Sentences with phrase «federal public corruption»

In his criminal litigation practice, he has successfully represented clients involved in high - profile matters such as the U.S. Secret Service prostitution scandal, a federal fraud investigation involving environmental law violations, campaign finance irregularities in the 2010 District of Columbia elections, a CEO involved in a federal public corruption investigation in Michigan, and a company accused of mortgage and credit card fraud.

The government also pointed to the 14 New York State legislators convicted of on federal public corruption charges — including Skelos» three immediate predecessors — over the past decade, claiming a «dire need» to deter such conduct.

These are the «open» seats, as are those in three other races: District 21 Council Member Julissa Ferreras - Copeland announced she would not be running for reelection, opening up her seat for a competitive battle; in District 44, Council Member David Greenfield made a relatively late announcement that he will not seek reelection, but he is expected to be replaced by his chosen successor and close ally Kalman Yeger; and in District 28, Ruben Wills was recently removed from office when he was convicted on federal public corruption charges — there is a crowded competition to replace him.

«This decision illustrates the changing legal landscape which is making it increasingly difficult to obtain and sustain federal public corruption convictions,» Hartunian said.

«This decision illustrates the rapidly changing legal landscape which is making it increasingly difficult to obtain and sustain federal public corruption convictions,» said Hartunian, who will start next month as a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

Not exact matches

I answered the door and was surprised to meet a well - dressed man and woman who introduced themselves as agents of a well - known American federal agency that investigates terrorism, counterintelligence, cybercrime, public corruption, civil rights, organised crime, white - collar crime, violent crime and weapons of mass destruction (and which shall remain unnamed here).

An upstate - downstate divide is just one of several rifts within the conference that have emerged since Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest on federal corruption charges last week touched off a furious round of discussions — both public and private — about whether the Manhattan Democrat is too damaged to continue in his leadership role.

Twice in the past three years, Silver has sat in the same Manhattan federal courtroom and heard opening statements in his public - corruption trial.

FBI officals confim that former Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is un custody after turning himself into federal officials earlier this morning on public corruption charges.

Bharara had risen to prominence as a federal prosecutor in part for his aggressive pursuit of public corruption in city and state government.

First off, he is a former federal prosecutor, so if the idea is to send a public interest crusader to replace Skelos, who was convicted of federal corruption last year, Kaminsky is probably the right guy.

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center for Public Policy, has long been skeptical of the state's SolarCity arrangement, which is now one of the focuses of the federal corruption case.

Close to $ 2 Billion in public funds in play Today's sweeping indictments by federal and state prosecutors resoundingly confirm that the state's use of non-profits and SUNY to award billions in state economic development contracts has created huge and systemic opportunities for corruption.

The speech Wednesday in Albany is expected to touch on issues including public corruption and the federal tax overhaul.

A federal judge is ordering documents from the Sheldon Silver corruption case be unsealed, which an unnamed public figure unsuccessfully sought to keep a secret.

This time the cases of Sheldon Silver, former speaker of the Assembly, and Dean Skelos, former majority leader of the Senate, are being watched nationwide as test cases of federal prosecutors» ability to win public - corruption convictions under a new legal standard.

But as Karen DeWitt reports, there has been little public discussion about a corruption crisis that has led to the two most powerful men in the legislature both on trial in federal court this month.

It will be watched nationwide as a test case, indicating how much federal law has been weakened in public corruption cases.

The federal appellate panel in Manhattan questioned whether Silver's misdeeds qualify as public corruption since the Supreme Court unanimously held that in accepting $ 175,000 in luxury gifts, McDonnell had given little more in return than setting up a few meetings and phone calls.

Bruno since his acquittal has become a critic of the power federal prosecutors wield, especially in white collar and public corruption cases.

«Unfortunately, as a result of a reference in the federal corruption indictment of six public officials and public figures, questions have been raised about the potential involvement of Senator Carlucci.

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.

MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — The former NYPD deputy inspector charged in a public corruption scandal took no part in closing part of the Lincoln Tunnel as a favor to politically connected businessmen, his lawyer said Wednesday during his arraignment.

In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said; «As it still appears, the statement made by the Federal Government on the Halliburton and Siemens corruption scandals may not be more than another decoy to shift the attention of Nigerians from the selective nature of President Buhari's fight against corruption.»

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.

(Reuters)- Lawyers for once - powerful former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver asked a judge on Tuesday to throw out federal corruption charges against him because a top prosecutor made «prejudicial» public statements about his guilt.

Randall W. Jackson, a former federal prosecutor who in 2012 helped to try and convict Larry B. Seabrook, a Democrat who was then a member of the New York City Council, said that in public corruption trials, a defendant had «the potential to change even the physical dynamics of the courtroom.»

Ethel Shelton wept as the jury in her public corruption trial found her guilty Monday in Hammond's federal court.

The chief of public corruption is being investigated by the federal government for public corruption.»

Master will be working on cases involve public corruption, affirmative federal litigation and complex civil litigation, while Haren will be responsible for providing expertise on federal law, federal agencies and internal Congressional workings, per The Daily News, which quoted the attorney general's office spokesman Eric Soufer.

Although Rowland was convicted and spent 10 months in prison on a non-campaign related federal charge, public anger over political corruption in general pushed state lawmakers to pass major campaign reforms.

«If it's a reversal, it's going to make it more difficult for these cases in the future,» said Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor specializing in public corruption and government fraud.

And he'll be running at a time when the Skelos conviction, and ongoing federal and local probes of Nassau County officials, have made public corruption a leading issue in the Senate district.

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver pleaded not guilty today to federal corruption charges as his lawyer accused U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of turning the public against him and undermining his right to a fair trial.

But there has been little public discussion about a corruption crisis that has led to the two most powerful men in the legislature both on trial in federal court this month.

Former New York state Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sitting in his own public - corruption trial Monday afternoon when he learned that a federal jury across the street convicted his longtime colleague, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, of trading his political influence for financial gain.

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.

CNPP conference while demanding that the federal lawmakers apologise to Nigerians for wasting public funds in pursuit of a Social Media Bill meant to shield their dirty dealings from public knowledge, also challenged the federal lawmakers to first pass a legislation that makes corruption a capital offence before trying to secure perpetual immunity for themselves using the Social Media Bill as a cover.

Eventually the associate began working with FBI agents and Brooklyn federal prosecutors probing public corruption.

Three weeks after the Moreland Commission — which Governor Cuomo founded in 2013 — was due to release its report on public corruption in New York State, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal authorities on charges of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks.

Ganim, who's a Democrat, served nearly seven years in federal prison for public corruption.

Randall Eliason, a former prosecutor who specialized in public corruption and government fraud, said an elected official could now demand $ 10,000 for arranging a meeting for a constituent and not run afoul of federal bribery law.

Those proposals include stripping public officials who are convicted of corruption of their pensions, while also new penalties for those who use county committees to circumvent donor limits — another area in which de Blasio has come under scrutiny by federal investigators.

The guilty verdict is another conviction for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York who has led a number of high - profile corruption cases of state lawmakers and public officials.

Federal prosecutors have launched «an assault on the criminal opacity of Albany,» in the words of one Justice Department official, and could take the unusual step of producing a grand - jury report on systemic public corruption in the state Capitol.

Cash - strapped ex-Cuomo aide Joe Percoco, now at the center of a federal corruption probe, submitted resignation papers when he left the public payroll to run the governor's re-election campaign, but then didn't go through with leaving, making his decision to take private consulting clients problematic upon his return.

Following his conviction on federal corruption charges, former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos apparently will qualify for a public pension of up to $ 95,590 a year.

Federal prosecutors, bent on telling a story of public corruption, used cherry - picked evidence, untrustworthy witnesses and innuendo to build a case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, lawyers for the men said in closing arguments yesterday.

Federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to at least 12 years in prison, following his conviction on eight counts of public corruption charges, and asked that Skelos» son, Adam, be sentenced to more than 10 years.

The Supreme Court decision in the McDonnell case is expected to make it more difficult for the federal government to prosecute public corruption cases, a prospect Chief Justice John Roberts challenged in his majority opinion.