Sentences with phrase «government witnesses in»

Political sources told Kramer the feds are looking to turn some of the defendants into government witnesses in order to catch bigger fish.

While Ciulla, a key government witness in the New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Michigan cases, did not testify in Errico's trial, he was available to the prosecution in Brooklyn and, according to law - enforcement sources, could testify in future cases.

Reichberg and associate Jona Rechnitz, who has been identified as a cooperating government witness in both cases, have also been linked to federal probes of Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising.

«I love him as a brother,» the star government witness in the obstruction - of - justice trial of state Sen. John Sampson said Thursday as he took the stand to bury his friend...

After pleading guilty last year to conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, Rechnitz is a government witness in the bribery trial.

Todd Howe, the key government witness in the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, has been arrested after it was revealed on the witness stand Thursday he may have broken the law after entering a plea agreement with the federal government.

The Percoco trial took a twist earlier this morning when it was revealed a key government witness in the case, Todd Howe, a former Albany consultant, had been arrested after his testimony on Thursday.

The refusal, on the advice of his attorney, would make it unlikely that Mangano could be used as a government witness in the upcoming trial of Republican state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam Skelos.

Rechnitz testified Thursday and Friday as a government witness in the bribery trial of jails union boss Norman Seabrook, and said he raised $ 193,000 for the mayor and got «lots of access» in return.

The federal prosecutors ripped Kerik for backtracking under oath as a government witness in the 2012 Bronx perjury trial of contractors Frank and Peter DiTommaso.

Rechnitz, testifying Thursday and Friday as a government witness in the bribery trial of jails union boss Norman Seabrook, claimed he was in constant contact with the mayor via de Blasio's personal cell phone and email.

Todd Howe, center, exits court on Monday after his first day of testimony as a government witness in the corruption case against Joseph Percoco and three other defendants.

Providing evidence as a government witness in criminal cases before Grand Juries and at administrative hearings

Testify as a government witness in numerous federal and local cases worked

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Matanov told an unidentified witness cooperating with the government that «the bombings could have had a just reason, such as being done in the name of Islam, that he would support the bombings if the reason were just or the attack had been done by the Taliban,» according to the papers.

The subcommittee heard several witnesses who cast Eritrea's government in profoundly negative light.

Regardless, thousands of polygraphs are given each year in the US, alone, for everything from government clearance screening to witness verification.

Witness the new rules for takeovers by «state - owned enterprises» — companies owned by a foreign government — recently unveiled in the budget omnibus bill.

Standard and Poor's estimates the federal government's partial paralysis cost $ 24 billion, and consultancy IHS Global Insights said on Wednesday that the spike in short - term interest yields witnessed in the week of Oct. 14 alone will add $ 114 million to the federal debt.

While the ramifications of this dramatic move lay chiefly in the political realm, the business side of this drama is inspiring; when was the last time you witnessed one of the largest companies in the world going head - to - head with such A large foreign government?

Witness Barrack Obamas visit to China in November which saw him apologize for the weakening American dollar and answer softball questions from government - picked students in Shanghai.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, is slated to take effect Sept. 1, but has been challenged in court by rights organizations and localities that say the law infringes on local governments» constitutional rights, and will sow fear through immigrant communities by dissuading people from reporting crimes or testifying as witnesses out of fear they will be deported.

China may witness its first local government bond defaults, although the timing was uncertain, Fitch Ratings said in a press release issued on Sunday, amid persistent concerns over high debt levels in the world second largest economy.

Simon Cockerell, general manager at Koryo Tours — a Beijing - based firm that brings foreign tourists to North Korea — said he's witnessed a definite increase in government support for sports.

The layoffs in Halifax come at an awkward time for the province, which witnessed the defeat of its NDP government in a provincial election Tuesday.

in Puerto Rico, we are witnessing an infectious positivity flowing from local governments in support of developing strong local startup ecosystems, which is creating benefits for entire countries, economies and societies.

And the massive cuts to the aid program under the Chrétien government in the late 1990s have never been fully reversed in terms of restoring the ODA / GNI ratio to the 0.4 - 0.5 levels witnessed in the 1970s and 1980s.

Once a sector has been cracked open, operational restrictions come in to play — witness the ongoing regulation of the film market through censorship, import quotas and central government decisions on movie release dates.

He asked delegation members for assistance in lifting his travel ban, which he said was imposed because investigators consider him a witness in a corruption investigation of government officials involving the transfer of some of his company's minerals exploration licenses.

Iâ $ ™ ve had the good fortune to live in France for the past 10 months on a year - long sabbatical and therefore been able to witness firsthand the travails of the Socialist government as it wrestles with the countryâ $ ™ s economic woes.

Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Paine, Mason & Madison all witnessed the violent persecution between Christian sects in their home states around the time the government was being established.

Their range of choice will shrink; the overall level of pluralism and diversity in society will decline; the financial pressure of government subsidies will tempt religiously affiliated organizations to abandon their religious witness in order to serve more of the needy.

The government's financial monitoring system already added the Jehovah's Witnesses headquarters to its list of «organizations, against which there is evidence of involvement in extremist activity or terrorism,» and its financial transactions are already blocked.

The decision comes at the conclusion of 30 hours of trial over the past few weeks and about a month after the government suspended Jehovah's Witnesses activities in March.

Jehovah's Witnesses have been banned from operating in Russia after the Supreme Court agreed with the government's request to label them «extremist».

And even that law he did not break because he made an agreement with the government (Iran) to be able to visit his family in Iran and build a Children «s Home there.Please read all of the articles and you will also find out that he (Pastor Saeed) were not even allow to be at his own Trial to defend himself and that witnesses for the government were intimidated not to attend for fear of reprises.

Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.

And if they eschewed the economic benefits of reserved places in government service by refusing to claim any relationship with their ancestors castes, this was as much a testimony to their sense of dignity as human beings as it was a witness to their Christian faith.

Growing out of this concern for a desirable human future as well as out of the more immediate practical concerns of corporations and government agencies, the last decade has witnessed a spectacular burst of interest in futurology.

The strategy of withdrawal (# 1 above) maintains in a dramatic form the prophetic witness against social evils; under a totalitarian government it may be the only way in which the church can exist at all.

But the 2004 Taguba Report on the Abu Ghraib abuses found «that contrary to the provision of AR 190 - 8, and the findings found in MG Ryder's Report, Military Intelligence (MI) interrogators and Other US Government Agency's (OGA) interrogators actively requested that MP guards set physical and mental conditions for favorable interrogation of witnesses» and that this request was part of what led to the abuses by the reservist MP unit at the prison.

When this man handed you a pamphlet you took it no matter what the subject: the dangers of atomic power plants, the role played by the International Jewish Cartel in the overthrow of friendly governments, the CIA - Contra - cocaine connection, the farm workers» unions, the Jehovah's Witnesses (If You Can Answer These Ten Questions «Yes,» You Have Been SAVED!)

In one of the show's darkest and most telling moments, Tony's nephew and lieutenant, Christopher, plans to betray the Soprano family and go into the witness - protection program with his fiancée, who has been blackmailed into becoming a government snitch.

In July 1964 a House Armed Services subcommittee heard witnesses regarding the practice of industrial firms, working on cost - plus contracts, to charge off recreation and entertainment expenses to the Government.

How could McLain receive a just verdict when, Levine charged, Kovachevich had pushed the trial forward with undo haste and ordered jurors to stand up for exercise — in a kind of seventh - inning stretch — when Levine was interrogating a key government witness against McLain?

Jahoda, who is in the U.S. marshal's witness - protection program after testifying for the government against Infelice and mob enforcer Robert Salerno, said, «You see gambling on every campus.

The way in which we keep, or do not keep, the promises that we vow and the commitments that we make on our wedding day to our future spouse, before God, a celebrant authorised by the government to receive such declarations and probably anywhere between two and two - hundred witnesses, will unquestionably be a direct reflection of our own integrity, loyalty and faithfulness to our marriage partner.

The state under his watch had witnessed series of upheavals in the last two weeks as a result of alleged plan by his government to cede public schools to private investors.

«This morning's New York Times story regarding allegations that Walmart orchestrated a $ 24 million bribery campaign to gain favorable treatment by the Mexican government should be a wake up call for New Yorkers who have witnessed Walmart's aggressive lobbying effort and recent streak of opportunistic «philanthropy» in our city.»

The level of nepotism we are seeing in the Akufo - Addo government has never been witnessed in the history of this country.