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He also spent more than three years as a federal prosecutor at the United States attorney's office in Manhattan, where he focused on insider trading and other financial fraud cases.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

Our Sexual Misconduct & Workplace Harassment group includes a number of partners who served as federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's offices, with substantial investigative, law enforcement and trial experience.

Not exact matches

One recent catalyst for change at airport checkpoints was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whom U.S. federal prosecutors accuse of attempting to detonate explosives stashed in his undergarments as Northwest Airlines Flight 253 descended toward Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Dec. 25, 2009.

Be a state or federal public defender or state prosecutor who agrees to remain employed as public defender and prosecutor for at least three years

The John R. Justice Student Loan Repayment Program provides up to $ 10,000 per year of law school loan repayment for state and federal public defenders and state prosecutors who agree to remain employed as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.

Two partners at the hedge fund Deerfield Management and two others were found guilty on Thursday of charges stemming from what prosecutors have described as an insider trading scheme based on leaks from within a federal healthcare agency.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Two partners at the hedge fund Deerfield Management and two others were found guilty on Thursday of charges stemming from what prosecutors have described as an insider trading scheme based on leaks from within a federal healthcare agency.

Melvin Lowe, a former top political aide to the indicted Sen. John Sampson whose job was nebulous — at best — is being eyed by federal prosecutors as part of a mushrooming corruption probe.

Clinton, appearing with Nassau Democrats in Elmont at a rally to support his wife Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, cited Kaminsky's six years as a federal prosecutor and his work during his first term in the assembly.

Federal prosecutors say there was no such thing as a «wall» between Sen. Dean Skelos and clients at Ruskin, Moscou Faltischek, the Uniondale firm that employed him, despite claims to the contrary.

Federal prosecutors claim that Libous lied about using his influence as a state senator to boost his son's salary at a Westchester law firm.

A Buffalo native who worked as a director at QVC is accused of stealing more than $ 1 million from the company in a fraud scheme that funded his luxury lifestyle, according to an indictment unsealed earlier this month by federal prosecutors in Philadelphia.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to use the evidence at the upcoming trial of Percoco and two executives of the Syracuse firm COR Development, as well as Peter Kelly, a former official at Competitive Power Ventures, which is based in Maryland.

Garcia has a long career as a prosecutor and defense attorney at both the federal and state level, including his recent work on behalf of Republicans in the State Senate as they faced inquiries from the Moreland Commission established by Cuomo.

Now the two ex-lawmakers are on their way to prison — even as de Blasio waves a red flag at federal prosecutors.

At least three investigators with the Suffolk district attorney's office have been subpoenaed as a federal investigation has expanded into whether county investigators and prosecutors engaged in federal civil rights violations by illegally using a wiretap on Oliva.

Cuomo at a cabinet meeting this week pointed to local, state and federal prosecutors as the independent means of holding wrongdoers to account.

Federal prosecutors say there was no such thing as a «wall» between former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and clients at Ruskin, Moscou Faltischek, the Long Island law firm that employed him, despite claims to the contrary.

The Times initially floated Bridget Healy of ING, Hector Gonzalez, a former federal prosecutor who is now a partner at Dechert, as well as Marshall Miller, the principal deputy assistant attorney general at the federal Department of Justice.

Bloomberg reported the administration was also eying Jonathan Schwartz, the general counsel at Univision, as well as Michele Hirshman, a Paul Weiss partner and former federal prosecutor.

But Bharara's crusading style as a former federal prosecutor and subsequent martyrdom at the hands of President Donald Trump in 2017 have made him a hero to many liberals, and could make him a powerhouse in a Democratic primary.

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.

Federal prosecutors have until Nov. 23 to persuade a grand jury that Joe Percoco, an aide Cuomo once likened to a brother, as well as former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros should stand trial for extortion and bid - rigging with executives at upstate development firms.

Silver was arrested on Jan. 22 for accepting nearly $ 4 million in bribes for over a decade and masking it as legitimate income from practicing law at personal injury firm Weitz & Luxenberg, federal prosecutors said.

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.

At the end of their first week of witnesses, federal prosecutors sought to refocus attention on Silver as they continued to create a portrait of a powerful political figure whose greed they allege led to multiple corruption schemes.

Cor hired Howe as a consultant in November 2011, and continued paying him at least through 2014, according to federal prosecutors.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A former top official at the country's third - largest pension fund and two broker - dealers were charged Wednesday in what a federal prosecutor described as a classic bribery scheme that steered $ 2 billion in trades in exchange for drugs, prostitutes, vacations and U.S. Open tennis tickets.

Preet Bharara, the gungho Manhattan federal prosecutor, has agreed to «stay on» as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District after President - elect Donald Trump offered him the gig during a meeting Wednesday afternoon at Trump Tower in Midtown.

As federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York he hit hard at both parties, taking down former Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the former Republican State Senate majority leader, and often reveled in the spotlight as he gleefully goaded those accused of corruption or grafAs federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York he hit hard at both parties, taking down former Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the former Republican State Senate majority leader, and often reveled in the spotlight as he gleefully goaded those accused of corruption or grafas he gleefully goaded those accused of corruption or graft.

At a press conference in Oneida County, elected leaders said progress on the AMS fab, which was announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the summer of 2015 with glee and fanfare, basically «froze up» as federal prosecutors honed in on Kaloyeros, who was indicted last month along with a slew of development executives and Joe Percoco, Cuomo's political adviser and surrogate brother.

He added, «I served as a federal prosecutor on our border, both at home in New York and in El Paso, Texas.

► «Last week, federal prosecutors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, announced the indictments of biomedical researchers Yu Xue and Lucy Xi, as well as three associates, for trade secrets theft, wire fraud, and other charges,» Mara Hvistendahl reported Tuesday at ScienceInsider.

Federal prosecutors have issued subpoenas to employees of Duke and the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources as part of a widening probe into possible felony violations at the 14 coal ash sites.

In addition to Al Pacino (as Starkman, a big - time mobster from New York), Christopher Walken shows up as the only police officer who seems at all concerned that the younger brother of a federal prosecutor has been kidnapped.

Though Bersin's undergraduate degree at Harvard was in government, and he spent years as a corporate lawyer and federal prosecutor, he made a career shift to education in 1998 when a group of San Diego civic leaders asked him to consider becoming the school superintendent in that city.

If you practice law as a prosecutor, public defender or provide advocacy on behalf of low - income communities at a nonprofit organization, you may have a portion of your federal student loans forgiven.

The John R. Justice Student Loan Repayment Program (JRJ) provides loan repayment assistance for state and federal public defenders and state prosecutors who agree to remain employed as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.

John R. Justice FY 2013 Program Application Guidance Application Deadline: 07/08/2013, 08:00 PM The John R. Justice (JRJ) Grant Program provides loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to continued employment as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.

John R. Justice FY 2012 Program Application Guidance Application Deadline: 04/26/2012, 07:59 PM This program provides loan repayment assistance for local, state, and federal public defenders and local and state prosecutors who commit to continued employment as public defenders and prosecutors for at least three years.

Be a state or federal public defender or state prosecutor who agrees to remain employed as public defender and prosecutor for at least three years

Mongabay is reporting that a Brazilian federal prosecutor has launched an investigation into companies illegal harvesting wood from protected areas in the state and then passing it off as eco-certified in US, EU, and Asian markets: Though right now no specific firms have been named (at least not in this English - language source, any Portuguese speaking TreeHugger readers care to help out?)

After school, he worked as a law clerk for Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, and as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey.

Having practiced in state and federal criminal courts for the past 25 years, serving as a prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, and adjunct law professor, I can say, without reservation, that the only thing unjust, unfair, and / or «disgraceful» is to insult and demean the jurors who worked hard to arrive at what they believed was a fair verdict.

M. Randall Oppenheimer, who leads the firm's entertainment division and who has won major cases for Exxon Mobil Corp., and Mark Holscher, a onetime federal prosecutor who has a bustling white - collar defense practice with such clients as former congressman Randy «Duke» Cunningham, also logged hundreds of hours at similar rates.

Marc Gottridge, Lovells» U.S. managing partner, told the Times Online that these traps include the complexity of the federal system, with its «multiplicity of courts, prosecutors and regulators at state and federal levels» and the tradition of targeting corporations as well as individuals in criminal cases.

Peter Katz, counsel at Crotty Saland PC and former District Attorney colleague of both Elizabeth Crotty and Jeremy Saland, has litigated thousands of cases and personally tried over 50 federal and state cases as a Federal and Manhattan prosfederal and state cases as a Federal and Manhattan prosFederal and Manhattan prosecutor.

Two partners at the hedge fund Deerfield Management and two others were found guilty on Thursday of charges stemming from what prosecutors have described as an insider trading scheme based on leaks from within a federal healthcare agency.

In the eyes of many people — especially older folks, who aren't as familiar with the world of blogging — being a «blogger» is a step down from jobs I've previously held, such as «federal prosecutor» and «attorney at a major law firm.»