Sentences with phrase «feds who»

If they came to meet with me and I was wearing a suit, they would associate with me with the feds who usually had been the ones who had brought them into custody.

Nonetheless, there has been renewed interest in hemp - farming; since the mid-Nineties, 14 states have passed laws calling for scientific, economic, or environmental studies of the crop, and several states, chief among them North Dakota, have legalized industrial - hemp - farming despite the virtual ban on cultivation imposed by the feds who claim, among other things, that legalized farming would somehow increase marijuana trafficking — despite extensive evidence to the contrary.

The feds who designed the policy?

It's all news to the feds who have set aside $ 280,000 to study the problem.

Not exact matches

Little wonder that supply management will largely remain in place, and that the feds promised a $ 4.3 - billion fund to compensate farmers who might lose out because of the TPP.

Nilsson, who believes he has convincingly linked Vinnik to at least 100,000 more Mt. Gox Bitcoins than the feds allege, still doesn't know whether he helped the government's investigation or simply confirmed its conclusions.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

The realization that the feds have been trying to track Bitcoiners for years is no doubt concerning to anybody who relies on Bitcoin's privacy guarantees (and vindicating to the NSA conspiracy theorists), and it's a good example of how being extremely paranoid doesn't necessarily mean you're completely wrong.

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who joined Trump's legal team late last month, also learned that Trump had called Cohen days after the raids, and told him never to do so again because the call might be recorded by the feds, two sources close to Giuliani told NBC.

What we can learn about the feds» innovation strategy in the upcoming budget from the economist who inspired it

Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein won't get any reduction in his 50 - year federal prison sentence despite arguing he deserved one for cooperating with the feds, who say he lied to them, a judge ruled Monday.

The state gets a lot of money given to it by the feds for the amount of Child support collected simply because they do not need to pay out in welfare and food stamps for custodial parents who do nt want to work or simply cant.

A political operative who wore a wire to help the feds bust Assemblyman Eric Stevenson on public corruption charges admitted he turned off the device at least once to receive oral sex from a prostitute.

This is the same Kruger the feds are investigating for corruption and who got his lofty perch by taking part in the coup that made Albany a national joke last year.

The Democratic pols who got campaign cash from crooked financier Hassan Nemazee — including President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — are being asked to return the dirty money so it can be forfeited to the feds.

The documents contradict statements Cuomo made to the feds in 2016 that he waited until the end of 2014 to ask Percoco — who had left for the private sector in April 2014 — to come back to work for him.

That was just three weeks before McAllister — who pulls down $ 19,000 more annually than Big Apple Police Commissioner James O'Neill — was named an unindicted co-conspirator by the feds in an NYPD corruption scandal that will soon head to court.

Maraio, who is former NYPD and FDNY, earned over $ 364,000 in disability benefits for himself, his wife, and his children starting in 2008 — while also earning $ 450,000 working at a strip club and staffing company, the feds said.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

Ragusa and Isaacs threw their support to supermarket / oil magnate John Catsimatidis, who's been cooperating with the feds in a scandal that also heavily involves Vince Tabone, Ragusa's vice chairman and an employee of both Catsimatidis's Red Apple Group and his campaign.

Smith, the feds say, turned to Moses Stern — a crooked Rockland County developer who was, in fact, a cooperating federal witness — as well as another man he thought was a developer but who was actually an undercover federal agent.

Plus 2 dart boards: one featuring the faces of various feds from several states who maintain Pontoriero & Worth are mob connected, the other sporting the mug of New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi.

«There is a long list of candidates who have been fined before for late reporting who can prove that you just can't beat the feds even if you did join them,» said McMahon campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Nelson.

March 8, 2004: In Syracuse, New York 5 years of EPA prosecutions peak with the trial of Raul and Alexander Salvagno, a father and son combo who feds allege were steeped in asbestos abatement fraud.

The feds also proved Tabone tampered with a potential government witness, Philip Ragusa, who then chaired the borough's GOP, at his home and tried to convince him not to testify at Tabone and Smith's first trial last year.

Also Monday, the feds arrested Sgt. David Villanueva and Officer Richard Ochetal of the NYPD License Division for allegedly taking cash bribes from Brooklyn businessman, Alex Lichtenstein, who wanted gun permits for undeserving applicants paying him as much as $ 18,000 each.

New York state Democratic Party co-chair Keith Wright joked of Castro, who wore a wire for the feds and turned evidence against fellow lawmakers.

Sources and records show Rechnitz became a cooperating witness for the feds after he was snared in yet another bribery case involving Norman Seabrook, the head of the city Correction Officers union, who allegedly received $ 65,000 in bribes in exchange for funneling $ 20 million in union funds into a hedge fund operated by a friend of Rechnitz's, according to sources and court documents.

In a shocking twist, the feds used a state assemblyman, who was indicted in The Bronx for multiple felonies, as a snitch to help take down Stevenson, a former legislative researcher for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, according to the complaint.

Sigfredo Gonzalez, 40, a Throgsneck medical supply salesman who ran unsuccessfully three times for the 79th Assembly District, ended up wearing a wire for the feds and acting as a go - between for bribes from his shady bosses to Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, according to a federal complaint.

The documents also shed light on the latest criminal probe against Spitzer, who stepped down as governor of New York in 2008 after the feds identified him as «Client 9» in a prostitution scandal.

She also tried to drive out James, who ran the school's theater program, by cutting funding to the program and canceling plays before ending it entirely, the feds say.

The nation's air traffic control system is vulnerable to hackers, according to US Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is urging the feds to beef up cybersecurity protections.

Although Bruno is fighting an attempt by the feds to re-try him on corruption charges, he still has a close relationship with a number of senators — particularly his hand - picked replacement, Sen. Roy McDonald, who switched his 2009 «no» vote to a «yes» this time around.

They also didn't say whether Todd Howe, a lobbyist and longtime associate of Cuomo who sources say is also being eyed by the feds, was involved in getting Percoco the work.

The feds say in court papers that Savino could apply to enter the witness protection program as the entrenched ex-politico's cooperation «is likely to reveal activities of individuals who might use violence, force, and intimidation against» him and his family.

Indicted state Sen. John Sampson has been thrown under the bus to the feds by a former top aide who is also in big trouble with the law, new court...

The NYPD called in the feds on that case, which eventually led to Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg — who are suspected of giving gifts to high - ranking cops as part of an illegal quid pro quo, according to sources.

Meanwhile, sources told The Post that NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant was the unidentified «commanding officer» who the feds say introduced Lichtenstein to a sergeant in the License Division, which handles pistol permit applications.

It may come down to who acts first, Espada Jr. or the feds, but Espada is entitled to collect a $ 9 million severance package if he quits his Soundview Health Clinic.

The feds allege he was one of two party officials who accepted bribes to rig the mayoral nomination process.

Two other officers who worked in the License Division have also been charged by the feds with taking bribes to hand out gun permits to unqualified applicants.

The FBI probe began in 2008 and led to the indictment of Brooklyn lawyer and restaurant owner Michael Levites, who was charged on June 24 with lying to the feds.

Singh told jurors said he also pleaded guilty to bribing Mangano, John Venditto and former Oyster Bay deputy town attorney Fred Mei, who secretly pleaded guilty to corruption charges in 2015 as part of a cooperation deal with the feds.

Liu and his campaign have been under a microscope since November, when contributor Oliver Pan was arrested by the feds for allegedly channeling $ 16,000 in illegal donations through stand - in donors, who each gave $ 800.

The feds also intend to repeat their entire case at a new trial against Espada's son, Pedro Gautier Espada, who is charged with a total of eight counts of theft, embezzlement, conspiracy and other charges connected to his work at Soundview and the operation of related firms that provided contractual janitorial services to the health care chain, a source confirmed.

Very recently Ramapo settled a lawsuit with a young woman who did not complete her probationary period with the Ramapo police for almost one - half million even though her complaint was thrown out by the feds.

The feds are looking at undisclosed conflicts of interest and improper lobbying by Howe and Joe Percoco, formerly a top Cuomo administration aide who the governor has likened to a brother.

The police lieutenant who shot himself in the stomach Friday was recently visited by the feds in the NYPD corruption investigation — making him the second cop in five months to turn his weapon on himself after being drawn into the probe.

During a Capital Tonight interview last night, Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan recognized the «triple threat» faced by the state, financially speaking, at the moment: Lower than expected PIT revenues, a $ 4 billion deficit and the feds planning to do «who knows what» when it comes to health care reform.