Not exact matches
Federal Judge Valerie Caproni set the Nov. 2 trial date on Tuesday
after Silver pleaded not guilty to the
latest indictment.
But his
indictment on federal charges didn't come until
late December, months
after he'd lost to Gustavo Rivera, the gutsy young rookie candidate who beat him in September.
The scheme has been ongoing since
late 2010 and continued even
after Silver's
indictment.
The
latest arrest comes weeks
after the
indictments of a slew of other state and city officials on corruption charges, including State Sen. Malcolm Smith, ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro and City Councilman Daniel Halloran.
COBA's new president Elias Husamudeen, who was named
after Seabrook stepped down amid an
indictment that accuses him of soliting kickbacks to invest in Platinum, mailed letters to COBA's 9,000 members one day
later assuring them that their money is safe.
This
latest push to regulate the art market comes
after testimony three weeks ago at a closed - door session of the House Financial Services Committee in which prosecutors from the Department of Justice and NY District Attorney's Office gave testimony about recent cases, such as the recent
indictment in the Eastern District of New York of six individuals and four corporations in a $ 50 million money laundering scheme in which an undercover agent purchase a Pablo Picasso painting to launder fraudulent profits from a stock manipulation scheme.