Sentences with phrase «federal convictions overturned»

In an attempt to put this sordid situation in context, Cahill also noted that former speaker Mel Miller and former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno had federal convictions overturned by appeals courts.

Not exact matches

The defense has raised concerns that this prosecution may be violating the fifth amendment of the constitution since the former employee had already served time for the matter before his federal conviction was overturned, the New York Times reported.

While a White House petition has reached the requisite 100,000 signatures to force a response, President Obama issued a statement, noting that the federal government could not overturn Avery's state conviction (and, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has said he has no plans to issue a pardon).

An appeals court has upheld a ruling by a federal judge that effectively overturned his conviction in the sexual assault and murder of Teresa Halbach more than 10 years ago.

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.

The overturning of Skelos's 2015 conviction comes 10 weeks after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction was similarly tossed by a federal judge.

Miller's conviction was overturned on appeal by a unanimous vote of a federal appeals court in 1993.

Last week, former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Lower Manhattan) escaped justice when a federal appeals panel overturned his conviction for accepting bribes and money - laundering.

Former state Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam saw their federal corruption convictions overturned by a federal appeals court panel Tuesday.

The 2d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the conviction of Skelos and his son Adam for using Dean's influence to extort financial benefits for Adam had to be overturned because the jury charge didn't comply with a new Supreme Court ruling narrowing federal anti-corruption laws.

The corruption conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was overturned Thursday on a technicality by a federal appeals court.

Reactions are rolling in to the surprise news this morning that a federal appeals court has overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, based on a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, involving a former Republican governor of Virginia, that narrowed the definition of what kind of official conduct is prosecutable.

Last year, a federal appeals court overturned both lawmakers» convictions, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed...

A federal appellate court on Tuesday overturned Skelos» conviction.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver can stay out of jail while fighting to overturn his corruption conviction, a Manhattan federal court judge ruled Thursday.

Meanwhile, the former top legislative leaders in the Senate and Assembly are being retried by federal prosecutors after their corruption convictions were overturned.

Skelos along with his son had his conviction overturned last year and is awaiting retrial by federal prosecutors.

The corruption conviction of the former New York state Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was overturned Thursday on a technicality by a federal appeals court.

The corruption conviction of the former New York State Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was overturned on a technicality by a federal appeals court.

ALBANY — The corruption convictions of former state Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos and his son Adam B. Skelos were overturned by a federal appellate court on Tuesday in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that retooled the definition of an «official act» as it relates to public corruption.

Because of a July Supreme Court ruling on the «honest services» statute (often used to prosecute allegedly corrupt politicians), former State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's two felony convictions will likely be overturned, federal officials conceded yesterday.

Former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's 2015 corruption conviction has been overturned by a federal appeals court.

On this week's Gazette: Former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's 2015 corruption conviction has been overturned by a federal appeals court, the city of Albany partners with the Nature Conservancy on a carbon agreement and we speak with a Democrat challenging Republican Congressman Elise Stefanik of New York's 21st District.

Silver's 2015 conviction on corruption charges was overturned last month by a federal appeals court, which remanded the case back to a lower court for retrial.

The documents backing up the dismissal motions contended that the federal bribery law under which the men are charged was in effect declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court last year when it overturned the bribery conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

Manhattan's federal appeals court has since overturned the conviction amid questions about the jury instructions, which failed to adhere to the high court's recent definition of bribery.

The conviction of Republican former Sen. Tom Libous was reversed by a federal appeals court and ordered a $ 50,000 fine be overturned, the attorney for the late Binghamton lawmaker on Tuesday announced.

Also at 10 a.m., arguments in the ongoing effort by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's attorneys to overturn his federal corruption conviction will be heard, federal courthouse, Foley Square, Room 1703, Manhattan.

The former New York Assembly speaker's retrial on federal corruption charges will begin on Monday, after his previous conviction was overturned.

Last year, federal appeals panels overturned convictions of two longtime power brokers, former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, dealing a potential blow to the legacy of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who had earned a fearsome reputation around Albany.

A federal appeals court this morning overturned former Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's 2015 conviction on federal corruption charges.

The conviction was overturned Thursday by a federal appeals court

The federal appeals court relied on last year's Supreme Court decision overturning the conviction of former Virginia Republican governor Bob McDonnell.

The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said the conviction of Skelos and his son Adam for using the father's influence to extort financial benefits for his son had to be overturned because the jury charge didn't comply with a new Supreme Court ruling that narrowed federal anti-corruption laws.

A U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned the federal corruption conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, much as it did in July for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

A Manhattan federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the corruption conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, knocking down a second pillar of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's cleanup Albany campaign on the same grounds it reversed former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction a few months ago.

The corruption convictions of former state Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, were overturned by a federal appellate court in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that retooled the definition of an «official act» as it relates to public corruption.

That explains why Curran has been consistently trying to tie Martins to the man whose seat both candidates are trying to win, retiring Republican County Executive Ed Mangano, who opted not to seek re-election as he fights federal corruption charges; as well as former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, another Long Island Republican felled by a federal corruption case, (though his conviction was overturned due to a U.S. Supreme Court decision).

She released a new TV ad today that continues her ongoing effort to link Martins with disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who lost his job in a federal corruption scandal — though his conviction was recently overturned, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» in connection with public corruption.

At 10:30 a.m., Rep. Tom Suozzi will host a tele - press conference call to announce the introduction of his bipartisan bill, the Close Official Acts Loophole (COAL) Act, in response to the overturning of federal corruption convictions of two ex-state legislative leaders.

The poll comes amid the news that the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been overturned by a federal appeals court.

Ganim was back in federal court on Wednesday seeking to overturn a decision by the State Elections Enforcement Commission that his conviction makes him ineligible for the state's generous public campaign finance program.

Federal prosecutors said they'll retry Sheldon Silver on corruption charges in light of Thursday's bombshell decision to overturn his conviction — and they're confident he'll be found guilty a second time.

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corruption.

A federal appeals court overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, citing a United States Supreme Court ruling last year that narrowed the definition of the kind of official conduct that can serve as the basis of a corruption prosecution.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The corruption conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was overturned Thursday by a federal appeals court that cited a recent Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the definition of what it takes to convict a public official.

A federal appeals court overturned the conviction in July 2017, but federal prosecutors said they would retry the case.

MANHATTAN — A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of the most powerful men in Albany, for public corruption.

Ex-state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's 2015 corruption conviction was overturned by a federal appeals court Thursday.

A Federal appeals panel yesterday unanimously overturned the fraud conviction of former Assembly Speaker Mel Miller of Brooklyn, agreeing that a tangled real - estate deal in which he and his former law partner netted $ 200,000 did not constitute a crime.