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A Clinton aide nonetheless maintained that the former secretary of state would stick predominantly to running a campaign rooted in the issues confronting the American public.

Eric Holder, the former US Attorney General, made the comments over the weekend, recognizing that Snowden has sparked much national and international debate on surveillance, but maintained that the former NSA contractor should still be punished for leaking the documents.

For days after Michael Slager fatally shot Walter Scott in April 2015, authorities maintained that the former North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer had done everything by the book.

The petition maintains that the former judge, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., may have had close ties to a reputed mobster at the heart of the defamation case and that the award should be reviewed in light of the corruption to which Mr. Ciavarella has now admitted.

Prosecutors maintain that the former prime minister had sex with Ms El-Mahroug on 13 occasions.

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The White House defended Hagel's performance on Friday, maintaining that the former senator will garner enough votes for confirmation.

In the first appeal, lawyers for Mr. Casso argued that prosecutors broke the agreement primarily because Mr. Casso maintained that Salvatore Gravano, the former underboss of the Gambino family and a star defector and prosecution witness, lied when he testified that he had never been a narcotics trafficker.

Murdoch later maintained that Tom Crone, the former head of legal at the Sun and News of the World, and Colin Myler, the former News of the World editor, could have disclosed more in April 2008 if they had "wanted to warn me that voicemail interception was more widespread".

Other critics maintained that Ivanishvili's role as former prime minister and founder of the current ruling party (coupled with the fact that he was the single largest investor in the project) cast the shadow of corruption over the city authorities' approval of the project.