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Bruno, a Rensselaer County Republican, was acquitted last year of theft of honest services charges — his second corruption trial after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling tossed the previous charge the former lawmaker was found guilty on.
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Fyfe was assistant deputy attorney general in October 2010 when the BC Liberal government agreed to pay the $ 6 million legal bill for former aides Dave Basi and Bob Virk after their plea bargain halted the BC Rail corruption trial.
OSIJEK, Croatia — Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren's testimony at a Croatian football corruption trial was postponed Wednesday after the main suspect fired his lawyers during a hearing.
The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.
The longtime speaker of the Assembly, Silver was removed from the post after his arrest on corruption charges, but remained in the chamber pending the outcome of his trial.
After his first trial for these corruption charges the European Court of Human Rights ruled that his trial was unfair and demanded a retrial, following which the ruling was overturned, sent back to a lower court, and that lower court affirmed the corruption charges.
The former Lower East Side assemblyman is undergoing a second trial after the first guilty verdict on corruption charges was nullified by an appeals court.
Restaurateur Harendra Singh on Thursday finished his testimony in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, after 13 days on the stand and as the prosecution challenged two crucial sets of evidence submitted by defense attorneys.
The trial will also test what remains of federal corruption law after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened it last year.
After facing two federal corruption trials he was acquitted and then applied to be reimbursed for $ 2.42 million: $ 1 million for funds he spent from his personal bank account, and $ 1.42 million for funds spent from his campaign fund.
Several corruption trials are set for 2018 after a scandal involving nine of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former associates who worked on his administration's economic development projects.
His indictment comes more than two years after he confirmed while testifying in the corruption trial of former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos that federal prosecutors were probing his role in county contracts that went to political campaign contributors.
The conflict of interest is obvious, and Mr. Agata is the wrong choice to run JCOPE less than six months after Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos were convicted in corruption trials which laid bare Albany's culture of legal and illegal corruption.
Several corruption trials are set for 2018 after a scandal involving nine of Governor Cuomo's former associates who worked on his administration's economic development projects.
In the Kaminsky - McGrath race, for example, the Communications Workers of America PAC, which endorsed Kaminsky, gave $ 109,600 to Nassau Democrats on April 12, while the state Trial Lawyers Association's PAC, which has backed a GOP - led Senate, gave more than $ 100,000 to the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee in the months after Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) vacated his seat due to a federal corruption conviction.
Nearly six weeks after the corruption trial began, jurors Thursday afternoon were dispatched by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni to begin deliberations into whether Percoco, a longtime confidante of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, used his top government post to enrich himself via bribes paid by two companies with business before the state.
Good - government advocates had called the session Albany's «Watergate» moment after the ex-Senate and Assembly leaders were convicted in separate federal corruption trials.
The Silver ruling will not affect the federal corruption trials later this year of nine former associates of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including Cuomo's former top aide, on bribery and bid - rigging because those trials will take place after the Supreme Court's McDonnell ruling.
The governor's chief of staff, Linda Lacewell, testified in the ongoing federal corruption trial of former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco that those schedules were prepared long after the events had taken place, left many types of events off, and didn't always include the names of all the participants at meetings and events.
The governor's chief of staff, Linda Lacewell, testified in the ongoing federal corruption trial of former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco that those schedules were prepared long after the events had taken place.
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, awaiting trial on federal corruption charges, will not seek a third term on the Republican line after he missed yesterday's deadline to submit ballot petitions.
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver faces a new trial on public corruption charges, after his earlier conviction was overturned on appeal.
Protesters call on state Sen. Kemp Hannon to step down Community groups rallied outside state Sen. Kemp Hannon's law firm in Uniondale on Dec. 2, 2015, and called for him to step down after recently uncovered facts came to light during Sen. Dean Skelos» federal corruption trial.
Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, left, exits a federal courthouse in Manhattan after being found guilty on all counts in his corruption trial, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.
Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez on bribery and corruption charges after an earlier trial ended in a deadlocked jury last fall.
At this point, Mr Zuma had been a popular and charismatic deputy president of South Africa for six years - but he lost his job after being implicated in a corruption trial.
Anthony Bonomo, the head of Physicians Reciprocal Insurers and a prolific political donor, testified Thursday at the Skelos corruption trial, noting that less than two weeks after being hired as a program manager for the Long Island - based company, Adam Skelos relayed to his father that his supervisor, Christopher Curcio, was treating him unfairly.
The blistering attack on de Blasio's integrity came less than two weeks after former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco was found guilty of corruption charges — and ahead of the corruption trial involving Cuomo's signature «Buffalo Billion» economic - development program.
Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.
Hanging over state business are both the federal corruption trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, which is now in jury deliberations after closing arguments last week and this year's state - level elections, including the race for governor.
Christie's name keeps surfacing in a trial stemming from the traffic jam scandal known as Bridgegate, and Cuomo is facing arguably the worst crisis of his governorship after nine people tied to his administration were arrested in a corruption sweep last week.
Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe leaves federal court in Manhattan after testifying in the Joe Percoco corruption trial on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018.
Todd Howe exits federal court after a fourth day of testimony in the Joseph Percoco corruption trial, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in Manhattan.
A top - level state Senate staffer scurried out of the corruption trial of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Monday after being accused of coaching a witness on the stand.
Greensboro, North Carolina (CNN)- After weeks of hearing from prosecutors, jurors in the corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards heard Monday from his defense team, which opened its case with testimony from a former financial officer.
Senator Malcolm Smith, left, walks out of federal court in White Plains with attorney Gerald Shargel after a federal judge declared a mistrial in the third week of his corruption trial on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
Aides had to rearrange a central New York swing by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015 on the spot after right - hand man Joe Percoco issued a profanity - laced last minute order to visit the Syracuse developer now accused of bribing him, according to testimony at his corruption trial Tuesday.
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, awaiting trial on federal corruption charges, will not seek a third term on the Republican line after he missed Thursday's deadline to submit ballot petitions.
The Skelos verdict came about two weeks after former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on seven counts of corruption in his own federal trial.
Sheldon Silver, a former speaker of the New York Assembly, leaving federal court in Manhattan on Monday evening after being found guilty on all counts in his corruption trial.
The measure, backed by Queens Democratic Sen. Michael Gianaris, was inspired by former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's successful effort to have his legal fees repaid by the state after he was found not guilty following a federal corruption trial.
A top - level state Senate staffer, Welquis «Ray» Lopez, left the Skelos corruption trial courtroom after being accused of coaching a witness on the stand and warned by the judge that he would be expelled.
«Though many of them were exonerated after due trial, but for the fact that they had faced charges of corruption, they should have been excused from the bench,» Obono - Obla said.
The jury in the political corruption case against Dean Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, and his son, Adam, began its deliberations yesterday, after a nearly four - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
The founder of the struggling environmental services company at the heart of the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, testified at their trial yesterday that days after Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, the senator provided valuable business intelligence that the company felt would be helpful.
In her opening statements at the corruption trial of Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, prosecutor Tatiana Martins said Skelos started trying to cash in on his role as Senate majority leader even before he officially had the job — and continued brazenly «strong - arming» companies to make payments to his family after he formally got the gig.
At the corruption trial of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, an ex-supervisor of the senator's son, Adam, testified that he had been threatened by the younger Skelos after questioning his work attendance.
After being accused by the NY Post of wearing high - end suits to his corruption trial, Adam Skelos insists he actually buys them at JoS. A. Bank — three for $ 1,000, not $ 1,000 a piece.
The corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, came to a halt late this afternoon after one juror complained of chest pains.
A politically connected lawyer says the Manhattan US Attorney should now go by «Ayatollah Preet Bharara» after the prosecutor's underlings on Thursday persuaded a federal judge to move ahead with indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith's corruption trial in January — rejecting a bid to delay it to accommodate his wife's problem pregnancy.