Sentences with phrase «heart of the federal case»

And the Democrats were okay with Silver when he failed to report the income at the heart of the federal case.

Not exact matches

It is the bond at the heart of the federal corruption case against Edward and Linda Mangano and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, one the Manganos have consistently said was just a friendship, with nothing improper.

The founder of the struggling environmental services company at the heart of the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, testified at their trial yesterday that days after Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, the senator provided valuable business intelligence that the company felt would be helpful.

But as Mr. Cuomo lays out his agenda this month in a whirlwind of policy announcements, he has avoided any mention of a federal corruption case that rocked his administration last year even as he was touting the economic - development initiative at the heart of the case.

MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — «Power, greed, corruption» are at the heart of the case against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, federal prosecutors said Tuesday during opening arguments in theFEDERAL COURT — «Power, greed, corruption» are at the heart of the case against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, federal prosecutors said Tuesday during opening arguments in thefederal prosecutors said Tuesday during opening arguments in the trial.

He would have needed the support of three GOP county leaders to do so, which federal prosecutors are alleging is at the heart of today's case.

The alleged arrangement, which has become the heart of the corruption case against Mr. Silver, came into focus at his trial on Wednesday, as Dr. Robert N. Taub of Columbia University testified in federal court in Manhattan as a government witness.

Kenneth E. Riddett, who was legislative counsel to the Senate majority for many years, took the stand Tuesday at Bruno's federal trial on corruption charges and spent hours answering questions about the lawmaker's financial disclosure forms that are at the heart of the government's case.

Outside income was also at the heart of the case against Sheldon Silver, the Manhattan Democrat who served as the Assembly speaker for two decades before being arrested on federal corruption charges in January 2015.

[Oct. 2, 2012, 1:23 p.m. Updated Charles Monnett, the federal biologist at the heart of the investigation described below, has been cleared of scientific misconduct over his polar bear surveys (report link), but his case remains a source of disputes at several levels — as described in detail by Jill Burke in Alaska Dispatch.

A second example — that warms the hearts of economists, but appears to be politically irrelevant for the time being — is the case of a Federal policy that sets price, not quantity, i.e., a carbon tax, or a binding safety - valve or price collar in a cap - and - trade system.

The question of what shapes, and how they are drawn, is at the heart of state and federal court cases across the country.

But rangeCheck, which Judge Alsup also deemed copyrightable (a fact some people seem to have forgotten; affirmed by the Federal Circuit, by the way), is not at the heart of this case.

In the federal government's factum, Rupar suggests the 2001 decision had already dealt with the issue of reconciling competing rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the context of TWU's community covenant that's at the heart of the current case.