Sentences with phrase «as federal sentencing»

The OIG Guidance on Compliance Programs as well as the Federal Sentencing Guidelines make it clear that one size does not fit all when it comes to compliance program development.

As federal sentencing fans should know, there seem to be a real chance that Justice Scalia will convince enough of his colleagues to strike down ACCA as unconstitutionally vague.

I generally believe (and often have argued) that a wide range of considerations can and should be brought to bear as a federal sentencing judge considers, under 18 U.S.C § 3553 (a), what sentence will be «sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with the purposes set forth» by Congress.

Not exact matches

Despite the changes on the medical front, the federal Tories have not only indicated their intention to keep marijuana in the Criminal Code, but have also introduced mandatory minimum sentences of six months on small - time grow - ops — six or more plants — as part of the omnibus crime bill, Bill C - 10.

During the sentencing phase of Tsarnaev's trial in federal court in Boston, his lawyers have been trying to paint him as a mostly normal American kid who fell under the spell of his now - deceased older brother, ultimately joining him in the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In his last major act as president, Barack Obama is cutting short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes.

He was sentenced to life in prison last month, though federal guidelines stated he could have served as few as twenty years.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

It came crashing down hard on Friday as a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to serve the rest of his life in prison, following his earlier conviction on seven charges related to conspiracy, narcotics and money - laundering.

It was the summer of 2009, and I had just completed an almost 11 - year sentence in federal prison for my role in five bank robberies I had committed as a foolish young man.

As Silver was being sentenced at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, his successor and winner of a special election last month, Alice Cancel, was sworn in to replace him in the Assembly.

A federal judge denied former Suffolk County Conservative Party leader Edward Walsh's motion for a new trial, and ordered him to report to prison in October to begin serving a two - year sentence for illegally pocketing over $ 200,000 in salary and overtime in his job as a lieutenant in the county sheriff's department.

As he did in the wake of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's sentencing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a brief statement in response to the five year sentence handed down by a federal judge in the corruption case of ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

I assisted as a volunteer to a friend who had been charged with a federal crime, by actually READING the United States Sentencing Guidelines (USSG)-- I recommend the exercise.

The judge was prepared to sentence Terry on Tuesday, as scheduled, but Terry's attorney asked Quinn to hold off one more time and allow the sentencing in the federal case to proceed first.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he gained from illegal kickback schemes, as well a pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he stole from the public, as well as pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

Kindlon said defense attorneys often refer to federal cases as «sentencing advocacy, because that's really what you're talking about.»

A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Seminerio to six years in prison Feb. 4 for abusing his power as a lawmaker and extorting money out of hospitals, nonprofits and other groups in exchange for lobbying state officials on their behalf.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he stole from the public, as well a pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

Burke is being held as a danger to the community in a federal jail, awaiting sentencing now scheduled for Aug. 25.

Malcolm Smith was recently convicted of federal bribery, extortion, and wire fraud as part of a scheme to get on the 2013 New York City mayoral ballot, and Pedro Espada Jr. is currently serving a five - year sentence for tax fraud.

Silver's lawyers maintain in their sentencing memo that Manhattan Federal Judge Valerie Caproni should consider «a term of rigorous community service — whether as an alternative to incarceration, or as a component of an appropriate below - guidelines sentence» due to his age and poor health.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who endured for decades as one of the most powerful figures in state government, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in November on multiple corruption charges.

A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions affect people's lives, sentenced a woman in a drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.

In a last major act as president, Barack Obama cut short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes, bringing his bid to correct what he's called a systematic injustice to a climactic close.

At the Tuesday afternoon sentencing of Mr. Silver, Federal District Court Judge Valerie Caproni referred to his age of 72 as why she wouldn't go by the recommended sentence of roughly 22 to 27 years.

Shirley Huntley apologized for her crime as she was sentenced Thursday by a Brooklyn federal Judge.

MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — The sentencing of disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been pushed to May as a court battle to reveal sealed evidence that was kept out of his trial continues.

Dean Skelos, the once mighty Senate Republican who was addressed by colleagues as «Leader» before his political career collapsed last year, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison following his conviction on federal corruption charges.

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick joined local, state and federal leaders, as well as community activists and business leaders, on Friday, May 24 to remind local residents and companies of the opportunity to share their story with the judge considering the sentence in the federal case against Tonawanda Coke.

Bharara sat in the back of the courtroom as Manhattan federal Judge Kimba Wood sentenced Skelos.

The federal judge overseeing the case, Judge Valerie Caproni, ruled Thursday that because she would consider the sealed evidence as part of Silver's sentencing, the public had a right to know the information.

Bellone installed Sini as commissioner following the resignation of former Chief of Department James Burke, a Bellone appointee who is currently serving a 46 - month sentence in federal prison for beating a suspect and orchestrating a cover - up.

As Gail passed Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was sitting in the back of the courtroom throughout the sentencing Thursday, she told the federal prosecutor, «You can go to hell.»

In a letter Friday, federal prosecutors urged a judge to stick to her guns and order former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to start serving his 12 - year prison sentence as scheduled on August 31.

President Barack Obama is cutting short the sentences of 102 federal inmates as part of his ongoing push to grant clemency during his final months in office.

Cor's «continued existence as a company and legal entity - and its ability to develop the Inner Harbor property - is uncertain in light of, among other things, its two primary officers facing the prospect of potentially lengthy federal prison sentences,» city lawyers wrote in legal papers filed Tuesday.

WHITE PLAINS — Condemning him for having «corrupted the Democratic process,» a federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Malcolm A. Smith, former majority leader of the New York State Senate, to seven years in prison for consenting to the payment of tens of thousands of dollars to Republican Party leaders to permit him, as a registered Queens Democrat, to run for mayor in 2013 on their party's line.

In a surprise, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Kimba Wood hit Skelos» surly scion Adam with an even longer prison sentence — 6 1/2 years — as a «deterrence.»

Skelos, 68, and Adam, 33, both of Rockville Centre, are scheduled to be sentenced April 13 in Manhattan federal court for conspiring to use Dean's power as Republican majority leader to help Adam get work from a real estate developer, a malpractice insurer and an environmental firm.

A federal judge Tuesday denied former Suffolk County Conservative Party leader Edward Walsh's motion for a new trial, and ordered him to report to prison in October to begin serving a two - year sentence for illegally pocketing over $ 200,000 in salary and overtime in his job as a lieutenant in the county sheriff's department.

Ry - Ann Hermon, who served as Boyland's chief of staff and was also romantically involved with the pol, is asking Judge Sandra Townes for no jail time ahead of sentencing in Brooklyn federal court Friday.

He cited what he said were far - left positions such as her campaign to free Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican nationalist and member of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, serving a 75 - year federal sentence for «seditious conspiracy.»

As part of their sentences, however, federal judges ordered the two men to pay restitution and forfeit assets.

In 2010, Rivera, running as a progressive and a reformer, defeated incumbent Democrat Pedro Espada, Jr., who is now serving a federal prison sentence for the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a health care non-profit he controlled.

Delayed from October due to the lawmaker's cancer treatment, the sentencing fell as former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's federal corruption case was being considered by a jury, and the trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — who worked with Libous to plot the June 2009 coup that derailed the Senate for five weeks — continued.

The Federal High Court in Calabar, Cross River State, on Tuesday sentenced two petroleum dealers to 20 years» imprisonment without an option of fine for stealing Automotive Gas Oil, otherwise known as diesel, using forged documents.

U.S. District Senior Judge Thomas J. McAvoy will rely on federal sentencing guidelines if he sentences Scarborough, and must publicly state his justifications if he sentences the lawmaker to less or more time than are called for in the guidelines, which take into account factors such as a defendant's criminal history and acceptance of responsibility for their crimes.

Based loosely on a true story that was prominently featured in the PBS series «Frontline», Dwayne Johnson (Fast Five, Get Smart) stars as John Matthews, a construction business - owning father who desperately is trying to save his 18 - year - old son, Jason (Gavron, Breaking and Entering), from going to prison for a huge chunk of his life due to the rigidity of the Federal mandatory sentence drug charges in place.