Sentences with phrase «as a federal prosecutor in»

She worked as a federal prosecutor in New York under then - U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, focusing on white - collar and organized crime.

She later returned to the public service sector, working as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

Bharara had risen to prominence as a federal prosecutor in part for his aggressive pursuit of public corruption in city and state government.

While serving as a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York, Thompson also helped prosecute former NYPD cop Justin Volpe in the 1997 beating and torture of Abner Louima.

John Katko left his successful career as a federal prosecutor in January and joined a crowded field — a pool of eight Republican candidates — ...

Before his election to Congress, Katko served for more than 15 years as a federal prosecutor in Syracuse for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of New York.

Bharara was appointed as the federal prosecutor in the Southern District by then - President Barack Obama in 2009 and litigated many high - profile cases against elected officials and Wall Street bosses.

(She switched her enrollment to blank when she went to work as a federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania, and then became a Democrat in 2005 — right before her first campaign in Nassau County).

Before becoming district attorney, Thompson worked as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn where he was part of a team that prosecuted NYPD Officer Justin Volpe in the 1997 beating and torture of Abner Louima.

Being a tribal member with the Cherokee Nation with nearly fifteen years as a federal prosecutor in different federal courts and over twenty as both an Army active duty and reserve lawyer (Judge Advocate), I brought a perspective to the tribal court bench that was unique.

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.

fifteen years as a federal prosecutor in different federal courts and over twenty as both an Army active duty and reserve lawyer (Judge Advocate), I brought a perspective to the tribal court bench that was unique.

Not exact matches

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.

Those who knew Gowdy during his 16 years as a state and federal prosecutor in South Carolina say he also has a gift of the gab and a willingness to tug on jurors» heartstrings.

The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

The FBI agent says De-Meyer denied using a fake name, as he was accused of doing in an indictment unsealed Wednesday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

Ackal's trial began Monday with a blistering opening statement from a federal prosecutor detailing the contraband sweep, which he said involved deputies beating handcuffed inmates with metal batons as they screamed in pain abd begged for mercy, the Acadiana Advocate reported.

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.

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.

«Ultimately, the DEA and federal prosecutors would contend that the company ignored its responsibility to report suspicious orders as 500 million of its pills ended up in Florida between 2008 and 2012 — 66 percent of all oxycodone sold in the state.

Sessions» early words and actions are consistent with the tough - on - crime reputation the former federal prosecutor cultivated as an Alabama senator, and they foreshadow an unmistakable pivot in critical areas of civil rights, criminal justice and drug policy.

(Chicago constructed this story from thousands of pages of federal court records, police reports, and court testimony from related cases, as well as from official government reports and dozens of interviews with federal and local law enforcement officials and attorneys for some of the defendants; through a spokesman, prosecutors in the Zambada case declined comment.)

Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating Cohen's business practices, including whether there were any crimes committed as part of a possible pattern or strategy in 2016 of buying the silence of people who could have damaged Trump's candidacy, according to people familiar with the probe.

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.

His decision to abandon the suits in their early stages came as he faces a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York over his private financial and business dealings.

The previously unreported testimony from the onetime senior Uber official, as well as interviews conducted by Reuters with five current and former Uber employees, rebuts statements made in an explosive 37 - page letter last year that triggered the internal probe and drew the attention of federal prosecutors, who are still investigating.

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.

«As a former federal prosecutor, Todd started his career taking on corrupt politicians from both parties, and we need someone with that independence working to clean up Albany and restore New Yorkers» faith and trust in their state government,» Rice said.

Bharara, constrained from endorsements and opining as a federal prosecutor, has let his hair down on Twitter in recent weeks since he was fired President Donald Trump, posting pointed thoughts on issues ranging from the investigation into Russian meddling in the election to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the MTA.

Michael Cohen, President Trump's embattled lawyer, appeared in a courtroom in Manhattan today as prosecutors and Cohen's lawyer continued to argue over the fruits — and future — of the extraordinary raids that federal agents conducted last week on Cohen's office, home and hotel room.

Silver returns to federal court tomorrow to listen as prosecutors accuse him for a second time of collecting $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

Federal prosecutors in New York asked the Trump Organization, the president's flagship company, for records relating to a $ 130,000 payment to a former adult - film actress, Stormy Daniels, as part of an investigation into Cohen.

A federal prosecutor accused New York's former assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, today of taking millions of dollars in legal fees as bribes, while a defense lawyer insisted there was nothing illegal about the transactions.

During Joe Percoco's federal corruption trial, prosecutors have shown how power players like Percoco navigated «the Albany game,» as one witness put it, and also how minor players in the game — like two developers from Syracuse — could get caught up in it.

Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Cohen have each proposed to Wood the names of possible candidates to serve as a «special master» to assist in the review of materials seized last week from him by the FBI.

Through testimony, photographs and emails, prosecutors in Joseph Percoco's ongoing federal corruption trial have sought to portray him as having more sway in the Cuomo administration than anyone other than Cuomo himself.

Federal prosecutors have separately subpoenaed several top officials in the Mayor's office as well as in Mayor de Blasio's campaign fundraising apparatus.

Linda Lacewell, who's been described as Cuomo's «minister of defense,» will be called to the stand following opening statements in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said.

«SUNY will review the charges against Dr. Kaloyeros and cooperate fully with prosecutors on any further action as state and federal investigations continue,» SUNY Chairman Carl McCall and Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said in a statement Thursday.

Other appointments include Nancy Hoppock, a former federal prosecutor in New Jersey, as executive deputy attorney general for criminal justice, and Janet Sabel, the general counsel of the Legal Aid Society, who was named executive deputy attorney general for social justice.

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.

Trump intends to nominate Acting U.S. Attorney Grant Jaquith to serve as the top federal prosecutor in a 32 - county region of upstate that includes Syracuse.

«In order to get the OK to raid Cohen's office, prosecutors would have had to get approval from high up — in this case from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — and demonstrate to a federal magistrate both probable cause and the need for a warrant instead of a subpoena (such as a concern that Cohen might destroy evidence), Litman explained.&raquIn order to get the OK to raid Cohen's office, prosecutors would have had to get approval from high up — in this case from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — and demonstrate to a federal magistrate both probable cause and the need for a warrant instead of a subpoena (such as a concern that Cohen might destroy evidence), Litman explained.&raquin this case from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — and demonstrate to a federal magistrate both probable cause and the need for a warrant instead of a subpoena (such as a concern that Cohen might destroy evidence), Litman explained.»

Before being elected DA, Thompson served as a federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York, where he was a member of the team that successfully prosecuted former NYPD Officer Justin Volpe in the 1997 beating and torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.

NEW YORK (AP)-- New York's former assembly speaker returns to federal court Monday to listen as prosecutors accuse him for a second time of collecting $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

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.

But former federal prosecutor Robert Ray, who succeeded Kenneth Starr as independent counsel in the investigation of President Clinton, said it was «inevitable that in all likelihood both Silver and Skelos will get new trials.»

Immediately before he was elected senator in 2015, he was a federal prosecutor in the Brooklyn - based Eastern District, where he served as acting head of the public integrity section.

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.

As Gail Skelos, the ex-senator's wife and Adam's mother, passed Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was sitting in the back of the courtroom throughout the trial, she told the federal prosecutor: «You can go to hell.»