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San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has injected himself into a federal criminal case against the operator of a medical marijuana dispensary, intensifying his standoff with federal prosecutors on cannabis enforcement issues.

ALBANY — Federal prosecutors on Thursday spent roughly four hours trying to pluck facts from Jared Abbruzzese, a horse owner and telecom consultant and Republican fund - raiser who struck a $ 20,000 - a-month consulting agreement with former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, before Bruno's lawyer asked a simpler, pointed question.

Following news reports that the U.S. Justice Department is probing his campaign finances, de Blasio has instructed a lawyer representing his 2013 mayoral campaign, Barry Berke, to call federal prosecutors on the mayor's behalf.

A 28 - year - old Syracuse man has been arrested for allegedly threatening U.S. Rep. John Katko, federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced.

Federal prosecutors on Long Island have continued to look into other areas growing out of the Singh case, according to sources.

Mangano's case is being handled by federal prosecutors on Long Island, overseen by newly appointed U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue.

Mangano and Walker have both been identified in Newsday stories as being under scrutiny in an unrelated corruption probe by federal prosecutors on Long Island stemming from charges against restaurateur Harendra Singh, who was a major campaign contributor to Mangano and others on the Island.

The top two leadership posts in the State Senate has changed hands due former Majority Leader Dean Skelos being forced to step down after being indicted by federal prosecutors on bribery and extortion charges a few months ago.

As attorney general, Sessions would be responsible for directing U.S. federal prosecutors on federal priorities and overseeing the Drug Enforcement Administration.

DiNapoli's office of investigation reached out to federal prosecutor on behalf of the retirement system following Walsh's conviction in March, Sweeney said.

He added, «I served as a federal prosecutor on our border, both at home in New York and in El Paso, Texas.

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...

It's full of quotes from advisers to President Donald Trump — some anonymous, but several on the record — discussing two possibilities: that Michael Cohen will remain «loyal» to Trump, or that the threat of criminal prosecution will cause Cohen to «flip» and cooperate with federal prosecutors against Trump.

Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, told Business Insider on Wednesday that Sanders» comments were not as straightforward as they seemed.

Trump tweeted on Wednesday that Fox News» Sean Hannity would host a «big show» that evening — it ended up featuring a former federal prosecutor, Joseph diGenova, who urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fire Rosenstein.

Nicolas De-Meyer, 40, was identified in an indictment unsealed Wednesday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who say he used a fake name, «Mark Miller,» to sell hundreds of bottles of the stolen wine to a North Carolina wine dealer he had found on the internet from 2014 to 2016.

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.

For example, hedge fund investor Leon Cooperman, who the SEC sued last month for insider trading, has said that federal prosecutors in New Jersey have informed him that they are holding off on pursuing criminal charges until the Supreme Court rules.

A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin - related Ponzi scheme.

The two sides were set to face off in court on Tuesday, but late on Monday a federal judge in Riverside, California, agreed to the government's request to postpone the hearing after U.S. prosecutors said that a «third party» had presented a possible method for opening an encrypted iPhone.

Those who knew Gowdy during his 16 years as a state and federal prosecutor in South Carolina say he also has a gift of the gab and a willingness to tug on jurors» heartstrings.

Just this February, federal prosecutors in Connecticut charged two men with bank fraud based on a «jackpotting» scheme.

The complaint filed on Thursday «appears to be the largest email scam that I've seen,» said Tom Brown, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who is now managing director of Berkeley Research Group's cyber security practice.

The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

On Wednesday, the U.S. federal prosecutors have filed civil lawsuits seeking to seize assets worth more than $ 1 billion, allegedly stolen from Malaysian state fund 1MDB, which has been under investigation for more than a year.

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.

He is a George W. Bush appointee who earned the nickname «Hang «Em High Henry» for his tough - on - crime stand as a federal prosecutor and on the bench.

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.

She worked as a federal prosecutor in New York under then - U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, focusing on white - collar and organized crime.

Tyco picked up half the bill for the Roman - Empire - themed 40th birthday party on the island of Sardinia, attracting the attention of federal prosecutors in Manhattan, The Wall Street Journal reported in 2002.

Gowdy is also a former federal prosecutor who boasts of his work on drug trafficking, bank robberies and child pornography cases.

Blood - testing firm Theranos Inc confirmed on Monday it is under investigation by federal prosecutors and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sessions» early words and actions are consistent with the tough - on - crime reputation the former federal prosecutor cultivated as an Alabama senator, and they foreshadow an unmistakable pivot in critical areas of civil rights, criminal justice and drug policy.

The nation's largest bank is bracing for a lawsuit from federal prosecutors in California who suspect that the bank sold shoddy mortgage securities to investors in the run - up to the financial crisis, according to people briefed on the matter.

More than four years later, Zambada — who currently resides in a federal prison in Milan, Michigan — still has not been tried, in part because of endless wrangling by prosecutors and defense attorneys on the size and scope of the pretrial legal discovery.

«It's the nuclear option,» said Jeffrey Neiman, a lawyer in Florida who was one of the lead prosecutors on the federal government's initial 2009 case against UBS's Swiss bank.

Meanwhile, and separately from Mueller's probe, federal prosecutors and state regulators have both recently sought documents on Kushner Companies» finances.

«Unregulated, unregistered exchanges are a very big concern for the industry and the community broadly,» said Kathryn Haun, a former federal prosecutor who is on the board of the U.S. virtual currency company Coinbase.

Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.

Federal prosecutors in Detroit on Thursday unsealed charges against former Volkswagen AG Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn, accusing him of conspiring to mislead regulators about the German automaker's diesel emissions cheating.

In an interview on Fox News, Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and longtime friend of Trump, said the president knew about the $ 130,000 payment and reimbursed Cohen.

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors in Detroit on Thursday unsealed charges against former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn, accusing him of conspiring to mislead regulators about the German automaker's diesel emissions cheating.

The key question is whether New York prosecutors could find ways of indicting Cohen for crimes different from the ones he was charged for on the federal level.

Earlier, he had denied wrongdoing in a post on InvestorsHub after Retrophin disclosed it had received a subpoena from federal prosecutors and the preliminary findings from its own investigation of Shkreli.

Fried Frank Of Counsel and author of the leading False Claims Act treatise, John T. Boese (on left), and his partner Douglas W. Baruch, offered insightful analysis on two recent Department of Justice policy documents (the «Granston Memo» and the «Brand Memo») and their impact on FCA actions by both qui tam relators and federal prosecutors.

Federal prosecutors said in a court filing Friday the investigation that led them to raid Cohen's offices «largely centers on his personal business dealings» and has been going on for months.

Shkreli, who was arrested Thursday morning on securities fraud charges, has effectively waved a red flag for months in front of federal prosecutors, keeping himself in the media glare with a hugely controversial price hike of a drug that benefits AIDS patients, pregnant women and cancer patients, attacking his critics, including presidential contender Hillary Clinton, and lighting up Twitter with outrageous statements.