Sentences with phrase «government corruption trials»

Official court reporters are front and center at controversial or famous cases — criminal trials, millionaire divorces, government corruption trials and lawsuits — ensuring that an accurate, complete, and secure record of the proceedings is produced.

Now is the time to enact reforms, the advocates say, because high - profile government corruption trials are scheduled to begin each of the first six months of the year.

Not exact matches

Fyfe was assistant deputy attorney general in October 2010 when the BC Liberal government agreed to pay the $ 6 million legal bill for former aides Dave Basi and Bob Virk after their plea bargain halted the BC Rail corruption trial.

Government prosecutors and attorneys for a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo are sparring over access to evidence in the corruption trial of Joe Percoco.

The federal government refused to grant immunity to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has threatened to take the Fifth Amendment if called to testify at the political corruption trial of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, likely to serve as the federal government's key cooperating witness in a wide - ranging corruption trial this fall involving past associates of Cuomo, «has obtained employment and a residence in the District of Idaho,» his attorneys told a judge.

The government's key witness in the Joe Percoco corruption trial, disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe, took the stand in Manhattan federal court yesterday.

As someone who sat through that entire trial, I had serious questions about whether or not the government actually proved federal corruption beyond a reasonable doubt or simply demonstrated that Silver was a double talking politician who nevertheless legally used the rules (he admittedly helped create and enforce) to benefit himself.

In this Year of the Corruption Trials in New York — where at least five such trials have, are or will take place — Cuomo and the Legislature could not even come together on watered - down versions of measures to address ethics problems in state goverTrials in New York — where at least five such trials have, are or will take place — Cuomo and the Legislature could not even come together on watered - down versions of measures to address ethics problems in state govertrials have, are or will take place — Cuomo and the Legislature could not even come together on watered - down versions of measures to address ethics problems in state government.

«Ziti,» the code name for bribes, figured heavily in the government's closing arguments today in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial.

The Joe Percoco federal corruption trial continues in Manhattan federal court, with disgraced former lobbyist Todd Howe — the government's star witness — expected to testify this week.

But he said if past corruption trials are any indication, there will be plenty of unsavory testimony about the inner workings of government.

ALBANY — State government is bracing for a parade of corruption trials in 2018, with five cases involving powerful players going before juries at the same time that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and all 213 legislative seats are up for election.

The Silver retrial is the second of four corruption trials involving state government to take place this year.

Nearly six weeks after the corruption trial began, jurors Thursday afternoon were dispatched by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni to begin deliberations into whether Percoco, a longtime confidante of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, used his top government post to enrich himself via bribes paid by two companies with business before the state.

Good - government advocates had called the session Albany's «Watergate» moment after the ex-Senate and Assembly leaders were convicted in separate federal corruption trials.

Blair Horner with the New York Public Interest Research Group said if past corruption trials are any indication, there will be plenty of unflattering testimony about the inner workings of Cuomo's government.

«Depending on what happens in the trials, the corruption parade could drive the session,» said Blair Horner, a longtime state government watchdog with the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Former state Sen. George Maziarz is facing trial for alleged campaign - related corruption, and former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano is being prosecuted for charges of local government corruption.

Howe was the government's key witness in Percoco's corruption trial.

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In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto «traded their office for money,» a federal prosecutor said Tuesday in the 10 - week - old corruption trial's closing arguments while Mangano's defense attorney countered that the government's star witness «desecrated the oath» by lying repeatedly on the stand.

Although state and federal investigations into de Blasio's fundraising practices closed without anyone being charged, allegations have resurfaced again in the last two weeks as Jona Rechnitz, the federal government's star witness in an ongoing political corruption trial, testified he was in weekly communication with the mayor and was promised favors in exchange for money.

Attorneys for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office have been sharing information with former lieutenant Joseph Percoco's defense team about the governor's contacts with federal prosecutors in advance of Percoco's upcoming corruption trial, according to a new government filing in court.

The federal judge presiding over the corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto has denied all defense motions challenging the government's case against them.

Evidence introduced in the ongoing corruption and bribery trial of former Yonkers Councilwoman Sandy Annabi has cast the spotlight on another public official: state Senator Tom Libous, who, according to witness testimony, pushed a law firm to hire his son — and inflate his starting salary — in exchange for steering government business toward the firm's practice.

The trial also raised questions about the structure of Albany and what some good - government advocates see as a culture of corruption at the Capitol.

The NJC noted that the trial of Justice Ademola had been concluded, even as he was discharged and acquitted of all the 18 - count corruption charges the Federal Government preferred against him.

PRNigeria gathered that the Federal Government was infuriated by the action of Magu in engaging Keyamo as a private counsel to prosecute the CCT boss in purported corruption charge because, the same Keyamo is the counsel to Rasheed Taiwo Owolabi who is standing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and who made the allegation in the course of his trial on criminal offence.

Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, likely to serve as the federal government's key cooperating witness in a wide - ranging corruption trial this fall involving past associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo, «has obtained employment and a residence in the District of Idaho,» his attorneys told a judge on June 15.

The trial is the first growing out of a corruption scandal that rocked Albany in April when Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, announced charges against Mr. Stevenson and said that another Democratic assemblyman, Nelson L. Castro, had resigned and was cooperating with the government.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The lobbyist at the center of a trial looking at alleged corruption in state government was also at the center of a controversial 2013 plan to build a new Syracuse University sports stadium.

His corruption trial and the continuing corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) have revived calls by good - government groups and some legislators to deny or restrict pensions for convicted politicians.

Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York State, was found guilty on Monday of federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

The Federal Government failed on Tuesday to produce former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja for trial in relation to corruption charges brought against him by the gGovernment failed on Tuesday to produce former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja for trial in relation to corruption charges brought against him by the governmentgovernment.

Joe Percoco, the former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is facing trial on federal corruption charges, «threatened» at least four top state government officials who were considering getting jobs in the private sector, prosecutors claim.

When the federal corruption trial of State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver begins next week, his lawyers are likely to be aggressive in cross-examining government witnesses, or objecting when they believe a prosecutor has gone too far.

The government's star witness in the corruption trial also said Silver helped his children get jobs.

The federal government refused to grant immunity to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has threatened to take the Fifth Amendment if called to testify at the political corruption trial of former state Senate leader Dean Skelos, according to a transcript of proceedings Friday.

The first corruption trial, likely to begin later this month, involves former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and three business executives, and will focus on alleged bribes paid to Percoco in exchange for government favors.

Howe was the government's main witness in Percoco's corruption trial.

The trial of the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) on alleged corruption charges was again adjourned by the failure of the Federal Government to produce him in Court for trial.

A federal judge has forbidden lawyers from publicly disclosing evidence until a possible trial in an ongoing corruption case that has ensnared several government officials, including former Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin, ex-Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret and state Sen. Malcolm Smith.

Silver's attorneys argued in court that his corruption trial could turn into «a trial within a trial» when the government introduces details about the assemblyman's failure to disclose the scope of his outside income.

«All those mentioned in the ongoing corruption trial are, therefore, on their own and the party was not involved financially or in anyway with the office of the national security adviser, ONSA, or any organ of the federal government in the last regime.

Jurors in the federal corruption trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver heard from the defendant for the first time on yesterday, as the government introduced into evidence audio recordings between the assemblyman and various political reporters — including yours truly.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York, was found guilty on seven federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

The trial is the first growing out of a corruption scandal that rocked Albany in April when US Attorney Preet Bharara announced charges against Stevenson and said that another Democratic assemblyman, Nelson Castro, had resigned and was cooperating with the government.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says if past corruption trials are any indication, there will be plenty of unflattering testimony about the inner workings of Cuomo's government.