Sentences with phrase «by a grand jury investigating»

Working Families Party officials have been subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating the party's ties to a company that provided campaign assistance to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Staten Island Council Member Debi Rose and other city candidates, court records show.

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The deal, which Republicans have painted as evidence of collusion between Clinton and Russia, made its way back into headlines in October, shortly before it emerged that a federal grand jury approved the first charges filed by special counsel Robert Mueller as he investigates whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.

A clergyman of the American Lutheran Church has been ordered confined in jail for contempt of court because he refused to answer questions before a grand jury investigating the «occupation» of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for two months last year by militant Indians.

She expects to be handcuffed, put in a police car, driven to the courthouse and brought before a judge after being secretly indicted by a grand jury run by a special prosecutor who was secretly selected to investigate campaign finance filings from 2009.

Besides the damaging claims likely to come out in the Walsh trial, a key Spota deputy, Christopher McPartland, is the target of a federal grand jury investigating allegations of a cover - up by the police department to protect James Burke, the former county chief.

I'm shocked by this grand jury decision, and will be calling on the Department of Justice to investigate.»

Hafner noted that, in addition to investigating crimes, grand juries can investigate «any misconduct, nonfeasance or neglect in public office, by a public servant, whether criminal or otherwise.»

Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota, right, with deputy Christopher McPartland, who sources say is being investigated by a federal grand jury on possible obstruction of justice charges.

Texas» Perry indicted for coercion for veto threat AUSTIN, Texas — A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption — making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state's first indicted governor in nearly a century....

The St. Lawrence County Board of Legislators took the unusual step of passing a resolution expressing no confidence in the local DA, Mary Rain, listing a series of embarrassing revelations and accusations, including a suggestion by a former assistant that Rain planned to use grand juries to investigate people she disliked.

HARTFORD — The office of the U.S. Attorney is convening a criminal grand jury to investigate claims of illegal fundraising by the state Democratic Party for the benefit of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

Campana is one of three Democrats — the others are Councilman John Brown and his brother, Dan Brown, a party operative — targeted by a special grand jury investigating the ballot - fraud case.

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.

Ortt's indictment came hours after he voluntarily appeared before the grand jury empaneled by Schneiderman to investigate the finances of the Niagara County GOP and former Sen. George Maziarz, who was also indicted.

Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka and the State Police are investigating the incident, which is being reviewed by a grand jury.

-- Spota's abandonment of a grand jury investigating the shooting of a cabdriver in Huntington Station by a drunken, off - duty Nassau police officer.

Garner's case is being heard by a Staten Island grand jury and Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson is investigating Gurley's shooting death.