Sentences with phrase «cases against legislators»

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Bharara, who because of the criminal cases against the lawmakers is not exactly popular among legislators, summed up his discomfort with the process in his podcast, «Stay Tuned with Preet.»

In New York, it is not against the law for legislators to take outside income — and it was a major factor in the case of Mr. Silver, who prosecutors said had traded state grant money and influence on tenant legislation in exchange for legal referral fees.

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

After describing the charges against the legislators as well as a prominent lobbyist and hospital executives, Bharara inventoried other recent corruption cases — against Assemblymen Tony Seminerio and Brian McLaughlin, Queens Democrats, and Sen. Vincent Leibell, R - Putnam County.

John Ciampoli — an attorney representing the state Republican Party, an intervener in the case that is against closing the LLC loophole — suggested that if the loophole were closed by the judiciary, every legislator who failed to pass a bill could run to the court seeking relief.

«Having regard to the settled position of the law as expoused by our courts in not less than five cases wherein the suspension of legislators by legislative houses was annulled and set aside, the Senate should withdraw the appeal filed against the judgment of the Federal High Court in the case of Senator Omo - Agege.

And when a legislator has to think about this issue, they have to know that they will go back to their families and say whether or not they voted against their niece and nephew, their brother and sister, and in some cases even their parent, and that's why this is different.»

He brought bribery cases against Fred Towle, a Republican county legislator from Shirley who was sentenced to 6 months in jail, and Steve Baranello, a Democratic campaign aide and the son of former Suffolk Democratic chairman Dominic Baranello.

All the Orange County legislators were provided with documentation of factual cases of civil forfeiture abuse; law enforcement agencies and local municipalities using the proceeds of forfeiture properties, cash and cars to balance their budgets; articles from conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation against this law and public comments from citizens, attorneys and former police officers expressing their view against this law.

Jeb Bush Defends Common Core At ALEC Meeting and Jeb Bush defends Common Core and Michelle Rhee, Jeb Bush warn Michigan legislators against abandoning Common Core standards and JEB BUSH AND JOEL KLEIN: The Case for Common Educational Standards and Arne Duncan tells newspaper editors how to report on Common Core and Arne Duncan: Beating Up on Common Core Is «Political Silliness» and Arne Duncan Defends Common Core, Ridicules Critics and Obama quietly implements Common Core.

The recent Philip Morris ruling is a bold move against minimum harmonisation that has potential to considerably narrow the EU legislator's room for manoeuvre, if followed in subsequent cases.

Arguably, Article 7 (5) seems to suggest that the EU legislator is willing to do more than a (partial) codification of the ECtHR's case - law as it provides that the exercising of the right to remain silent and the right not to incriminate oneself shall not be used against the individual and it can not be considered to be evidence that they have committed the criminal offence at hand.

The personal injury bar's argument against limiting noneconomic damages — that a jury's award of noneconomic damages should not be reduced to an amount determined by legislators because a jury can determine on a case - by - case basis to what extent to compensate a plaintiff for harm suffered — fails to address the difference between noneconomic damages and economic damages, and fails to take into account the intangibility of noneconomic damages awards.

«Legislators also approved $ 2.9 million to have South Carolina hire more prosecutors specifically to deal with criminal domestic violence cases and end the practice of having police officers playing the role of prosecutor against seasoned criminal defense attorneys in magistrates court.»