Sentences with phrase «in public corruption cases»

It will be watched nationwide as a test case, indicating how much federal law has been weakened in public corruption cases.

The AG does not have subpoena power in public corruption cases, which has caused Schneiderman to get creative, teaming up with his fellow statewide Democrat, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, whose office does have that power, to prosecute the misuse of public funds.

«This is of particular importance in public corruption cases, where the rules changed about five years ago, after the Supreme Court imposed the requirement in honest services fraud cases that the government prove a quid pro quo,» the paper reported.

He won convictions in public corruption cases against New York State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and State Senator Dean Skelos, and also brought insider trading charges against Bernie Madoff.

There was actually at one point a Senate bill that proposed requiring the IG to empower the AG with the ability to issue subpoenas in public corruption cases in instances of conflicts of interest like the one created by Trooperate.

In the ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals found that jury instructions in Silver's trial were improper under a Supreme Court ruling in the public corruption case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

Initially scheduled to report to prison on July 1, Silver's appeal has gained some ground in recent weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell that narrowed the definition of an official quid pro quo in public corruption cases.

Prosecutors made their closing arguments Monday in the public corruption case against Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker with extremely close ties to the real estate industry.

The demise of the Menendez case is the latest in a series of setbacks for prosecutors in public corruption cases.

Silver was convicted of using his political influence for political favors; the conviction was tossed last summer, when appellate judges in the 2nd Circuit ruled that the definition of «official acts» had been changed by a previous Supreme Court decision in the public corruption case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

Company founder and former CEO Louis P. Ciminelli is under federal indictment, along with two of his executives, for alleged bid - rigging and bribery in a public corruption case that stemmed from the state's Buffalo Billion project at RiverBend.

The field includes Comptroller Kevin Lembo, former Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jonathan Harris, Middletown Mayor Dan Drew, Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim and Chris Mattei, a former federal prosecutor who specialized in public corruption cases.

Both appeals court rulings made clear that overturning the convictions did not mean innocents had been brought to the slaughter, only that while their cases were moving through the justice system, the proof needed in public corruption cases changed.

Both state leaders were taken down in 2015 by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in public corruption cases that scrambled the power map in Albany.

Since August 2009, he has nabbed a whopping 15 elected officials and associates in public corruption cases, including State Sen. Carl Kruger, who was sentenced to seven years in prison, and Councilman Larry Seabrook, who was sentenced to five years behind bars.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Good government groups are again mounting a campaign to pressure the New York State Legislature to pass a tough ethics reform law following the convictions of the Legislature's top two leaders in public corruption cases.

The government's star witness in public corruption cases involving two NYPD cops and a city union official may have been involved in criminal activity — including extortion — while he was cooperating with the feds, The Post has learned.

A day after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction, legal experts said Tuesday appeals are likely to focus in part on the government's aggressive use of «honest services fraud» charges in public corruption cases — the same issue ex-Senate leader Joe Bruno used to erase his corruption conviction.

The AG reportedly sought more power in public corruption cases — the exact same thing Cuomo wanted as AG — but was rebuffed.

This is of particular importance in public corruption cases, where the rules changed about five years ago, after the Supreme Court imposed the requirement in honest services fraud cases that the government prove a quid pro quo.

«Indeed, a juror might assume from the display that a conviction in a public corruption case will later be celebrated, and this could encourage the juror, either consciously or on a subliminal level, to vote for conviction.»

He resigned as speaker Jan. 27, 2015, five days after the FBI arrested him in the public corruption case.

The Truman Club was long a stronghold for Silver, who was booted from the Assembly after his 2015 conviction in a public corruption case.