Sentences with phrase «by cooperating witness»

In an unrelated incident, Halloran also pledged to steer $ 80,000 to a shell company operated by the cooperating witness and the undercover agent in exchange for cash bribes and fake donations to his unsuccessful 2012 congressional campaign, which he lost to U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D - Bayside).

The feds say the scam was cooked up in late 2013 during a trip to the Dominican Republic paid for by a cooperating witness — identified by sources as real estate investor and Mayor Bill de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz.

The report was never released and Cuomo's office has insisted the story — third hand as told by cooperating witness David Wildstein who was convicted in the scandal — is false.

Not exact matches

Matanov told an unidentified witness cooperating with the government that «the bombings could have had a just reason, such as being done in the name of Islam, that he would support the bombings if the reason were just or the attack had been done by the Taliban,» according to the papers.

This reminds us that the church must be ready to witness to the lordship of Christ by cooperating with people of goodwill of all religious and non-religious groups who are genuinely concerned to seek better ways of living and working.

The church must be ready to witness to the lordship of Christ by cooperating with men of goodwill who are genuinely concerned to seek better ways of living and working — no matter what their political, social, or philosophical convictions.

We participate and cooperate with God seeking and saving the lost by the credibility that comes from a witness of love.

Sources and records show Rechnitz became a cooperating witness for the feds after he was snared in yet another bribery case involving Norman Seabrook, the head of the city Correction Officers union, who allegedly received $ 65,000 in bribes in exchange for funneling $ 20 million in union funds into a hedge fund operated by a friend of Rechnitz's, according to sources and court documents.

Doug Burns, a former Eastern District prosecutor from Nassau County, said the «cardinal rule» in the government's use of a cooperating witness is «whether or not what they say can be backed up or corroborated by other evidence in the case.»

Sources said that the investigation stemmed from information provided by other state legislators who were under investigation as well as cooperating witnesses.

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

Smith's attorney says the senator was a victim of a government sting operation by a «cooperating witness,» Moses Stern, a Rockland County businessman who has boasted of sway in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and was seeking leniency for federal charges he was facing for allegedly defrauding Citigroup of $ 126 million.

Howe, 57, a cooperating witness on his first day on the stand in Manhattan federal court, laid out how he came to be the linchpin of an alleged scheme by two clients to pay more than $ 300,000 in bribes to Percoco — referred to by them in code as «zitti» — to buy influence for an energy company and a Syracuse developer.

He described Mr. Smith as the victim of a government sting operation by a «cooperating witness,» Moses Stern, a Rockland County businessman who has boasted of sway in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and who was seeking leniency for federal charges he was facing for allegedly defrauding Citigroup of $ 126 million.

It is based in part, according to the six - count complaint, on conversations secretly recorded by one of two cooperating witnesses, and wiretaps on the cellphones of the senator and his son.

(Mr. Dorego is not identified by name in the complaint, but referred to only as CW - 1, for Cooperating Witness 1.)

First he promised the undercover agent and the cooperating witness that he would direct $ 500,000 in state transportation funds to a Rockland project he thought was real, but was in fact fabricated by the feds, the complaint alleged.

Two cooperating witnesses interviewed by the FBI - one a «convicted transnational drug trafficker» arrested in September 2015 who's part of the Mexico - based Sinaloa Cartel, and the other a suspect who died in June 2017 of a drug overdose - «were client - customers of Phantom Secure and used Phantom Secure devices and service to conduct their transnational drug trafficking activity,» according to the complaint.