Sentences with phrase «into government witnesses»

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

Not exact matches

And who will make a donation to a government program given we all pay into government programs and have witnessed their dismal results?»

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.

«We intend to continue our wider investigations into blacklisting and will be calling further witnesses but believe that the government should now investigate, as promised, the clear and unequivocal evidence that has been received about blacklisting on the Crossrail project.»

Although state and federal investigations into de Blasio's fundraising practices closed without anyone being charged, allegations have resurfaced again in the last two weeks as Jona Rechnitz, the federal government's star witness in an ongoing political corruption trial, testified he was in weekly communication with the mayor and was promised favors in exchange for money.

But a cache of recently unsealed court documents offers some insight into the government's case against the trio — and, perhaps, witnesses who could appear in court.

It is a sad reflection of the Prime Minister's misjudgement of the crisis in Gaza that this capable Minister has felt the need to leave the Government Labour has consistently opposed the Israeli incursion into Gaza and has repeatedly urged the Prime Minister to speak up and to speak out against the horrific loss of life witnessed in recent weeks, but he has so far failed to do so.

When this partnership with citizens are called into question by acts of excessive force on the part of the enforcers of the law, such as we witnessed during the march, when unarmed peaceful protestors were physically assaulted resulting in severe injuries; it is seen as a symptom of an ailing system championed by a failing government who seek to curtail the right of its citizens to exercise their constitutionally mandated rights.

Mayor de Blasio's name was dragged into the bribery trial of ex-union official Norman Seabrook on Tuesday when a defense lawyer referred to Hizzoner's relationship with the government's star witness.

The mayor's name was dragged into the bribery trial of ex-union official Norman Seabrook when a defense lawyer referred to de Blasio's relationship with the government's star witness: donor - turned - felon Jona Rechnitz.

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.

The federal government finds itself going into battle armed with a tainted weapon — a star witness who is awaiting sentence on eight felonies stemming from the alleged scheme.

Taken into witness protection, he's betrayed again, this time by the FBI agent who was assigned to guard him, and kidnapped as part of a secret government program.

While infiltrating a military encampment to rescue the captives, Nick learns that government officials General Hemlock and Marion Mallon are responsible for the outbreak and witness them turning the U.S. President into a zombie as well to assume full control of the government.

Global Witness is calling on the Honduran government to launch an immediate investigation into the killing of Berta Cáceres, a high - profile activist who campaigned for the defence of indigenous land rights.

Global Witness analysis found that while the oil contracts put more money in state coffers than previous contracts signed by government we can not follow payments made by international oil companies into government accounts.

The mechanisms such interests use are many — influencing election outcomes by injecting huge sums of money into them (see the NYT editorial on the KOch Brothers and AB32, for example), installing fossil fuel employees in government bureaucracies (BP's ex-chief scientist is currently Head of Science at the DOE, one Steve Koonin, also of Caltech — welcome to the fossil fuel - academic complex), and distorting science to fit their agenda (witness the endless fraudulent claims about zero - emission combustion, despite the persistent absence of any stand - alone prototypes.)

Prize staff is working with Global Witness and other partners to demand that the Honduran government conduct a full investigation into the killing, take immediate measures to ensure the safety of the Cáceres family, and grant protection for activists in Honduras.

The United States and Honduran governments must support an international, independent investigation into the killing of high - profile environmental activist Berta Cáceres said Global Witness (GW) and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) on the eve of a meeting between Honduras...

The «man - made hysteria» associated with the global - warming fraud is a real threat to mankind in the sense that it a) has the potential to, and in fact is, turning millions of gullible individuals into fanatical, anti-human ideologues, b) diverting precious time, money and resources that could be more usefully spent elsewhere into the ridiculous and unscientific attempts by environmental extremists to «control the climate» via enforced — through government legislation and burdensome taxes — behaviour modification of supposedly free citizens, and c) giving the practice of science a bad reputation amongst the general populace, which in turn has been a major contributing factor to the general decline in the understanding of basic scientific concepts, and reality in general, that we have been witnessing over the last 40 years or so (ex.

The Association of Corporate Counsel has thrown its support behind an Alberta energy company after the Alberta Court of Appeal ordered it to disclose certain witness statements and other documents to the government pursuant to an internal investigation into a fatal job site injury.

The New York Times has the details in this story,» Lawyer Thrust Into Spotlight After Misstep in Terror Case,» March 15, 2006, and lots of bloggers, including Legal Blog Watch's Crime & Federalism, are discussing Judge Brinkema's ruling to exclude testimony from several major government witnesses who were improperly coached by Martin.

In today's case (Cambie Surgeries Corporation v. British Columbia) the Plaintiffs, who are suing the government of BC arguing certain Provincial health - care laws are unconstitutional, sought to introduce articles and texts cited by their expert witnesses into evidence.

The Coalition is pleased that the federal government has mandated the Inquiry to examine systemic causes of violence and has taken into account the needs of vulnerable communities and witnesses.

Government house leader John Milloy rejected the «libel chill» accusation, and said justice committee hearings into the gas plants and missing emails are still uncovering new details and calling witnesses.

The Senate inquiry, which is being run by the Senate Economics Committee, has heard from a number of other witnesses from government and industry and will release its report into digital currencies later this year.