned referendum and when it made a symbolic declaration of independence on Oct.
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Then when they found out they had broken the law, they kinda sorta corrected the error but didn't actually follow their legal obligation to get the money back.
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A Brazilian appeals court ruled Thursday that Ryan Lochte had not broken the law by exaggerating about what happened during the gas station incident from the 2016 Olympics.
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The House Oversight Committee this week said Flynn may have broken the law by taking payments from Russia and Turkey without approval from the military and State Department.
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Maybe we would be more trusting if you hadn't broken the law by conducting sweeping data collection of American citizens and then lying to our faces about it.
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Their lawyer wrote a letter to Mr. Vance stating the plaintiffs had settled the lawsuit amicably and that, in their view, the defendants had not broken the law.
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As special counsel, he helped uncover evidence that President Trump had repeatedly broken the law, including paying hush money to two women and interfering in the Russia investigation.
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Mueller's long investigation uncovered extensive evidence of a president who had broken the law and abused his power, but Mueller did almost nothing to hold the president accountable.
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On the enforcement front, though, the bureau has stuck with a business-as-usual approach and continues to regularly punish companies that it contends have broken the law.
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It determined last month that the Trump administration had broken the law when it withheld the security aid to Ukraine last year, which had been appropriated by Congress.
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The IRS had broken the law by allowing the Quinn Emanuel attorneys to question witnesses, according to Microsoft, and by essentially putting them in charge of the audit.
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Mr. Comey was incensed by Mr. Trump's accusation because it implied that the F.B.I. had broken the law, and he pressed the Justice Department, unsuccessfully, to deny it.
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Two parliamentary committees set up to investigate the issue concluded in January that Portico, the outsourcing firm that had insisted Ms. Thorp wear heels, had broken the law.
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If an elected official is found to have broken the law or abused the powers of office, is impeachment merited or should the judgment be left to voters?
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Denham said that Facebook had broken the law by failing to safeguard people's information and had not been transparent about how data was harvested by others on its platform.
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As revelations about these Russian contacts slowly leak out, some legal scholars are beginning to suggest that Trump campaign officials might have broken the law or even committed treason.
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Palantir alleged that the Army had broken the law by not complying with rules that say the government must opt for commercially available products as opposed to custom ones.
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The Cyberspace Administration office said he had broken the law by suggesting that the party and the people might not be inseparable, and it wiped out his microblog accounts.
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Now, if you came into the country illegally, you've broken the law, and it doesn't matter if you're Hispanic or German or Canadian, they have something to worry about.
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" When the journalist insisted that Mr. Robinson had broken the law, Mr. Bannon unleashed an expletive-filled tirade and said that Mr. Robinson was the "backbone of this country.
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Many counties around the country engage in civil forfeiture, the seizure of vehicles and cash from people suspected (but not necessarily proven in court) of having broken the law.
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Last week, a special panel appointed by Nissan to suggest improvements for governance at the company said it had found evidence suggesting that Mr. Ghosn had broken the law.
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Mr. Mueller wants to know, among other things, whether Mr. Trump feared that his national security adviser had broken the law and then tried to shield him from consequences.
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Lewis sought to make clear that Assange was not wanted because he had embarrassed the United States but because he had broken the law and put lives at risk.
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Chun last October allegedly acknowledged in a recorded conversation with an undercover agent that he had broken the law by failing to disclose his relationships with people from China.
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He had previously received a federal plea deal in the case, but a judge later ruled that prosecutors had broken the law in granted the deal, which involved then-U.
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Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) filed a lawsuit last July contending that the White House had broken the law by giving insurance companies money that Congress hadn't authorized.
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Earlier this month, the The Marine Corps Times reported that 15 service members are alleged to have broken the law, while another 29 face disciplinary charges for their online activity.
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On the face of things, Dr He may have broken the rules in China (and would certainly have broken the law in some countries, had he conducted his experiments elsewhere).
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KIRSTJEN NIELSEN, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: What we will be doing is prosecuting parents who have broken the law just as we do every day in the United States of America.
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Former national security adviser Michael Flynn may have broken the law by taking money from Russia and Turkey without permission, the top lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee said Tuesday.
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Then-House oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz noted at the time that Flynn may have broken the law, but also said that was not a determination for congressional investigators to make.
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"If there's ever a moment where we feel that a person has broken the law, particularly if they're with the FBI, that's something that should be looked at," she said.
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Rajoy has insisted that Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who heads the northeastern region's government, has broken the law several times in pushing for independence, including with a referendum on Oct.
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Last week, the committee did exactly that, declaring that Baggio Leung and Ms. Yau have broken the law, which opens the way for their seats eventually to be declared vacant.
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The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Johnson's government had broken the law by closing down Parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the October 31 Brexit deadline.
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"I'm old fashioned, but anytime somebody may have broken the law, it's appropriate for the state to look into it," said Carter Wrenn, the dean of North Carolina's Republican strategists.
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Antitrust officials argued that the technology company had broken the law by striking deals with smartphone manufacturers that favored Google services, like its Chrome browser, over those offered by rivals.
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"Both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio would allow those 12 million people to become U.S. citizens," Mr. Cruz said, arguing that they should be rendered ineligible for having broken the law.
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The report presented substantial evidence that Trump obstructed justice on a few fronts, but didn't offer a conclusion on whether he had broken the law or whether he should be charged.
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That's when the focus of the OIG investigation pivoted from the alleged cyberattack to the FCC officials and how they may have broken the law by providing false information to Congress.
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FAS, the watchdog, ruled last September that Google had broken the law by requiring pre-installation of certain applications on mobile devices running on Android, following a complaint by Russia's Yandex.
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"In its haste to do favors for its polluter cronies, the Trump EPA has broken the law," Meleah Geertsma, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.
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In order to prove a politician has broken the law, he argued, it must be shown he has put his "thumb on the scales of [a] decision" by another government official.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Daimler told a German government committee investigating whether carmakers had sold cars with excessive emissions that it had not broken the law, a Transport Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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Opponents of the program feel that it's inappropriate to protect someone who's broken the law from the consequences of breaking it, and that deportation is the consequence of violating immigration laws.
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But almost a year after her arrest, Ms. Mack said that she had concluded through introspection and "self-examination" that Mr. Raniere and some of his followers had broken the law.
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And on Thursday morning, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office ruled that the Trump administration had broken the law when it held up funds for Ukraine that had been appropriated by Congress.
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The judge also ordered Musk to hold a public meeting and read aloud the findings to employees at the factory informing them the NLRB concluded the company had broken the law.
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The whistleblower warned Trump appeared to be doing exactly that, in what legal experts said looks like the strongest case that Trump may have broken the law in the Ukraine saga.
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FAS ruled last September that Google had broken the law by requiring the pre-installation of certain applications on mobile devices using its Android operating system, following a complaint by Russia's Yandex.
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Flynn resigned Monday night, and the White House said Trump asked him to do so because of a breach of trust, not because the administration thought he may have broken the law.
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READ: Scott Pruitt broke spending laws to get his infamous soundproof booth If Mulvaney's office finds Pruitt to have broken the law also, it's not clear what the next steps would be.
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She told the Herald in what it described as a brief phone interview that she and her family have not broken the law and that she was out of the spa business.
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Brandeis argued that because the government had broken the law—wiretapping was a crime in the state of Washington—the evidence gained from the wiretap should have been excluded at Olmstead's trial.
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He started internal investigations and ousted about 30,000 people who had broken the law, abused their power or "didn't display the type of behavior conducive to a professional security force," he said.
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Mr. Pruitt is the subject of at least 13 federal investigations, and a government watchdog agency concluded that he had broken the law with his purchase of a $43,000 secure telephone booth.
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It found that the Trump Organization owes its success to multimillion-dollar gifts from Fred C. Trump, President Trump's father, and tax schemes that some experts say may have broken the law.
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The Herald reports Yang's family still owns several South Florida spas, but Yang told the paper she is out of the business and she and her family have never broken the law.
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I'm saying the American people have a right to know on what basis the president of the United States said that his predecessor had broken the law by wiretapping Trump Tower,' McCain said.
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If someone has broken the law in some way, if they have evaded taxes or didn&apost register as foreign agents, and that&aposs true, then I think they should be held accountable.
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And the question is whether you think Microsoft -- not Microsoft, I'm sorry, but Facebook has broken the law on its way to this monopoly status that I think you are arguing it has?
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According to USA Today Sports, Locthe was cleared of all charges — the court deciding that the 32-year-old swimmer had not broken the law because Rio police instigated the investigation, not Lochte.
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As a so-called "John Doe" summons, the document targets a particular group or class of taxpayers—rather than individuals—the agency has a "reasonable basis" to believe may have broken the law.
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The regulator ruled last September that Google had broken the law by requiring pre-installation of certain applications on mobile devices running on its Android operating system, following a complaint by Russia's Yandex.
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Adding to that tension are the recently released documents from the Department of Homeland Security that outline a new enforcement strategy that targets illegal immigrants who have broken the law in any way.
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A spokesman for Santander declined to comment on whether it had broken the law while a spokesman for Macquarie, which is also under investigation, said it had believed the practice to be legal.
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The attorneys general said if recent reports are true, the Department of Labor (DOL) could have broken the law in rolling out its plan to rescind the Obama-era ban on tip-pooling.
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The leaders of the committee on Tuesday said Flynn, a former DIA head, might have broken the law by accepting payments from Russia and Turkey and later by misleading the government about them.
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He tried to link Comey with others in the government who he said had selectively and illegally leaked classified information to undermine the administration and suggested that Comey might have broken the law.
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Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who is on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she needed to wait to see all of Mueller's findings before determining whether the President may have broken the law.
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Donald Trump has insisted that Boris Johnson will not resign as the United Kingdom's prime minister, following a day in which Johnson found to have broken the law by suspending the Westminster parliament.
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But Trump's allegation has complicated the situation; if Obama had personally ordered the wiretap, as Trump claimed, it raises the potential that the FBI may have broken the law by agreeing to it.
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The attorneys general said if recent reports are true, the Department of Labor (DOL) could have broken the law in rolling out its plan to rescind the Obama-era ban on tip-pooling.
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Trump lawyers noted that a request to the Mazars USA accounting firm said the House wanted to investigate the accuracy of the President's financial statements to see if he had broken the law.
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"I understand why you did it," he added, but then pointed out they had still broken the law and fined them each 85 pounds, plus a victim surcharge, a total of about $130.
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Washington (CNN)House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Thursday said Rudy Giuliani's involvement in the escalating Ukraine controversy may have broken the law but doesn't think the Justice Department will investigate him.
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Their case mostly relies on the fact that the agents appeared to not have any new reason to believe Clinton had broken the law outside of the fact that she had exchanged emails.
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Anan was detained by authorities last month, a week after announcing his candidacy, and the army said he had broken the law by running for office without its permission while still a reserve officer.
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Incoming attorney general Letitia James told NBC News in an interview this month that she planned to launch sweeping investigations into Trump and "anyone" in his inner circle who may have broken the law.
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Page did not say why he'd provided the man the documents, but said that the documents were publicly available and that he believed any interaction with the man would not have broken the law.
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The move appeared to be an effort to distance the tweet from Trump, casting doubt on whether the president knew Flynn had broken the law when he pushed Comey to end the Russia investigation.
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When asked during Tuesday's meeting if SpaceX had broken the law with its past broadcasts from space, NOAA's Dawkins said "she would not know without looking specifically at what took place," according to SpacePolicyOnline.com.
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But what constitutes "engaged in the business" has been unclear, and prosecutors say it can be tough to prove unlicensed individuals who sell multiple weapons online and at gun shows have broken the law.
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Zhang Xiaoming, the head of Beijing's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, told reporters at the time that the FCC had broken the law by hosting a "separatist" and was in effect aiding separatism.
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Still, that report unearthed no evidence that Mnuchin had broken the law, and Mnuchin has since refused to commit to only using commercial travel for the rest of his tenure at the Trump administration.
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Falwell said this week he has asked U.S. federal authorities to investigate whether former board members and employees at the nonprofit university may have broken the law and divulged internal school documents to journalists.
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"I think if there's ever a moment where we feel someone's broken the law, particularly if they're the head of the F.B.I., I think that's something that certainly should be looked at," she said.
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The case was dropped a year later after the woman declined to testify, and Bryant apologized for his behavior though he always maintained the interaction was consensual and he had not broken the law.
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There is, however, clear evidence that Trump has broken the law — both in the conspiracies to pay off women who allege sexual affairs with him and in obstructing justice over Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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When South Korean constitutional court judges ruled in favor of Park's impeachment on March 10, they said she had broken the law by allowing Choi to meddle in state affairs and violating the constitution.
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I also vividly remember a striking departure from his quiet posture when in 2007, the Justice Department's inspector general concluded the FBI had broken the law in its use of national security letters for surveillance.
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The suit alleges that Google "suppresses information" about potentially illegally products or regulatory-skirting practices by advising employees not to include emails signaling how the company may have broken the law or violated contract terms.
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John Harris, a federal prosecutor, said he suspected that Mr Dowless had broken the law in an earlier election campaign—and that he had told his father of his suspicions in emails and telephone calls.
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Chebukati said the commission was committed to ensuring that the new election "is done in accordance with the constitution, the relevant laws" and urged the prosecution of any staffer found to have broken the law.
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Congressional Democrats sought the financial documents in April to determine if the president may have broken the law, failed to disclose conflicts of interest or violated the Emoluments Clauses—anti-corruption rules in the constitution.
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Nonetheless, a Newsweek article citing confidential sources soon reported that Judge Kern had been critical of the conduct of some members of Mr. Starr's team but stopped short of concluding they had broken the law.
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The leaders of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday said the former national security adviser might have broken the law by accepting payments from Russia and Turkey, and later by misleading the government about them.
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Rather than getting a platform to speak to the nation in a daylong TV performance, Strzok should be summarily dismissed from the FBI, thoroughly investigated and prosecuted if the evidence shows he has broken the law.
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The ordinance prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and in 2013, the state civil rights division found that Phillips, a conservative Christian, had broken the law by refusing to serve a same-sex couple.
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Each day, dozens of immigrant families come to the US-Mexico border seeking asylum — and now the parents are being told that they've broken the law, are separated from their children, and are taken to jail.
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Compare all of this – that there was never any credible evidence that Trump or his campaign collaborated with Russia to win the presidency – with the fact that there was ample evidence that Clinton had broken the law.
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Because that means that a federal judge, independently elected, has found probable cause that the president, or people on his staff, have probable cause to have broken the law or to have interacted with a foreign agent.
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Hua and Li Zhao had been warned by authorities weeks ago that they were suspected of having broken the law, and were barred from crossing the border into Hong Kong in April and May, Li Qiang said.
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Indonesia does not have a national law against sodomy, but around the same time the police in Jakarta rounded up 140 or so men at a gay sauna, saying they may have broken the law on pornography.
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The House oversight committee has been on Flynn since before Trump even took office -- and successfully obtained his security clearance application, exposing that he may have broken the law by leaving off payments from Russia's RT network.
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As a feminist and defender of women's rights and equality, I cannot in any way condone the appalling culture at the network which allows someone who has clearly broken the law over and over again to remain.
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Notifying your employer isn't a legal requirement, but if you do chose to disclose your status and are met with anything other than support, confidentiality, and reasonable adjustments, then your employer has almost certainly broken the law.
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One month after she took it, Ms. Vidon-White, who was working as a freelancer for the Washington-based United Press International news agency, was informed by the Paris prosecutor's office that she had broken the law.
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"They have broken the law by using weapons or dangerous instruments," judge Beqir Kalludra said as he read the verdict, referring to the leader of the biggest opposition party Vetevendosje, Albin Kurti, and three other party members.
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The proposal also had the potential to extinguish several class-action lawsuits against technology companies like Facebook by retroactively removing the right of Illinois citizens to sue companies that might have broken the law in the past.
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WELLINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - New Zealand's privacy commissioner joined international criticism against Facebook Inc, saying on Wednesday it has broken the law by declining a citizen access to personal information held on the accounts of other users.
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"The top federal ethics watchdog confirmed what anyone with eyes and ears already knew: Wilbur Ross's stock trades seriously compromised his ability to act in America's best interests, and may have broken the law," Mr. Wyden said.
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It was the collision this week of some of those prominent names that thrust the Kennedy School into an uncomfortable controversy over whether it should confer its prestige and honor on people who have broken the law.
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"Protesting is a constitutional right and the judge's decision threatens democracy," said Budiawan's lawyer, Abdul Wachid Habibullah, adding there was no evidence his client had broken the law but he had not yet decided whether to appeal.
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FBI director James Comey said in July there was evidence that Clinton and her staff may have broken the law with their "extremely careless" handling of classified government secrets but concluded there was insufficient grounds to prosecute.
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Heinz-Christian Strache, who was filmed speaking to a woman who posed as the niece of a Russian oligarch, accepted that the video was "catastrophic" but denied having broken the law and said no money changed hands.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer opened Inauguration Week Tuesday morning by saying that Trump's pick to oversee the dismantling of Obamacare, Tom Price, may have broken the law with a stock purchase last year and should be investigated.
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At the press conference, Barr said that while Mueller had found multiple instances of potential obstruction of justice on Trump's part, the attorney general concluded there was not enough evidence to support finding Trump had broken the law.
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On Sunday, the Senate minority leader wrote in a letter to FBI Director James Comey that Comey "may have broken the law" by disclosing that his bureau is looking into new emails related to its Hillary Clinton investigation.
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The refusal to allow the Conservatives a conference recess breaks a long tradition between the political parties in the UK.It came one day after Johnson was found to have broken the law by suspending Parliament for several weeks.
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If anything, impeachment would allow Democrats to make the case that the president has broken the law and that his administration is corrupt; focusing on these issues would almost certainly move public opinion from where it is now.
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Elijah Cummings on Friday said President Donald Trump may have broken the law by not disclosing a debt to his personal lawyer for paying porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair with the president.
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"The Moroccans admitted they had broken the law and said that of course their ultimate aim was not to attend the soccer World Cup but to cross the border and end up on Finnish soil," the statement read.
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The president then survived an impeachment vote in April after the Constitutional Court said he had broken the law by ignoring an order to repay some of $16 million in state funds spent on renovating his private home.
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King Mohammed VI of Morocco ordered the Interior Ministry to conduct "a careful and thorough investigation," and to bring charges against anyone who had broken the law, the state-run Maghreb Arabe Presse news agency reported on Sunday.
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It is almost certain to die in the Republican-led Senate, where there is no appetite to challenge Mr. Trump on his signature issue and the majority regards it as amnesty for people who have broken the law.
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It also creates a six-to-one matching system for donations of up to $200 to congressional and presidential candidates who reject high-dollar contributions, funded by an additional fine on corporations found to have broken the law.
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On Wednesday, a judge in Federal District Court in Brooklyn gave credence to his arguments, saying that while Mr. Hurant had broken the law, he had also done enormous good for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
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Socialist Party officials, who were proud of the legitimacy bestowed by constant election wins under Chavez, have detailed their justifications for all those actions, saying opponents have broken the law and used fraud in the 2016 referendum drive.
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He has raised questions about whether Babis may have broken the law in previous years by buying tax-exempt bonds from what was then his company, Agrofert, the country's largest private employer active in agriculture, food, chemicals and media.
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" Dench continued: "Are we to go back throughout history and anyone who has misbehaved in any way, or who has broken the law, or who has committed some kind of offense, are they always going to be cut out?
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Adidas, a long-standing sponsor of FIFA, "would have a problem" with the global soccer body if it was found to have broken the law by a U.S. investigation into bribery, the company's chief executive told a German paper.
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On Monday a whistleblower at the heart of a Facebook data scandal questioned the result of the Brexit vote as his lawyers presented evidence that they said showed the main campaign for leaving the EU had broken the law.
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Leaders of the House Oversight Committee revealed last spring that Flynn may have broken the law when he failed to disclose payments from RT-TV, a Russian station, and the Turkish businessman in his application for a security clearance.
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So far, prosecutors have reversed the convictions in eight of those cases, and judges have overturned another few, but the district attorney's office has repeatedly maintained that Mr. Scarcella has not committed any punishable conduct or broken the law.
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This was his second ruling in a suit filed by attorneys general from 19 states who argued that Ms. DeVos had broken the law by delaying the rule from taking effect, and they demanded that it be immediately reinstated.
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She wondered if she'd fall victim to the new administration's hardline immigration policies, which dramatically expand the power of immigration officers and make clear that no one, including people who otherwise have not broken the law, is safe from deportation.
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"We should reward companies that admit to having broken the law, especially when they come up with remedies to make the markets more competitive, or companies that provide evidence voluntarily," Vestager told a conference organised by the Global Competition Law Centre.
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If Trump knew Flynn had broken the law, it becomes even harder to believe Trump was not purposefully interfering in the investigation — particularly as Comey has said the president referenced Flynn by name in pushing him to end the Russia inquiry.
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Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said the settlers had broken the law by not getting permission from the military to enter the houses and had not been granted the permits required to carry out real estate deals in the West Bank.
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Cuomo asked Page if he ever worked with or communicated with Michael Flynn, the Trump administration's former national security adviser who the House oversight committee said may have broken the law after he did not properly disclose payments from Russia.
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The measure "will also normalize the status of Venezuelan nationals that are already in the country and that have not broken the law, due to a humanitarian visa exception that offered them temporary residence," Ecuador's presidency said in a statement.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's corporate watchdog said on Thursday it will pursue enforcement action against financial planners who advise self-funded pension funds but have broken the law, saying a study found 90 percent of such planners were guilty of it.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Adidas, a long-standing sponsor of FIFA, "would have a problem" with the global soccer body if it was found to have broken the law by a U.S. investigation into bribery, the company's chief executive told a German paper.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Jacob Zuma told a corruption inquiry on Monday that enemies had plotted to bring him down, and he had never broken the law with the business family at the center of an influence-peddling scandal.
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In July, the Electoral Commission in Britain found that the "Leave" campaign, which won 52 percent to 48 percent, had broken the law by exceeding the campaign spending limit of 7 million pounds, or about $9 million at current exchange rates.
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Those sent to the Atlanta penitentiary joined the ranks of Cubans from the Mariel Boatlift who had broken the law in the United States (sometimes by committing misdemeanors) and those who were believed to have committed serious crimes in Cuba.
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Mr. Mueller cataloged numerous actions by Mr. Trump, Mr. Barr wrote — he did not specify but said most were publicly known — and that the special counsel report presented evidence both for and against concluding that Mr. Trump had broken the law.
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And so, on Tuesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, piously declared that the Justice Department should consider whether James Comey had broken the law before and after Trump fired him as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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In Mr. Cuomo's first public remarks since the news of the stipends broke last week, the governor went so far as to suggest that the comptroller — a fellow Democrat with whom he has clashed before — may have inadvertently broken the law.
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A number of visitors to New York City have been arrested at its airports upon checking their guns for their return flights home, unaware that they have broken the law by possessing guns in the city without a city gun permit.
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Cummings and Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) held a joint press conference Tuesday in which they said Flynn might have broken the law by not disclosing the payments when he filed paperwork last year to renew his security clearance.
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Mr. Comey was said to be disturbed by Mr. Trump's claims about Mr. Obama, which insinuated that the F.B.I. had broken the law and raised the public's expectations about how much evidence federal authorities might have had on Mr. Trump.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey said in July there was evidence that Clinton and her staff may have broken the law with their "extremely careless" handling of classified government secrets, but concluded there were insufficient grounds to prosecute.
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According to a report published by the agency's inspector general yesterday, there was no distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, and this relaying of false information to Congress prompted a deeper investigation into whether senior officials at the FCC had broken the law.
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For the president, it doesn't matter whether local people want the Bears Ears National Monument, more affordable energy prices, or people who have broken the law to remain behind bars; all that matters is what Obama wants and believes to be right.
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The Department of Justice IG has broad powers to review the actions at Justice and its component agencies (like the FBI), recommend administrative sanctions when necessary, and even refer incidents for criminal prosecution if employees are believed to have broken the law.
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That was despite Pruitt's frequent statements that he was committed to the "rule of law," and his reputation in his previous job as Oklahoma's attorney general of suing the EPA more than a dozen times when he felt it had broken the law.
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"Trump's business with Cuba appears to have broken the law, flouted U.S. foreign policy, and is in complete contradiction to Trump's own repeated, public statements that he had been offered opportunities to invest in Cuba but passed them up," Mr. Sullivan said.
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When someone says or does something offensive or unpopular, while they have not broken the law, there is no due process; they receive the wrath of the social media mob and there is no path to redemption or, perhaps, even re-entry.
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The tension over Brexit spiked again on Tuesday, when Britain's election watchdog, the Electoral Commission, ruled that the official pro-Brexit campaign group Vote Leave had broken the law on political spending during the 2016 referendum campaign over membership in the bloc.
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If Mr. Mueller's report to Mr. Rosenstein contains evidence of obstruction of justice — or lays out an argument for why President Trump has broken the law in another way — then that would certainly increase the pressure on Congress to act in some fashion.
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But the ultimate prize has proved elusive for the scoop-hungry journalists competing to join the reporters' pantheon alongside Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose methodical news-gathering for The Washington Post helped bring down a president alleged to have broken the law.
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Harry Reid, then the Senate Democratic leader, suggested Mr. Comey had broken the law, and Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, then the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, spoke for many of her colleagues when she called his actions shocking and appalling.
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As for that story about her giving out marijuana in Jamaica: There is plenty of hypocrisy around race and weed, but if the head of state's granddaughter-in-law may have broken the law in a Commonwealth nation, it is a constitutional issue.
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"The person or persons doing this have broken the law, and it's the responsibility of our system to investigate it and apprehend the individual or individuals responsible," said David Posner, the director of strategic performance for the JCC Association of North America.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A whistleblower at the heart of a Facebook data scandal on Monday questioned the result of Britain's 2016 Brexit referendum as his lawyers presented evidence that they said showed the main campaign for leaving the EU had broken the law.
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The FBI, remember, was looking to see whether Clinton had broken the law through her decision to use a private email server — a decision that violated State Department protocol (though it was similar to how Colin Powell handled his email several years earlier).
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A commission set up by the ex-Soviet republic's parliament said last week that Sariyev's government had broken the law, accusing it of having rigged a $100 million road construction tender to ensure it was given to a Chinese firm that lacked the required license.
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AGRIGENTO, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian judge ruled on Tuesday that the German captain of a rescue charity ship had not broken the law when she forced a naval blockade at the weekend, saying she had been carrying out her duty to protect human life.
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AGRIGENTO, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian judge ruled on Tuesday that the captain of a charity ship had not broken the law by crashing through a naval blockade, saying that by bringing rescued migrants to port she was carrying out her duty to protect life.
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According to the Post, Sally Yates, then deputy attorney general, told the White House in January that Flynn may have broken the law and at the very least was vulnerable to Russian blackmail because he was denying the contents of the conversation in public.
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His father, John Letts, disputed the "knee-jerk assumption" that his son fought with Islamic State while in Syria, but added that if his son had broken the law, he should be tried, according to an interview with Canada's Global News radio on Sunday.
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It is also worth noting that regulators have investigated Google before and determined it's not engaging in anticompetitive behaviors — namely, in 2013, when the FTC ended a two-year investigation over how Google prioritizes search results with the decision that it wasn't broken the law.
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Furthermore, it's not even clear what a solution might look like because neither Northam nor Herring has broken the law or committed an offense rising to the level of impeachment, and there seems to be no appetite in the Virginia General Assembly to even try.
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But where Nixon's malfeasance ultimately became too much for his party to bear, it doesn't look like Trump is going to face the same kind of revolt from the modern GOP—even if he's proven in the end to have personally broken the law.
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Trump has emerged from the impeachment scandal with a belief in his impunity, and is currently attempting to bend the US government to his will — to punish officials who have allegedly crossed him and to protect his political allies who have broken the law.
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Smith had said on the air that it was "repugnant" that Carlson had not spoken up in defense of Fox News contributor Andrew Napolitano after a Carlson guest, attorney Joseph di Genova, called Napolitano a "fool" for saying that Trump had broken the law.
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Watch Mr. Sessions, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol, agencies with rogue officers who have abused immigrants and broken the law, and local law enforcement, like the Phoenix police, whose officers abetted ICE in subduing protesters who tried to block Ms. Rayos's removal.
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Referring to a complaint by the owners of Norvik Bank that the management of the central bank had broken the law, Kucinskis said that evidence should be handed over to the anti-corruption authorities, adding that such evidence had not been handed over yet.
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On Wednesday, more than two years after Ms. Thorp, now 28, strode into that office in her chic but sensible black flats, the committees released a report concluding that Portico, the outsourcing firm that had insisted she wear high heels, had broken the law.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services may have broken the law by making a stock purchase just before he introduced legislation that would have benefited the firm, the Senate's leading Democrat charged on Tuesday.
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SEOUL, South Korea — In a landmark ruling, a South Korean court said on Friday that the government had broken the law during the 1960s and '70s by detaining prostitutes who catered to American soldiers, and by forcing them to undergo treatment for venereal diseases.
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Harry Reid Says FBI Director May Have Broken LawSenate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Sunday wrote that FBI director James Comey he "may have broken the law" by going public with new details on Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server so close to an election.
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New York's status as a so-called sanctuary city, which allows it in some cases to shield undocumented immigrants who have broken the law from deportation requests, could also be affected if Trump follows through on his campaign promise to block funding for cities with the policy.
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Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, deputy prime minister in the caretaker administration in Madrid, said the government had asked the Constitutional Court to annul the latest resolution and see if Catalan assembly speaker Carme Forcadell had broken the law by trying to press ahead with the independence plans.
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President Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, may have broken the law when he failed to seek permission or inform the government about accepting tens of thousands of dollars from Russian organizations after a trip there in 2015, leaders of a House committee said on Tuesday.
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Last year, the attorneys general of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia started new labor units, to serve workers who won't get much help from the federal labor department, where the most original idea to date involves an amnesty program for employers who've broken the law.
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"If this happened in California, where Twitter is headquartered if they were no longer an employee at the time — particularly if their employment had been terminated — or if they had not been authorized to suspend or delete accounts, they could have broken the law," said Ekeland.
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"Trump's business with Cuba appears to have broken the law, flouted U.S. foreign policy and is a complete contradiction to Trump's own repeated, public statements that he had been offered opportunities to invest in Cuba but passed them up," adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
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The judge, Randolph Moss of Federal District Court in Washington, had earlier found that Ms. DeVos had broken the law, and last week he invalidated Ms. DeVos's attempt to dismantle the rule, but stayed his ruling for 30 days to give the Education Department time to respond.
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News of the White House's refusal to participate in the GAO's investigation comes after the watchdog agency issued its decision earlier this month that the Trump administration had broken the law when it withheld the security aid to Ukraine last year, which had been appropriated by Congress.
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Trump centered his campaign around building a wall and keeping undocumented immigrants (particularly from Mexico) out of the U.S., so cities that vow not to seek out unauthorized residents or help deport ones who haven't broken the law are in direct opposition with one of the administration's main goals.
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By pardoning and commuting the sentences of more than 1,300 people who were found to have broken the law, Obama has effectively undermined the justice systems of the states and disregarded the will of the people who voted for representatives who enacted the laws used to convict these criminals.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.) said Comey might have broken the law with his decision.
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Trump was furious with a Washington Post report that said he has expressed concern to top aides that his son Donald Trump Jr. may have inadvertently broken the law by meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in 2016 who had promised opposition research about Hillary Clinton.
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According to Media Matters, in the first year after Mueller was appointed Hannity alone aired four hundred and eighty-six segments attacking the federal criminal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election; thirty-eight per cent of those segments claimed that law-enforcement officials had broken the law.
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In London on Thursday an English court ruled that Britain had broken the law by allowing arms sales to Saudi Arabia that might have been deployed in the war in Yemen, after activists said there was evidence the weapons had been used in violation of human rights statutes.
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A report from the commission's own inspector general this week revealed that in January 2018, FCC investigators became convinced three senior officials—David Bray, Tony Summerlin, and Leo Wong—may have broken the law after providing false information in response to congressional inquiries about a purported cyberattack on the FCC.
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A prominent supporter of Britain's Conservative Party and backer of the country's European Union withdrawal resigned as a director of Cambridge Analytica's parent company the day after whistleblower Christopher Wylie told British lawmakers that an affiliated company had broken the law in its pro-Brexit campaign, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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The courts, for instance, found that the E.P.A. had ignored clear legal statutes when they ruled that Mr. Pruitt had illegally delayed a regulation curbing methane emissions from new oil and gas wells and that the agency had broken the law by missing a deadline last year to enact ozone restrictions.
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" When Harris pressed her about what that would mean for a 4-year-old child whose family faces charges of entering the country illegally, Nielsen said, "What we&aposll be doing is prosecuting parents who&aposve broken the law, just as we do every day in the United States of America.
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"We have made it very clear that we use sanctions when we think they are appropriate in order to counter behavior that we believe has broken the law or has challenged the United Nations Security Council or threatened the United States, and we stand by our sanctions," Kerry told reporters.
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If he knows that he has broken the law, then he may prefer to buy time and take his chances with the established constitutional mechanisms for removing or limiting the power of a president, rather than face the greater certainty that an unimpeded investigation by Mr. Mueller will reveal the truth.
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She has broken the law and fled from her still-living husband, taking her child with her, and now she is living in hiding under an assumed name, penniless and earning her own living as an artist, guarding against the day that her husband finds her and takes her away again.
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The decision to ignore allegations that Trump may have broken the law -- and wrote a check reimbursing his former personal attorney Michael Cohen for the payments while serving as President -- highlights the stark contrast between the priorities of the Democratic-run House and Republican-run Senate over the next two years.
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Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Elijah Cummings, the committee's top Democrat, got right to the point on Tuesday, saying Mr. Flynn may have broken the law by failing to disclose payments totaling over $65,000 in 2015 from companies linked to Russia.
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On Monday night, Mueller's office told a federal judge in Washington, D.C. in a court filing that Manafort had violated a plea agreement and broken the law by lying to FBI agents and prosecutors during interviews conducted after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy related to his past work for politicians in Ukraine.
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But this week two other panels seized the spotlight -- most significantly through Tuesday's revelation by the House oversight committee's top Republican and Democrat that former national security adviser Michael Flynn might have broken the law by not disclosing payments from foreign governments in his paperwork to renew his security clearance in 2016.
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The very run-up to Trump's 100-Day mark was dominated by news first that former national security adviser Michael Flynn may have broken the law by not disclosing payments from RT-TV on his security clearance application -- a revelation not from the House intelligence committee, but instead the House oversight committee.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) said Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees may have broken the law by moving forward with clean-up work at the Gold King Mine last August before spilling 3 million gallons of waste into the nearby Animas River.
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Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts came out in favor of an impeachment inquiry in a June 28 taped interview with WPRI, saying, "I believe that when you have a president that's willfully broken the law repeatedly to try to evade justice for various illegal acts, Congress has to hold him accountable."
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The greens are asking the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to step in immediately and block the EPA from halting the rule "In its haste to do favors for its polluter cronies, the Trump EPA has broken the law," Meleah Geertsma, a senior NRDC attorney, said in a statement.
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Multiplying that number by many times would almost certainly require reinstituting a program like Secure Communities and employing vastly more immigration agents, as well as using more aggressive tactics to find and remove immigrants who may have broken the law, according to Mr. Appleby of the Center for Migration Studies of New York.
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Government Accountability Office says the White House broke the law on Ukraine aid Just as the events above were getting going, the Government Accountability Office -- Congress' nonpartisan investigative arm -- issued a legal opinion Thursday that the Trump administration had broken the law by withholding millions in military and security aid from Ukraine.
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The Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit that favors campaign finance regulation, had urged a U.S. government agency in a July 2018 complaint to investigate whether Parnas and Fruman had broken the law by using a shell company to disguise the source of a $325,000 donation to a pro-Trump political action committee.
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Whilst many of the corporations implicated in the scandal have not technically broken the law by funnelling profits through a tax haven, the "LuxLeaks" scandal has drawn European leaders' attention to the loopholes that allow multinational corporations to hugely boost their profits by dodging the tax collector, and have driven global demands for reform.
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" Trump accused Obama of "wiretapping" him without providing any evidence, and suggested Obama had broken the law in a crime of Watergate proportions— March 163 He attacked London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the hours after a terror attack struck the city, calling him "pathetic" for telling residents there is "no reason to be alarmed.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked a federal court late on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit that accused President Trump of violating the Constitution by continuing to own and profit from his businesses, arguing in part that, even if he had broken the law, it would be up to Congress, not a federal judge, to act.
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" However, a report issued by Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee — led by Chair Chuck Grassley — took issue with Wyden's claim that the NRA might have broken the law, arguing that "there is nothing wrong with taking a trip with two purposes in mind, even if one of those purposes involves a tax-exempt organization.
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Some, or even all, of the 650,000 emails may be duplicates of the emails the FBI has already looked through during its investigation into Clinton's server (which was all but closed over the summer, with an announcement from Comey saying that while Clinton exercised poor judgment, there wasn't a prosecutable case that she'd broken the law).
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RELATED: In angry letter, Page discloses 'brief interactions' with Russian official Investigators on the House oversight committee raised the possibility last month that Flynn may have broken the law by not disclosing payments from RT-TV, widely considered by US officials to be a propaganda arm of the Russian government, on his 2016 national security clearance form.
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However, the company also quietly updated its S-1 filing to go public to disclose that it may have broken the law in ways including including selling its services to terrorists, to narcotics traffickers, and to governments being sanctioned by the US.It also may have violated laws governing exporting encryption technology, it said in the filing.
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The exact details of the incident are disputed: a Saudi ambassador initially said Rahaf had broken the law in Thailand but later country officials described her case as a "family affair" in which they were uninvolved, according to PBS and the Times; a Thai immigration official, however, said that Rahaf didn't have the money or paperwork needed to travel.
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Few, however, have been as brazen as Paula White, the prosperity gospel preacher (and Trump's right-hand woman) who told the right-leaning faith-based Christian Broadcasting Network that Jesus could not have broken any immigration laws during his family's flight to Egypt because Jesus, who was without sin, could not therefore have broken the law.
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More controversy arose when the Department of State revealed late Tuesday that it had asked federal prosecutors during election week to investigate whether the Florida Democratic Party had broken the law by sending voters — apparently most of them Democrats — incorrect information about how long they would have to resolve invalidated signatures on their mailed-in ballots.
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"You're killing something that's worked really well — which is getting violators who've broken the law, in some cases in a criminal way, to agree to fund projects to make the air or water cleaner," said Eric Schaeffer, executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project and the former director of civil enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Washington (CNN)A day after CNN reported that the Justice Department is investigating whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has broken the law by using his office to personally enrich himself, national security adviser John Bolton told the Alexander Hamilton Society in Washington that ethics rules make it hard for people outside of the government to serve.
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Here's how the hearing may play out: In the aftermath of Mr. Trump's Twitter storm three weeks ago in which he accused Mr. Obama of wiretapping him, Mr. Comey pushed senior Justice Department officials to publicly reject Mr. Trump's claim, since Mr. Comey believed that Mr. Trump had falsely insinuated that the F.B.I. had broken the law.
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The voter purge case dates to a complaint last year from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a conservative litigation center, that argued the bipartisan Wisconsin Election Commission had broken the law by deciding not to remove from the rolls names that had been flagged by a system that alerts the commission to voters who may have moved residence.
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It said Liddell might have broken the law over three days in January and early February by participating in policy meetings between Trump and leaders from as many as 18 companies that he also had a financial interest in, including Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson and GM. In filing its complaint, the group cited Liddell's certificate of divestiture forms, issued Feb.
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At the direction of activists and consumer attorneys, with whom they spoke frequently, Warren and her staff were able to identify a mechanism within existing law to get Corinthian students' loans forgiven: an obscure piece of the Higher Education Act called the "defense to repayment" provision, which said that borrowers could petition for their loans to be discharged if their schools had broken the law.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (Tenn.) with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee, claiming the Republican may have broken the law by failing to disclose hedge fund investments.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Friday doubled down on his claim that he can pardon himself for any potential crimes but insisted that he would not have to because he hasn't broken the law.
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" This is black excellence as an artful shield, a defense against the searing gaze of classmates and teachers who, as young Laymon explains to his mother, "kept talking to us the way you told me white folk would talk to us if we weren't perfect, the way I saw white women at the mall and police talk to you whether you'd broken the law or not.
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If Democrats were to win access, say, to Mr. Trump's federal tax returns, or a court forced Donald F. McGahn II, the former White House counsel, to testify about Mr. Trump's attempts to thwart the Russia investigation, it could produce a new round of high-profile hearings about whether the president had broken the law — an inquiry that would surely reverberate in the presidential campaign.
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By a margin of 50 percent to 32 percent, Democrats nationwide said in an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll this month that Mr. Biden's chances of becoming the Democratic nominee were likely to be more hurt than helped by the fact that Mr. Trump had mentioned him in a phone call with the Ukrainian leader — even though Mr. Biden is not believed to have broken the law.
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"As such, we ask that you publicly commit to refuse any order or request – whether express or implied – to interfere in the Special Counsel's investigation, including but not limited to firing Mr. Mueller, cutting off funding or resources, limiting staffing, or inhibiting his ability to follow the facts wherever they may lead and hold those accountable who may have broken the law," they wrote.
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The filing of Mr. Gleason's letter marked an extraordinary convergence of two of the moment's most explosive news stories: the abrupt demise of Mr. Schneiderman, who quit his job on Monday amid allegations that he had physically assaulted four former girlfriends, and the case of Mr. Cohen, who is under investigation for potentially having broken the law by trying to suppress negative coverage of Mr. Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election.
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Cummings, along with committee chairman Jason ChaffetzJason ChaffetzHouse Oversight panel demands DeVos turn over personal email records The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - Trump attack on progressive Dems draws sharp rebuke GOP senators decline to criticize Acosta after new Epstein charges MORE (R-Utah), told reporters Tuesday that the former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) head might have broken the law by accepting payments from Russia and Turkey, and later by misleading the government about them.
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