Sentences with phrase «indictments against top»

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney said she was «surprised» to hear news of indictments against top COR officials, who are accused of bribing former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco.

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I have a thought on this, the EPL is the most competitive league in the world but the top teams in the league which are Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal, Man United, Liverpool have all dropped their levels which is why none of them can compete in the champions league against the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern or Atletico, as great an advert it is that Leicester won but it's a serious indictment on the big teams that they won!

New York's top court dismissed an indictment against a man who spent six years detained at Rikers Island jail without a trial, saying prosecutors violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial.

The statewide probe led to indictments against eight men, and again shook the foundation of political ethics in the state: Among those indicted were Joseph Percoco, who'd been close to both Andrew Cuomo and his father; Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, former president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute and a key economic adviser; and several top officials from LPCiminelli, a Buffalo contractor involved with millions in business as part of the state initiative.

ALBANY — With an indictment looming against two former top officials in his administration and his call for a special session to deal with ethics reform seemingly falling on deaf ears, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced unilateral changes to the state's spending practices.

Democrats began whispering about the prospects of running in 2016 against a Republican conference whose two top leaders were both under indictment, further buoyed by the expected surge in Democratic turnout that would accompany Hillary Clinton's presidential run.

Last April, Bharara pledged to concentrate on the executive branch, and subsequently brought federal charges against some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top donors and aides, securing indictments in November.

Bharara last month announced a 14 - count indictment against Joe Percoco, a top political adviser who Cuomo has likened to a brother, former SUNY Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros, and six executives at energy and development companies.

Perhaps the most controversial episode of Silver's career before his indictment was his handling of rape accusations against top aide J. Michael Boxley and, later, sexual - harassment allegations against the recently deceased Assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic power broker Vito Lopez.

The reduction may be an aberration, though it occurred during a session that included federal indictments against the Legislature's top two leaders, which seemed to blunt the donations from at least one major donor.

Or you might find yourself on a blog such as www.mortgagefraud.org where a release from the Attorney General of Massachusetts was only one of the Top Ten indictments: «WOBURN, WORCESTER — Two bank employees, a mortgage broker, an assistant of the mortgage broker, and a Worcester man had 106 indictments returned against them late yesterday in connection with allegedly creating false or misleading bank documents that were then used to obtain fraudulent mortgage loans in the millions of dollars.»