Sentences with phrase «criminal charges before»

EFCC, alleged that Metuh who is also facing another seven - count criminal charge before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja, tore and attempted to chew a confessional statement he made under caution while undergoing interrogation.

The court said there was need for Dasuki who is facing a 22 - count criminal charge before it, to have private meetings with his lawyers to enable him to effectively prepare his defence.

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Two days before the election, Comey said the bureau's decision not to pursue criminal charges remained unchanged, but Trump had already touted the incident as proof Clinton was unfit for the presidency.

I think that charging a small business that much is borderline criminal, and most of the companies will go bankrupt before they'll see a return on that investment.

Republicans may rage at the CEOs who appear before them, but they haven't given the Justice Department enough funding to pursue criminal charges against corporations and executives who violate the law.

His criminal trial on felony invasion of privacy charges begins May 14, four days before the special session.

A wide - ranging child sex scandal, where priests have been accused of molesting young parishioners in the United States and in Europe, has since led to criminal charges in cases still pending before the courts.

Federal authorities have no current plans to charge Mickelson with any criminal wrongdoing, though he and Walters, the story continued, are still under scrutiny for «separate well - timed trades» they placed in Dean Foods in 2012 before the company's stock took off.

At 9:30 a.m., NYC Councilman Ruben Wills, arrested this week on charges he filed false documents with the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board between 2011 and 2013, appears in Queens Criminal Court, 125 - 01 Queens Blvd., before Judge Kron.

Gbagbo was eventually defeated by pro-Ouattara forces, backed by the UN and France, and is now awaiting trial before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta cited the Tory attack on human rights just days before appearing before the International Criminal Court in the Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

Two days later Kenyatta would become the first serving head of state to appear before the International Criminal Court in the Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

The embattled senator was charged with criminal conspiracy, causing damage to government property, attempted suicide and escape from lawful custody, before Magistrate Mabel Segun - Bello.

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch claims she and former President Bill Clinton spoke of only «innocuous things» during their tarmac meeting in Arizona days before the FBI opted not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information on her private email server in 2016.

Still, before Cuomo shut down the Commission, information from the personal use investigation was turned over to Albany County District Attorney David Soares, with the hope that he would pursue potential criminal charges.

In the application challenging the bench warrnt issued against him, Tompolo is arguing that the EFCC did not follow due process of law in applying for an order of substituted service of the criminal charge against him, adding that no service of the charge was effected as directed by the court before the EFCC applied for a warrant of arrest against him.

This enhanced penalty ensures that perpetrators are charged with felony animal cruelty charges when they face other felonies, such as burglary, and would serve as a deterrent to make criminals think twice before executing an animal or face additional jail time.

The criminal courts charge may be misguided and wrong but it has done at least one service, in raising fundamental and far - reaching questions about who is being brought before the courts and why.

Jauro and Sanni were charged before Hon. Justice Josiah Majebi of the Okene division of the High Court of Justice on four counts of criminal conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery, criminal conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and culpable homicide, all of which contravene sections of the Penal Code.

It is also recalled that Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on Wednesday ordered the federal government to produce Dasuki before him on February 16 to answer another sets of criminal charges.

The commission had earlier arraigned Olaniyan before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court 7, Maitama - Abuja, but had to seek for the transfer of the case to another trial judge due to the criminal charges preferred against Ademola by the Federal Government.

«I will make no comment now, or during the period of time that the grand jury is convened, regarding the days that the grand jury will be sitting; who may be called as a witness before the grand jury; what any witness has or will testify about before the grand jury; when the grand jury will conclude its investigation; what criminal charges will be considered by the grand jury, or against whom the grand jury might consider any such criminal charges,» said Mr. Donovan.

A staff on Kwara State Internal Revenue Service and four others have been arraigned before Magistrate Shade Lawal of the Kwara State Revenue court on charges of criminal conspiracy and forgery of receipts of the Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS).

Article 14 (1) Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of his personal liberty except in the following cases and in accordance with procedure permitted by law; Article 19 (1) A person charged with a criminal offence shall be given a fair hearing within a reasonable time by a court; Article 19 (11) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and the penalty for it is prescribed in a written law; Article 19 (12) Clause (11) of this article shall not prevent a Superior Court from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitution.

The boxer was first arraigned before the court on April 3, on a four - count charge bordering on criminal trespass, intentional insult, inciting public disturbance and refusal to make a statement.

Three Onondaga County sheriff's deputies have accused the district attorney's office and Centro of pursuing «trumped - up» criminal charges against them before a judge exonerated them last year.

He was eventually charged with money laundering and criminal diversion of huge sums of public fund before the Federal High Court and the Federal Capital Territory High Court at Abuja.

The Rivers State Police Command has arraigned ten suspected Pro Biafra protesters arrested between 16-18/01 / 2016 has on Wednesday 20/01/2016 been arraigned before Magistrate Courts 7 and 14 in Port Harcourt on two count charges of criminal conspiracy and treasonable felony.

Although prosecutors did not file criminal charges against de Blasio or his associates, the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan concluded that de Blasio or his colleagues often solicited donations from individuals seeking favors from the city, before later reaching out to city agencies on their behalf.

Shema is being charged alongside three others, Sani Hamisu Makana, Lawal Ahmad Safana and Ibrahim Lawal Dankaba before Justice Maikaita Bako of the Katsina State High Court for the alleged offences of criminal breach of trust, abuse of office and conversion of public funds to the tune of over N11billion Naira during his tenure as governor.

Before the AG's announcement was made, Washington said she hoped that the officers would face criminal charges but «worried that it isn't going to happen.»

As we speak, Senator Dino Melaye despite the letter sent to the Senate President as mentioned in Paragraph 5 above, refused to honour Police invitation till date and also refused to appear in court and has also continued to evade the service of criminal summon on him to appear before the Federal High Court, Lokoja on the 28th March, 2018 to answer to the charge of criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms against him and Mohammed Audu.

Walsh, 48, of East Islip was arrested on felony criminal mischief charges in 1989, less than a year before he applied to work for the sheriff's office.

Off - topic questions included efforts at combating sex trafficking on Roosevelt Avenue, reports of criminal charges against a defunct arm of the Working Families Party, whether the mayor will veto proposed bills criminalizing police use of chokeholds and requiring police to advise people of a right to refuse before asking to search them, whether the mayor plans to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they visit New York, whether his message is getting lost in critical news coverage and his view of the Astoria Cove development deal.

The FBI yesterday handed over to Congress documents related to its investigation of Clinton's private email server after House Republicans pushed the bureau to surrender material it had gathered before it concluded last month that she should not face criminal charges.

The «damning» video showing an off - duty cop waited just one second before gunning down a motorist in a Brooklyn road - rage incident is certain to result in criminal charges, law - enforcement sources said.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute officials were worried about covering the debt on buildings at the school's Albany campus long before the school's current financial woes surfaced after last year's criminal indictment of founder Alain Kaloyeros on federal bid - rigging charges.

Misau in a statement that was signed by his lawyer, Chief Godwin Obla, SAN, said he was not scared of the two sets of criminal charges FG preferred against him before the Federal High Court in Abuja and the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory.

Nine (9) persons — Kamal Ismail, Bongaamwini Issahaku, Salifu Seidu Adnan, Abdulai Hakeem, Suglo Nugu, Dakura Peter, Nuhu Mohammed, Kasim Dramani and Issah Salifu — who are alleged to have been responsible for the criminal action have been arraigned before court for prosecution, having been charged with the following offences:

Advocates hoped the Child Victims Act — which would give victims until their 50th birthdays to file civil suits and until their 28th birthdays to press criminal charges — would be passed in the state senate this summer, but Republican lawmakers refused to vote on the bill before their legislative session ended on June 21.

The 19 - count charge HAD / 05c / 2018, in which Fayemi and Kolawole were accused of stealing, abuse of office, criminal contempt, among others was filed before the State High Court, Ado Ekiti on Friday, January 26, 2018.

Fayemi and Kolawole were also charged with criminal contempt for refusing to appear before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry, an offence punishable under Section 13 of the Commission of Inquiry Law, Cap C. 10, Laws of Ekiti State, 2010, Section 126 (2) of the Criminal Code laws, Cap C. 16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2010 and Criminal Contempt punishable under Section 133 of the same crimincriminal contempt for refusing to appear before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry, an offence punishable under Section 13 of the Commission of Inquiry Law, Cap C. 10, Laws of Ekiti State, 2010, Section 126 (2) of the Criminal Code laws, Cap C. 16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2010 and Criminal Contempt punishable under Section 133 of the same criminCriminal Code laws, Cap C. 16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2010 and Criminal Contempt punishable under Section 133 of the same criminCriminal Contempt punishable under Section 133 of the same criminalcriminal code.

Felony charges against 16 - and 17 - year - olds will start in a criminal «Youth Court;» non-violent felonies will be transferred to family court while violent felonies will be subject to a three - part test before transfer.

EFCC Docks Badeh for Money Laundering The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, March 7, 2016 arraigned former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh alongside Iyalikam Nigerian Limited before Justice Okon E. Abang on a 10 count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption -LSB-...]

The Nigeria Politics Online also learnt that the government may have finally agreed to consolidate the criminal charges filed against Dasuki and others before two different High Courts of the Federal Capital Territory Judiciary.

The police kept him in their custody on Sunday, April 30 and charged him before a magistrate court on May 2, 2017 with criminal intimidation, incitement of the public to disrupt the peace and criminal defamation.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, January 22, 2016 arraigned the duo of Shehu Mustapha, Registrar Litigation, Adamawa State High Court and Barrister Binanu R. Esthon, former Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Yola Chapter before Justice B.B Aliyu of Federal High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State on a 4 - count charge bordering on conspiracy and criminal diversion of funds to the tune of N60million (sixty million naira).

The tribunal also dismissed the issue of multiple registration, saying that no criminal charges were brought against Obiano before any Magistrate or High Court in the state.

Nyako and the others are standing trial before Justice E. Chukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja in a 37 - count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy, stealing, abuse of office and money laundering to the tune of N29 billion preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

She said there was no criminal charge against her before and after the freezing order was made to justify her being denied access to her account by the EFCC.