Sentences with phrase «u.s. grand jury»

Martin Winterkorn's indictment by a U.S. grand jury should be an important step toward justice and recompense for the costliest cover - up in automotive history — but it won't be.

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: I don't feel at home in this world anymore.

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to: Dina (Directors: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini)-- An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door - greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.

Her film won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature at Outfest.

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to: The Wolfpack (Director: Crystal Moselle)-- Six bright teenage brothers have spent their entire lives locked away from society in a Manhattan housing project.

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Director: Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews)-- Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend.

Taking the top U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was Desiree Akhavan «s film The Miseducation of Cameron Post while the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic went to Andrew Heckler's film Burden.

The winners were announced this weekend for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and after 10 days of snow and cinema the big winners of the fest included Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a cancer comedy - drama with Thomas Mann and Connie Britton, which won both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award.

Vanguard Award, honoring Damien Chazelle, whose recent work, Whiplash, won both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in Dramatic Competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

PARK CITY, UT — Me, Earl and the Dying girl, a tender coming - of - age drama about befriending a girl with leukemia, won the high - profile U.S. Grand Jury Prize as well as an audience award at the Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony Saturday night, crowning a festival debut that wowed audiences from the word go.

Actor Peter Dinklage presents the final award of the night at Sundance, the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic to «I don't feel at home in this world anymore.»

Whiplash premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and won both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic Presented by Acura.

In last year's selection of sixteen U.S. Dramatic Competition offerings, it was Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl that landed both U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic awards, it was Rick Famuyiwa's Dope who landed the richest deal ($ 7 million range), it was Patrick Brice's The Overnight that had the most post festival momentum, it was Marielle Heller's The Diary of a Teenage Girl that received a longer term accolades (Bel Powley won Best Actress at the Gothams) and it might be Robert Eggers» The Witch that becomes the cult item we reference back in a decade from now.

Macon Blair's «I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,» in which Melanie Lynskey plays an ordinary woman who becomes empowered as a detective - avenger after she is robbed, won the U.S. grand jury prize in the dramatic category.

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Director: Desiree Akhavan, Screenwriters: Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele, Producers: Cecilia Frugiuele, Jonathan Montepare, Michael B. Clark, Alex Turtletaub)-- 1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK (Reuters)- The Bangladeshi man accused of attempting a suicide bombing in a busy New York City commuter hub in the name of Islamic State in December was indicted on U.S. terrorism charges by a grand jury on Wednesday.

Prosecutors declined to comment after court Thursday, but Richard Donoghue, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a press statement later that Walker «attempted to obstruct a grand jury investigation and then lied to the FBI» while serving as a public official.

As part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, a federal grand jury recently indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for waging «information warfare» against the U.S.

Henry Wojtaszek would not discuss his appearance before the grand jury convened by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in 2014.

In just 14 lines of type, the indictment signed by U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue alleges that Walker tried to thwart a grand jury investigation in August, and then lied when he was questioned by the FBI in November.

The state's two U.S. senators on Wednesday called for a federal investigation into the death of Eric Garner after a State Island grand jury decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the case.

«The U.S. Attorney excoriated the defendant and deprived him of innocence while the grand jury was proceeding,» Molo said, calling U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's public comments «premeditated and orchestrated.»

Norris acknowledged his appearance before the grand jury to The News last week, as well as his late 2014 subpoena bringing him before a Manhattan grand jury convened by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

«Taylor lied to a federal grand jury and, together with others, concocted a story that blamed the victim — who had serious physical ailments — for starting an altercation with correction officers,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

Former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet S. Bharara then launched a probe after the Moreland Commission's demise, requiring figures like Wojtaszek and Norris to testify before a federal grand jury.

Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of Long Island and his son Adam were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on six criminal counts — the same number offered in the criminal complaint filed three weeks ago by the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was indicted today by a federal grand jury, according to the office of the U.S. attorney of the Southern District of New York.

The federal fund is now the subject of a federal grand jury investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut.

A grand jury today handed up a three - count indictment against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on charges of mail and wire fraud and extortion, a month after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara shook the city's political class with a criminal complaint against the longtime Manhattan legislator.

The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in New York City, which heard evidence presented by the staff of Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Earlier in the week — shortly before The New York Times reported that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office was presenting evidence to a grand jury about Skelos» possible involvement in the contract deal — Flanagan said, «At this juncture in my career I obviously have significant experience, very well versed in a lot of aspects of state government, and I certainly am going to keep doing what I'm doing and use whatever skills I have to enhance the work that I do.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has his own grand jury contemplating evidence the mayor and his team ran a corrupt pay - for - play scheme with rich donors to his now - defunct political nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, exchanging government favors for cash.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Carrie Cohen said Bharara's statements were nothing unusual or extraordinary and didn't affect the grand jury.

State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos confirmed that he's the target of an investigation, after The New York Times reported that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has convened a grand jury that is looking into some of the senator's business dealings, as well as those of his son.

The Times, which frequently breaks news regarding the activities of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office, reported that federal prosecutors have begun presenting evidence to a grand jury related to Skelos and his 32 - year - old son, Adam, centering on a contract awarded to AbTech Industries by Nassau County.

A year after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said his department is still waiting for the U.S. Department of Justice to complete its investigation before proceeding with any administrative departmental action.

A federal grand jury indicted the Skelos» on the same counts as those outlined in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara last month — one count of conspiracy to commit extortion, one count of conspiracy to commit fraud, two counts of fraud and two counts of solicitation of bribes or gratuities.

Top state Democrats and their lawyers said Thursday that the U.S. attorney's office has closed a criminal grand jury investigation into the way the party financed campaigns in the 2014 election and no one will be charged.

HARTFORD — The office of the U.S. Attorney is convening a criminal grand jury to investigate claims of illegal fundraising by the state Democratic Party for the benefit of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

Silver's lawyers, while entering a not guilty plea for him on Tuesday before U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, argued that Bharara broke rules about what prosecutors can say outside court and may have prejudiced the grand jury that indicted Silver.

The investigation, which is being led by the U.S. Department of Labor, was revealed last month when a federal grand jury subpoena was sent to the Rockland County PEF union formerly headed by Deborah J. Lee, whose purchases first drew scrutiny within her union's ranks two years ago.

«I am extremely disappointed and can see no logic in law or reason why the U.S. Attorney's office would not proceed with a grand jury in the case of an unarmed young man killed in the bathroom of his own house when there was absolutely no threat to officers,» Sharpton said in a statement.

The string of endorsements come just as the New York Times revealed recently that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance impaneled grand juries to contemplate charging the mayor and / or his top political aides in two alleged schemes over his fundraising.

Last week, Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan announced he would bring the case to a grand jury, but several speakers called on the U.S. Department of Justice to take over the investigation instead.

The federal fund is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation by the U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut.

Court papers separately filed by COR executives also contain a copy of the grand jury subpoena sent to one of them, Joe Gerardi, on April 29, 2016, which shed some additional light on the information sought during the probe of the Southern District U.S. attorney's office.

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed records involving former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato and other top Long Island political figures as part of a wide - ranging grand jury investigation into the finances of three prominent local foundations that have given out millions of dollars.

Today's indictment, the product of a federal grand jury, follows the arrests of the eight men Sept. 22, when they were first accused of the crimes by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

A U.S. federal grand jury indicts filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza for arranging excessive campaign contributions to a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced the grand jury charges in a statement Thursday.