Sentences with phrase «case against a former governor»

The three - man panel also quashed the amended charge for not disclosing any prima facie case against the former governor.

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Friday closed its case against a former Governor of Abia, Orji Kalu and two others charged...

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Richard Lamm, the former governor of Colorado who has campaigned against excessive medical costs, recently cited the case of a patient in a Washington, D.C., hospital who has been in a comatose state since Lamm was a high school student.

(Recall that the AG's office actually doesn't have subpoena power in corruption cases until the governor specifically refers a case to his office, which is why Andrew Cuomo couldn't compel testimony in the Troopergate case, but former Chief Judge Judith Kaye — working as Cuomo's request on the ethics charges lodged against Gov. David Paterson — can do so).

He argued that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision tossing out the corruption case against former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell showed that his actions also did not involve illegalities.

Prosecutors drop the case against former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell and his wife after the Supreme Court overturned his public corruption conviction on June 27, 2016.

The case will be a test for the Democratic governor, but also for federal prosecutors in New York, where former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara brought a parade of indictments against people in state politics.

The U.S. Attorney fired by President Trump's Justice Department, has also brought cases against nine former associates of Governor Cuomo, including the governor's former closest Governor Cuomo, including the governor's former closest governor's former closest top aid.

Bharara also said he might have done some things differently in his prosecution of two former legislative leaders, had the cases come before a recent Supreme Court ruling that reversed the corruption charges against former Virginia Governor McDonnell.

John Cahill, a longtime law partner of former governor (and onetime presidential candidate) George Pataki, made the case against Trump without mentioning him by name (or identifying another candidate, though Pataki has endorsed Rubio.)

The state capitol is bracing for a parade of corruption trials this year that began Monday with jury selection in the case against former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco.

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NEW YORK CITY — The judge in the New York corruption case has dismissed an extortion charge against former top governor's aide Joseph Percoco ahead of the jury's deliberations.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox suggested the recent call for a review by Cuomo into the handling of the Weinstein case was driven by politics as it came the same day actress Cynthia Nixon announced a Democratic primary challenge against the governor and at a time when his office is being sued over its handling of a sexual harassment claim against a former aide.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is ahead of his Republican challengers when it comes to fundraising and name - recognition in the governor's race, but the GOP is trying to leverage an ongoing corruption case against a former Cuomo aide as a point of attack.

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Eliot was listed as the plaintiff in the short - lived case against his spouse, which came on the heels of a scathing Post exclusive that revealed the ousted governor was canoodling with former Bill de Blasio spokesman Lis Smith.

Foye's comments came a day after the prosecution rested its case against Christie's former deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly and the New Jersey governor's ex-Port Authority deputy executive director Bill Baroni, who allegedly conspired to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge in an act of political vengeance against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee.

The EFCC on Tuesday closed its case against former Taraba governor Rev. Jolly Nyame, who is standing trial before an FCT High Court on charges of N1.6 bn fraud.

But as the now - former governor of New York faces possible criminal charges, we explore the case against him on this week's edition of the legal - affairs podcast LegalTalkNetwork.