Sentences with phrase «when federal prosecutors»

CPV, the company building the 680 megawatt plant, was in the news in 2016 when federal prosecutors charged Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with accepting bribes from the firm in an unrelated matter.

The governor was sent for a loop when federal prosecutors subpoenaed his executive chamber on April 29, and he shrunk from the traditional deal - making of the last six weeks of the legislative session.

When federal prosecutors are done investigating, it may prove to be the biggest «oops!»

Negotiations for the interview with Mueller took a hit when federal prosecutors in Manhattan, reportedly on a tip from the Russia investigation, raided the office of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen last month.

Flowers resigned from that position when federal prosecutors began probing the accounting practices of a nonprofit she created with Meeks and Smith.

During cross examination Taub was asked about when federal prosecutors first came to see him in 2014.

Mr. Solomon faced a development of a different kind on Wednesday when federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment charging Nicolas De-Meyer, 40, with stealing $ 1.2 million worth of rare wine from a former employer.

When the federal prosecutor arrived at Trump Tower this afternoon, reporters shouted at him but he simply greeted them and ignored their questions.

When a federal prosecutor the other day compared the culture of corruption in New York politics to «barnacles on a boat bottom,» I felt bad for the barnacle.

Not exact matches

Gowdy was a federal prosecutor in the area from 1994 to 2000, when he was elected to become a state prosecutor.

King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.»

While his Democratic predecessor Eric Holder told federal prosecutors to avoid seeking long mandatory minimum sentences when charging some lower - level drug offenders, for example, Sessions issued an order demanding the opposite, telling them to pursue the most serious charges possible against most suspects.

When city prosecutors discharged the case, the Sheriff's Department released Garcia Zarate despite a federal request to hold him for deportation.

Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, now a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, noted that the bar for wiretapping a suspect is high, even more so when the target is a lawyer.

One possible explanation for Mr. Pearson's performance emerged two days later, when Valeant disclosed that it had received subpoenas from federal prosecutors asking for information about its business practices, including its drug pricing decisions.

Schumer is the highest - profile Democrat to back Kaminsky in the race since Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued his nod earlier this year when the former federal prosecutor formally announced his bid for the seat.

When Donald Trump took the oath of office, he also took responsibility for naming the next generation of federal prosecutors.

Manhattan federal prosecutors raised the documents amid a spat with the defense over whether Percoco can be charged with bribery during the roughly nine month period in 2014 when he was officially working for the private sector.

The unique problem posed by Bharara is that few of the tools Cuomo typically uses to beat back problems (and opponents) will be at his disposal when it comes to dealing with the federal prosecutor.

I fully concur with Senator Ball on this one.Leibell and company dishonestly framed this all as reasonable requests for leniency, as if what he had done was not so bad (and as if he had contritely cooperated with authorities), when in fact the former State Senator has been defiant in NOT helping Federal prosecutors — AND some of the letters in Leibell's behalf came from people who are still being actively investigated by Federal prosecutors.

Mr. Peralta's reputation took a slight hit when it was revealed in May he was one of the elected officials federal prosecutors recorded while meeting with ex-State Senator Shirley Huntley, who is now serving a year in prison on embezzlement charges.

«It's clear Cuomo and Rice have something to hide, refusing to answer pressing questions as federal prosecutors probe whether the governor shut down his own anti-corruption unit to protect his friends and improperly interfered with its investigations when they hit too close to home,» Short wrote.

When Mark Brener was arraigned, federal prosecutors asked that he not be granted bail.

Federal prosecutors and FBI agents based in Brooklyn don't feel there is enough clear evidence to show that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo violated Garner's rights when he put him in a chokehold, leading to the Staten Island man's death.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the same federal prosecutor who brought down the leaders of the legislature, has been investigating, and on Friday evening Governor Cuomo revealed that subpoenas had been issued to a former top member of his staff, and a lobbyist who used to work for the governor when Cuomo was at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

«He was very much trusted by the governor, including handling such sensitive matters,» said Lacewell, a former federal prosecutor in Brooklyn who joined Cuomo when he was serving as attorney general.

A former federal prosecutor who didn't enter the race until mid-January, Katko raised most of his money after March 1, when he won the Republican designation at a convention in Syracuse.

«When I first ran for Congress, I left a 20 - year career as a federal prosecutor because I was frustrated with the inaction in Washington and knew that if I wanted to see real change for my children and for future generations that I needed to get off the sidelines and do something about it.

Ethics reform also remains unresolved, in a year when both former leaders of the legislature were sentenced to prison for corruption, and state and federal prosecutors are looking at Governor Cuomo's economic development projects.

ALBANY — The state attorney general's office and a federal prosecutor are both looking into the payouts of thousands of dollars in questionable stipends to state senators who were identified in pay records as committee chairs when they weren't, the Daily News has learned.

When the federal corruption trial of State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver begins next week, his lawyers are likely to be aggressive in cross-examining government witnesses, or objecting when they believe a prosecutor has gone too When the federal corruption trial of State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver begins next week, his lawyers are likely to be aggressive in cross-examining government witnesses, or objecting when they believe a prosecutor has gone too when they believe a prosecutor has gone too far.

The family's trust in Ms. Veselnitskaya was rewarded in May, when she helped Denis P. Katsyv, Pyotr's son, fight the money laundering claims in New York brought by the Manhattan federal prosecutor at the time, Preet Bharara.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo deferred on Wednesday to prosecutors who have indicating they will continue to pursue a corruption conviction of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver when asked after his conviction was tossed by a federal appeals court.

Rice enrolled as a Republican when she first registered to vote (she has said that everyone in Nassau County defaulted to GOP, since the party controlled the local government), and then switched that to independent when she became a federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania.

Indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith caught a big break when a federal judge shot down a bid by prosecutors to tell jurors at his bribery trial next month how he once offered to sell Albany votes like shares of stock.

The Democrats opposing Sessions are making a «big mistake» and being «intellectually dishonest,» according to former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was can associate attorney general for former President Ronald Reagan when Sessions was a federal prosecutor, a relationship that dates back more than 30 years.

Rice changed her enrollment and became a blank, affiliated with no political party, when she moved to Pennsylvania to become an assistant federal prosecutor.

The Nassau Democratic Committee has unanimously selected Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky of Long Beach, a former federal prosecutor, to run for the Senate seat vacated last month when Dean Skelos was convicted of bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges.

Miller argued that federal prosecutors did not establish probable cause when they applied for search warrants in December 2015 and March 2016 to go through Kaloyeros» personal email account.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The federal prosecutor who took over the files of New York's Moreland anti-corruption commission said Wednesday that investigations into Albany's pay - to - play politics are continuing and declined to say when they'll be finished.

Indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith caught a big break Thursday when a federal judge shot down a bid by prosecutors to tell jurors at his bribery trial next month how...

Former federal prosecutors blame juror skepticism and the new, more permissive legal definition of bribery for the stunning mistrials Thursday when two federal juries were declared hung in high - profile public...

Bellone, a Democrat, was criticized when he chose county District Attorney - elect Timothy Sini — a former federal prosecutor who was never a police officer — as police commissioner without looking at candidates from across the country.

Bharara demonstrated those qualities as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, notably when he called out a fellow Democrat, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for shutting down the corruption - fighting Moreland Commission for doing its job too well.

A federal agent who interviewed the wife of the then - Nassau County executive about what prosecutors say was her no - show job testified Thursday that Linda Mangano initially discussed performing a large volume of work but later broke down in tears when she was subpoenaed for evidence.

He said that Justice Hassan, who worked as a prosecutor at the Federal Ministry of Justice and later seconded to the EFCC, signed the charges against him when he was previously tried for money laundering.

Federal prosecutors had already won the right to garnish a portion of disgraced ex-senator Pedro Espada's pension when he defaulted on repaying his restitution and fine.

As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, it came as something of a surprise when Cuomo admitted he met with federal prosecutors to talk about the corruption case involving his longtime aide, Joseph Percoco.

«Federal prosecutors do not shy away from difficult cases, especially those involving conduct of public officials who intertwine their public and private affairs, and we will continue to investigate such conduct and prosecute those case when the evidence warrants.»

Federal prosecutors say Howe was working for both SUNY Poly and Cor when they allegedly rigged a request for proposals in September 2013 to make sure Cor would get the deal.