Sentences with phrase «fraud trial of»

The fraud trial of John Bernard Felderhof began in a downtown Toronto courtroom in the fall of 2000.

With the current ongoing fraud trial of Senator Mike Duffy, we have seen the consequences these cases can have on a public figure.

Former Autonomy CFO US fraud trial underway The long running federal fraud trial of former Autonomy chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain is now well underway in San Francisco Northern California district court and scheduled to run into late April.

«The defendant tried to bribe his way onto the ballot for New York City mayor,» said Douglas B. Bloom, an assistant United States attorney, as the bribery and wire fraud trial of Mr. Smith and two other defendants got underway before a 12 - person jury in a federal courthouse in White Plains.

Justice Babatunde Quadri of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja has adjourned to November 15 and 16, 2017 the N1.35 billion fraud trial of erstwhile governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido.

Prosecutors wrapped up their closing arguments Monday in the tax evasion and fraud trial of former Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown (Fla.) by telling jurors the evidence overwhelmingly shows that Brown used her «charitable organization'to illegally benefit herself and staffers.

These allegations are contained in court papers in the upcoming mortgage fraud trial of George Guldi, a former Suffolk County legislator.

NEW YORK — The fraud trial of two former aides to City Comptroller John Liu has been delayed after questions emerged about the mental health of one of the aides, according to a report.

Terseer Chogah, a witness in the alleged N9.79 billion fraud trial of former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam, on Thursday narrated how N450 million was withdrawn for running of the Benue State Government House.

The absence of a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday stalled the N1.7 billion fraud trial of Kayode Odukoya, the Managing Director of FirstNation Airline.

Several potential jurors at the federal securities fraud trial of Martin «Pharma Bro» Shkreli were excused after telling the judge they couldn't be impartial toward the flamboyant former pharmaceutical CEO because of his notoriety for raising the cost of a life - saving drug 5,000 percent.

Not exact matches

In another case, Detroit body broker Arthur Rathburn is scheduled to stand trial in January for fraud, accused of supplying unsuspecting doctors with body parts infected with hepatitis and HIV for use in training seminars.

NEW YORK, April 17 - The judge overseeing the $ 1 billion fraud case of defunct New York hedge fund firm Platinum Partners has ordered a separate trial for a defendant planning to argue that Platinum Chief Investment Officer Mark Nordlicht and other defendants were guilty as charged.

Wu Xiaohui, the former chairman of China's Anbang Insurance, has changed course and requested leniency at the end of his high - profile trial in Shanghai for alleged economic crimes such as fraud and a $ 10 billion embezzlement.

Berlusconi, who has been sentenced for tax fraud and is on trial accused of having sex with an under - aged prostitute, is reported to have made rude remarks about Merkel's appearance in a phone call wiretapped by investigators, though he denies this.

The carmaker had sought to delay the consumer - fraud trials because of comments made by Melkersen, including remarks in a Netflix documentary where he compared emissions testing on monkeys to the Nazi use of poison gas in World War II.

NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters)- The judge overseeing the $ 1 billion fraud case of defunct New York hedge fund firm Platinum Partners has ordered a separate trial for a defendant planning to argue that Platinum Chief Investment Officer Mark Nordlicht and other defendants were guilty as charged.

«Nearly a decade of investigation and Lanham's trial have shown that Verizon was not responsible for Lanham's fraud,» a spokesman says.

So they listened as a dozen lawyers debated whether records of conversations the two men had had with another group of lawyers years earlier could be used against them at their looming fraud trial.

In 2010, the Supreme Court said one of his convictions was flawed when it sharply curtailed the use of the «honest services» fraud law, and told a lower court to decide whether he deserved a new trial.

Mining services entrepreneurs Peter Bartlett and Ron Sayers face the prospect of a new trial next year after a jury was unable to reach a verdict on tax fraud charges.

Adoboli was convicted of fraud in November 2012 and spent around nine months incarcerated while he waited for his trial.

«That one phone call took down this massive fraud network,» said Conor Mulroe, a Department of Justice trial attorney, who prosecuted the case.

He was arrested in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2015 on suspicion of accounting fraud, and extradited back to the US to face trial.

March 15 — A state appeals court has affirmed the verdict and damages in a Marin County fraud trial involving a group of former employees at Fireman's Fund Insurance Co..

Jesse Eisinger, writing for the New Yorker, reported that the SEC attorney, James Kidney, who was in charge of bringing the ABACUS case to trial, wrote in an email to his boss at the SEC that it was an «unbelievable fraud.»

Judge Terrence Nealon recently rejected some Wells Fargo objections to the suit, including breach - of - contract and fraud allegations, potentially moving the case toward trial.

Charged with fraud and embezzlement and facing a 10 - year prison sentence, he went on trial in March in the Podolsk City Court, just south of Moscow.

Manafort, who faces two federal indictments, seeks a hearing about the source of leaked information that he said interferes with his right to a fair trial in Alexandria, Virginia, where Special Counsel Robert Mueller signed an indictment accusing him of bank and tax fraud.

The key to understanding the manipulation of the gold market, this enormous scandal and fraud, is that it can be compared to a murder trial.

In Vietnam, a campaign to crack down on fraud and mismanagement in state - owned energy companies and banks have gathered case, as the country started the high - profile trial of 22 executives of the state oil firm PetroVietnam on Monday.

After a highly publicized five - week jury trial that was the most closely watched of a wave of corporate fraud trials, Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators, and was sentenced in July 2004 to serve a five - month term in a federal correctional facility and a two - year period of supervised release (to include five months of electronic monitoring).

He mentioned the trial of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, vice chair of Trump's voter fraud commission — a trial that, according to Slate's Mark Joseph Stern, revealed that Kobach's «quest to boot thousands of voters off the rolls was a lawless farce.»

Last month Manchester United striker Alexis Sanchez accepted a 16 - month suspended jail sentence for tax fraud in return for avoiding a trial after being accused of using a company based in Malta to receive image rights

A federal judge has decided not to toss out a lawsuit about the constitutionality of Iowa's 6 - year - old «agricultural production facility fraud» statute, meaning the issue will very likely go to trial next year.

DeFrancisco, meanwhile, kept the focus on the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, the former close aide to the governor who is accused of fraud and bribery.

A former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco, will go on trial next month in connection with charges of fraud and receiving bribes.

Mangano — who is scheduled to go on trial, along with his spouse, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto March 12 — has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy, bribery and wire fraud.

Dec. 5, 2017: A federal judge delays for two months the corruption trial of the Manganos and Venditto because Venditto's attorneys said they needed more time to prepare to fight the additional securities fraud charges.

Last week disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty of multiple counts of fraud in his second trial.

Former State University of New York Polytechnic Institute head Alain Kaloyeros» trial is set for June, allegedly for his involvement in a fraud and bribery scheme in connection with the governor's Buffalo Billion economic development initiative.

To the growing annals of New York corruption trial history, enter Tuesday, March 13: the day a long - deliberating jury found Joseph Percoco guilty of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and solicitation of bribes (he was also found not guilty of other charges).

He said making noise in the media about discovery of fraud was different from being able to prove allegations of fraud in the court, adding that «The President and his men should stop the media trial and playing with bogus figures.

The ongoing trial of a former Director - General of NIMASA, Patrick Akpolobokemi, charged with N3.4 billion fraud was on Monday in Lagos adjourned until March...

The trial of Joe Percoco, who faces fraud and bribery charges, is not expected to be delayed by the federal government shutdown, at least for now.

A legal practitioner, Kingsley Ekwem, on Tuesday declined to testify as a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and two others facing trial for alleged N2.9 bn fraud.

A judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in the federal corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey who faced 18 counts of bribery, fraud, and corruption.

Orji made the revelation during the trial of Akpobolokemi and five others on a 13 - count of stealing and fraud proffered against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

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 Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday commenced afresh, for the fifth time, the trial of a former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc, Francis Atuche, accused of N125bn banking fraud.