Sentences with phrase «federal jury last»

A federal jury last week convicted Silver of the crimes, which centered on having real - estate developers seeking help from the state steer hundreds of thousands of dollars in referral fees to his legal practice.

A federal jury last week confirmed some of our worst suspicions about Ramapo when it found the town supervisor guilty of fraud.

Not exact matches

Parnell was convicted last year by a Georgia jury of 72 counts of conspiracy, fraud, and other federal charges.

The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.

Sources close to Silver say he seems no different since a jury last week found him guilty on seven federal corruption counts, and is confident he'll win on appeal.

While the longtime critic of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities late last year won a federal lawsuit affirming his right to criticize the agency he works for, lawyers for the state are seeking to overturn that jury verdict.

But when Walker learned last year of a federal investigation into potential corruption in Nassau County government, including circumstances surrounding the payment, he spoke to the contractor several times «in an attempt to convince the contractor to conceal the existence of the $ 5,000 payment from the grand jury,» according to authorities.

She withdrew from the case last month, citing a conflict because her husband former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry F. Wojtaszek testified in late 2014 before a federal grand jury in Manhattan as part of a related investigation.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez on bribery and corruption charges after an earlier trial ended in a deadlocked jury last fall.

Silver was indicted by a grand jury last week on three counts, after having been arrested in late January and charged with five counts of federal corruption.

Hanging over state business are both the federal corruption trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, which is now in jury deliberations after closing arguments last week and this year's state - level elections, including the race for governor.

A federal jury indicted Hampton last week on charges that he broke conflict - of - interest laws because he contacted his former boss, Sen. John Ensign (R - Nev.)

A jury found Silver guilty on all seven charges against him in a federal corruption trial that lasted five - weeks.

Cuomo has announced his intention to run for re-election again in 2018, a plan that may face complications after a federal grand jury indicted a raft of his closest former aides and donors on corruption charges last week.

On a Thursday night in the midst of his testimony that lasted a week, marshals went to Howe's hotel last month and brought him to a federal jail in Manhattan after Howe admitting that day before the jury that he might have violated the terms of his cooperating deal by his 2016 attempt to get a hotel tab erased from his credit card.

A federal grand jury indicted the Skelos» on the same counts as those outlined in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara last month — one count of conspiracy to commit extortion, one count of conspiracy to commit fraud, two counts of fraud and two counts of solicitation of bribes or gratuities.

The investigation, which is being led by the U.S. Department of Labor, was revealed last month when a federal grand jury subpoena was sent to the Rockland County PEF union formerly headed by Deborah J. Lee, whose purchases first drew scrutiny within her union's ranks two years ago.

But last month, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the convictions, ruling that jury instructions hadn't reflected a later U.S. Supreme Court finding that narrowed federal corruption laws, requiring officials to exercise power instead of just make a phone call or set up a meeting.

A federal grand jury indicted Manafort and a former business associate, Rick Gates, last week.

The company was described but not named in a federal indictment returned by a Manhattan grand jury last week.

A federal grand jury voted to indict former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today on fraud and extortion charges, the allegations at the center of his arrest last month.

But White Plains federal Judge Kenneth Karas said such evidence would confuse the jury because, if true, it's a «completely different scheme» than for what Smith will be on trial beginning Jan. 5 when he faces corruption charges for allegedly trying to buy his way onto the Republican line for mayor last year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio fulminated against his two favorite targets — reporters and the rich — when pressed with questions today about the news last night that state and federal grand juries are hearing evidence regarding his political fundraising efforts.

But last year, Joseph Bruno, the former GOP leader of New York's Senate, was acquitted of federal corruption charges after prosecutors failed to convince a jury that the Rensselaer County Republican's payments from a businessman who received state grants amounted to a quid pro quo bribery scheme.

In the meantime, Assemblyman Karim Camara, chair of Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus, said the group sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder last month asking that the Department of Justice launch a full investigation into whether Graham's civil rights were violated and to determine whether a federal grand jury should be convened.

Speaking for the first time since Comptroller Scott Stringer announced the settlement late Monday, the family and Sharpton said they would continue with efforts to have federal prosecutors indict officer Pantaleo after a Staten Island grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against him last year.

The trial judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan, has already denied one defense motion, filed last month, asking her to acquit Mr. Silver even before the jury received the case.

But today a jury found him guilty today of accusations leveled last year that he had knowingly made false statements to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and had threatened to «take out» witnesses who had threatened to testify against him.

Last week, a federal jury deadlocked on a claim by the University of California (UC) that South San Francisco biotech giant Genentech had infringed the university's patent on the gene for human growth hormone.

A federal grand jury last month indicted Dan Peavy on 42 counts of conspiracy, bribery, extortion, money laundering, and falsification of income - tax returns.

The full realization of the trouble he had made for himself probably came one day last September when he appeared, under subpoena, before a federal grand jury in Fort Smith, Ark., that was investigating possible tampering with a federal witness.

A federal appeals court vacated the conviction last year, however, because jury instructions didn't reflect a later U.S. Supreme Court decision narrowing the meaning of official acts that can support a federal bribery conviction.

In a highly publicised decision that caught most music industry watchers off guard, a federal jury in Minneapolis last week handed the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) an unprecedented and overwhelming victory in the form of a $ 1.92 Million (U.S.) award against a mother of four for allegedly file - sharing 24 songs.

On his New York Personal Injury Law Blog, Eric Turkewitz writes that although Houston criminal defense attorney Mark Bennett is «live - twittering» today (here) while his protege picks a jury, at least one federal court ruled just last week that the federal rules prohibit tweets from court.

Last year, a U.S. federal jury in California ruled that Samsung violated some of Apple's patents and awarded the company based in Cupertino, Calif., damages of nearly $ 1 billion.