Sentences with phrase «avoid federal charges»

Also, it never has been entirely clear whether Spitzer's resignation was part of a deal that enabled him to avoid federal charges.

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While his Democratic predecessor Eric Holder told federal prosecutors to avoid seeking long mandatory minimum sentences when charging some lower - level drug offenders, for example, Sessions issued an order demanding the opposite, telling them to pursue the most serious charges possible against most suspects.

Osborne sent a letter in 2012 to Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, in an attempt to help HSBC's leadership avoid criminal charges over the bank's involvement in laundering drug money and in channelling money to countries under economic sanctions.

The 2011 bill passed after revelations former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno advised members of his conference to physically deliver the forms to avoid the risk of being hit with federal mail fraud charges.

As an example of such thinking, he cited the former leader of the State Senate who instructed his members to deliver their public disclosure forms by hand rather than mailing them so as to avoid any possible federal mail fraud charges — the unspoken assumption being that lawmakers might have lied on those forms.

For years, according to testimony during former Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno's 2009 trial, members of the state Senate's Republican conference were instructed to submit their annual financial disclosure forms by hand rather than through the mail in order to avoid potential federal mail fraud charges.

And he narrowly avoided criminal charges in parallel state and federal investigations into his fundraising practices — a fact on which Malliotakis and others sought to capitalize.

The undercover work of the assemblyman, Nelson L. Castro, a Bronx Democrat who cooperated to avoid prosecution for perjury, helped federal prosecutors in Manhattan with an investigation that led to charges against another Bronx Democrat, Assemblyman Eric A. Stevenson, for accepting bribes.

More specifically, he charged that, under federal duress, states were pressuring districts to avoid his program or to create guidelines that made its adoption less likely.

They were developed at the behest of the state governors and chief state school officers to avoid the charge of federal intrusion — which came nonetheless after the Obama administration advocated for the CCSS in the Race to the Top funding competition and provided the financing for the Common Core testing consortia.

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Once consumers report the theft or loss, they will avoid liability for unauthorized charges and pursuant to federal law will only be responsible for a sum not exceeding $ 50.

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As defense counsel, we have helped our clients avoid billions of dollars in exposure through dispositive motion practice, favorable settlements and verdicts, and by convincing federal and state regulators to drop charges against our clients.

It is both critical for criminal suspects to assert their right to remain silent under the Constitution's Fifth Amendment, to have a federal criminal lawyer advocating for them early on to work to avoid a prosecution in the first place, and to minimize being behind the eight - ball in defending against federal felony charges.

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