Sentences with phrase «corrupt intent»

In a closing statement on Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eun Young Choi reviewed numerous text messages, emails and voice recordings presented to jurors during the four - week trial, which she said proved that Lebedev and Gross acted with «corrupt intent.»

Securing an interview with Trump is central to prosecutors being able to prove whether or not he had «corrupt intent» when he made the decisions he did with respect to the Russia probe.

'» This is one more piece of evidence of «corrupt intent,» the mental state required by federal obstruction statutes.

To establish obstruction, Mueller needs to show that in trying to hamstring or derail the probe, Trump acted with «corrupt intent,» say, to protect himself and his top officials from scrutiny.

The obstruction - of - justice case that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III may be constructing could rest in part on the president's «corrupt intent» to stop or deflect the investigation away from himself.

«You will not find that Mr. Silver had a corrupt intent,» said Silver's lawyer, Steven Molo.

Silver's lawyers have consistently argued that nothing Silver has done has been illegal — he is allowed to earn a private salary, and had no corrupt intent.

While the defense has claimed throughout the trial — now in its fourth week — that Silver committed no crime and that he was simply earning an outside salary for himself with no corrupt intent, prosecutors asked jurors to reject that notion wholeheartedly.

Prosecutors in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office have argued that precedent in other cases — particularly in those involving circumstantial evidence — have established a quid pro quo by proving that one side of the relationship had corrupt intent.