Sentences with phrase «federal public corruption case»

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

«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.

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, 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.

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.

That ruling, reached six months after the Skeloses were convicted, significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» as it applies to federal bribery statutes and found that, while the McDonnell case was «distasteful,» it did not rise to the level of public corruption.

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.

The field includes Comptroller Kevin Lembo, former Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jonathan Harris, Middletown Mayor Dan Drew, Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim and Chris Mattei, a former federal prosecutor who specialized in public corruption cases.

As The Times Union first reported today, lawyers for former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno filed a slew of documents in federal court seeking to dismiss the second indictment of public corruption charges calling the new case «fatally flawed.»

The coming retrials of two former New York state politicians, Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, are being watched nationwide as test cases of federal prosecutors» ability to win public - corruption convictions under a new legal standard.

From their opening statements, federal prosecutors made clear that their key witness in a major public corruption case, Todd R. Howe, might have credibility issues.

The following table ranks each state based on total convictions and convictions per 10,000 residents of public officials in federal corruption cases between 1976 and 2010.

Wike observed that the Federal Government had forced some public officers accused of corruption to step aside pending the conclusion of their cases while other public officers similarly accused of corruption were allowed to continue with their jobs.

That case — one of his very first as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan — foreshadowed a theme that Mr. Bharara harped on throughout his tenure pursuing a host of public corruption, terrorism, civil rights and Wall Street cases: Politics and prosecution do not mix.

Lawyers for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver are again pressing a federal judge to toss out an indictment on corruption charges due to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's public comments about the case.

A federal appeals court's decision to overturn the convictions of former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver shows how public corruption cases have become much more difficult to substantiate in the wake of a Supreme Court decision narrowing what qualifies as corruption, legal analysts said.

In criminal matters, Mr. Cooper handles white collar criminal cases, including the defense of organizations and individuals targeted for prosecution in federal and state court in false claim, environmental, tax or public corruption investigations.