Sentences with phrase «silver traded his office»

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The four prosecutors involved in the first Silver trial have left the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan — Carrie H. Cohen entered private practice; Andrew D. Goldstein joined the office of Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election; Howard S. Master became a senior enforcement counsel for the New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman; James M. McDonald now heads enforcement for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — and a new team has taken over.

Prosecutors say Silver came to trade his office for $ 4 million in kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

Jurors took a little less than a week to find Silver, a 71 - year - old Democrat who represented the Lower East Side since 1977, guilty of seven counts of selling his office, disguising payments as legal fees that he traded for official favors.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office contends Silver traded state grant money for Taub's research clinic at Columbia University for Taub's referrals of mesothelioma cancer patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, Silver's law firm.

Here at the esteemed Massively OP offices, where every day is a silver - lined dream aboard a gold - lined yacht, we have established a policy of trading off the duties of announcing whichever game has decided to roll out a battle royale mode that day.

NEW YORK — According to Michael Silver, office space priorities are going to change in the wake of the World Trade Center (WTC) terrorist attack.