Sentences with phrase «after federal juries»
Cuomo said he wants to include major reforms in his State of the State agenda after federal juries lost no time finding former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son guilty of multiple corruption charges late in 2015.
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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.
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.
A funny thing happened this weekend after a federal jury in Boston decided that Joel Tenenbaum should pay $ 675,000 to several record companies for illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs.
Not exact matches
The first salvos were delivered to a 10 - person jury in San Francisco federal court in a civil lawsuit that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business nearly a year after Alphabet Inc's self - driving car unit Waymo sued rival Uber Technologies Inc..
Russian stocks tumbled after a federal grand jury indicted Russian actors for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.
But Trump slightly changed his tune after a federal grand jury on Friday indicted 13 Russians and three Russian entities for allegedly waging information warfare against the United States.
In August 2009, five months after Zambada's capture, a federal grand jury in Chicago indicted him and 45 others tied to a Sinaloa - led drug ring in the city.
After a highly publicized five - week jury trial that was the most closely watched of a wave of corporate fraud trials, Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators, and was sentenced in July 2004 to serve a five - month term in a federal correctional facility and a two - year period of supervised release (to include five months of electronic monitoring).
Ross Ulbricht, 30, was found guilty by a Manhattan federal jury on all seven counts he faced after a closely watched four - week trial spilling out of U.S. investigations of the use of the bitcoin digital currency for drug trafficking and other crimes.
Los Angeles Times: Rabbi who refused to testify freed after seven months in prison A Brooklyn orthodox rabbi who was jailed after refusing to answer questions before a federal grand jury, saying his religion forbid him from testifying against other Jews, was ordered freed this week by a district court judge in Los Angeles, the rabbi's attorney said.
On July 19, 2011, a federal jury awarded $ 10 million to the parents and estate of Darryl Turner, an African - American teenager who died after being shocked with a Taser wielded by a Charlotte police officer.
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.
A federal jury in Manhattan found Joseph Percoco guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of soliciting bribes after deliberating for parts of three weeks.
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.
Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez on bribery and corruption charges after an earlier trial ended in a deadlocked jury last fall.
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Federal prosecutors began presenting evidence to a grand jury in Brooklyn in the death of Garner, an unarmed black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white police officer in Staten Island in July 2014, according to a person briefed on the matter.
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 new call for changes comes after Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, was convicted by a jury in federal court of taking $ 4 million in kickbacks.
Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.
Silver was indicted by a grand jury last week on three counts, after having been arrested in late January and charged with five counts of federal corruption.
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.
Hanging over state business are both the federal corruption trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, which is now in jury deliberations after closing arguments last week and this year's state - level elections, including the race for governor.
After Mr. Silver's arrest on January 22, the federal government had until February 23 to secure a grand jury indictment — which amounts to a formal accusation and the beginning of the court process — on the charges.
The federal jury in Manhattan returned the verdict Monday after a three - week trial.
Vincent Leibell, who was sentenced Friday to 21 months in federal prison after admitting he had accepted kickbacks, engaged in tax evasion and sought to influence a grand jury.
After then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2015, fellow senators forced Skelos to give up his leadership post.
The verdict came on the jury's third day of deliberations, after a five - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
Attorney William McGinley says Friday that federal prosecutors intend to charge his client after more than two years of investigation plagued by «malicious leaks, violations of grand jury secrecy, and strong - arm tactics.»
A federal jury voted Tuesday to convict Joe Percoco, former senior aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on three out of six charges of bribery and honest services fraud, but found two executives accused of bribing him not guilty of most of the charges, and remain deadlocked over the guilt of a third executive, after more than a week of deliberation.
«Deadlock win, all the way,» Joseph «Skinny Joey» Merlino, told The Post inside a Manhattan federal courtroom after jury selection wrapped up.
The federal jury was in its first full day of deliberations Friday after hearing over a month of evidence against Joseph Percoco and three businessmen.
Dean and Adam Skelos leave federal court in Manhattan after a jury found them both guilty in their corruption case on Dec. 11, 2015.
The U.S. Justice Department announced it intends to retry Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, two months after a jury deadlocked on federal corruption charges against him.
The jury in the political corruption case against Dean Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, and his son, Adam, began its deliberations yesterday, after a nearly four - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
Cuomo has announced his intention to run for re-election again in 2018, a plan that may face complications after a federal grand jury indicted a raft of his closest former aides and donors on corruption charges last week.
On a Thursday night in the midst of his testimony that lasted a week, marshals went to Howe's hotel last month and brought him to a federal jail in Manhattan after Howe admitting that day before the jury that he might have violated the terms of his cooperating deal by his 2016 attempt to get a hotel tab erased from his credit card.
The Manhattan federal court jury returned the verdict after a three - week trial in which prosecutors claimed that the 71 - year - old Democrat repeatedly promised the favors to enrich himself.
Five months after a jury convicted the former State Senate powerbroker (and Four Amigos alumnus) on four counts of theft, Pedro Espada Jr. stood in Brooklyn federal court yesterday and pled guilty to one charge of tax evasion.
Former Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence was sentenced Wednesday after being convicted in May by a White Plains federal court jury of 20 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud.
After three days of deliberation, the Manhattan federal jury found that Silver accepted $ 3 million in payments from the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, despite doing no legal work.
The federal jury came back with the guilty verdict after a three - week trial.
Former Republican state Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, leave federal court in Foley Square in Manhattan after a jury found them both guilty of corruption on Dec. 11, 2015.
Even after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, sparking nationwide protests, the case promised to drag on for years thanks to a federal civil rights investigation, internal NYPD probe, and civil suit from Garner's family.
A Manhattan federal jury said it is deadlocked in the bribery trial of ex - jail guards union boss Norman Seabrook after four days of deliberations.
Jury deliberations could begin Thursday in the federal trial of State Senator John Sampson, after lawyers presented their closing arguments Wednesday in his obstruction of justice case.
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.
The indictment also names former town public works Commissioner Frank Antetomaso, 77, of Massapequa, and ex-town planning and development Commissioner Frederick Ippolito, who died earlier this month at age 78 in federal prison after the special grand jury already had voted, sources said.
Detective Michael Milici, a 26 - year veteran assigned to the 66th Precinct in Brooklyn, had been put on modified duty and stripped of his badge and gun after refusing to answer federal grand jury questions.