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Our Sexual Misconduct & Workplace Harassment group includes a number of partners who served as federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's offices, with substantial investigative, law enforcement and trial experience.

Percoco was off the state payroll but used his Manhattan office — near the governor's in the executive chamber — to make calls on 68 days during that period, according to evidence submitted by federal prosecutors at the trial.

The payments are currently being investigated by the office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and federal prosecutors at the office of the Eastern District of New York.

He also spent more than three years as a federal prosecutor at the United States attorney's office in Manhattan, where he focused on insider trading and other financial fraud cases.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

The family's trust in Ms. Veselnitskaya was rewarded in May, when she helped Denis P. Katsyv, Pyotr's son, fight the money laundering claims in New York brought by the Manhattan federal prosecutor at the time, Preet Bharara.

Not exact matches

In fact, that's why prosecutors on each end of this flight, in both Houston and New York, are apparently conducting their own investigations: criminal investigations, which go far beyond what lawmakers at the federal level and in New York state have proposed in the wake of this tragic incident.

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

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.»

At a bail hearing in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, a federal prosecutor revealed that Ross William Ulbricht allegedly ordered the murders of six people, and that more than 450,000 bitcoins of his...

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.

Just what these big payoffs meant for soccer dons wasn't fully known until federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, began unveiling their evidence at the racketeering trial of three former South American soccer officials.

Federal prosecutors have declined to say if they are looking at any other aspects of the case.

Susan Long, a professor of quantitative methods at the school of management at Syracuse University, co-founded a Web data clearinghouse called TRAC, which has been tracking prosecutor referrals from virtually every federal agency for more than a decade.

Jeffrey Cramer, a former federal prosecutor who spent 12 years at the Department of Justice, cautioned against painting the identity of Person A with too broad a brush.

Jeffrey Cramer, a longtime former federal prosecutor who is now the managing director at Berkeley Research Group, emphasized that while Trump's statements on the campaign trail were important to Mueller's case, they were not illegal.

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.

One recent catalyst for change at airport checkpoints was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whom U.S. federal prosecutors accuse of attempting to detonate explosives stashed in his undergarments as Northwest Airlines Flight 253 descended toward Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Dec. 25, 2009.

Alex Whiting, a former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at Harvard Law School, said he found it «striking» that «Mueller seems to be preparing the report with an expectation that it will eventually become public.»

Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, now a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, noted that the bar for wiretapping a suspect is high, even more so when the target is a lawyer.

Retrophin also disclosed it had received subpoenas from federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, a clear sign that authorities were interested in possible criminal conduct at the company.

Federal prosecutors also said they expect to begin handing over copies of all the documents and other material they seized to Cohen and his attorneys starting April 27, with plans to finish handing over most of the material by May 11, with the exception of several cellphones, which are locked and likely have to be decrypted by experts at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.

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Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to bring criminal charges against members of the WikiLeaks organization, taking a second look at a 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents and investigating whether the group bears criminal responsibility for the more recent revelation of sensitive CIA cyber-tools, according to people familiar with the case.

Two partners at the hedge fund Deerfield Management and two others were found guilty on Thursday of charges stemming from what prosecutors have described as an insider trading scheme based on leaks from within a federal healthcare agency.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Two partners at the hedge fund Deerfield Management and two others were found guilty on Thursday of charges stemming from what prosecutors have described as an insider trading scheme based on leaks from within a federal healthcare agency.

Former federal prosecutor Jonathan Biran, who is now in private practice at Rifkin Weiner Livingston, said it is possible that investigators already know what Giuliani revealed publicly Wednesday and that his TV appearances were merely an attempt at «trying to get out in front of it.»

Harmon is a former federal prosecutor who heads the anticorruption practice at King & Spalding.

In the ongoing corruption scandal embroiling college basketball for months, federal prosecutors in New York added charges on Tuesday against a former Adidas rep, Jim Gatto, which allege payments to families of players at four universities.

Manhattan federal prosecutors told the judge who sentenced Dean and Adam Skelos last week that the government won't push for them to go to prison until at least three - plus months after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pending case on anti-corruption laws.

Melvin Lowe, a former top political aide to the indicted Sen. John Sampson whose job was nebulous — at best — is being eyed by federal prosecutors as part of a mushrooming corruption probe.

Federal prosecutors rested their corruption case against Joe Percoco today, but first displayed a series of emails intended to show the power the former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo wielded at the highest levels of state governments.

During Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, defense attorneys have now tried at least twice to suggest heavy handed tactics on the part of prosecutors to cajole witnesses into cooperating with their case.

A federal prosecutor Wednesday said that the government and the defense are having discussions aimed at a plea deal that would resolve the bribery case of Long Island restaurateur Harendra Singh.

At the time of the meeting, Cohen was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in New York, who still are probing a $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump.»

Howe admitted he lied to the credit card company about a stay in New York at the time he was cooperating with federal prosecutors in the corruption case.

Jimmy Meng, a former Flushing state assemblyman and father of current Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing), was arrested on charges of wire fraud in an FBI sting operation after he accepted a fruit basket containing $ 80,000 in bribery money Tuesday afternoon at his Flushing - based company, according to federal prosecutors.

Though the town board passed resolutions in 2014 declaring that independent reviews showed Singh's companies had spent at least $ 11.7 million, the independent reviews provided by the town only account for $ 5.6 million and federal prosecutors said Singh diverted loan money elsewhere.

The unique problem posed by Bharara is that few of the tools Cuomo typically uses to beat back problems (and opponents) will be at his disposal when it comes to dealing with the federal prosecutor.

For nearly a decade, federal prosecutors said, a former top official at the Staten Island DA» soffice used his agency's American Express card to buy himself and his family more than $ 400,000 in luxury gifts, resort vacations, even an extensive knife collection, hiding the transactions by logging them under the internal billing code his office used to pay informants and conduct surveillance operations.

Mukasey, a former federal prosecutor, is currently the head of the white - collar defense practice at Greenberg Traurig, where he is a partner with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who's a close ally of President Donald Trump.

At issue was whether federal prosecutors could enter into evidence some of the legal fees the county paid the politically connected firm after Mangano, a Republican, was elected county executive.

Clinton, appearing with Nassau Democrats in Elmont at a rally to support his wife Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, cited Kaminsky's six years as a federal prosecutor and his work during his first term in the assembly.

Federal prosecutors say there was no such thing as a «wall» between Sen. Dean Skelos and clients at Ruskin, Moscou Faltischek, the Uniondale firm that employed him, despite claims to the contrary.

Federal prosecutors claim that Libous lied about using his influence as a state senator to boost his son's salary at a Westchester law firm.

Federal prosecutors, state district attorneys, reform organizations, and members of the general public testified at the hearing.

They also are seeking more oversight, after the state - funded construction of SolarCity's plant at RiverBend became the target of federal prosecutors over how the project was awarded.

Though officials at Denenberg's former firm say they have forwarded the matter to federal prosecutors, Blakeman spokesman Matt Coleman questioned whether it should be the DA's office to investigate Denenberg.

Prosecutors played more than two dozen phone conversations Tuesday at the federal trial of Adam Skelos and his father, Sen. Dean Skelos in Manhattan.