Sentences with phrase «hands of federal prosecutors»
While unable to comment specifically on the bribery charges Silver faces, Bruno questioned his treatment at the hands of federal prosecutors.
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Federal prosecutors also said they expect to begin handing over copies of all the documents and other material they seized to Cohen and his attorneys starting April 27, with plans to finish handing over most of the material by May 11, with the exception of several cellphones, which are locked and likely have to be decrypted by experts at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.
During Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, defense attorneys have now tried at least twice to suggest heavy handed tactics on the part of prosecutors to cajole witnesses into cooperating with their case.
A federal judge handed indicted Albany politician Dean Skelos a pile of legal defeats Tuesday, tossing out his motion to dismiss two of his corruption charges and ruling that prosecutors...
Still, several cases involved deaths at the hands of the police have eventually wound up under the purview of federal prosecutors.
A federal judge handed indicted Albany politician Dean Skelos a pile of legal defeats Tuesday, tossing out his motion to dismiss two of his corruption charges and ruling that prosecutors can use all the evidence they scored by wiretapping his cellphone, new court papers state.
But Bharara's crusading style as a former federal prosecutor and subsequent martyrdom at the hands of President Donald Trump in 2017 have made him a hero to many liberals, and could make him a powerhouse in a Democratic primary.
Prosecutors said the Boyland ruling, which held that under a different federal law a wider variety of actions was sufficient for conviction, strengthened their hand.
Assemblyman Sheldon Silver — one of the most powerful men in Albany for two decades and a constant in shaping state policy under five governors — was found guilty Monday of selling his office for legal fees, capping a trial that cast new light on the capital's lax ethics laws and handing federal prosecutors a big win in a case that had lacked a smoking gun.
The mega scandal over allegedly steered contracts and bribes involving big players in the Cuomo administration, still in a federal prosecutor's hands, is the direct result of the protected insiders world he created.
Sentencing has finally moved from the hands of the prosecutors and the harshness of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines back to the discretion of the district court judges.