Sentences with phrase «district public prosecutor»
Under French law, when it is believed that a crime has been committed, an officer of the crime unit will inform the district public prosecutor, who in turn appoints an examining magistrate to the case.
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She later returned to the public service sector, working as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
But the growing list of complicated plots and shady deals can be boiled down easily: Prosecutors allege that the Dixmoor Park District has served as more of a theme park for public corruption than a place for public recreation over the last five years.
Prosecutors declined to comment after court Thursday, but Richard Donoghue, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a press statement later that Walker «attempted to obstruct a grand jury investigation and then lied to the FBI» while serving as a public official.
Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick says he and his peers have advocated for prosecutors to be able to openly explain their decisions to the public.
Federal prosecutors, state district attorneys, reform organizations, and members of the general public testified at the hearing.
Immediately before he was elected senator in 2015, he was a federal prosecutor in the Brooklyn - based Eastern District, where he served as acting head of the public integrity section.
In a statement following Tuesday's ruling, federal prosecutors in New York's Southern District said they will seek a second trial «where we will have another opportunity to present overwhelming evidence of Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos's guilt and again give the public the justice it deserves.»
In a dizzying year that saw the public corruption convictions of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Skelos at the hands of Bharara's office, what better candidate to run in Skelos» old district than a former prosecutor with a record of fighting corruption like Kaminsky?
But Singas, who has worked as a prosecutor in Queens and Nassau and served as former District Attorney Kathleen Rice's chief deputy, contrasted her 24 years of trying criminal cases with Murray's record, and said she was best suited to tackle public corruption.
The revelations into the steps leading to Ahmad Khan Rahami's New York and New Jersey bomb spree came in court documents in which federal prosecutors charge him with using a weapon of mass destruction, bombing a public place and two other charges leveled by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York.
The Lopez scandal, which includes claims of sexual harassment made against him by two other women, is the subject of probes by the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics and Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan who is acting as a special prosecutor.
«In appointing a special prosecutor for the Howard Beach case, Governor Mario Cuomo further expressed his opinion that the public had lost confidence in the Queens District Attorney's ability to fairly prosecute that case.»
The guilty verdict is another conviction for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York who has led a number of high - profile corruption cases of state lawmakers and public officials.
Although Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, has made Albany corruption a staple of public speeches and news conferences, his prosecutors kept the broader issue out of their opening argument, while Mr. Silver's lawyer touched on it more to suggest that the government had criminalized longstanding political actions that were not crimes.
Griffin worked as a senior assistant prosecutor in the Rockland County District attorney's Office from 1981 to 1986, worked in private practice later on, and received a full - time job with the Rockland County Office of the Public Defender in 2010.
Officers from the county Department of Public Safety will serve on the Task Force alongside prosecutors, criminal investigators and crime analysts from the District Attorney's Office.
The unrest among the prosecutors was sparked by Cuomo's use of state Executive Law to remove Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. and appoint Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas «to investigate, and if warranted, prosecute, any and all matters concerning the public allegations against Mr. Schneiderman.»
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Staten Island District Attorney has been appointed as a special prosecutor in the case and the State's Joint Commission On Public Ethics is expected to begin its probe on Tuesday.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, known for crusading against public corruption, was forced out of office, the federal prosecutor tweeted out Saturday afternoon.
Tuesday evening, Cuomo appointed Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas as a special prosecutor «to investigate, and if warranted, prosecute, any and all matters concerning the public allegations against Mr. Schneiderman.»
A perjury charge against an acting district attorney «taints the very essence of who we are as prosecutors and goes against all that we strive to do to ensure the public's trust in the criminal justice system,» said DAASNY president and Oneida County District Attorney Scott Mdistrict attorney «taints the very essence of who we are as prosecutors and goes against all that we strive to do to ensure the public's trust in the criminal justice system,» said DAASNY president and Oneida County District Attorney Scott MDistrict Attorney Scott McNamara.
Five Detroit Public Schools employees have been charged with embezzlement in an ongoing probe into the «culture of corruption» that took hold in the state's largest district, a prosecutor said Wednesday....
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The judge is Sedgwick County District Judge David Kaufman, who was both a public defender and a prosecutor before going on the bench.
NEW YORK — Arlo Devlin - Brown, most recently the Chief of the Public Corruption Unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and one of its top securities fraud prosecutors, has joined Covington as a partner in its white collar defense and investigations practice resident in the firm's New York office.
Arreaza had argued that the prosecutor and public defender had both signed an agreement with the school district that may have hindered their willingness to determine that Cruz posed a threat.