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Grimm, a former FBI agent, was elected last November to a third term even though he was under federal indictment at the time.

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But Kathryn Haun, a former federal prosecutor who signed off on the indictment, says Vinnik's use of Bitcoin helps clearly connect him to the crime: «At first blush what seemed unsolvable turned out to be traceable through the use of digital currency.»

Before approving charges, jurors must believe there's enough evidence to believe a crime was committed, and prosecutors don't usually present indictments unless they believe they can prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt at trial, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti wrote Friday.

5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.

Embattled Brooklyn state Assemblywoman Pamela Harris keeps getting paid as a lawmaker, but has been a no - show at the state Capitol ever since her indictment on federal corruption charges this year.

The patients came to Silver from Dr. Robert Taub, a then - Columbia University physician, who in turn received $ 500,000 in state research grants at Silver's direction in a quid pro quo scheme, according to the federal indictment.

Corrupt shitbag and journo tossing enthusiast Congressman Michael Grimm handily beat hapless dumb guy Dominic Recchia despite facing the voters while also staring at a 20 count federal indictment because, duh, Staten Island.

A Buffalo native who worked as a director at QVC is accused of stealing more than $ 1 million from the company in a fraud scheme that funded his luxury lifestyle, according to an indictment unsealed earlier this month by federal prosecutors in Philadelphia.

ALBANY — The federal indictment handed up Thursday against former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, alleges Adam Skelos earned $ 100,000 in payments and health benefits from a no - show job at a medical malpractice insurance firm that was simultaneously lobbying the state.

Grimm, who was hit with a 20 - count federal indictment on fraud and other charges in April stemming from alleged wrongdoing in his ownership of a Manhattan health restaurant prior to his election to congress, told the audience that it was fair for voters to look at that indictment when deciding whether or not to vote for him.

Charles Lavine, at a news conference in Mineola on Monday, May 8, 2017, announced legislation that would prohibit elected officials or political candidates under federal indictment from using campaign funds to pay their legal expenses.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Mr. Grimm is up for re-election this year, but faces a 20 - count federal indictment for allegedly hiring illegal immigrants at a Manhattan restaurant he owned before holding office.

But Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., who is under a federal indictment alleging corruption for a second time, eked out a victory, at just 37 %, because the field contained eight challengers.

Moody's Investors Service is looking at the impact of a federal investigation into loan guarantees made by the Town of Oyster Bay in light of the indictment of restaurateur Harendra Singh, the credit rating agency reported Monday.

And late this morning, a Washington, D.C. source confirmed the information, adding that the target of one federal corruption indictment will include at least one sitting New York State judge and other individuals - all with ties to major banks...

At 3 p.m., former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is due in court on the three - count federal corruption indictment handed up last week, 40 Foley Square, Manhattan.

«This is funny coming from the conference who blocked any chance at passing real ethics reforms, had members leave the Senate facing corruption investigations and has their Deputy under federal indictment,» he said.

To be sure, Ayokunle's indictment of the federal government at a press conference held Friday, April 21, 2017 in Abuja ahead of the 104th annual session of the Nigerian Baptist Convention came on the heels of the launch of Harbin Kunama II (Scorpion Sting) at a forest between Kagoro and Kafanchan, southern part of Kaduna State by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai.

Wike, who spoke at the Government House in Port Harcourt, when he hosted a group of social media influencers to a state dinner, described Amaechi's comment on the recent killings in Omoku as an indictment of security heads posted to the state by the All Progressives Congress - led Federal Government.

Company founder and former CEO Louis P. Ciminelli is under federal indictment, along with two of his executives, for alleged bid - rigging and bribery in a public corruption case that stemmed from the state's Buffalo Billion project at RiverBend.

DEVELOPING... INDICTMENT: GRIMM HID $ 1M IN RESTAURANT SALES, WAGES... Rep. Michael Grimm, R - New York, failed to report more than $ 1 million in sales and wages at a Manhattan restaurant he once ran, using unreported cash to pay workers off the books, evade taxes, and «keep more money for himself,» according to federal prosecutors.

«Early on, this race looked like it was going to be one of the closest in the state, a former Democratic City Council member taking on an embattled incumbent Republican under federal indictment in a district that is, at least by enrollment, dominated by Democrats,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said in a statement.

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.

The indictment also names former town public works Commissioner Frank Antetomaso, 77, of Massapequa, and ex-town planning and development Commissioner Frederick Ippolito, who died earlier this month at age 78 in federal prison after the special grand jury already had voted, sources said.

Gov. Cuomo raised eyebrows last week among even some close to him when he appeared at an event on Long Island with lame - duck Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, a Republican who is under indictment on federal corruption charges.

The reduction may be an aberration, though it occurred during a session that included federal indictments against the Legislature's top two leaders, which seemed to blunt the donations from at least one major donor.

You'll recall that Democrats, particularly those in Washington, D.C., thought they had a pretty good shot at unseating Grimm, who is under federal indictment and who had garnered a truckload of bad press.

Congressman Michael Grimm — who is under a 20 - count federal indictment and famous for threatening on camera to throw a reporter off a balcony — cruised to re-election Tuesday night, beating Democratic challenger Domenic Recchia Jr. by 13 points at the end of race that was more of a circus.

Deputy Majority Leader Thomas Libous, also under indictment for allegedly lying to federal investigators, told Gannett last week he expects to return to work but that when he would appear in Albany this year, if at all, is unclear.

Nine Iranians working on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hacked the computers of 7998 professors at 320 universities around the world over the past 5 years, an indictment filed by a federal grand jury alleges.

► «Last week, federal prosecutors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, announced the indictments of biomedical researchers Yu Xue and Lucy Xi, as well as three associates, for trade secrets theft, wire fraud, and other charges,» Mara Hvistendahl reported Tuesday at ScienceInsider.

The indictment offers more detail about government breaches, noting that hacks in the United States occurred in the states of Hawaii and Indiana, as well as at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Department of Labor, both in Washington, D.C..

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On Feb. 16 at his blog Crime & Federalism, he noted the indictment of a Connecticut lawyer «in what appears to be a test case of a Sarbanes - Oxley amendment to the federal criminal code.»

These include: United States v. Resendiz - Ponce, which presents the question whether the omission of an element from a federal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture ofederal indictment can constitute harmless error (9th Circuit says no); Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., on whether a provider of pay phone services can sue a long distance carrier for alleged violations of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture oFederal Communications Commission's regulations concerning compensation for coinless pay phone calls (9th Circuit says yes); Cunningham v. California, a sentencing case involving whether whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the 6th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by permitting California state court judges at sentencing to impose enhanced sentenced based on their determination of facts neither found by the jury nor admitted by the defendant; and Carey v. Musladin, reviewing the 9th Circuit's decision to overturn a murder conviction of a defendant who claimed he was denied a fair trial because the victim's relatives appeared in court wearing buttons with the deceased's picture on them.

Our skilled lawyers have achieved success in many cases by heading off indictments with early legal defense intervention, and are well - practiced at negotiating with federal prosecutors to keep cases at the state level, where penalties are lighter.