Sentences with phrase «convicted last»

Earlier this month, the president told Fox News he was «seriously considering» a pardon for Arpaio, who was convicted last month of criminal contempt for ignoring a federal judge's order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants.

Gurjit Singh Dhillon was convicted last November as a result of a 2009 rush - hour crash in September 2009 in which Dhillon's black Corvette collided with another car, causing the Corvette to jump the curb and strike a bus stop bench, critically injuring 83 - year - old Pritam Benning.

Now DeSmog Blog was founded with $ 300,000 of money from a man called John Lefebvre who is an Internet gaming fraudster convicted last year of making hundreds of millions of dollars — a large chunk of which he is now being made to pay back to the U.S. government — by unlawfully laundering money to do with unlawful Internet gaming.»

A Florida pastor / part - time art dealer Kevin Sutherland was convicted last week of trying to sell fake Damien Hirst paintings.

In the current issue of The Washingtonian, senior writer Luke Mullins provides the most comprehensive profile yet of former Smithsonian researcher Nico Dauphiné, convicted last October of attempted animal cruelty.

Eleven Atlanta educators were convicted last week in a shameful conspiracy to alter student test scores.

The abandoned nomination marks the second time Gov. Pete Wilson has had to retreat on his choice to fill the unexpired term of Bill Honig, who was convicted last year on felony confict - of - interest charges.

That it came as a joint expulsion with Cosby, who was convicted last week of sexual assault in Pennsylvania, is perhaps telling, but also continues to raise questions about other members who have faced misconduct allegations in the past, like Mel Gibson, or in recent months like Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, John Lasseter and Paul Haggis.

A man who killed himself during a standoff with Los Angeles police was convicted last year of breaking into Sandra Bullock's home and stalking the Oscar - winning actress, his lawyer said Thursday.

Two dating scammers were convicted last month at Winchester Crown Court for defrauding women on Match.com out of # 220,000, using fake millionaire profiles.

Authorities said dating apps were the common thread for a pair of serial rapists who were convicted last year.

An American wildlife expert was convicted last month of smuggling animal skins and horns from Pakistan into the US.

The 72 - year - old Democrat was convicted last year in a $ 5 million corruption scandal.

Wilson was convicted last month on the charges, following a non-jury trial before Erie County Court Judge Thomas P. Franczyk, according to officials.

Taglianetti was convicted last November of second degree murder.

Former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, convicted last week on federal corruption charges and expelled from the chamber, was third with $ 200,000.

The dearth of specific procedures for the TIF is coming to light as discretionary funds have come under criticism by good - government groups and some legislators after Skelos and his partisan opposite, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, were convicted last year of trading official favors for kickbacks to themselves or their children.

Silver, 72, was convicted last year of taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for various official favors.

The Senate voted 53 - to - 8 to immediately oust the senator, Hiram Monserrate, a Queens Democrat convicted last fall of a misdemeanor for dragging his companion down the hallway of his apartment building.

Silver, 72, was convicted last year in a corruption case in which he had been accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for various official favors.

The men were convicted last December of obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and carrying out extortion schemes.

Percoco was convicted last week on three of six federal corruption charges and faces up to 50 years in prison.

Former Democratic Majority Leader Malcolm Smith of Queens, who lost power in the wake of the Senate coup of 2009 — a scheme organized in part by Skelos — was convicted last year of trying to bribe his way to the 2013 Republican nomination for New York City mayor.

He was convicted last year of obstructing justice and lying to federal investigators.

After all, it's the seat that former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos held for more than 30 years before he was convicted last year on corruption charges.

That didn't happen, and Klein has struck understandings with two different Senate GOP leaders: Dean Skelos, convicted last year on corruption charges, and John Flanagan, the current GOP leader.

On Tuesday, Senator Skelos introduced himself to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the man responsible for the high - profile corruption cases against Sheldon Silver, who was convicted last month, and Skelos.

Sampson, a Democrat who represented Brooklyn, was convicted last year of lying and obstructing justice to cover up his receipt of money from a mortgage broker.

Democrat Todd Kaminsky faces Republican Chris McGrath in the April 19 Senate election for the seat long held by ex-Senate Leader Dean Skelos, a Republican convicted last year of using his position to obtain payments and jobs for his son.

Mr. Sampson was convicted last year of trying to thwart an investigation into allegations that he had embezzled state funds.

Walsh was convicted last year of wire fraud and theft of government services for pocketing more than $ 200,000 in department salary and overtime while golfing, gambling and engaging in political activities.

The state Comptroller's Office released its final pension calculation Wednesday for Skelos, who was convicted last year of using his office to enrich his adult son.

(Espada was convicted last year for embezzlement and tax evasion, and he was recently sentenced to five years in prison.)

COLONIE — Roughly 200 supporters, including bankers, lobbyists and area business leaders, turned out for a fundraiser Tuesday evening for Joseph L. Bruno, the former state Senate majority leader convicted last month of felony corruption charges.

Former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted last year of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Joe Percoco was convicted last week on three counts of federal corruption charges.

(Percoco, the governor's ex-top adviser, was convicted last week of being involved in a bribery scheme.)

Sheldon Silver was convicted last week on all seven counts of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering that he faced over five weeks of trail in Federal District Court in Lower Mnahattan — becoming the latest New York politician convicted in a corruption scandal tied to real estate interests.

The former rainmaker was convicted last month on seven counts in a federal corruption case tied to the Taub referrals and kickbacks from a real estate developer.

Silver, the former Assembly speaker, was convicted last week in Manhattan in connection with two schemes.

He was convicted last year in a $ 5 million corruption case alleging he traded favors to enrich himself and then lied about it.

Justin Vasquez was convicted last month of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced to six years in prison.

Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith of Queens was convicted last month for conspiring to funnel $ 500,000 from a transportation account to a developer, who promised to bribe Republican Party officials to deliver Smith the GOP line for mayor in 2013.

Meanwhile, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, of Queens, was convicted last week on charges that he sought to bribe his way onto into the 2013 NYC mayor's race on the GOP ballot line.

Both legislative leaders in the Assembly and Senate, Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, were convicted last year in separate corruption cases.

Monserrate, who was ejected from his Senate seat after he was convicted last year of roughing Giraldo up, said he was «very sorry for all the things I've done to her and the community.

Both men were convicted last year of corruption charges in separate trials in Manhattan federal court.

Silver, a Democrat convicted last November on seven corruption counts, should serve a sentence that reflects the «unprecedented magnitude, duration, and scope of his abuse of power,» Manhattan federal prosecutors said in the sentencing memo.

The senator was convicted last fall of misdemeanor assault after fighting with girlfriend Karla Giraldo and leaving a gash on her face, though he was acquitted of felony charges.

The Skeloses were convicted last December of obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and carrying out extortion schemes.