Sentences with phrase «first cooperating witness»

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Attorneys for former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, are again seeking to impugn a cooperating witness who testified against them in their first trial.

Howe, 57, a cooperating witness on his first day on the stand in Manhattan federal court, laid out how he came to be the linchpin of an alleged scheme by two clients to pay more than $ 300,000 in bribes to Percoco — referred to by them in code as «zitti» — to buy influence for an energy company and a Syracuse developer.

Shargel first sought to impugn the reputation of Moses «Mark» Stern, a cooperating witness in the government's investigation.

First he promised the undercover agent and the cooperating witness that he would direct $ 500,000 in state transportation funds to a Rockland project he thought was real, but was in fact fabricated by the feds, the complaint alleged.

«[T] he assertion of privilege over witness first accounts is unhelpful and, frankly, impossible to reconcile with an assertion of a willingness to cooperate.»