And while it's an uphill battle facing a heavily entrenched foe, outreach efforts will give Staten Island and Brooklyn voters — both old and new — food for thought the next time they go to the polls: ranging from alleged campaign finance fraud; to Grimm's threatening of a reporter with physical violence; to
his latest federal fraud and tax charges, he is quite a colorful character with a very colorful history just begging to be lampooned.
Not exact matches
It's a little too
late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed
fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by
Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!
Spano would
later plead guilty in
federal court to four counts of
fraud for using phony documents to inflate his net worth.
The last upstate speaker was Binghamton's James Tallon, who only held the position for a few days after the conviction on
federal fraud charges of former Speaker Mel Miller, who was
later exonerated.
A day
later, Espada's clinic was raided by
federal and state authorities and law - enforcement sources said criminal charges of mail
fraud and tax evasion were expected as soon as next month.
April 1, 2004: In
late March, the boys from AAR Contractor are spotted in
federal court in Syracuse being convicted in one of the largest cases of environmental
fraud in the nation's history.
I asked Pilgrim - Hunter if she was aware of the
latest news regarding the
federal probe into Espada's alleged tax
fraud and money laundering, she said she was.
Former state Senate leader John Sampson became the
latest politician to ask for a review of his corruption conviction based on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week narrowing
federal bribery and «honest services
fraud» statutes in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
A ninth defendant, Todd Howe (a lobbyist who had worked for Cuomo as an assistant when Cuomo headed the
federal Housing and Urban Development Department and also worked for the governor's father, the
late Gov. Mario Cuomo), has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion, wire
fraud and other charges and is cooperating with investigators.
A motion filed by
federal prosecutors in March revealed that Spota refused to issue a subpoena to aid my office's internal affairs investigation of Walsh, who was convicted
later that month on
federal charges of theft of government funds and wire
fraud.
Sheldon Silver was convicted last week on all seven counts of honest services
fraud, extortion and money laundering that he faced over five weeks of trail in
Federal District Court in Lower Mnahattan — becoming the
latest New York politician convicted in a corruption scandal tied to real estate interests.
Former state Senate leader John Sampson Tuesday became the
latest politician to ask for a review of his corruption conviction based on the Supreme Court's decision last week narrowing
federal bribery and «honest services
fraud» statutes in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Federal prosecutors have charged that a $ 140 million project to bridge the «digital divide» in Arizona's public schools was used as a vehicle for accounting
fraud in
late 2001 by officials of the telecommunications giant Qwest Communications International Inc..
Notably, the White House administration has delayed implementation of the income verification rules, leaving income verification for now on the «honor system» (with random checks of a statistically significant sample to verify compliance), but raising concern from many that there may be a higher incidence of fraudulent income reporting to qualify for the subsidy in the coming year (though ultimately, inappropriately reported amounts could still be recaptured by the
Federal government when the subsequent tax return is filed
later, as discussed below, limiting the potential scope of any
fraud).
Former Autonomy CFO US
fraud trial underway The long running
federal fraud trial of former Autonomy chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain is now well underway in San Francisco Northern California district court and scheduled to run into
late April.
Later, when I joined Schulte Roth & Zabel, I focused my practice on representing hedge funds, publicly listed companies, and private clients, as both subjects and victims in criminal and regulatory investigations on the state and
federal level, and in a variety of state and
federal litigation arising from commercial and investment disputes, including claims of
fraud, securities class actions, and derivative actions.