Sentences with phrase «for federal corruption cases»

But the mayor appears to have benefited from a high burden of proof for federal corruption cases — made higher by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision — and from the legal advice of his campaign attorney, who structured the Senate contributions to conform to the letter, if not the spirit, of state fundraising laws.

Not exact matches

Attorneys for the co-founders of the Syracuse - based COR Development are urging the federal judge in their corruption case to allow evidence that defends how their clients viewed economic development projects that have come under scrutiny in the investigation.

The guilty verdict in the case of Joe Percoco was coupled with not guilty results for two prominent upstate developers who had also been accused of corruption and bribery by federal prosecutors.

Leibell had asked for leniency in his federal corruption case, suggesting that he instead join some sort of nation - building effort in the Middle East.

A former top adviser for Governor Andrew Cuomo, three executives from LPCiminelli and three other people have been indicted in their federal corruption case.

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.

«For years we have been relying on federal prosecutors to bring the lion's share of corruption cases against state officials,» Kaminsky said.

Lawyers for former state Senate leader Dean Skelos told a federal appeals court in Manhattan that the recent decision reversing the corruption conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has strengthened Skelos» case for same treatment.

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.

Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a Uniondale law firm that employed state Sen. Dean Skelos, who resigned as majority leader this year after he was charged in a federal corruption case, also received three outside counsel contracts within the range just below the approval threshold: for $ 24,000, $ 24,900 and $ 25,000.

This is not the only federal corruption case in which Venditto seems to have gotten little or no payday for town operations that allegedly made others an ill - gotten fortune.

Former federal prosecutor Harry Sandick said Silver's retrial would provide a «laboratory test» for post-McDonnell corruption cases.

The Leaderships of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress are demanding for the resignation of the Minister of State, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, for alleged involved in the handling of the case of corruption against the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Dr. Angela Uwakwem.

Singh, taking the stand for the first time as the government's star witness in its federal corruption case against Mangano, retraced the arc of his life and career to the jury in the Central Islip courtroom.

Newsday reported in January that Spota's top corruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland, is under federal investigation for possible obstruction of justice involving the case of James Burke, the former Suffolk police chief and district attorney's chief investigator who pleaded guilty in February to beating up a suspect and then arranging a cover - up.

Martins noted that he had instantly called for Republican County Executive Edward Mangano to resign last year upon Mangano being charged in a federal corruption case, yet Curran still has not.

In court papers filed Monday in the federal corruption case against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara said he wants to enter into evidence «expressions of concern, surprise and fear shared among the lobbyists and representatives of» real estate developer Glenwood Management.

A federal grand jury is investigating Christopher McPartland, the top corruption prosecutor in the Suffolk County district attorney's office, for possible obstruction of justice charges as an outgrowth of the case against former Suffolk police chief James Burke, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

The bill comes after officials, including Republican County Executive Edward Mangano, who were arrested in federal corruption cases, tapped their campaign funds to pay for their defense, as is allowed by law.

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.

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

«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.

Silver's 2015 conviction on corruption charges was overturned last month by a federal appeals court, which remanded the case back to a lower court for retrial.

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.

Former state Senate leader John Sampson became the latest politician to ask for a review of his corruption conviction based on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week narrowing federal bribery and «honest services fraud» statutes in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

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.

A federal grand jury is investigating Christopher McPartland, the top corruption prosecutor in the Suffolk County district attorney's office, for possible obstruction of justice charges as an outgrowth of the case against former Suffolk police chief James Burke.

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.

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 piece mentioned, among other corruption cases, the upcoming federal trial of former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros, who is alleged to have rigged bids for upstate construction projects through a SUNY - affiliated nonprofit, Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, several years ago.

The majority of the court papers, though, seek to lay out a case for why the approximately two - month federal corruption trial should be brought to Buffalo.

An ongoing federal corruption case that ensnared several members of the governor's inner circle — including his longtime adviser and surrogate brother Joe Percoco — is headed for trial later this year.

The conviction and hefty sentence — the second highest for a state politician convicted of corruption in the past decade — has capped a stellar run of Albany and New York City corruption cases brought by Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara and federal authorities in Brooklyn.

Lawyers for former state Senate leader Dean Skelos told a federal appeals court in Manhattan on Monday that the recent decision reversing the corruption conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has strengthened Skelos» case for same treatment.

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.»

Federal prosecutors in a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni filed Thursday signaled they will present evidence at the corruption trial of a former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo that a Connecticut lobbyist sought an internship for his daughter at the the energy company linked to the case.

Attorneys for former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and three co-defendants in an upcoming Albany corruption trial in Manhattan federal court say a series of posters in the 40 Foley Square courthouse where their clients will be tried features dozens of famous cases from the court's history that could prejudice jurors.

For federal prosecutors, the case will be a test of whether they can still make corruption...

Former state Senate leader John Sampson Tuesday became the latest politician to ask for a review of his corruption conviction based on the Supreme Court's decision last week narrowing federal bribery and «honest services fraud» statutes in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

Attorneys for Sheldon Silver have asked a federal judge to throw out corruption charges against the former Assembly speaker, citing the Supreme Court case that invalidated the convictions of Silver's old counterpart in Albany, former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno.

ALBANY — Federal prosecutors in the corruption case against state Senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, on Thursday filed a 164 - page letter detailing the application for a wiretap against the two defendants.

A federal judge in 2010 sentenced him to 18 months in prison for evading taxes on payments he got from a developer working on government contracts in his legislative district who also was at the center of the New Cassel corruption case the Nassau district attorney's office prosecuted.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has proposed to the National Assembly for an expansion of its options of courts for the prosecution of corruption cases to include Federal High courts.

(CNN)- Lawyers for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich rested their case Wednesday without calling him to testify in his federal corruption trial.

During the discovery stage of the civil lawsuit, Antonacci is asking for access to email records about Mahoney supporter Steven Aiello, a Cor Development Co. executive who faces federal corruption charges in an unrelated criminal case.

Kenneth E. Riddett, who was legislative counsel to the Senate majority for many years, took the stand Tuesday at Bruno's federal trial on corruption charges and spent hours answering questions about the lawmaker's financial disclosure forms that are at the heart of the government's case.

While former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate leader Dean Skelos were convicted in federal corruption cases, any correspondence they may have had with those seeking official favors in exchange for gifts and payments weren't obtainable by the press or average citizens under current FOIL rules.

Outside income was also at the heart of the case against Sheldon Silver, the Manhattan Democrat who served as the Assembly speaker for two decades before being arrested on federal corruption charges in January 2015.

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 day after a federal judge set a trial date for the Buffalo Billion corruption case, Republicans took to the floor of the Assembly to raise concerns about the failure to approve transparency and oversight procedures over billions of dollars spent each year on economic development.