Sentences with phrase «york federal jury»

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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also rejected an appeal by MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson, who was ordered to pay $ 12.2 million after a federal jury in 2014 found him liable for copyright infringement.

On Friday, August 4, 2017, a federal court jury in Brooklyn, New York, found Martin Shkreli, former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Retrophin, guilty on three of eight counts of securities fraud.

The growing legal questions around Mr Cohen's services for Mr Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand - jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The growing legal questions around Cohen's services for Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday afternoon reacted to a Staten Island grand jury not indicting a New York City police officer in the death of Eric Garner, saying in a statement his administration is «ready to cooperate» with a possible federal investigation.

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

Some of the contours of the inquiry were made clear in a federal grand jury subpoena served on the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, which has played a central role in administering the governor's program, known as the Buffalo Billion.

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.

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- A federal prosecutor told a jury Tuesday that a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo accepted more than $ 300,000 in bribes, but defense attorneys belittled the claim, saying the bulk of the money was his wife's salary at a legitimate job.

A lawmaker who was one of New York's most powerful politicians has been convicted by a federal jury of charges that he used the power of his office to earn $ 5 million illegally.

Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison, along with a fine and forfeiture of more than $ 6 million, after a federal jury found him guilty of a host of corruption charges related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

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.

Former New York state Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sitting in his own public - corruption trial Monday afternoon when he learned that a federal jury across the street convicted his longtime colleague, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, of trading his political influence for financial gain.

A federal grand jury in New York indicted Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota on Wednesday on obstruction of justice charges connected to a 2012 assault by the county's former police chief.

The former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver is in federal court in Manhattan Monday where prosecutors will try to convince a second jury that he traded favors for kickbacks.

This summer, a special grand jury indicted Western New York operative Steve Pigeon for allegedly bribing a federal judge.

Indictments could be imminent as a federal grand jury meets this week in an ongoing probe of the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office under former prosecutor Charles Hynes, a source told The New York Post.

Federal prosecutors are presenting evidence to a grand jury in case involving both Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, The New York Times reported this evening.

Meeks's office received a document subpoena from a federal grand jury in Manhattan several weeks ago, the New York Democrat announced on the House floor Tuesday.

Former New York Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam were indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday on charges including extortion, wire fraud, conspiracy and bribe solicitation — with the jury finding probable cause that Skelos monetized his office and secured benefits for his son.

November 30: The former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted of seven counts of fraud, extortion and money laundering by a federal jury.

A New York federal judge ruled Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son can stay free on bail while appealing their convictions on corruption charges, saying jury instructions in their trial could be flawed in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

A year ago, after a legal battle that took more than five years, it took a jury only four hours to acquit the former leader of the New York State Senate of federal fraud charges.

Joseph Percoco, a former aide to N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo, arrives at federal court as the jury continues to deliberate in his corruption trial Monday in New York.

NEW YORK CITY — A federal grand jury is expected to indict two top NYPD officials and their businessman friend on bribery - related charges as early as Friday, DNAinfo New York has learned.

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corruption.

But last year, Joseph Bruno, the former GOP leader of New York's Senate, was acquitted of federal corruption charges after prosecutors failed to convince a jury that the Rensselaer County Republican's payments from a businessman who received state grants amounted to a quid pro quo bribery scheme.

A federal jury found New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco guilty on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to commit honest service fraud, in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday.

The developers» participation in the project comes as a federal grand jury is reportedly examining whether the de Blasio administration favored donors to the mayor's campaign or his now - shuttered nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York.

«The defendant tried to bribe his way onto the ballot for New York City mayor,» said Douglas B. Bloom, an assistant United States attorney, as the bribery and wire fraud trial of Mr. Smith and two other defendants got underway before a 12 - person jury in a federal courthouse in White Plains.

Support for charges against Pantaleo was especially strong among Black adults, with 85 % stating that the grand jury was wrong not to bring an indictment and 86 % expressing support for federal civil rights charges, according to the New York Times / Siena College poll.

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July 17th: Dealer Indicted by Federal Grand Jury Art dealer Yelena Tylkina Glafira Rosales was today indicted in New York on charges that she knowingly sold 60 fake paintings to a number of unspecified galleries.

Even the federal courts in New York, which do not accept volunteers, have had inquiries from people seeking jury duty.

She has represented numerous individuals in both the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in both criminal and civil matters and has experience in all phases of the litigation process in white collar and federal criminal matters, as well as government and internal investigations, including pre-indictment advocacy, grand jury investigations, complex bail proceedings, pretrial motions, motions in limine, jury selection, trials, sentencing, restitution, forfeiture, and other post-conviction proceedings.

Upon his return north, he joined the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell as a lateral, during which he successfully prosecuted and first chaired a federal jury trial involving claims of excessive force under Section 1983 (Ruffin v. Fuller).

On his New York Personal Injury Law Blog, Eric Turkewitz writes that although Houston criminal defense attorney Mark Bennett is «live - twittering» today (here) while his protege picks a jury, at least one federal court ruled just last week that the federal rules prohibit tweets from court.

Howard Bashman comments on this story from the New York Times (6/22/06), reporting that eight pages of a 51 - page government brief filed in federal court that had been blacked out to protect sensitive information concerning a grand jury investigation of steroid use in baseball can be viewed by cutting and pasting the passages into a word - processing document.

«WASHINGTON, July 6 - A federal judge today ordered Judith Miller of The New York Times to be jailed immediately after she again refused to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. operative.

Indeed, the status of this topic as free speech that is supposed to be guaranteed under the First Amendment has been upheld by courts more than once: ● in Florida, where a judge affirmed that handing out FIJA brochures regarding jury nullification is legal based on principles of free speech ● in New York, where a federal judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against someone handing out brochures that advocated jury nullification ● in Colorado, where a judge dismissed false jury tampering charges against two people handing out FIJA's educational material on jury nullification

According to Baldwin v. New York (1970), «the federal right to jury trial attaches where an offense is punishable by as much as six months» imprisonment» (1).

These five men are linked not only by the nature of their crimes but by the fact that federal juries in New York decided that they should not be put to death.

In a case previously summarized in the The Letter of the Law, a New York federal court has considered whether a jury properly awarded damages to a handicapped individual who was alleging discrimination against an apartment - locating service - click here to read the earlier decision in this case.

A federal court in New York has considered whether a white tenant's Fair Housing lawsuit alleging incidents of racial discrimination by the landlord against visitors to the tenant's apartment could proceed to the jury.