Sentences with phrase «by federal sentencing»

Although encouraging and rewarding voluntary disclosure is nothing new, the stated 50 % reduction off the minimum amount suggested by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines is to be welcomed.

If there are any aggravating — or mitigating — circumstances which might not have been taken into consideration by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, a federal judge is allowed to impose a sentence which is above or below the guideline range.

Yet Walton felt bound by the federal sentencing guidelines, which require that Libby serve between 30 and 37 months.

Though it has been an historic week, I am pleased to be able today to remind sentencing fans of perhaps the most surprising event in the last few days: the summary reversal victory by a federal sentencing defendant in Spears.

One of the elements required by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and described in all of the OIG industry specific Compliance Guidelines is that the Compliance Program include a mechanism to deal with compliance problems as they are discovered.

He ruled that the discs were worth $ 700,000, and sentenced Lundgren to 15 months in prison — far less than the 36 to 47 months called for by federal sentencing guidelines — and a $ 50,000 fine.

Boyland Jr., who represented a district comprising of Bushwick, Crown Heights, Bedford - Stuyvesant and Brownsville, was sentenced this past September to 14 years in federal prison — less than the 20 - year term requested by prosecutors and recommended by federal sentencing guidelines, according to the Times.

Not exact matches

If the sentence is carried out, he would join a group of just three federal prisoners executed since 1988, when capital punishment by the U.S. government was reinstated.

In one the researchers compared the sentences received by major players (that is, those who stole $ 100,000 or more) in the savings - and - loan scandal a decade ago with the sentences handed to other types of nonviolent federal offenders.

In fact, the guidance issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) included this sentence, removing any doubt about whether the federal government was signaling that this activity can be conducted: «This FinCEN guidance clarifies how financial institutions can provide services to marijuana - related businesses consistent with their BSA obligations.»

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

When the truth - in - sentencing concept was invented in the early 1990s by the American Legislative Exchange Council, it received massive federal support, making parole abolition its most successful legislative venture ever.

Of the «alphabet soup» of federal agencies initiated by Roosevelt, not all found equal favor with the publication; it was, for instance, doubtful about the National Recovery Administration long before the Supreme Court pronounced that agency s death sentence (even so, it carried the NRA eagle sign on its second page for many months).

«The sentence imposed on NYK by the Federal Court today sends a strong warning to the industry and the business community at large.

As he did in the wake of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's sentencing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a brief statement in response to the five year sentence handed down by a federal judge in the corruption case of ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The first sentence stemming from Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling was handed down by a federal judge in Washington.

A federal judge delayed sentencing of Edward Walsh, and set a date for a pre-sentencing hearing on whether new assertions by federal prosecutors are accurate and should potentially increase the prison time faced by the former Suffolk Conservative Party leader.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge Tuesday.

I assisted as a volunteer to a friend who had been charged with a federal crime, by actually READING the United States Sentencing Guidelines (USSG)-- I recommend the exercise.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he gained from illegal kickback schemes, as well a pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who will be sentenced Sept. 8 in Federal District Court in Manhattan for sharing obscene photos with a minor, is being ostracized by the people in his Manhattan apartment building.

Two decades after he was sodomized by an NYPD officer, touching off one of the biggest police misconduct investigations in city history, Abner Louima is living a quiet but productive life in Miami, while the officer who attacked him, Justin Volpe, has eight years left on his federal prison sentence.

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

The voting wrapped up a session clouded by federal investigations into corruption and the sentencing of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) to federal prison on bribery and extortion charges.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he stole from the public, as well as pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

The criminal prosecutions spawned by the CityTime case reached a quiet denouement when a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Carl Bell, a computer specialist at the center of the scheme, to three years» probation, showing leniency because he had given crucial help to investigators.

He is also supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera — a reformer who ousted Bronx legend Pedro Espada, recently sentenced to federal prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a non-profit he controlled ---- and Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., the scion of another Bronx dynasty who parts ways with his infamous father on gay rights issues.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he stole from the public, as well a pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

By Esseh Ikora Justice I. Sanni, of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo Friday sentenced two Cameroonians to 18 years imprisonment each for illegally...

Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison, along with a fine and forfeiture of more than $ 6 million, after a federal jury found him guilty of a host of corruption charges related to two bribery schemes in which he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

Silver was sentenced by a different federal judge, Valerie Caproni, who fined Silver $ 1.75 million and ordered him to forfeit another $ 5.39 million in assets.

Walsh's defense attorneys have argued in court papers that federal prosecutors now unfairly want U.S. District Judge Arthur Spatt to boost the potential sentence to 37 to 46 months — by taking into account new assertions.

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Malcolm Smith to seven years in prison, saying the former state Senate majority leader corrupted the political process by trying to buy his way...

Manhattan federal judge Valerie Caproni pushed back the start date for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's 12 - year sentence for corruption by two months, giving him until Aug. 31 to comply.

A court filing signed by federal Judge Valerie Caproni lays out the schedule of events after Silver was convicted, and the sides will have until March to file paperwork before any sentencing date is scheduled.

He faces up to 20 years behind bars, but former state Sen. John Sampson has asked a federal judge to go easy on him by sentencing him to just a year and a day in prison.

At the Tuesday afternoon sentencing of Mr. Silver, Federal District Court Judge Valerie Caproni referred to his age of 72 as why she wouldn't go by the recommended sentence of roughly 22 to 27 years.

Shirley Huntley apologized for her crime as she was sentenced Thursday by a Brooklyn federal Judge.

Silver, who was found guilty by a federal jury in November on corruption charges, was originally slated for an April 13 sentencing.

Dean Skelos, the once mighty Senate Republican who was addressed by colleagues as «Leader» before his political career collapsed last year, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison following his conviction on federal corruption charges.

He is to be sentenced on the same day by a different judge, also in a federal courthouse in Manhattan.

He faces up to 20 years behind bars, but former state Sen. John Sampson has asked a federal judge to go easy on him by sentencing him to just a...

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Malcolm Smith to seven years in prison, saying the former state Senate majority leader corrupted the political process by trying to buy his way onto the ballot in a crooked bid to become mayor of New York City.

SILVER was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni who also presided over the five - week jury trial.

Former Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence was sentenced Wednesday after being convicted in May by a White Plains federal court jury of 20 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud.

A federal judge Friday delayed sentencing of Edward Walsh, and set a date for a hearing on whether new assertions by federal prosecutors should potentially increase the prison time faced by the former Suffolk Conservative Party leader.

The conviction and hefty sentence — the second highest for a state politician convicted of corruption in the past decade — has capped a stellar run of Albany and New York City corruption cases brought by Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara and federal authorities in Brooklyn.

Last week, two Assemblymembers were sentenced to prison for their ethics crimes and Governor Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» economic development program was reported to be under scrutiny by federal prosecutors.

A second bill sponsored by Crespo reduces the maximum sentence for misdemeanor offenses by one day from one year to 364 days, an apparent technicality that could potentially spare thousands of immigrants from deportation under federal law over certain lesser offenses.

Sweeping gang arrests made by federal, state and local agencies in 2006 and 2009 resulted in 33 young black men being sentenced to a total of almost 300 years in prison for nonviolent offenses, Green said.