Sentences with phrase «from federal sentencing»

Any federal judge who chooses to deviate from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines must be able to explain that choice.

Defended a mechanical contracting company and its president in a federal bribery investigation arising from an award of United States Post Office construction contracts and obtained a downward departure from federal sentencing guidelines sentence of incarceration to a sentence of probation.

I am hearing a range of post-Booker anecdotal reports from the federal sentencing front - lines.

Punishments for this type of fraud generally stem from the federal sentencing guidelines.

Many of those with pending applications for clemency were convicted long ago of garden - variety crimes and have fully served their time; many others are still serving lengthy mandatory prison terms from which there is no hope of parole (parole having been eliminated from federal sentencing).

Defended an individual after plea - convicted of money - laundering conspiracy for misuse of U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utility Service funds, and obtained a downward departure from federal sentencing guidelines of more than 20 levels, from a substantial sentence of incarceration to a sentence of probation

Not exact matches

The former New York congressman is serving a nearly two - year federal prison sentence following his conviction on charges that stemmed from sexting with a 15 - year - old girl.

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

The decision hinged on a sentence from the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA): «Governments should not substantially burden religious exercise without compelling justification.»

Bernie Sanders and his delegates used their influence to insert the following sentence in the Democratic Platform: «we encourage the federal government to remove marijuana from the list of «Schedule 1 ″ federal controlled substances and to appropriately regulate it, providing a reasoned pathway for future legalization.»

The first sentence stemming from Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling was handed down by a federal judge in Washington.

Edward Walsh, the former politically powerful Suffolk County Conservative Party leader, was sentenced Tuesday to 2 years in prison following his conviction on federal charges of wire fraud and theft of government services for pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Suffolk sheriff's department while golfing, gambling and politicking on county time.

Terry, the influential political operative from Roslyn Heights, pleaded guilty to state and federal tax - fraud charges last year, and is awaiting sentencing in both cases.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he gained from illegal kickback schemes, as well a pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of former Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., who is serving a 14 - year prison sentence for a scheme to take bribes from a carnival promoter.

The former Democratic lawmaker from New York will serve his 21 - month sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts after pleading guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15 - year - old girl.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he stole from the public, as well as pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

He is also supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera — a reformer who ousted Bronx legend Pedro Espada, recently sentenced to federal prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a non-profit he controlled ---- and Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., the scion of another Bronx dynasty who parts ways with his infamous father on gay rights issues.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday and told by a federal judge that he must give back $ 5 million that he stole from the public, as well a pay another $ 1.75 million in fines.

In a speech to a group of New York lawyers, a federal judge from Brooklyn assailed the criminal justice system in which he has worked for more than 40 years, saying that the country had to «jettison the madness of mass incarceration» and find an alternative to overly punitive sentencing to address the problem of crime.

William Scarborough, a former assemblyman from Queens, was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison and two years of supervised release after pleading guilty to corruption charges, federal prosecutors announced.

A single sentence in this year's state budget intended to help fund member items was also responsible for holding up roughly $ 20 million in federal aid to the state Conservation Fund, letters from the Cuomo administration's legal counsel show.

«Consequently, both have been sentenced to reduction in rank; from Corporal to Private Soldiers and 21 days imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) respectively, which includes forfeiture of 21 days pay to the federal government of Nigeria.

A federal judge agreed to delay Dennis Hastert's sentencing in a hush - money case after his attorneys said the former U.S. House Speaker nearly died in November from severe sepsis.

In New York City, without a public schedule, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, whose administration was hit with a subpoena last week on the Buffalo Billion investigation from the same federal prosecutor who got the Silver conviction, issued a brief written statement saying that the Silver sentence sends «a simple message that officials who abuse the public's trust will be held accountable.»

In East Elmhurst, voters were deciding between City Council candidates Hiram Monserrate — who was previously sentenced to federal prison for fraud and removed from the state senate for assaulting his girlfriend — and Assemblyman Francisco Moya.

Former state Senate majority leader Pedro Espada Jr. has asked a New York federal judge to vacate or amend his five - year prison sentence for theft of federal funds from Bronx - based nonprofit health care clinics and for lying on his 2005 personal tax return, claiming his lawyer was subpar.

A federal judge again postponed former Town of Oyster Bay Commissioner Frederick Ippolito's sentencing for tax evasion connected to fees received from a paving contractor, saying that information received from Ippolito and town officials about their relationship with the company was too vague and only raised more questions.

Anthony Weiner is going to serve his sentence at a federal prison in Ayer, Massachusetts, an hour drive from Boston.

A second bill sponsored by Crespo reduces the maximum sentence for misdemeanor offenses by one day from one year to 364 days, an apparent technicality that could potentially spare thousands of immigrants from deportation under federal law over certain lesser offenses.

Leibell, R - Carmel — who pleaded guilty in December to obstructing a federal grand jury that was investigating whether he extorted cash payments from lawyers working in Putnam County and failed to report on his income tax returns tens of thousands of dollars in cash payments he received from those lawyers — was to be sentenced in federal court in White Plains this coming Monday.

He also said he met with federal investigators from the Albany and Manhattan U.S. Attorney offices on May 12 — the same day former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to five years in prison on federal corruption charges.

Carl Kruger, the once - powerful New York State senator from Brooklyn who resigned his office in disgrace and pleaded guilty to corruption charges in December, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday by a federal judge in Manhattan.

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.

Skelos, 68, and Adam, 33, both of Rockville Centre, are scheduled to be sentenced April 13 in Manhattan federal court for conspiring to use Dean's power as Republican majority leader to help Adam get work from a real estate developer, a malpractice insurer and an environmental firm.

Huntley — for whom Wills was chief of staff before his election to Council in 2010 — was released from a federal halfway house in 2014 after serving 10 months of a one - year sentence for stealing $ 87,700 from a separate non-profit she ran.

Huntley is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court after pleading guilty to siphoning $ 87,000 from a sham nonprofit, and she could face 18 to 24 months in prison.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced Anthony Weiner, the Democratic former congressman from New York, to 21 months in prison for exchanging sexually explicit messages with a 15 - year - old girl.

F.B.I. agents confronted the senator with evidence gathered from the wiretap, and she retained a lawyer and then sought to cooperate with the authorities, according to sentencing papers filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn by three assistant United States attorneys: Daniel A. Spector, Paul A. Tuchmann and Alexander A. Solomon.

William F. Boyland Jr., a former state assemblyman from a political dynasty in Brooklyn, was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in federal prison in a high - profile corruption case.

In 2010, Rivera, running as a progressive and a reformer, defeated incumbent Democrat Pedro Espada, Jr., who is now serving a federal prison sentence for the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a health care non-profit he controlled.

Delayed from October due to the lawmaker's cancer treatment, the sentencing fell as former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's federal corruption case was being considered by a jury, and the trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — who worked with Libous to plot the June 2009 coup that derailed the Senate for five weeks — continued.

The federal government finds itself going into battle armed with a tainted weapon — a star witness who is awaiting sentence on eight felonies stemming from the alleged scheme.

Formally barring a researcher from receiving federal funds is usually a professional death sentence, even if the ban is short, he adds.

Impose a sentence of up to 10 years in federal prison for anyone even attempting to a clone a human being, and establish a minimum civil penalty of $ 1 million or three times the gross profits resulting from the violation, whichever is greater;

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The culprit was recently sentenced and banned from federal lands.

Based loosely on a true story that was prominently featured in the PBS series «Frontline», Dwayne Johnson (Fast Five, Get Smart) stars as John Matthews, a construction business - owning father who desperately is trying to save his 18 - year - old son, Jason (Gavron, Breaking and Entering), from going to prison for a huge chunk of his life due to the rigidity of the Federal mandatory sentence drug charges in place.

I would attempt to make sense of staying within - and - among Law - border, after completing terms of sentencing - or - engagement from undefined - work that is / was involved as criminal among State / Federal / Territory, including God.

Vick remains indefinitely suspended, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has not said whether he will reinstate Vick after his July release from the federal penitentiary in Kansas where he is serving a 23 - month sentence for a dogfighting conspiracy.