Sentences with phrase «gotten guilty pleas»

Mueller's team has either indicted or gotten guilty pleas from 19 people and three companies so far.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has either indicted or gotten guilty pleas from 19 people and three companies so far — with most of those being announced just in the past few weeks.

Although in the civil enforcement action the SEC got a $ 12 million default judgment, the U.S. Attorney got a guilty plea for one good, old - fashioned count of wire fraud.

Craig has said that he intends to resign if he can't get his guilty plea withdrawn by Sept. 30 and clear his name.

«If you have it on the books, you have leverage to get guilty pleas.»

Not exact matches

Ellner's firm got the work despite his October 1997 guilty plea on tax evasion, for which he was sentenced to 1 month in prison and 3 years» supervised release, as well as a $ 5,000 fine, court records show.

But in the judge's chambers, before things got started, he tried to change his plea to «not guilty.»

McMahon, who served the Staten Island / Brooklyn district for one term beginning in 2009, told the Washington newspaper that as Grimm (R - Staten Island / Brooklyn) enters a guilty plea to felony tax fraud in Brooklyn court Tuesday, he has been getting a lot of calls from people interested in seeing him run for the seat.

In the county where Dee lives, the district attorney, a slimy pol named Calvin Beckett (Michael O'Keefe), has long made local African Americans the target of indiscriminate drug sweeps, assuming that poor black people in the projects will plead out even if they're innocent just to get out of jail, not realizing that the guilty plea brands them as felons and opens up a host of other troubles in getting housing, jobs, etc..

In plea deal, youth gets 21 years for killing gay teen Brandon McInerney avoids a retrial by pleading guilty to shooting Larry King.

The little - known placement agents moved into the national spotlight last year when New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo revealed a «pay - to - play» scandal, payments to get pension fund investments, resulting in five guilty pleas so far.

'' Blog Scan from Crime and Consequences Blog Consequences of a Guilty Plea: Adam Schlossman posts in SCOTUSblog's Monday Round - up a link to Tony Mauro's National Law Journal article «Do Defendant's Get Enough Warning About a Guilty Plea's Consequences?»

Last year, the Illinois Innocence Project assisted in the passage of a law, which for the first time in Illinois allows those convicted by a guilty plea to go to court to get evidence tested that might exonerate them because they are innocent.

When you are suspected of committing a criminal traffic offense, you get charged in a criminal court and must choose to defend yourself or enter a guilty plea.

Don't just accept a guilty plea; get the best legal counsel possible with the help of a murder defense attorney at Lerner and Rowe Law Group.

At Butler & Company we do whatever we can to get the lowest possible sentence for our client in the event of a guilty plea or finding of guilt.

So I get my summons to City of Atlanta Municipal Court and I know that if I am found guilty or plea that 3 points will be added to my license and my insurance rates will go up.

Are there «classes» or types of criminal defense lawyers (like those who cop a plea and make a buck versus those who get crushed when the jury returns a guilty verdict)?

If they get a guilty conviction or a plea with an order of restitution, you win without having to file a suit.

Because points on your license can lead to an insurance premium increase, if you get a traffic ticket, you may wish to think about plea bargaining the ticket or even pleading not guilty and trying to get the ticket dropped.

After getting in touch with the proper agency, you'll officially enter your «not guilty» plea on your court date.