Sentences with phrase «criminal indictment of»

In 2013, obtained dismissal in federal court of a criminal indictment of an Israeli national charged with a nationwide, multimillion dollar fraud scheme.

New Missouri Legislation Prohibits Internet Harassment — Back in May, I posted about the criminal indictment of Lori Drew, the Missouri mom who impersonated a 13 - year - old boy on MySpace to befriend, then humiliate Megan Meier, a rival of Drew's daughter.

His subpoenas were for the express purpose of conducting a fishing expedition with hopes of lodging a criminal indictment of Mann.

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.

When a Staten Island grand jury refused to return a criminal indictment of an officer in the death of Eric Garner, she issued a press release declaring «the use of excessive and lethal force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide.»

A federal judge has rejected a conservative group's lawsuit demanding the release of drafts of a criminal indictment of Clinton prosecutors prepared, but never issued, during the Whitewater investigation in the 1990s.

Keying off the just - announced criminal indictments of former state Probation head John O'Brien and Tim Cahill's former chief of staff, Egan marched through a familiar rogues gallery of Massachusetts Democrats who have recently...

The firm cited the federal criminal indictments of a current and former town official, including town supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence.

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The indictment states that SAC has been charged «with criminal responsibility for insider trading offenses committed by numerous employees and made possible by institutional practices that encouraged the widespread solicitation and use of illegal inside information.»

The indictment stated that the company's virutal currency «was designed so that criminals could effect financial transactions under multiple layers of anonymity and thereby avoid apprehension by law enforcement.»

In that case, over 83 million customers saw their data stolen, and that incident was just a sliver of the activity perpetrated by the criminals who carried it out, according to indictments made public last month.

The indictment unsealed that same day included the first criminal allegations disclosed by the office of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, which is investigating possible Russian influence in U.S. political affairs including the 2016 election of President Trump.

It is the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) which has the power to bring criminal indictments under the Act.

Update: United States Attorney Loretta E. Lynch will hold a press conference at 11 am to announce the unsealing of an indictment in a criminal case against a New York State elected official.

Paul Manafort and Rick Gates» case has added a new criminal charge or charges as of today, though whether the action is additional grand - jury approved indictments or indicates a coming a plea agreement remains a mystery.

«In light of the on - going criminal proceeding by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York against Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, we have no comment on the superseding indictment and continue to cooperate with this ongoing investigation.»

Thursday's indictment is the first criminal charge against Pigeon, who over decades of political activity has been accused of impropriety that he's always been able to blame on some grudge.

The 35 - page indictment, which largely tracked a criminal complaint filed in September, accused Percoco of taking over $ 300,000 in payoffs to wield influence in Cuomo's executive chamber, while former SUNY Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros worked to rig bids on $ 850 million in development projects in Syracuse and Buffalo.

Today's arraignment followed the recent issuance of an indictment by a federal grand jury, which replaced the criminal complaint.

«Kevin Schuler is a good man, but he's not the first person to plead guilty under the pressure of a federal criminal indictment,» Paul Shechtman, an attorney for Louis Ciminelli, said in a statement.

This DEC action comes on the heels of a recent New York State appellate court decision that reinstated criminal indictments against another concrete company, Quality Concrete, also located on Newtown Creek.

The sprawling rehabilitation network created over five decades by the Rev. Peter Young is collapsing, and his lawyer is working to stave off state investigators attempting to get a criminal indictment from a nearly three - year probe of Young's organization.

The District Attorneys Association of New York, in a rare step, also commented on the indictment, voicing concerns over the functioning of the criminal justice system in the county.

The latest criminal charges added to the indictment allege that Silver did certain «official favors» for an investor in 2006 to gain access to a variety of low - risk, high - yield investment opportunities not available to the general public.

Republican candidate for Governor Rob Astorino says Governor Cuomo «has a lot of explaining to do», and he should be doing it immediately», by holding a news conference to explain the charges in the story that Astorino says has a «strong likelihood of resulting in indictments and criminal charges».

A grand jury today handed up a three - count indictment against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on charges of mail and wire fraud and extortion, a month after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara shook the city's political class with a criminal complaint against the longtime Manhattan legislator.

ALBANY — A former New York State Senate leader currently under indictment won't say whether he supports the forceful removal of the present Senate leader who is currently facing criminal charges.

«From the headings of the invitation letters, it is very clear that the I - G was invited on those occasions by the Senate purposely because of Senator Dino Melaye's criminal indictment,» he said.

The tangled case of alleged Islamic State supporter Arafat Nagi has moved another step forward in the criminal justice process, with his indictment on two counts, including attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

The lack of an agreement comes after Assembly Democrats sought a number of measures designed to change criminal justice procedures, including a special prosecutor to handle certain cases as well as new requirements for grand jury transparency when an indictment is not issued.

Cuomo himself in recent days has called for a series of criminal justice reforms as well as new police training following a Staten Island grand jury not issuing an indictment against Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

«The police conducted investigation into the criminal indictments against Melaye and Mohammed Audu and discovered that the two of them have case to answer.»

Former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto was hit with a superseding indictment that includes more than 20 new federal criminal charges involving securities fraud in the issuance of the town's public offering of hundreds of millions of dollars in securities between 2010 and 2016.

The temporary closing of Dr. Eugene J. Gosy's Amherst medical office after his criminal indictment last week — cutting off hundreds, if not thousands, of his panic - stricken patients from their opioid medications — has created a public health crisis in Erie County.

While some political corruption cases are not announced until indictments are unsealed, in the case of Mr. Skelos and of Mr. Silver, Mr. Bharara chose to bring criminal complaints to court on his own first before turning the case over to a grand jury.

«Both the complaint and the indictment are wholly silent with respect to any specific acts, overt acts, facts, criminal conduct or non-criminal conduct by the Buffalo defendants having occurred in the Southern District of New York,» one of the court filings state.

UPDATE: May 15 3:05 PM The original indictment contained charges of attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and endangering the welfare of a child.

A statement from Louis Ciminelli's attorney Paul Shechtman: «Kevin Schuler is a good man, but he's not the first person to plead guilty under the pressure of a federal criminal indictment.

Though he admitted the most obvious solution to the ever - common criminal indictments against public servants with private sector jobs would be to remove that «conflict,» Cuomo stopped just short of calling for a ban on outside income, and instead proposed «total disclosure.»

-- INDICTMENT, SCHMINDICTMENT: It wouldn't feel like an election in the Empire State if there weren't at least a few candidates on the ballot because they are presumed innocent of some criminal offense.

Silver is scheduled to go on trial next week on seven charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, money - laundering and extortion connected with what the indictment terms «monetary transactions involving criminal proceeds» of at least $ 4 million.

Criminal charges against a sitting district attorney are rare, but Spota and his office have been under scrutiny for years, and the indictment was the latest turn in a federal investigation that has transfixed Long Island and led to the downfall of the county police chief, James Burke.

«What happens is, it's as though there has never been an indictment or a conviction because the law feels very strongly that a person should not bare the cross and the stigma of a conviction without the opportunity to fully challenge all aspects of a criminal case,» DerOhannesian said.

It's unusual for someone accused of a crime to die before the criminal complaint or indictment can be unsealed.

Charged in a separate indictment with criminal sale and possession of a firearm was Jayquan Griffin, 26, of Manhattan.

The indictment adds some criminal charges to those lodged when the 35 - year - old mayor of Mount Vernon was arrested March 12 but the alleged misconduct is the same as in the criminal complaint that was filed that day.

A grand jury in Albany County returned a sealed indictment charging Dirschberger, 53, with one count of Rape in the Third Degree and one count of Criminal Sexual Act in the Third Degree, both felonies.

While the Thruway faces a relatively straightforward budgetary issue and the gaming commission is shepherding the launch of a new casino industry, the nano narrative has become one of criminal investigations and indictments as much as technological advances.

The news of the indictments was sadly familiar for Albany observers who have watched a parade of public officials face corruption and other criminal charges.

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