Sentences with phrase «seabrook corruption trial»

Fyfe was assistant deputy attorney general in October 2010 when the BC Liberal government agreed to pay the $ 6 million legal bill for former aides Dave Basi and Bob Virk after their plea bargain halted the BC Rail corruption trial.

VICTORIA: New Democrat leader Carole James is asking the B.C. Liberals to address public concerns they used $ 6 million in taxpayer dollars to secure a guilty plea to sweep the B.C. Rail corruption trial under the rug.

Many Croat fans were unimpressed when he sensationally retracted his original testimony at the corruption trial of one - time Dinamo Zagreb chief Zdravko Mamic.

ZAGREB: Real Madrid's Luka Modric was charged Friday with giving false testimony at the corruption trial of Dinamo Zagreb's powerful former chief Zdravko Mamic, prosecutors said.

Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric appeared as a key witness at a corruption trial on Tuesday, testifying about his financial deals with a former Dinamo Zagreb director charged with tax evasion and embezzlement.

OSIJEK, Croatia — Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren's testimony at a Croatian football corruption trial was postponed Wednesday after the main suspect fired his lawyers during a hearing.

Croatian prosecutors charged the Real Madrid midfielder last week with giving false evidence during the multi-million-euro corruption trial of former Dinamo Zagreb boss Zdravko Mamic in Croatia.

Talk about ethics reform in the new legislative session has been largely muted this year, even as a year filled with corruption trials involving prominent New York figures is underway, including the ongoing trial this week of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The proposal comes as the corruption trial of former gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco gets underway this week.

«This continual parade of corruption trials of New York's public officials has become a national embarrassment,» Schorr said.

«I think his record makes him vulnerable, his entire record,» DeFrancisco said, «and the corruption trials don't help.»

It took jurors less than 90 minutes to reach a verdict in the eight - week corruption trial of ex-NYC Councilman Dan Halloran that was marked by delays, a mistrial for a co-defendant — state Sen. Malcolm Smith — and several juror dismissals for personal reasons.

Still, Republicans hope Cuomo is unexpectedly vulnerable this year given the $ 1 billion tax and fee increases in the budget as well as the ongoing corruption trial of his former top aide, Joe Percoco.

As the corruption trial of his former close aide and confidant Joe Percoco played out in New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo stuck to a largely similar script when asked about the details of the testimony.

By comparison, former state Sen. George Maziarz, whose name also appeared in the Moreland Report and whose corruption trial is scheduled to start next month, reported more than $ 60,000 paid to attorneys during the most recent filing period.

Republican former Senate Majority Dean Skelos, who was convicted in a separate corruption trial in December, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 25.

Silver's convictions were overturned last year based on a Supreme Court decision which narrowed the definition of an official act and how it can be used in a corruption trial.

The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.

Government prosecutors and attorneys for a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo are sparring over access to evidence in the corruption trial of Joe Percoco.

Assemblyman Eric Stevenson thought he was required by law to testify at his corruption trial, but since he is not, he won't.

It makes quaint demands for negotiations sans negotiations: halt corruption trials against suspected PDP and Niger Delta looters.

DeFrancisco, meanwhile, kept the focus on the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, the former close aide to the governor who is accused of fraud and bribery.

It was his fourth corruption trial in two years.

The federal government refused to grant immunity to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has threatened to take the Fifth Amendment if called to testify at the political corruption trial of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Twice in the past three years, Silver has sat in the same Manhattan federal courtroom and heard opening statements in his public - corruption trial.

The jury resumes deliberating in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial, which enters its eighth week today.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has kept a relatively low media profile — at least with Albany reporters — during the federal corruption trial of his former top aide, Joe Percoco, but that has neither stopped nor reduced coverage of the proceedings, and there's more to come.

Still no verdict in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial, which will enter its eighth week next Monday.

Today's testimony at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Cuomo, Joe Percoco, has been canceled due to the illness of a defense lawyer whose questioning last week led to the arrest of the prosecution's star witness, Todd Howe.

Rob Walker, who served as chief deputy to former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, has been indicted on federal charges of obstructing justice and lying to FBI agents just weeks before the scheduled start of his former boss» corruption trial.

The courtroom drama of the Joe Percoco corruption trial has served as a stinging indictment of Albany, a city of back - room dealings and back - scratching, fund - raisers and favors, where money talks and Cuomo administration officials have listened.

-- and distanced itself from the post-2nd Republic corruption trials, before special tribunals.

Also at 9:30 a.m., the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano continues, Courtroom 920, Judge Azrack; Federal Courthouse, Central Islip, Long Island.

The federal judge presiding over the corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife Linda, and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto has denied all defense motions challenging the case against them.

Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, likely to serve as the federal government's key cooperating witness in a wide - ranging corruption trial this fall involving past associates of Cuomo, «has obtained employment and a residence in the District of Idaho,» his attorneys told a judge.

A defense lawyer in the Joseph Percoco corruption trial accused the main witness, Todd Howe, of making up a key detail regarding a dinner meeting to bolster the prosecution's theory of a bribery scheme.

Disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe's long - awaited testimony in the Joe Percoco corruption trial got underway today.

The government's key witness in the Joe Percoco corruption trial, disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe, took the stand in Manhattan federal court yesterday.

We're still awaiting a decision from the jury in former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s federal corruption trial, but we do have some (more bad) news to report about the embattled former Bronx Democratic lawmaker.

During Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, defense attorneys have now tried at least twice to suggest heavy handed tactics on the part of prosecutors to cajole witnesses into cooperating with their case.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to bar any mention of decisions not to prosecute de Blasio during the corruption trial next month of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto.

During Joe Percoco's federal corruption trial, prosecutors have shown how power players like Percoco navigated «the Albany game,» as one witness put it, and also how minor players in the game — like two developers from Syracuse — could get caught up in it.

De Blasio dodged the question about whether he'll have to testify in a Long Island corruption trial that stars one of his big donors, saying: «I'm not a lawyer... What we did, what my team did, what I did was legal and appropriate.»

Jury deliberations in the federal corruption trial of Joe Percoco continue in a Manhattan courthouse today.

In this Year of the Corruption Trials in New York — where at least five such trials have, are or will take place — Cuomo and the Legislature could not even come together on watered - down versions of measures to address ethics problems in state government.

With four major GOP corruption trials slated to start this year, Ed Cox's hypocrisy knows no bounds.

The question of who is picking up Joe Percoco's legal tab is of particular interest because of his close relationship with Cuomo, whose name has surfaced repeatedly in the federal corruption trial of his former top aide.

The jury in the corruption trial of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo top aide Joseph Percoco announced for the second time that it was deadlocked, dimming the prospects once again for a verdict in the trial.

Jury deliberations in the corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco appeared to have run aground on their fourth day, as three jurors issued notes asking to be excused from the case, with one expressing concern about the storm expected to slam the New York City metro area; and another saying that she has sick children.

DeFrancisco spokesman Bill O'Reilly took note of the corruption trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former aide Joe Percoco, whose fate is now in the hands of a jury.