Sentences with phrase «after the conviction of»

Home secretary Alan Johnson struck a relieved note after the convictions of three men over the transatlantic terror plot.

But it also comes after the convictions of Silver and Skelos, both of whom held lucrative jobs outside of government at politically connected law firms.

Months after the convictions of leaders of both houses of the Legislature, and days before their sentencings, Albany's ethics laws remain unchanged.

The ruling comes less than three months after the conviction of former longtime Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was also tossed on the same grounds.

Mondello, 80, of Oyster Bay Cove, took over the county party after the conviction of his predecessor, the late Joseph Margiotta, for extortion and mail fraud.

The ruling comes after the conviction of Assembly Member William Boyland Jr. and Assembly Member Eric Stevenson this year on bribery charges.

Molinaro criticized Cuomo more on style than on substance, saying a «culture of corruption» existed after the conviction of Joe Percoco, a Cuomo confidante.

Calls for anti-corruption legislation grew late last year after the convictions of the former Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the Senate, in separate corruption cases.

Convening barely a month after the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on corruption charges, the Legislature's new leaders vowed to move beyond the turmoil of the past year but already appeared at odds over what steps, if any, to take.

After the conviction of former Bronx assemblyman Eric Stevenson on bribery charges, Bharara emphasized that the case was just one step in a larger quest.

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

He never did that for ethics reform, then freshly festering after the convictions of Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, instead promising to wait until the end of the session.

Another famous governor across the Hudson River saw his political fortunes decline rapidly after the conviction of former top aides on corruption charges, but Cuomo's situation is markedly different from former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's, Montclair State University professor of political science Brigid Harrison told POLITICO.

After the convictions of the former top legislative leaders in the Assembly and Senate were tossed, ethics reformers fear fighting corruption may be a lost cause.

After the conviction of his former partners in government, the governor announced he'd move to ban unlimited LLC donations.

Leaders» ability to earn additional income is also greatly diminished after the convictions of Silver as well as his Republican Senate counterparts Joe Bruno and Dean Skelos, though Bruno's conviction was overturned and Skelos is trying to do the same.

He was consulted, for example, over whether the police could be prosecuted after the convictions of the Birmingham Six were quashed.

After convictions of certain crimes and traffic violations, you may be required to take extra steps in certifying that you are compliant with VA's financial responsibility laws.

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Last May, he walked out of the Stormville, New York, facility a free man, after a judge vacated his conviction.

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

The future of Martha Stewart Living looked to be in serious jeopardy after her 2004 conviction on insider trading charges.

Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

European stocks, which had followed much of Wall St's rout on Monday, had less dramatic falls Tuesday, but failed to stabilize with any conviction after data showing service sector activity across the Eurozone and U.K. was weaker than originally thought in December.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

The TSX quickly retreated after touching its new record, suggesting a lack of conviction on the part of investors in the Canadian economy's staying power.

In Florida, absent a felony or domestic abuse conviction, almost any adult can walk into a gun store and walk out the same day with an AR - 15 rifle and a cache of ammunition after clearing a simple background check.

Zachary Cruz, brother of Parkland school shooter Nickolas Cruz, is being harassed by law enforcement — accused of terrorizing the community, arrested for a trivial infraction, held in jail after posting bond, and all but forced to take a conviction to avoid being unfairly jailed, according to his new lawyers.

Nick makes a great point, in my State, a former star NFL player (Rae Carruth) is going to walk free from prison this year (October 2018) after serving roughly 17 years on charges & conviction of «murder for hire».

Boynton Beach Police Officer Michael Brown is facing a lot less time in federal prison after a judge threw out one of his two criminal convictions.

After persistently chipping away at Chile's amnesty law, human - rights lawyers secured over 250 convictions for human - rights violators of the Pinochet period.

While you rally around Todd Akin because of your faith and convictions, you continue to deny that the morning after pill is birth control.

The two victims in this current case came forward after hearing of Mr Storey's previous conviction.

The head of the Anglican Church in South Africa has said he is praying for justice, healing and forgiveness after Oscar Pistorius» conviction of murder.

After the appearance of the interview, Mother Teresa issued a clarification, noting that the advocacy of divorce «is clearly against Catholic teachings and my own convictions.»

4:1) Long after personal and familial ties to the land have been severed, Jews have not surrendered the conviction that the promise of the Land is an integral part of the covenant.

Prolife advocates in southern California note that actor Martin Sheen, after his eighteenth conviction for antinuclear protest, got three hours of community service.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

Inzoli, a friend of Francis's friends, who had been defrocked in 2012 after his conviction for child molestation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

After her appeal in Lahore's High Court was unsuccessful in October 2014, this is now the last chance for Noreen, the mother of five children, to appeal that her conviction should never have been allowed, due to inadmissible evidence.

Even then, according to Paul (Gal 2:11 - 13), he did not quite have the full courage of his convictions, for after eating with Gentiles at Antioch he separated himself from them when some conservative brethren came from Jerusalem.

Between the Testaments this belief became the assured conviction of those Jews who belonged to the dominant school of the Pharisees, and in Jesus and the Christian community after him this confidence rose into triumphant certainty.

Despite some of his protests against the Reformed, Dawson's fundamental convictions about the social nature of the human person resonates with Abraham Kuyper's argument that the organic nature of life is the foundation of the social or ecclesial organisms that come after it.

«We wanted him so bad to be good that we were willing to condone his dereliction of people,» Jessop told reporters in Texas after Jeffs» convictions.

After a period in California, where his convictions about the lack of genuine spirituality in the West were further confirmed, he returned to Egypt and immediately joined the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, in which he became a born - again Muslim.

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials — and not just accused priests — in confronting sex abuse.

After HUNDREDS of court settlements equaling millions of dollars, convictions, accusations, etc etc, you would question the tragic disruption of ONE innocent's life and suggest that perhaps suicide was just the pathetic action of a drug addict.

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials - and not just accused priests - in confronting sex abuse.

After the Supreme Court upheld Qadri's conviction last fall, Christians expressed tentative optimism in the face of a blasphemy boom.