He had previously been granted immunity, according to media reports.
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The Wall Street Journal: Pecker granted immunity in Cohen case.
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Laporta was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for her testimony.
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The tabloid's chief was reportedly granted immunity by federal prosecutors.
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Players were granted immunity for speaking to MLB for the investigation.
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Both Brennan and Raico were granted immunity against prosecution before testifying.
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The Italian agents were acquitted, granted immunity or offered plea bargains.
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Laporta was one of five witnesses granted immunity for the trial.
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AMI's CEO David Pecker was granted immunity in the case in August.
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Flynn has offered to testify before Congress if granted immunity from prosecution.
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Flynn has said he would testify before Congress only if granted immunity.
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Nader was reportedly granted immunity in a deal for cooperating with Muller.
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Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was granted immunity in the Cohen case.
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Officer Landau previously testified before a grand jury and has been granted immunity.
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Prosecutors have already granted immunity to Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's longtime CFO.
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Officials involved in counter-terrorism operations were granted immunity from prosecution last year.
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She has been granted immunity for her testimony, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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This confirmed reports dating back to August that Pecker had been granted immunity.
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The condition was that Flynn would only testify if he is granted immunity.
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Weisselberg has reportedly been granted immunity and has testified before a grand jury.
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The mayor had not been granted immunity when he sat for questioning, Phillips added.
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Raico was one of five government witnesses granted immunity to testify in Manafort's trial.
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She has, however, been granted immunity for her testimony, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Weisselberg was granted immunity by federal prosecutors investigating Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
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This regime, in which corporate executives have essentially been granted immunity, is relatively new.
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Nader has since reportedly been granted immunity in return for his cooperation and testimony.
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He had been granted immunity from prosecution as long as he told the truth.
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Pecker was granted immunity in a federal investigation into former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
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Bradley was granted immunity for his cooperation in the case, a point Baez noted often.
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Weisselberg was reportedly granted immunity by federal prosecutors last year in the investigation into Cohen.
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Five potential witnesses were offered and granted immunity in the case, including former Manafort accountants.
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Many of the Navy SEALs who testified were granted immunity to appear before the court.
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If that was the case, said Dr. Woolaver, she should not have been granted immunity.
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Donna Duggan, Cindy Laporta and Conor O'Brien also were granted immunity to testify against Manafort.
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The prosecutor called her a "star witness," and was granted immunity in exchange for her testimony.
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S. Attorney Alex Acosta cut with Epstein, which also granted immunity to his alleged co-conspirators.
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However, Congress precluded these more measured theories of liability when it granted immunity to gun makers.
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His co-conspirators — including the assistant that scheduled the "appointments" — were granted immunity in the deal.
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Much of the testimony against him came from fellow sailors who were granted immunity from prosecution.
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In August 2018, Weisselberg was granted immunity by federal prosecutors in exchange for grand-jury testimony.
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Kasabian later became a key witness in the trial and was granted immunity for her testimony.
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Pecker was granted immunity last summer to provide federal investigators information on such hush money deals.
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His accomplices were also granted immunity, despite allegations that Epstein had directed others to engage in abuse.
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Kelly Norton, who is now divorced from the lobbyist, has acknowledged her role and was granted immunity.
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Ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is willing to testify -- if he's granted immunity, his lawyer says.
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The prosecutor called her a "star witness," and she was granted immunity in exchange for her testimony.
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Five of the witnesses, all financial professionals, were identified previously when they were granted immunity to testify.
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The five witnesses granted immunity are: James Brennan, Donna Duggan, Conor O'Brien, Cindy Laporta and Dennis Raico.
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Instead, I represented one of the five witnesses granted immunity to testify against Paul Manafort in August.
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"[The loan] closed because Mr. Calk wanted it to close," said Brennan, who was granted immunity to testify.
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One of Hillary's IT staffers "lied his ass off," according to the FBI, and then was granted immunity.
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On Monday, Ellis revealed the identities of the five witnesses who were granted immunity to testify against Manafort.
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The technician, Bryan Pagliano, was granted immunity during the FBI's investigation into the former secretary of State's server.
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It also emerged that David Pecker, a tabloid publisher close to Mr. Trump, was granted immunity by prosecutors.
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Since the immunity law was updated in 2005, no member of Knesset has been granted immunity from prosecution.
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Or, if Quinn is indeed granted immunity, a retreat into another of his empty, beer can-littered apartments?
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Both Mr. Kranz and Mr. Lewis were subpoenaed and granted immunity, according to people familiar with the matter.
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One is the Federal Savings Bank underwriter involved in Manafort's loans, James Brennan, who was granted immunity to testify.
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Worth noting: Weisselberg was granted immunity in August by federal prosecutors in New York for cooperating with their investigation.
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Linda Kasabian, another Manson follower, became the state's key witness and was granted immunity in exchange for her testimony.
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David Pecker, chief executive of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, was also granted immunity in the investigation.
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Five witnesses - James Brennan, Donna Duggan, Conor O'Brien, Cindy Laporta and Dennis Raico – have been granted immunity to testify.
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Last year, Pecker was granted immunity in the investigation into the hush money payments and subsequently admitted to them.
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Pecker was granted immunity by federal prosecutors in 2018 to speak about the work he did in protecting Trump.
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Pecker and another AMI executive were granted immunity as part of prosecutors' probe, Vanity Fair also reported over the summer.
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American Media's chief content officer, Dylan Howard, also was granted immunity for his information on the matter, Vanity Fair reported.
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If tech giants want to keep their government-granted immunity they must bring transparency and accountability to their editorial processes.
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Prosecutors also reportedly granted immunity to Trump ally David Pecker, the CEO of the company that publishes the National Enquirer.
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The agreement granted immunity to four associates as well as "any potential co-conspirators" in his crimes, INSIDER previously reported.
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Andres said he plans to call James Brennan, a Federal Savings executive who like Raico was granted immunity, on Monday.
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Deutsche Bank, one of the banks notified in December, said then that it was cooperating and had been granted immunity.
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Players on that 2017 team, however, were granted immunity from punishment by M.L.B. in exchange for cooperating with the investigation.
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" Manfred said MLB suggested an initial list of players who could be granted immunity, but the union demanded "blanket immunity.
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Flynn has offered to testify before the House and Senate committees investigating Russian interference in the election if granted immunity.
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Prosecutors also granted immunity to David Pecker, a longtime Trump ally and the CEO of tabloid publisher American Media Inc.
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In 2005, Mr. Sanders voted for a law that granted immunity to gun manufacturers and dealers from most liability lawsuits.
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Officer Landau, who testified before a grand jury and has been granted immunity at Officer Liang's trial, is on modified duty.
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The crux of the prosecution's case came from Alexander Bradley, a former friend of Hernandez's who was granted immunity to speak.
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Then in August, Weisselberg was subpoenaed in connection with the Cohen investigation and granted immunity so he could speak to investigators.
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This granted immunity from such quotas to anyone from a country with an EU association agreement that included non-discrimination clauses.
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That could implicate him legally, though he was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for cooperating in the Cohen investigation last year.
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He offered in March to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the condition that he be granted immunity from prosecution.
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She said in her statement she had been granted immunity in exchange for her testimony, but did not offer further details.
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Warren told CNN that the parents were served with subpoenas and granted immunity from anything they say being used against them.
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The CEO of American Media, David Pecker, was granted immunity by prosecutors pursuing Cohen, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.
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Greig had been granted immunity from prosecution to testify, but defense attorney Kevin Reddington said she had no information to share.
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He testified after being granted immunity from criminal prosecution for the events and actions that he would discuss on the stand.
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A former public relations chief for Fox News has been subpoenaed and granted immunity from prosecution, one of the people said.
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The Justice Department granted immunity earlier this month to a former State employee who helped Clinton build her personal storage device.
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Epstein was granted immunity from federal prosecution but pleaded guilty to solicitation of prostitution and the procurement of minors for prostitution.
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He said he was only doing so now because he was granted immunity, which means he cannot be prosecuted for his testimony.
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While being granted immunity would allow the accuser to testify, his testimony could be seriously undercut by cross-examination by Spacey's lawyer.
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Flynn's legal team first floated testifying if granted immunity from prosecution, although no one has yet taken them up on that offer.
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David Pecker, the chief executive of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, was also granted immunity, according to reports on Thursday.
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David Pecker, the chief executive of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, was also granted immunity, according to reports on Thursday.
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Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, who was granted immunity in exchange for answering questions about how he set up a server in Mrs.
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The Bankers The special counsel's office called several bankers to testify in the Manafort trial, including Dennis Raico, who was granted immunity.
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But he granted immunity to several marines—including Dela Cruz, who later admitted lying to investigators—and dropped charges against three others.
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Flashback: Earlier this week, a federal judge approved Mueller's request that five witnesses be granted immunity in exchange for testifying against Manafort.
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And in intriguing news: David Pecker, a tabloid executive close to President Trump, has been granted immunity by prosecutors, our reporters learned.
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He testified that he was only doing so now because he was granted immunity, which means he cannot be prosecuted for his testimony.
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The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment on whether Pagliano had been granted immunity, and his lawyer did not respond to questions.
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At the end of the war, the scientist-murderers were secretly granted immunity from prosecution, and even from exposure, by the United States.
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Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has reportedly been granted immunity by federal prosecutors to discuss the Cohen case.
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Prosecutors say they have four or five witnesses remaining, including two who were granted immunity for their testimony: Dennis Raico and James Brennan.
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Go deeper: Trump organization CFO Allen Weisselberg gets immunity David Pecker granted immunity in Cohen investigation GOP fears Cohen set road to impeachment
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It was yet another dramatic elimination week on Trump Administration Island, where viewers saw Rex Tillerson granted immunity for at least another week.
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Mnangagwa, 75, told the World Economic Forum in Davos this week Mugabe and his wife Grace had not been granted immunity from prosecution.
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And now, he has been granted immunity to talk about at least a small part of that world with prosecutors in New York.
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Others refused to cooperate with prosecutors, which a lawyer for some of the men said they would not do without being granted immunity.
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On Thursday, American Media Chairman David Pecker was granted immunity by federal prosecutors as part of an investigation of Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer.
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Spain had said it would block disbursement of aid unless Athens granted immunity to the three, who were consultants for the country's privatisation agency.
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The agreement, the Herald said, "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe" and further granted immunity to "any potential co-conspirators" in the case.
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The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Pecker was granted immunity by prosecutors pursuing Cohen, who pleaded guilty to criminal charges last week.
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Reports emerged last week that the Justice Department, meanwhile, has granted immunity to Bryan Pagliano, a former State employee who helped build Clinton's server.
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The alleged go-between, Melvin Theuma recently was granted immunity from the prosecution in exchange for giving details on who was behind the bombing.
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International Finance Corporation, No. 17-1011, was whether that law, which granted immunity "as is enjoyed by foreign governments," took account of later developments.
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Ms. Manning had vowed not to cooperate in the investigation even though prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia granted immunity for her testimony.
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Hardly any soldier has been prosecuted for civilian killings because Indian law has long granted immunity to troops posted in Kashmir and other troubled regions.
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Raico is on the witness list for Manafort's trial and has been granted immunity from prosecution if he testifies, though he has not appeared yet.
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On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg had been granted immunity in connection with the investigation into the payoffs.
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News of the second employee's talks with prosecutors comes after Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was granted immunity for providing information about Cohen.
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In June that year, he said he received a "letter of comfort" from the regulator, assuring him he would be granted immunity from any prosecution.
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The five names unsealed at the order of federal judge T.S. Ellis on Monday are witnesses who've been granted immunity by special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Editor: Dan Grebler + 646 223 6200 Picture Desk: Singapore + 65 6870 3775 Graphics queries: + 7853 6870 3595 (All times GMT/ET) Mugabe granted immunity, assured of safety in Zimbabwe HARARE - Zimbabwe's ex-president Robert Mugabe is granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety will be protected in his home country under a deal that led to his resignation, sources close to the negotiations say.
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Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety will be protected in his home country under a deal that led to his resignation.
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Bryan Pagliano, the IT specialist believed to have helped set up and maintained Clinton's server, was granted immunity in exchange for his help with the investigation.
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In 2018, Exxon went as far as to back a campaign for a carbon tax, with the provision that it would be granted immunity from lawsuits.
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In 2016, President Ghani's government granted immunity to Hekmatyar but the former warlord has been critical of his administration and the parliamentary election process in 2018.
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Washington (CNN)Michael Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, said Wednesday that he believes his client is willing to testify before any congressional committee without being granted immunity.
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She asked that her client be granted immunity, "otherwise he's going to have to take the Fifth Amendment," she said in a court hearing in June.
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In the evening, we learned that Michael Flynn, the short-lived national security adviser, had offered to talk to congressional investigators, if he is granted immunity.
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Gallagher was acquitted of murder in large part because a fellow SEAL changed his story and admitted to the crime — but only after being granted immunity.
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In practice, open-skies deals open the door to joint ventures (JVs), which are granted immunity from antitrust rules and so can potentially lead to higher prices.
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If he had testified, First said, the conspirator would have been granted immunity from his own testimony being used against him as part of a separate prosecution.
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The agreement made by Acosta, the Herald said, "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe" and further granted immunity to "any potential co-conspirators" in the case.
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But Sekulow dismissed the prospect of a "pre-pardon" because such individuals granted immunity would still be required to answer questions if they testified before the House.
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The crux of the prosecution's case centered on testimony from Bradley, a former friend of Hernandez who was granted immunity to testify against the former NFL star.
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Under that law, certified manufacturers of security products and providers of security services are granted immunity from liability if they fail to prevent an act of terrorism.
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Last week, a former IT staffer who reportedly set up the server in Clinton's New York home was granted immunity in order to speak with federal investigators.
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Clinton's comments come after reports Wednesday that the Justice Department had granted immunity to a former State Department staffer who had helped set up Clinton's personal server.
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In the Cohen probe, one Trump Organization executive, chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors to provide information concerning Cohen, CNN has reported.
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In a letter seen by Reuters, Weiss said Shkreli would "gladly cooperate" with the committee and produce documents if it granted immunity to the controversial former drug executive.
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American Media Chief Executive David Pecker, a longtime friend of Trump, and the company's chief content officer, Dylan Howard, have also been granted immunity, Vanity Fair magazine reported.
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His lawyer's statement that Flynn "certainly has a story to tell" and that he'd only tell it if granted immunity, looked "desperate," according to a senior administration official.
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In those games, the Warriors were a reflection of Curry, who wears greatness with a breezy, unforced confidence, somehow granted immunity from the fundamental physical rules of basketball.
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Although prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia granted immunity for her testimony, Ms. Manning had vowed not to cooperate in the investigation, saying she had ethical objections.
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The current turmoil was sparked by the pardoning of Melvin Theuma, a suspected middleman in the murder who was granted immunity in return for information about the case.
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If he wins, it is unclear whether he would immediately be granted immunity and get out of jail or whether his incarceration would prevent him from taking office.
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The second half of the hearing will address whether Porter, who was granted immunity to testify against Goodson and White, can nevertheless assert his right against self-incrimination.
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By Thursday, Trump learns that David Pecker, a longtime friend who owns the National Enquirer's parent company, has been granted immunity by the Southern District of New York.
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Flynn offered to speak with congressional investigators last month on the condition of being granted immunity from prosecution, an offer no committee has yet apparently taken Flynn up on.
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Defense Secretary James Mattis was granted immunity from a decades-old law that states whomever holds that position needs to be at least seven years out of military service.
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American Media, the National Enquirer's parent company, was granted immunity last year in connection with its assistance on an investigation into Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer.
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Special counsel Bob Mueller's request that five witnesses be granted immunity in exchange for testifying against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was granted today, per Talking Points Memo.
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Pagliano, who is believed to have been responsible for setting up the server in Clinton's Chappaqua, N.Y., home, was granted immunity in exchange for his cooperation with the FBI.
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Weisselberg was granted immunity in August by federal prosecutors for providing information on former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's role in hush money payments to women alleging affairs with Trump.
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Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information on Cohen's role in hush money payments to women alleging affairs with Trump.
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Mr. Weisselberg testified before a grand jury last year while prosecutors were building their case against Mr. Cohen, and was granted immunity from prosecution related to that testimony only.
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In another dire sign for Trump, federal prosecutors announced that they had granted immunity to American Media, the publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid, in connection to the McDougal payments.
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According to his lawyer, Flynn plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment right and refuse to comply with a document subpoena from the Senate, unless and until he is granted immunity.
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Flynn for months has said he would testify before Congress only if granted immunity, a deal lawmakers have shied away from making to avoid interference with a separate, federal probe.
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The day after her Super Tuesday victories, a law enforcement official leaked that Bryan Pagliano, who helped set up Clinton's personal server, has been granted immunity for the FBI's investigation.
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But now there seem to be 29 teams of saints and one dirty band of sinners from Houston, absolved by a benevolent commissioner who granted immunity in exchange for confessions.
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Manafort accountant Cindy Laporta, who was granted immunity and admitted her role as a conspirator, testified in the case about falsifying documents so the bank would approve Manafort's loan applications.
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Pagliano last week was reported to have been granted immunity to testify as part of the FBI's ongoing investigation connected to Clinton's use of a personal server while in office.
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Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, whose entanglements with Trump's finances are extensive, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information about Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen.
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Days before Parliament granted immunity to the Russian bank, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Mr. Orban in Budapest and warned against allowing Russia to drive a wedge between friends.
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Among those expected to be called are two bankers who have been granted immunity in the case, as well as the senior director of ticket operations for the New York Yankees.
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Cosby's attorneys had appealed a ruling by Common Pleas Court Judge Steven O'Neill in Norristown that dismissed the entertainer's claims that he had been granted immunity from prosecution in the case.
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Flynn's lawyer said he would be wiling to testify before congressional committees and federal officials investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election only if he was granted immunity from "unfair" prosecution.
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While several of those who testified against Lorance were granted immunity from prosecution in the case, that by no means is to suggest they were misrepresenting how they understood the situation.
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But in 1983, a state court ruled that Mr. Carey could not be prosecuted because he had been granted immunity for testifying about the investigaton before a grand jury in 1980.
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Under a law adopted in 2001, Mr. Putin would be granted immunity from prosecution and would receive retirement pay of 580,035 rubles a month, or about $9,500, if he stepped down.
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"You are not just hacking anyone's phone, you are hacking the phone of someone who has been granted immunity," said Francisco Cox, one of the investigators and a prominent Chilean lawyer.
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David Pecker The CEO of the company that publishes the National Enquirer reportedly was granted immunity in the investigation of Michael Cohen in exchange for providing info on hush money deals.
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Two executives for American Media Inc, which publishes the National Enquirer, a tabloid reportedly involved in making the payments, have also been granted immunity in the investigation, according to U.S. media reports.
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Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors working on the criminal investigation into Michael Cohen, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
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By 2007, she was 22 and working as an assistant for Epstein when she and three other women were granted immunity as possible coconspirators in his controversial plea deal with federal prosecutors.
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In a press conference earlier Tuesday, Manfred shed light on his interaction with the union during the investigation — which began in November — specifically how players were granted immunity in exchange for speaking.
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Just Friday, CNN reported that the chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg, was granted immunity to provide information about the hush money payoffs made by Cohen on Trump's behalf.
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Which brings us to why he was granted immunity by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York in their pursuit of Cohen who pleaded guilty to eight felonies earlier this week.
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The detail came as several media outlets reported on Thursday that federal prosecutors had granted immunity to National Enquirer chief David Pecker, potentially laying bare his efforts to protect his longtime friend Trump.
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But during the Iran-Contra affair under former president Reagan, Congress granted immunity to two senior administration officials in exchange for testimony: former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, and Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North.
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One of the most striking elements of the agreement was that it protected four of Epstein's accomplices from facing federal prosecution and granted immunity to "any potential co-conspirators," according to the Herald.
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On Sunday, when The Washington Post revealed Clinton had written 104 such emails herself, she spoke of the thrill of her longtime employee being granted immunity in the FBI investigation into her emails.
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Last week, news emerged that the department had granted immunity to a top IT aide who helped install the server in Clinton's New York house, a signal that the probe might be evolving.
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The news comes comes less than a week after prosecutors granted immunity to longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who testified before a federal grand jury earlier this year as prosecutors investigated Cohen.
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Account says loans were fudged Laporta, who has been granted immunity for her testimony, said her firm falsified a loan amount at the request of Gates to help Manafort pay less in taxes.
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Prosecutors had granted immunity to Ms. Manning for her testimony, but when she appeared before the grand jury in March she responded to each question by saying that it violated her constitutional rights.
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Although prosecutors granted immunity for her testimony, Ms. Manning had vowed not to cooperate in the investigation, saying she had ethical objections, and she was placed in civil detention for contempt of court.
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As part of a "side agreement" brokered by the Department of Justice, Comey agreed to destroy the laptops of Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, after the two women were granted immunity.
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The chairman of the company that publishes the National Enquirer was granted immunity by federal prosecutors as part of an investigation into President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, NBC News reported Thursday.
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American Media CEO David Pecker — whom prosecutors said has information about President Donald Trump's campaign's efforts to silence women who claimed they had affairs with Trump — has reportedly been granted immunity by federal prosecutors.
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Laporta was one of five government witnesses granted immunity to testify in Manafort's trial in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia after invoking their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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"This legislation simply states that if the tech giants want to keep their government-granted immunity, they must bring transparency and accountability to their editorial processes and prove that they don't discriminate," Hawley said.
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Some former Catalan leaders have been awaiting a separate European ruling on whether they should be granted immunity as elected members of the European Parliament, after winning their seats in European elections last May.
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David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid, has reportedly been granted immunity in the investigation into President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen and his payments to women during the 2016 campaign.
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Along with Mugabe, Grace - Mnangagwa's sworn enemy - has been granted immunity from prosecution and had her safety guaranteed, part of a deal that led to Mugabe's resignation on Tuesday, sources close to the negotiations said.
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Weisselberg (left) with Trump and The Apprentice's Carolyn Kepcher The Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors in the criminal investigation into Michael Cohen, according to multiple news outlets.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to the Trump Organization's chief financial officer in an investigation involving U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The DOJ also granted immunity to Bryan Pagliano, a former staffer for Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, after he detailed setting up the former secretary of State's server at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., in 2009.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg in a probe involving President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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Baier's remarks were made in the context of news that Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors working on the criminal investigation into Cohen.
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The Herald's report also notes that the deal protected four of Epstein's accomplices from facing federal prosecution and granted immunity to "any potential co-conspirators" who were found to have taken part in Epstein's crimes.
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The day after her Super Tuesday victories, a law enforcement official leaked that Bryan Pagliano, who helped set up Clinton's personal server, has been granted immunity in exchange for his cooperation with the FBI's investigation.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday delayed the criminal trial of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort until next week, and made public the identity of five witnesses granted immunity to testify.
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Flynn has for months said he would testify before Congress only if granted immunity, a deal lawmakers have shied away from making to avoid interference with the separate, federal probe into Russian interference in the election.
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While Obama had three years to work toward a new agreement to possibly delay that withdrawal, negotiations hit a wall over the issue of ensuring that U.S. military personnel would be granted immunity from criminal proceedings.
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David Pecker, the CEO of AMI, has been granted immunity by prosecutors investigating Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, who last week pleaded guilty to a number of federal charges, including making or abetting campaign finance violations.
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Flynn for months has said he would testify before Congress only if granted immunity, a deal lawmakers have shied away from making to avoid interference with the separate, federal probe into Russian interference in the election.
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He successfully fought those convictions, getting them reversed in 1991 after prosecutors concluded they could not prove that the witnesses who testified against him weren't influenced by his congressional testimony, for which he was granted immunity.
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She was one of four women named as possible co-conspirators and granted immunity from prosecution in a widely criticized plea bargain that Mr. Epstein struck with federal prosecutors in Florida more than a decade ago.
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Prosecutors in this country are well aware of the potential pitfalls of prosecuting someone granted immunity because it requires showing that every piece of evidence to be used at trial is untainted by the immunized statements.
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The months-long probe took a new twist earlier this month, when the IT official believed to have set up Clinton's personal server, Bryan Pagliano, was reportedly granted immunity in exchange for cooperating with the FBI.
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The agreement also granted immunity to "any potential co-conspirators," meaning that if any of Epstein's many powerful friends — a group that includes Trump and Bill Clinton — were involved in his crimes, they would not be prosecuted.
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In the past few years, they've started to create revenge porn bans, but there's still a lack of liability because of the Communications Decency Act, which basically granted immunity to websites for the conduct of their users.
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Although Manning was granted immunity in exchange for testimony—a device commonly used to increase witness cooperation—she declined to answer any of the government's questions, citing the First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendment, among other statutory rights.
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Pecker, who reportedly kept a safe of documents related to these coverups, has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors, while Cohen has plead guilty to violating campaign finance law and implicated Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.
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There was also a stunning report Thursday that David Pecker, the CEO of the company that publishes the National Enquirer -- which was once all but a propaganda organ for Trump -- has been granted immunity in the case.
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Context: Mike Flynn's lawyer reached out to lawmakers yesterday to say Flynn would interview for their probe — but only if granted immunity — and added that anyone would do the same since the whole thing was a "witch hunt."
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The Justice Department has granted immunity to a State Department employee who helped build former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured of his safety under his resignation deal, a source of frustration to many Zimbabweans who accused him of looting state coffers and destroying the economy during his time in power.
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Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)Robert Mugabe's former right-hand man, Emmerson Mnangagwa, will be sworn in as interim President on Friday, a day after Mugabe and his wife were granted immunity, allowing the couple to remain in the country.
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Hoping to be granted immunity from prosecution, their only hope is to persuade us that, over the years, they have become permanent residents of recent history as opposed to symbolic representatives of a more distant and guilty past.
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A spokesman for Zimbabwe's military said Thursday that Mugabe and his wife have been granted immunity from prosecution as part of the agreement to step down, raising the prospect that the former first family will remain in the country.
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And Clinton's mishandling of emails, the destruction of evidence, the staff members all electing to plead the fifth and/or be granted immunity is easily the largest shadow over her campaign against an equally flawed (for different reasons) opponent.
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The IT expert had previously asserted his Fifth Amendment rights before the House Select Committee on Benghazi and reportedly had been granted immunity as part of the FBI's investigation of possible mishandling of classified information related to the server.
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Greg Andres, a prosecutor on U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, said he would call James Brennan, a vice president at Federal Savings Bank who was also granted immunity, and two other witnesses on Monday before resting their case.
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Trump's long-time friend David Pecker, who publishes the National Enquirer, and Trump organization CFO Allen Weisselberg have both been granted immunity in connection with the investigation of Cohen and Trump paying hush money to help the 2016 campaign.
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Here's how it could get worse The Journal reported Weisselberg was granted immunity by federal prosecutors as part of the criminal investigation into hush-money payments Cohen made to two women before the 2016 election, citing two unnamed sources.
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The reports of Weisselberg's cooperation with federal prosecutors come just days after Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the payments, and another Trump ally, American Media CEO David Pecker, was also reportedly granted immunity.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety will be protected in his home country under a deal that led to his resignation, sources close to the negotiations said on Thursday.
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Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety would be protected in his home country as part of a deal that led to his resignation, sources close to the negotiations said on Thursday.
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He was granted immunity last year to testify before a grand jury in the Manhattan US attorney's office's investigation into several hush-money payments that Cohen facilitated during the election to women who said they have had affairs with Trump.
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Judge T.S. Ellis III also granted immunity to five potential witnesses for their testimony at that trial in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. The potential witnesses were identified as Dennis Raico, Cindy Laporta, Conor O'Brien, Donna Duggan and James Brennan.
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Washington (CNN)A top figure in President Donald Trump's orbit was granted immunity in the investigation into hush money payments made to two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump, a sources familiar with the matter told CNN Friday.
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Trump must also worry about widening legal complications from the guilty plea lodged by his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen in a tax and fraud case in which prosecutors also granted immunity to the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization.
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" The California congressman was responding to the revelation that Flynn is willing to testify before federal and congressional investigators in their ongoing probe into Russian meddling in the US elections, but only if he is granted immunity, his lawyer said Thursday. "Gen.
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Allen Weisselberg, longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors as part of their investigation into President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, NBC News reported Friday, citing multiple people with knowledge of the matter.
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The clamor around Clinton's potential legal woes hit a peak this week, when news broke that Bryan Pagliano, a former State Department aide who set up the server in Clinton's home in New York, was granted immunity to speak freely with the FBI.
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The latest: Trump organization CFO Allen Weisselberg has been granted immunity to talk to federal prosecutors about the payments former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made during the 2016 campaign to two women who had affairs with Trump, per the Wall Street Journal.
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Ms. Maxwell, who has previously denied any wrongdoing, was one of four women named as possible co-conspirators and granted immunity from prosecution in a widely criticized plea bargain that Mr. Epstein struck with federal prosecutors in Florida more than a decade ago.
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The panel said he had not shown that his right to a fair trial was violated when a judge barred him from testifying about his claim that he had been granted immunity for his crimes by a federal prosecutor, who died in 2009.
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Mr. Nader has been granted immunity in a deal for his cooperation with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to people familiar with the matter, and his relationship with Mr. Broidy may also offer clues to the direction of that inquiry.
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Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg has been granted immunity in exchange for giving prosecutors information for the investigation into Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and "fixer" Michael Cohen and the hush money payments Cohen made to women during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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At the same time, Fox News is under a federal investigation into settlements made by 21st Century Fox, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who say that a former public relations chief has been subpoenaed and granted immunity from prosecution.
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In 2014, for example, the legislature expanded immunity from people accused of murder or assault to people who fire "warning shots" and made it more difficult to track Stand Your Ground cases by expunging the records of people granted immunity under the law.
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Bryan Pagliano, the former State Department IT specialist who installed Hillary Clinton's private email server but refused to testify before Congress has his case referred to the Department of Justice, but Pagliano was granted immunity as part of a probe into the email system.
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That interview indicated that Clinton and her aides were not close with Bryan Pagliano, the IT expert who set up her server and has since been granted immunity in the FBI probe, and showed that Mills's lawyers fought to restrict what their client could say.
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Because of that — and because the security firm hired for the festival had been awarded the special homeland security designation — MGM says it should be granted immunity from damages under the law and should not be forced to pay compensation for injuries suffered by concertgoers.
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HARARE, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety would be protected in his home country as part of a deal that led to his resignation, sources close to the negotiations said on Thursday.
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A key witness in the case, Melvin Theuma, granted immunity in return for his testimony, said in a court appearance last week that Mr. Fenech, the businessman, had given him 150,000 euros, around $165,19903, to hire the contract killers who carried out the murder.
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Flanked by armored police and granted immunity by Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre, former drug dealer Herbert Colanggo told the House committee Tuesday that the New Bilibid Prison was turned into a "Little Las Vegas" during De Lima's stint in the Justice Department under former President Benigno Aquino.
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Massaquoi was the grandson of the Liberian Consul in Germany, so his family was granted immunity and he was able to live among the Aryan population while anyone else considered by the Nazis to belong to an "inferior race" began to suffer the effects of Hitler's repressive, xenophobic policies.
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"Last month, for example, the Eleventh Circuit, noting no 'materially similar case' (thus no 'clearly established law'), granted immunity to a police officer who fired at a family's dog but instead shot a ten-year-old child lying face-down 18 inches from the officer," Willett wrote this week.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executive of the publisher of the National Enquirer was granted immunity by prosecutors investigating payments arranged by U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to silence two women who said they had sex with Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Michael Bromwich, an attorney representing McCabe, sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Tuesday requesting that McCabe be granted immunity in exchange for testimony surrounding the inspector general's report that he leaked information and lied about it to former FBI director James Comey.
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Vanity Fair reported that, according to two sources briefed on the Cohen investigation, federal prosecutors have granted immunity to Pecker, as well as to A.M.I.'s chief content officer, Dylan Howard, in exchange for explaining Trump's potential involvement in Cohen's payments to Daniels and McDougal during the 2016 campaign.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge said he would rule later on Monday over whether to delay the criminal trial of U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and that he planned to make public the identity of five witnesses who had been granted immunity to testify.
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that investigators granted immunity to Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of Trump's business empire, in exchange for his testimony about hush-money payments organized by Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, to at least two women during the 2016 campaign.
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"Increasingly, it appears with General Flynn now saying he would testify if granted immunity, that really suggests very heavily there is definitely fire and what we have been seeing over the last few weeks is an attempt to cover up fire with smoke," Gergen told CNN's Don Lemon on Thursday night.
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Allen Weisselberg, longtime chief financial officer for the Trump organization, has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information about Michael Cohen and the 2016 payments he made to two women during the 2016 presidential campaign who alleged they had sexual encounters with the president, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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They include the Skakel family's former tutor, Kenneth W. Littleton, who was granted immunity in exchange for testimony, and had long been a suspect, and Ms. Moxley's older brother, John Moxley, now 57, whose account of his whereabouts the night of the murder "varied considerably over the years," Mr. Kennedy wrote.
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The error also occurred in all previous updates.) By Sarah N. Lynch ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday delayed the criminal trial of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort until next week, and made public the identity of five witnesses granted immunity to testify.
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" Earlier this month, the Washington Post cited a senior law enforcement official when it reported that the Department of Justice granted immunity to Bryan Pagliano, a former State Department staffer who worked on Clinton's private email server, "as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information.
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Holt failed to challenge her when it came to her "extremely careless" handling of classified information, her aides that were granted immunity from prosecution before ultimately refusing to testify in the investigation of her private email server, and her failures in the handling of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
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If the five unidentified people are not granted immunity — and compelled to testify against Manafort — they would either refuse to take the witness stand or refuse to answer questions by citing their Fifth Amendment right against being forced to incriminate themselves, according to Mueller's filing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Edward Snowden has at least another several years in Russia if he's not granted immunity, which seems unlikely in the waning days of Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE's presidency.
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So in the Clinton investigation, we have the Clinton IT guy getting granted immunity essentially nothing, admitting that they destroyed the emails after they were already under the subpoena, no prosecution, Cheryl Mills being in the interview with Hillary Clinton as both as a witness and as a lawyer, Huma Abedin being allowed to sit in on the interview.
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As the commander of the I Marine Expeditionary Force in which the accused killers served, then–Lieutenant General Mattis oversaw the initial phase of the Haditha court-martial proceedings, where charges were dismissed against two Marines and another service member was granted immunity from prosecution, effectively blowing one of the biggest war crimes trials since the My Lai massacre.
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A federal judge on Monday revealed the identities of the five witnesses that were granted immunity to testify against former Trump campaign chairman Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE.
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Prosecutors reportedly granted immunity to David Pecker, the CEO of the company that publishes National Enquirer, as part of their investigation into 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's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen.
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Two days after longtime Donald Trump crony Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to crimes including helping to pay off women who said they had affairs with his boss, and hours after the public learned National Enquirer boss and Trump ally David Pecker was granted immunity by the feds in that case, we got another hint at how the president's apparently extensively hush-money operation worked.
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A grim seven days for 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 and his allies was capped on Friday by news that Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, had been granted immunity by prosecutors.
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After Ms. Manning disclosed her subpoena to The New York Times last week, The Daily Beast reported that David House, an activist and member of a support network for Ms. Manning during the 2010-11 era of legal and activist wrangling over WikiLeaks' publication of her leaks, had been granted immunity and testified last year before the same grand jury about his interactions with the group.
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In addition, in the wake of a landmark right-to-die case in which the court held in 1976 that a respirator could be removed from a comatose patient, Karen Ann Quinlan, Justice Garibaldi, in three rulings in 1987, expanded the right of individuals to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment, granted immunity for individuals involved in making those decisions "in good faith," and provided guidelines for doctors, patients and their families.
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Rauner in nasty race against Blago pal , after surviving primary Full Coverage: 20053 Midterms A TRIAL - AND RED FACES - DELAYED: The federal judge in the upcoming federal court trial for President Trump&aposs former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Monday unsealed the names of five witnesses being granted immunity to testify, as he granted the defense's request to delay the start of the trial ... Those witnesses are James Brennan, Donna Duggan, Conor O'Brien, Cindy Laporta and Dennis Raico.
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The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents with details on hush money payments and other damaging details on President Trump leading up to the 2016 election, reports the AP. Why it matters: Details about the documents the Enquirer hid for Trump as part of an arrangement may come to light in the testimony of Enquirer chief David Pecker, who was granted immunity in return for providing information to federal prosecutors as part of the investigation in to Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
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Lujan Grisham for New Mexico governor FOX News' Full Coverage : The 29 Midterms SEEKING IMMUNITY: Ousted FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is seeking immunity in exchange for his testimony related to a Justice Department watchdog's referral for possible prosecution, ahead of a congressional hearing on the handling of the Clinton email probe during the 21944 presidential election ... Michael Bromwich, an attorney representing McCabe, sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Tuesday requesting that McCabe be granted immunity in exchange for testimony surrounding the inspector general's report that he leaked information and lied about it to former FBI director James Comey.
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Relying on thousands of emails, court records, FBI files, and interviews, Brown also examined the role of Alex AcostaAlex Alexander AcostaThree more Epstein accusers sue estate Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death Feds face mounting pressure over Epstein's death MORE, the U.S. Attorney in Miami in 2008 who brokered a deal that granted immunity to "any potential co-conspirators," allowed Epstein to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court, pay restitution to three dozen individuals, and serve a brief sentence, during which he was allowed to leave jail six days a week for twelve hours a day and work in his West Palm Beach office.
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George Conway, a frequent antagonist on Twitter of 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 whose wife is White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Florida first lady to miss Women for Trump event due to planned execution Trump adopts familiar mantra on possible recession: fake news MORE, mocked the president on Friday after the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization was granted immunity as part of the federal investigation into Michael Cohen.
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