Sentences with phrase «down with prosecutors»

Ultimately, Katz can't stomach the idea of sitting down with prosecutors and law enforcement, many of whom «degrade, dehumanize and disrespect» his clients.

The long - anticipated sit - down with prosecutors from Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's office will take place at the Midtown offices of the mayor's lawyer, Barry H. Berke of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, sources said.

The city's Law Department referred The Post's questions about de Blasio's sit down with prosecutors to mayoral spokesman Eric Phillips, who would only say the mayor was questioned in «late December.»

De Blasio left Gracie Mansion at 8:45 a.m. and arrived about 25 minutes later at his lawyer Barry H. Berke's office on Sixth Avenue for the long - anticipated sit - down with prosecutors from US Attorney Preet Bharara's office.

Not exact matches

The point of this — according to the federal prosecutors, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, who are not happy with Sarao — is that by placing all these fake sell orders, Sarao would artificially drive down the price of the E-mini futures.

The 1MDB case has become a signature campaign in the global effort by prosecutors to crack down on kleptocracy and the relative ease with which the superwealthy move their money beyond the oversight of government authorities.

The investigations had appeared to be winding down for the last several weeks after de Blasio met personally with federal prosecutors to discuss the probe.

It requires that each public prosecutor must be appointed with the «concurrence» of the presiding judge of the court, and also sets down objective criteria for the total number of prosecutors (the shortage of whom is another current problem).

The lawyer for embattled ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn reportedly sat down with special prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigators, further indicating that Flynn could be prepping for a plea deal in the expanding investigation into Russian election - meddling.

Prosecutors allege Percoco got the energy company to allegedly hire his wife, Lisa Percoco, for a job as a consultant for $ 90,000 a year and that the Cor officials allegedly bribed him with $ 35,000 in payments in 2014 during a period when he stepped down for eight months from his state job to run Cuomo's re-election campaign.

«It's clear Cuomo and Rice have something to hide, refusing to answer pressing questions as federal prosecutors probe whether the governor shut down his own anti-corruption unit to protect his friends and improperly interfered with its investigations when they hit too close to home,» Short wrote.

«If there's a shooting up in Buffalo, New York, a young unarmed guy is killed by the police up there, a special prosecutor is supposed to swoop down and deal with it but what happens if something breaks out in Brooklyn a week later and it breaks in Syracuse — how is this person supposed to tell the folks up in Buffalo, «Hold on, I'll be back, I've got ta go to Brooklyn?»»

In addition, prosecutors and defense attorneys occasionally would confer with each other, as the prosecutors and the defense hammered down the specifics of a jury charge — the instructions Azrack will give jurors before they begin deliberations.

In hopes of cracking down on «parasitic» opioid dealers, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn at a news conference announced the re-establishment of a stand - alone narcotics bureau with three full - time prosecutors.

Ricardo Morales, the city official who approved lifting deed restrictions that allowed a Lower East Side nursing home to be flipped for luxury condos, was fired just hours after de Blasio's highly anticipated sit - down with federal prosecutors, his attorney confirmed.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- WBEN sat down with Erie County District Attorney John Flynn to recap the highlights and lowlights of his first year as the county's top prosecutor.

Lawyers for the son of Rachel Noerdlinger, a former top de Blasio administration aide, doubled down on accusations that both a prosecutor and a detective «lynched» their client, lying to make manslaughter charges stick with a grand jury.

Lawyers for the son of a former top de Blasio administration aide doubled down on accusations that both a prosecutor and a detective «lynched» their client, lying to make manslaughter charges stick with a grand jury.

This program is designed to target and shut down known drug markets by establishing programs through which police can collaborate with both prosecutors and the general public.

In recent weeks de Blasio acknowledged that he and his lawyers had sat with prosecutors from Vance's office and was scheduled in the coming weeks to sit down with Bharara's office.

When the notoriously temperamental rep decided to carry on his campaign for re-election last year even after his arrest and arraignment by the feds, most insiders expected that he would look to reach a post-November deal with prosecutors that would let him step down from his seat in lieu of doing hard time.

Schneiderman says he's been quiet about the anti-corruption commission shut down by Governor Cuomo and now under federal investigation, because he's cooperating with prosecutors.

McLaughlin, who got his 10 - year sentence reduced to six years after cooperating with prosecutors to bring down other dirty pols, is now out of jail.

Federal prosecutors say On my last trip down to sunny LA I was at a terribly hungover lunch with our Cali - friend Hugo who was meeting me for the first time.

It appears from the motions filed in late January by the state in the Connecticut Coalition of Justice In Education Funding v. Rell lawsuit that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former prosecutor, would prefer to fight schoolchildren in the courtroom than to sit down with plaintiffs and realistically consider the state's options.

After weeks of investigation and planning, humane groups including Humane Society of Parkersburg and the Humane Society of the United States, along with West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection and Woods County, West Virginia sheriff's department and prosecutors, shut down a puppy mill called Whispering Oaks Kennel.

He never «found» it, but he did imaginatively narrow down the possibilities to the ninety - six blues on view, based on legal transcripts from the terrorist - related trials years later: «I was taken aback that almost every prosecutor and defense attorney in the US began their respective opening statements with lengthy descriptions of the clear blue sky on 9/11.»

A week into the trial of three cops in the Sean Bell case, the prosecutors» theory that two of the cops were «acting in concert» when the bridegroom was gunned down in a hail of police bullets is striking a sour note with some observers.

Because robbery is such a serious offense, defendants charged with either form of the felony are looked down upon by all facets of the legal system: judge, prosecutor, and jury.

There were 218,414 cases of insults filed with prosecutors in Germany in 2015, down slightly from 225,098 in 2014, but far above numbers of around 150,000 recorded a decade ago.

A decade ago, Justice France Charbonneau, then a Crown prosecutor with 23 years of trials under her belt, successfully took down the once elusive Hell's Angels boss Maurice «Mom» Boucher, who is now serving a life sentence for the murder of two prison guards.

Smith writes, «A case that was about whether a convicted man is innocent has morphed into an increasingly personal brawl between two heavyweights unwilling to back down — with academics, prosecutors, freedom of the press advocates, and students hanging on the judge's decision.»

Valeant for its part has asked prosecutors to investigate Citron's «completely untrue» allegations alleging its claims are similar to «someone who runs into a crowded theater and falsely yells fire» with a view to opportunistically driving down the company's shorted stock.

(judicial review arising from failures of due process in the Bar's disciplinary arrangements discovered by a report by COIC in 2012; time expired disciplinary judges — whether a tribunal «established by law» under ECHR Art. 6 and Art. 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; whether Art 47 now has direct effect in UK; whether laid down selection process of disciplinary judges had to be followed at all; whether prosecutor could partake in selection process of disciplinary judges; whether a disciplinary judge could properly receive an undisclosed salary from the prosecutor; whether logjam in Visitorial appeals process caused unlawful delay; whether proper Art. 6 security of tenure when BSB sits on committee (COIC) with the power to remove disciplinary judges from the «pool» at will; whether «discreditable» conduct should be defined).

Though the mandatory minimum sentence has been struck down, Crown prosecutors will often oppose bail on the secondary and tertiary grounds (the grounds related to the safety of the public and the confidence in the administration of justice respectively) in cases with persons charged with these type of offences and the penalties of conviction are still severe.

This differs from a criminal case where the state or local prosecutor files the lawsuit, and a guilty person or party is punished with jail time, fines, probation, or a number of other penalties that can be handed down by a judge.

Mr. Feldman sits down with Mr. Reynolds to talk career trajectory, his days as a federal prosecutor, and the drawbacks of email communication.

In the eyes of many people — especially older folks, who aren't as familiar with the world of blogging — being a «blogger» is a step down from jobs I've previously held, such as «federal prosecutor» and «attorney at a major law firm.»

U.S. prosecutors had filed charges against both Vinnik and BTC - e, with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) handing down a $ 110 million fine against the cryptocurrency exchange.