Sentences with phrase «asked by prosecutor»

Bertolaso was asked by the prosecutor to explain that telephone conversation.

At one point, he was asked by prosecutor Mirabile, «Did you give these campaign contributions as bribes?»

When asked by prosecutor Catherine Mirabile to clarify what the mayor said, Singh answered: «His response was, «I really do not want to hear.

Lacewell was asked by a prosecutor if she ever saw Percoco in Cuomo's government suite of offices in midtown Manhattan after he left the state's payroll that April.

Asked by the prosecutor to explain his inaction, Pell was blunt: The boy «wasn't asking me to do anything about it.»

Not exact matches

Earlier this year U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who is hearing the civil action brought by Waymo, asked federal prosecutors to investigate whether criminal theft of trade secrets had occurred.

Pre-trial intervention is not unusual for first - time and non-violent offenders — with good representation, anyway — and can be compared to deferred prosecution, as both paths allow those accused of crimes to pay lesser penalties and avoid convictions and incarceration while satisfying other conditions asked for by prosecutors and set by courts.

The school's lawsuit stemmed from a request by the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office, which asked the school not to turn over certain reports, because the prosecutors have yet to determine whether they will press charges against those named in the reports.

A prosecutor was noncommittal when asked by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni if the government plans to retry Peter Kelly Jr., an energy executive accused of paying bribes to Joe Percoco, a convicted former aide to Cuomo.

Preet Bharara, a fiercely independent prosecutor, was among 46 U.S. attorneys asked to resign by the Department of Justice.

Steve Coffey, a lawyer for Aiello, said the decision to put his client on the stand could rest with whether «the door is opened» by the judge to permit prosecutors to ask Aiello about Buffalo Billion - related issues.

When Bharara was asked if he could give the governor a «clean bill of health,» the prosecutor replied: «There are no allegations of wrongdoing or misconduct by the governor in this complaint.

The Rev. Rickey Montgomery Sr. told prosecutors that Conner called him two or three weeks before the letter appeared and asked Montgomery whether he would stand by Miner «regarding the issue with COR.»

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has asked state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to determine if $ 2.7 million in bonuses given by District Attorney Thomas Spota to staff prosecutors is legal.

She had asked for briefs this week, but prosecutors said they would agree to leave them out until after the Supreme Court rules — likely by the June 24 end of its term — and the two sides file briefs over five weeks, and then agree to 60 more days after Wood rules.

Prosecutors back up their request by stating, «Weiner, a grown man, a father, and a former lawmaker, willfully and knowingly asked a 15 - year old girl to display her body and engage in sexually explicit conduct for him online.»

As prosecutors move to seek a re-trial in that case, Silver has asked for a review by the Supreme Court.

The FBI agent also asked for something in return — $ 80,000 in cash — which City Councilman Dan Halloran, who was allegedly working with Smith, promised to provide by illegally funneling City Council funds to the FBI agent, prosecutors said.

A prosecutor, Carrie H. Cohen, asked by the judge for her opinion, requested that the juror be excused and replaced with an alternate.

«You should ask the U.S. attorney those questions,» Cuomo said when asked if he had been contacted by prosecutors.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo deferred on Wednesday to prosecutors who have indicating they will continue to pursue a corruption conviction of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver when asked after his conviction was tossed by a federal appeals court.

He said Donovan had asked for a special prosecutor in 98 cases, with 87 cases approved by the court for handling by off - Island D.A.s..

Roughly four months after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara told reporters that President Donald Trump had asked him to stay on as the top prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, the Trump administration requested the resignation 46 U.S. Attorneys appointed by former President Barack Obama — including the Manhattan - based corruption - buster.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has asked state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to determine if $ 2.7 million in bonuses given by District Attorney Thomas Spota to staff prosecutors is legal.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone is asking state officials to examine whether bonuses given by the local district attorney's office to its prosecutors were legal, saying they «were not authorized by the county legislature pursuant to any legal process or authority that I am aware of.»

In an unusual step that county Democrats say is politically motivated, a former Rensselaer County prosecutor wrote a letter to the Justice Department earlier this year asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether District Attorney Richard McNally had improperly ended the grand jury probe that was started by McNally's predecessor, Patricia DeAngelis, a Republican who did not seek re-election in 2007.

Advocates of Cuomo's «soup to nuts» overhaul of the criminal justice system — his response to the fatal arrest of Eric Garner and the nationwide demonstrations prompted by it and other high - profile incidents of police violence — are asking him to ignore the Legislature and appoint a special prosecutor, and he seems ready to oblige.

In 2009, prosecutors closed their case by calling Abbruzzese, who prompted headlines when he said that Bruno asked to be hired as a consultant, citing the example of Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Deborah N. Misir, a lawyer for Vincent Tabone, a former vice chairman of the Bronx Republican committee, said prosecutors had put defense lawyers in an untenable position by asking them to absorb the material in a weekend.

Many of the federal prosecutors who were nominated by President Barack Obama had already left their positions, but the nearly four dozen who stayed on in the first weeks of the Trump administration have been asked to leave «in order to ensure a uniform transition,» Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said Friday.

The top investigator at the state's Board of Elections asked prosecutors in January to investigate whether the mayor's advisers broke the law by channeling campaign contributions to Democratic state Senate candidates through a committee not subject to donation limits, so as to evade them.

Friday's announcement came months after Bharara, one of the country's most prominent federal prosecutors, said he'd been asked by Trump to stay on and that he intended to.

In an early version of the nonprosecution agreement, for instance, prosecutors asked Dr. Taub to agree that he referred patients to Mr. Silver «in exchange» for official actions taken by the speaker.

On Friday, prosecutors disclosed that Shirley L. Huntley, when she was a Democratic state senator from Queens, had secretly recorded conversations with seven elected officials and two other people after she was confronted by the F.B.I. and asked about her alleged participation in criminal schemes involving embezzlement and bribery.

Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare today asked public prosecutors to investigate a possible criminal violation of drug marketing laws by the Japan subsidiary of the giant Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis.

TOKYO — Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare today asked public prosecutors to investigate a possible criminal violation of drug marketing laws by the Japanese subsidiary of the giant Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis.

By recasting the experience of contemplating art as a hypothetical trial, Loebs asks: Who might the prosecutor be?

If presiding Justice Kenneth N. Affleck decides to forego civil contempt charges and, instead, holds criminal contempt proceedings, the Attorney General of BC could be asked by the court to step in as prosecutor.

As a result, Tate disagreed that the judge had determined a sentencing guidelines range that was higher than called for by the sentencing guidelines, but the prosecutor simply asked for a sentence at the low end of the guidelines range determined by the trial judge.

However, the prosecutor responds literally, as though the magistrate were asking a serious question, and attempts to justify the amount by indicating the tools were «of quality».

While in theory you might be able to keep asking for new dates until the officer doesn't show on a date chosen by the prosecutor, the judge will almost certainly see through your ploy and won't grant multiple date changes without you showing a very good reason for them.