Sentences with phrase «cooperating witness»
A cooperating witness is someone who assists the authorities in an investigation or trial by providing information or testifying against someone involved in illegal activities. They work with the authorities to help bring justice and may receive favorable treatment for their cooperation. Full definition
Most recently, she represented the lead cooperating witness in a years - long criminal matter stemming from the break - up of one of the world's largest law firms.
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Perhaps more interesting than the designer bags and the kickback inside is who was delivering it — a man identified in the criminal complaint as cooperating witness number one but widely identified as Jona Rechnitz.
But prosecutor Thomas McKay argued the «brazen» nature of the schemes — Adam Skelos blew off work at the insurer, which needed regular legislation from the Senate — was what persuaded jurors, along with testimony from cooperating witnesses who said they were buying Skelos» vote.
In the 43 - page complaint — which details phone wiretaps, intercepted emails and interviews with cooperating witnesses — prosecutors charged Skelos with trying to «monetize» his office through the solicitation of kickbacks from real estate developers, and the use of his official office to influence the awarding of a contract for storm - water treatment by Nassau County.
Mueller's office has obtained a wealth of subpoenaed documents about the president's conduct and has taken secret testimony from cooperating witnesses — Michael Flynn, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and former campaign aide Rick Gates — any one of whom would be in a position to contradict Trump and expose him to perjury charges.
Avella's firm, Meara Avella Dickinson, includes Brian Meara, a key cooperating witness in US Attorney Preet Bharara's corruption case against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan).
Sampson told his associate about his source and added that if they could determine the identities of cooperating witnesses in the associate's case, they could «take them out.»
The report was never released and Cuomo's office has insisted the story — third hand as told by cooperating witness David Wildstein who was convicted in the scandal — is false.
Key testimony is expected to come from former lobbyist - turned - cooperating witness Todd Howe, who allegedly exchanged emails with Percoco in which they referred to cash as «ziti» — a move prosecutors say they lifted from HBO's mobster series «The Sopranos.»
Stern was revealed Wednesday as an FBI cooperating witness who brokered an alleged bribery scheme involving Smith, Halloran, Bronx GOP boss Joseph Savino, Queens Republican party vice-chairman Vincent Tabone and two Rockland county officials.
And for an only - in - Albany twist, the unsealed complaint today indicates that Sampson had a mole in the U.S. Attorney's Office supplying him with information on possible cooperating witnesses who was later fired.
Two cooperating witnesses interviewed by the FBI - one a «convicted transnational drug trafficker» arrested in September 2015 who's part of the Mexico - based Sinaloa Cartel, and the other a suspect who died in June 2017 of a drug overdose - «were client - customers of Phantom Secure and used Phantom Secure devices and service to conduct their transnational drug trafficking activity,» according to the complaint.
Legal experts said the amount of wiretapped conversations and cooperating witnesses make the case daunting for the defense.
Mangone had been the most important cooperating witness to federal prosecutors in years, whose information helped put away three former GOP senators — Vincent Leibell, Tom Libous and Nick Spano.
In mid-2010, CPV retained Howe — now the prosecution's star cooperating witness, having pleaded guilty to a bevy of charges — to help navigate the state government bureaucracy.
His effort to find more information on the investigation and possible cooperating witnesses began in July 2011, when the unnamed associate was arrested for fraud and asking the person to withhold documentation in the case, court records show.
When Adam Skelos threatened to hold up the environmental firm's contract, one cooperating witness wrote to another: «I can't believe he's going to try to hold us hostage to renegotiate the contract.»
(Mr. Dorego is not identified by name in the complaint, but referred to only as CW - 1, for Cooperating Witness 1.)
Mr. Stern and Mr. DiStefano are members of the firm's Government Investigations / Criminal Defense Practice Group, which has wide experience in representing professionals and business persons in high stakes investigations and trials, including effectively cross-examining government cooperating witnesses and obtaining favorable courtroom results.
Federal prosecutors are furious, and the Justice Department has begun urging the federal courts to make fundamental changes in public access to electronic court files by removing all plea agreements from them — whether involving cooperating witnesses or not.
If you fight back, and you both have marks, then it again becomes a case of «he - said» and it's hard to prove who initiated the confrontation without cooperating witnesses, and you'd likely both end up being arrested when the police showed up if they can't determine who the instigator was.
The first cooperating witness said the devices were used to facilitate the movement of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Mexico to the United States each month.
Sources said that the investigation stemmed from information provided by other state legislators who were under investigation as well as cooperating witnesses.
But he went from controlling the flow of thousands of bills and grants, doling out plum committee assignments and negotiating tiny details in $ 142 billion state budgets to going out of office after failing to beat corruption charges brought by a federal prosecutor armed with cooperating witnesses.
Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, likely to serve as the federal government's key cooperating witness in a wide - ranging corruption trial this fall involving past associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo, «has obtained employment and a residence in the District of Idaho,» his attorneys told a judge on June 15.
Sampson feared that the associate might cooperate with the government and disclose Sampson's embezzlement, so Sampson contacted a close personal friend, who was also a supervisory paralegal in this office, and asked him to find out if Sampson was under investigation and to obtain confidential information about the associate's case, including the identities of cooperating witnesses.
In addition to more than 11 million pages of records, the feds» arsenal includes former lobbyist - turned - cooperating witness Todd Howe and emails in which he and Percoco allegedly referred to payoffs as «ziti» — a code word for cash that prosecutors say they lifted from an episode of HBO's mob drama «The Sopranos.»
Davis sold a host of pills including oxycodone, zolpidem and alprazolam on at least four different occasions between January and April of this year to a FBI cooperating witness, according to court papers filed by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Mueller also has turned Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, into a cooperating witness.
He pleaded guilty on October 5 and now appears to be a cooperating witness in Mueller's investigation.
As part of its investigation into Ramos and Phantom Secure, the FBI has at least one cooperating witness — a convicted transnational drug trafficker from the Sinaloa cartel — according to the complaint.
This is where the aiding and abetting charge comes in — the cooperating witness allegedly used a Phantom device while organizing the transit of five kilograms of cocaine.
In a later consensually recorded conversation with a cooperating witness, Simmons expressed concern that the victim would contact the portfolio managers and learn that «there's no... money.»
(Flynn has since become a cooperating witness for Robert Mueller's investigation.)
Rashan Michel, a founder of a clothing company based in Atlanta and former NBA and college referee introduced Person to «CW - 1» (a cooperating witness), who had a financial advisory / business management service.
A former LPCiminelli executive has accepted a plea deal with the United States Attorney Southern District of New York and will serve as a cooperating witness in a trial this June connected to alleged bid - rigging for state - led development projects.
A cooperating witness in the case who had already pleaded guilty is lobbyist Todd Howe, who admitted orchestrating the bid - rigging of «Buffalo Billion» development initiatives in exchange for kickbacks.
A news publication, Voize Iz Neias, also known as The Voice of the Orthodox Jewish Community named Monsey Chosid as the cooperating witness in the statewide political scandal.
The investigators relied on wire taps, emails and two cooperating witnesses — both of whom struck their deals with the feds after Silver's arrest.
Rechnitz has pleaded guilty to bribery charges and is now a cooperating witness.
The 35 - page federal complaint has several loose ends, including any connections to Silver's repeated squashing of tort - law reforms, and cooperating witnesses may have the goods on other crooked officials.
Rockland County, NY - A chasidic Jew from Rockland County has been identified as the cooperating witness who helped the FBI uncover a massive plot to rig the 2013 New York City mayoral race and led to the arrest of six politicians who allegedly accepted bribes.
A former lobbyist associated with the Cuomo family, Todd Howe, already has pleaded guilty to eight counts, including bribery, and is a cooperating witness.
The complaint indicates a senior executive at the real estate developer is cooperating with the government, naming him as «cooperating witness 1.»
Todd Howe, a lobbyist accused of accepting the bribes, has already pleaded guilty and is a cooperating witness for the government.
The senator, who represents Queens Village, St. Albans and Jamaica, is accused of conspiring in November 2012 with a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer to bribe city Republican leaders in order to win Wilson - Pakula certificates.
In exchange for their help and ponying up the bribe money, Smith is accused of promising to use his position in the senate to steer $ 500,000 in state funding to a development project in Spring Valley that the cooperating witness and the undercover agent claimed they were planning.