Sentences with phrase «cases against elected officials»

Bharara was appointed as the federal prosecutor in the Southern District by then - President Barack Obama in 2009 and litigated many high - profile cases against elected officials and Wall Street bosses.

The US attorney didn't make any specific recommendations about how to purge the state of dirty pols, but he did make clear that the growing list of cases against elected officials at the state and local levels brought by his office indicate that the problem is far from solved — despite claims to the contrary by any number of self - appointed «reformers.»

Not exact matches

Update: United States Attorney Loretta E. Lynch will hold a press conference at 11 am to announce the unsealing of an indictment in a criminal case against a New York State elected official.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

NEW YORK (AP)-- For the second time in a month, one of New York State's biggest political figures is going on trial in a case brought by a federal prosecutor crusading against corrupt elected officials.

Whatever the outcome of Stevenson's case, the accusations alone — which came just days after corruption charges against two other elected officials — seem to have chipped off another chunk of the public's brittle trust of politicians.

But in a letter this month to town and county elected officials in Nassau, Blessinger listed several cases nationwide in which Uber drivers were accused of crimes against passengers, including an alleged rape in March of a woman in Orange County, California.

Dean Skelos» arrest marks the second major indictment of a leader of a legislative body following the case against Silver in January for using his powers as an elected official to elicit millions «in bribes and kickbacks» that he masked as legitimate income.

Bharara, a former chief counsel to Senator Chuck Schumer, served for seven years and pursued high - profile cases against Wall Street tycoons accused of insider trading and elected officials and their aides accused of public corruption.

For example, there could be discussion of granting the attorney general blanket prosecutorial jurisdiction to pursue public corruption cases against elected or appointed government officials.

Of course the wave of «blackwash» provided cover for elected officials serving conservative bases to build a case against climate legislation.

And the Roncarelli case [Roncarelli v. Duplessis, [1959] S.C.R. 121] established that publicly elected officials can not arbitrarily invoke the law against individuals, as Mr. Duplessis had done.