Sentences with phrase «attorney says the charge»

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Saudi's Attorney General said in November that the government estimated that «at least $ 100 billion has been misused through systematic corruption and embezzlement over several decades» and said 208 individuals had been arrested as part of the crackdown, with seven released without charge.

But many of the supposed non-profits charged high fees and paid executives enormous salaries, says Andrew Pizor, a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Centre, in Washington, D.C. «Some of them weren't even in any semblance non-profit.»

Trendon Shavers, 32, of McKinney, Texas, was charged with misappropriating about 146,000 of the 764,000 bitcoin, then worth more than $ 4.5 million, that he raised from September 2011 to September 2012, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said.

Alex Bastian, a spokesman for the district attorney's office, said Thursday that prosecutors had found sufficient evidence for the charges at every step of the case.

A senior prosecutor known for winning a murder conviction in the killing of Etan Patz has been put in charge of the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into rape allegations against the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, two people with knowledge of the investigation said.

Sessions» decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe left Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in charge, and angered the president, who has said if he knew in advance Sessions would do that, he would have picked someone else.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement that the charges show «Volkswagen's scheme to cheat its legal requirements went all the way to the top of the company.»

Calcasieu District Attorney John DeRosier says they have accepted the charges.

Trendon Shavers, 32, of McKinney, Texas, was charged with misappropriating about 146,000 of the 764,000 bitcoin, then worth more than $ 4.5 million, that he raised from September 2011 to September 2012 by promising investors «absurdly high» interest rates, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said.

One advisor this reporter spoke to in the room said his firm, which had not been charging clients for their cash holdings, now includes those assets in the total assets on which it levies its fees, based on the advice of the firm's outside attorney.

Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office, said the office would not prosecute Anouar Habib Trabelsi, and a top D.C. police commander held a news conference outside police headquarters to announce the criminal charge.

«The Equifax data breach highlights the need for consumers to have more control over their credit reports, including the ability to freeze and unfreeze without charge,» said Chi Chi Wu, National Consumer Law Center staff attorney.

Increasing turnover was central to Vantage's business strategy, the attorney general's office said, so that it could charge much higher rents after renovating the newly vacant apartments.

But a 2009 advisory opinion by the state's attorney general said that without an arrest or criminal charge, the police could not hold onto their weapons.

«No reasonable officer — knowing, seeing and hearing what Officer Yanez did at the time — would have used deadly force under these circumstances,» Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said in a statement announcing the charges.

«The victimisation appeared to intensify over time,» Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said in announcing charges.

Bernard Shero, 48, a teacher in the school, is charged with allegedly assaulting the same boy there in 2000, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said at a Thursday press conference.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CNN)- Three Philadelphia priests and a parochial school teacher were charged Thursday with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while a former official with the Philadelphia Archdiocese was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children, the city's district attorney's office said.

«The recent unexpected and shocking discovery of a March, 1994 memorandum composed by Monsignor James Molloy, Monsignor Lynn's then - supervisor, on the topic of this review, clearly reveals that justice demands that all charges against Monsignor Lynn be dropped,» Lynn's attorneys said in a filing.

And no criminal charges were filed in that case because it was an accident, says Alix Foster, an attorney for the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community.

Nevertheless, acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim called it a win for New York City, saying that it represented «one of the first federal racketeering charges ever brought against a Russian vor,» another name for «mob boss.»

I spoke about this with a former Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney yesterday and after watching the videos he said it was odd that McGregor wasn't charged with felony assault counts because even if you don't actually want a felony conviction, you always charge high and plea down.

It's there, her attorneys say, that Rosa was abused and neglected by the very people charged with her care.

His attorney, William Stiehl Jr., declined to comment on the charges, saying only that it was «too early to say anything.»

«He has done everything he said he was going to do,» explained de Blasio, who said he has not read the US attorney's complaint outlining the charges against Silver.

«After careful deliberation, given the totality of the circumstances here and absent additional evidence, we do not intend to bring federal criminal charges against the Mayor or those acting on his behalf relating to the fundraising efforts in question,» said Joon Kim, the acting U.S. attorney.

«It's a separate thing being a public servant in terms of doing budgets and constituent work,» said Sen. Jim Tedisco, a Republican from the Capital Region, who as a member of the Assembly tangled infamously with Eliot Spitzer, a governor who failed to overcome the hard - charging attitude he carried as the state's popular attorney general.

Frederick Ippolito, former Town of Oyster Bay planning commissioner who pleaded guilty to federal tax charges last year, has died in prison, his attorney, Brian Griffin said.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says his Flint water crisis investigation is shifting to the «the trial phase,» but before it gets there, he's ramped up the stakes by charging five state and local officials with manslaughter for their actions related to the Flint water crisis.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office has reached a $ 540,000 settlement with a Virginia - based retailer and financing firm that fraudulently charged hundreds of military members.

«We are deeply disappointed that the City Council passed a flawed Right To Know Act which will do little to end deceptive and often abusive NYPD searches,» said Tina Luongo, Attorney - In - Charge of the Criminal Defense Practice at The Legal Aid Society.

The attorney for an Arkansas lobbyist who faces federal conspiracy and bribery charges in Missouri says more charges are...

Dec. 5, 2017: A federal judge delays for two months the corruption trial of the Manganos and Venditto because Venditto's attorneys said they needed more time to prepare to fight the additional securities fraud charges.

She arraigned on charges of reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of an incident, the Staten Island District Attorney's office said.

Molinaro says it would be a conflict of interest for Cuomo to interview candidates, since the Attorney General's office is investigating former Cuomo associate and former SUNY Polytechnic Institute head Alain Kaloyeros on potential bid - rigging and pay - to - play corruption charges.

According to sources in the attorney general's office, the only people in the room with Danner were officers who said she had a scissors and then charged the sergeant with a bat.

Molinaro said it would be a conflict of interest for Cuomo to interview candidates since the attorney general's office is investigating former Cuomo associate and former SUNY Polytechnic Institute head Alain Kaloyeros on potential bid - rigging and pay - to - play corruption charges.

The former pol's attorney, Susan Necheles, has said that Espada is steadfast in his desire to fight the charges and maintains that he is not guilty of any misdeeds.

Two College Point men — Danny Rodriguez, 21, and Daniel Aleman, 26 — have been arrested and charged with assault and robbery as a hate crime in the incident, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

Craig Hammerman, former Community Board 6 district manager, was arraigned on forgery charges at the Kings County Supreme Court building, located at 360 Adams St. in Brooklyn, on Monday, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office said.

In court on Friday, attorneys for both Smith and Halloran said they will make motions to dismiss some of the charges.

Cuomo said there was a conflict in Vance leading the investigation because the state attorney general's office was probing the Manhattan DA's office over charges that Vance had not vigorously pursued past allegations against disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Niagara County District Attorney Caroline A. Wojtaszek said Sunday that Wentland was charged Friday and is accused of listening in on a phone call involving his ex-wife on May 6, 2013.

Molinaro says it would be a conflict of interest for Cuomo to interview candidates, since the attorney general's office is investigating former Cuomo associate and former SUNY Polytechnic Institute head Alain Kaloyeros on potential bid rigging and pay - to - play corruption charges.

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said that the indictment charges them in connection with 32 acts of violence, including eight attempted murders, along with shootings and slashings.

The Erie County District Attorney's Office says they are now considering additional charges but would not disclose what those counts may be.

But Alexandra Shapiro, the attorney who handled Skelos» appeal, applauded the decision and said the former senator should have never been charged with a crime.

«The only liberty that Liberty Reserve gave many of its users was the freedom to commit crimes, as it became a popular hub for fraudsters, hackers, and traffickers,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Tuesday in announcing charges against seven people in a $ 6 billion scheme that he billed as possibly the largest money - laundering scheme even seen in the United States.

«The defendant who was the target in this case, George Maziarz, plead to a penal law charge where the penalty was $ 1,000,» Assistant Attorney General Christopher Baynes said in court.

Defense attorneys for Smith and Halloran say their client's actions are not considered bribery under New York state law and are asking the court to toss some of the charges.