Sentences with phrase «focused on federal charges»

The testimony of the law firm's founders, along with that of six other witnesses on Wednesday, was focused on federal charges that Silver improperly received more than $ 3 million from legal settlements and verdicts won by Weitz & Luxenberg on behalf of mesothelioma patients that Silver had referred to the firm.

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Cuomo says the process used for awarding contracts to private developers, which is now the focus on federal bid rigging charges, was created before he was governor.

The charges focus specifically on Mr. Silver's use of the U.S. mail system and wire exchanges, which give the federal government and Mr. Bharara jurisdiction for the charges, to allegedly send fraudulent documents in his effort to perpetrate the scheme and to conceal it from the legislature's Ethics Commission and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's short - lived anti-corruption Moreland Commission.

Democrat Laura Curran — who won her primary decisively on Tuesday — and Republican Jack Martins each kicked off the race to Nov. 7 by releasing television ads focused on proposals to restore trust in government after the arrest last year of Republican County Executive Edward Mangano on federal corruption charges.

Singas has focused on Nassau's procurement system since last spring, when former State Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) and his son, Adam, were charged in a federal corruption case that related in part to the influencing of a Nassau County contract.

Saladino was appointed on Jan. 31 to fill out the remainder of former Supervisor John Venditto's term after he resigned to focus on his legal defense of federal corruption charges.

A half - dozen Democrats jumped into the race after Republican councilman Dan Halloran announced he would not seek re-election and instead focus on defending himself against a federal corruption charge.

The former head of the Enfield Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization focused on revitalizing the Thompsonville section of town, pleaded guilty Friday to a federal corruption charge in U.S. District Court in New Haven.

The proceedings in the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan will focus on bribery and other charges against Governor Cuomo's former closest aide, Joseph Percoco.

Last month, Halloran said he would not seek re-election for the northeast Queens Council seat so he could focus his attention on clearing his name after being arrested on charges of federal corruption.

«The U.S. attorney in Manhattan generally believes Albany is corrupt and that the politicians are not acting in the public interest, so that's the area where he is going to focus,» said lawyer Bradley Simon, a former federal prosecutor who represented ex-state Controller Alan Hevesi on corruption charges.

Cuomo says the process used for awarding contracts to private developers, which is now the focus on federal bid - rigging charges, was created before he was governor.

Currently 20 different federal agencies oversee some 140 ocean protection laws; Obama has charged his task force with pulling together all the different authorities and laws to focus attention on addressing the most serious challenges facing the oceans and those who manage them.

And once again, NFMS, the federal agency in charge of protecting the orca whales from the real threats that include declining salmon, elevated toxin levels, and brain - hemorrhaging sonar, prefers to focus its attention and our tax dollars on the dangers of sea kayak tours in the San Juan Islands.

Sandy focuses exclusively on criminal defense of those charged with state and federal crimes.

With over ten years of litigation experience, Daniela Pavuk has in recent years focused her practice on employment - related matters, including wage and hour disputes, discrimination charges, and wrongful termination matters in administrative proceedings (the Human Rights Bureau, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Unemployment Insurance Division) and in courts on the state and federal level in Montana and North Dakota.