Sentences with phrase «done by federal prosecutors»

There is a second role which is picking up the types of criminal enforcement that have at least to some extent normally been done by federal prosecutors office.

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«We don't know exactly what McGahn said, but the mere fact that he put a stop to that letter is another piece of evidence that Mueller could use to say, «Donald Trump was warned by the White House counsel that this was a problematic step and decided to do it anyway,»» former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told Business Insider in September.

The FBI agent says De-Meyer denied using a fake name, as he was accused of doing in an indictment unsealed Wednesday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

By the end of the evening one thing was clear — Giuliani had concocted such a shifting, nebulous alibi for Trump that it didn't even hold up to a few hours of media scrutiny let alone a future interview with a Federal prosecutor.

USA Gymnastics needs a «complete cultural change» after not doing enough to educate its staff, members and athletes about protecting children from sexual abuse and failing to ensure that safeguards were being followed, according to a critical review by a former federal prosecutor.

The documents released this week by federal prosecutors do not show it did, and I suspect it did not.»

The corruption conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday was overturned by a federal appeals court, dealing yet another blow to the prosecutors who had sought to crack down on Albany's unseemly way of doing business.

I fully concur with Senator Ball on this one.Leibell and company dishonestly framed this all as reasonable requests for leniency, as if what he had done was not so bad (and as if he had contritely cooperated with authorities), when in fact the former State Senator has been defiant in NOT helping Federal prosecutors — AND some of the letters in Leibell's behalf came from people who are still being actively investigated by Federal prosecutors.

Cohen is blocked from commodities trading until 2018 due to an investigation by Preet Bharara, the former US Attorney who did not make life easy for the governor during his years as a federal prosecutor.

A spokesman for Crystal Run Healthcare confirmed Tuesday that the company was subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, but told The Association Press it received the subpoena a year ago and does not believe it is under active investigation.

He said he did not meet with the U.S. attorney during his visit to Albany, though he downplayed the significance by saying governors typically don't have much interaction with federal prosecutors.

For the monitorship of SAC Capital Advisors, which had reached an insider trading settlement in 2014, Schwartz was chosen by the company itself, and approved by an anonymous panel of federal prosecutors, who often do not disclose the names of those picked, he wrote.

Capital reported that dozens of that firm's clients received state tax benefits; Silver declined to say exactly what he did for the firm, citing the pending investigation by federal prosecutors, but has long maintained he properly declares his outside income.

The papers, which respond to arguments raised by the attorney of the former aide, Joe Percoco, push back against claims federal prosecutors did not provide defense lawyers enough time to respond before the trial begins early next year.

In addition to being scrutinized by federal prosecutors over his Moreland role, he's made almost as many personal enemies as did Eliot Spitzer, an irony given that Cuomo recognized that Spitzer's arrogance left him with no friends when he needed them most.

In an unusual step that county Democrats say is politically motivated, a former Rensselaer County prosecutor wrote a letter to the Justice Department earlier this year asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether District Attorney Richard McNally had improperly ended the grand jury probe that was started by McNally's predecessor, Patricia DeAngelis, a Republican who did not seek re-election in 2007.

The Feds put the squeeze on Jason, but he's not going to do the same to some other innocent, and big papa John cuts his own deal with the federal prosecutor, Joanne Keegan (Sarandon, Cloud Atlas), that will reduce Jason's sentence — by catching a big fish drug dealer on his own.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;