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The doctor at the center of the corruption charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long as Silver was funneling him state money for research, new court papers claim.
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The jury announced their partial verdict, but will continue their eleventh day of contentious deliberations on the rest of the corruption charges against the defiant politician and his son Pedro G. Espada, who also faces eight undecided counts.
The development corporations have become more transparent in the face of the filing of corruption charges against Alain Kaloyeros, who directed the two organizations until his indictment last fall.
That was one of several proposals put forth by Cuomo last spring in response to a spate of corruption charges against sitting state lawmakers.
Nassau's $ 12 million contract with an environmental company at the center of corruption charges against State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, has hit serious roadblocks, interviews and documents show.
The doctor at the center of the corruption charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long...
In the query, signed by Mr. Dayo Apata, the Solicitor General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary Magu is to explain what informed the filing of corruption charges against the tribunal chairman having being cleared of corruption allegation two times by the same Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The idea for the increase has been met with harsh criticism, especially after the wave of corruption charges against dozens of senators and Assembly members.
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Speaking to Reuters just ahead of his release Saturday, Alwaleed said that there were no charges against him following his arrest as part of a nationwide crackdown on corruption last November.
SNC - Lavalin has pleaded not guilty to the one fraud and one corruption charge filed by the RCMP against SNC - Lavalin and two of its subsidiaries.
RALEIGH, N.C. — College basketball has spent an entire season operating amid the specter of an FBI corruption investigation that led to criminal charges against assistant coaches, agents, apparel company employees and others.
SNC - Lavalin Group Inc. is pressing Canada's new Liberal government to adopt corporate corruption settlement deals like those in place in the United Kingdom and the United States, saying federal charges laid against the company are hurting its ability to compete against rivals in Group of 7 countries.
He charged against the authority of pope, cardinals, Church hierarchy and against the material wealth and corruption of the Church.
CSW's Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas said: «We are deeply concerned by the new charges against Pastor Irani, especially the charge of spreading corruption on Earth, which bears unsettling similarities to the one faced by Pastor Matthias.
Mr Jethmalani has front - lined the revolt demanding the removal of the party's president after charges of corruption against Mr Gadkari.
In the ongoing corruption scandal embroiling college basketball for months, federal prosecutors in New York added charges on Tuesday against a former Adidas rep, Jim Gatto, which allege payments to families of players at four universities.
The Chairman of the AFRC also charged at those who pretend not recognize what led to June 4, describing it as a justifiable intervention and an expression of rage against corruption and the rape of the country bysome political and military leaders.
«After Dean Skelos was charged in 2015, my office thoroughly reviewed Nassau's contracting processes and recommended the establishment of an independent inspector general and modern conflict - checking procedures to guard against corruption and abuse,» she said.
The committee stated the charge against the justices as «bribery and corruption contrary to S. 244 of the Criminal Offences Act and Rule 2 of the CCMG.»
He will remain a rank - and - file member of the Assembly as he fights the federal corruption charges lodged against him by US Attorney Preet Bharara.
The legislation, backed by good - government groups, was initially proposed in the wake of the corruption charges filed against former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros, former close gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco and upstate developers.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors yesterday slapped the disgraced former state Senate majority leader with yet another round of charges in the growing corruption case against him.
That's after a scandal led to federal corruption charges against nine former associates of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
In other words, the charges against Congressman Robert Garcia by former US Attorney Rudy Giuliani, in his grand role as crime - buster against political corruption, and with all of the hype and media any publicity hound could ever want, were eventually thrown out of court.
Governor Andrew Cuomo visited Buffalo on Friday, one day after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced corruption charges against nine men, including two of his confidants, in relation to projects including the Buffalo Billion.
With less than two weeks left in the legislative session, some New York lawmakers are pressing for reform of the state's economic development contracting process in light of a scandal that's led to federal corruption charges against several former associates of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Alain Kaloyeros, the former president and CEO of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has filed a complaint against the school's two nonprofit development arms demanding that they cover his legal bills as he fights state and federal corruption charges.
If Cohen was merely providing access to Trump or members of his administration, then prosecutors will be unlikely to charge public corruption offenses against any of them.
Lawmakers grilled Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development chair Wednesday at a budget hearing, as some of the programs are embroiled in a corruption scandal that's led to charges against several former associates of the governor.
Lawyers representing six of the defendants have spent the past several weeks in a new letter - writing campaign to a federal judge seeking dismissal of the bid - rigging corruption charges leveled against individuals involved in several major upstate economic development programs, including the mega-construction project at Tesla's Riverbend site in South Buffalo.
The charges against Mubarak are gruesome: it is alleged that he ordered tortures and authorised the brutalities of the secret police, that he sent out snipers to shoot and kill innocent and unarmed protestors during the January - February revolution, and that he conducted corruption on a grand scale, taking millions from the state coffers through a dodgy deal to supply gas.
A Long Island federal corruption trial can steer into a felonious businessman's dealings with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — it just can't veer into the absence of charges against him.
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D - New Jersey, has filed a new motion to dismiss corruption charges against him, finding hope in last week's appellate ruling reversing the bribery conviction of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Government watch dog groups say the arrest of one of the two most powerful men in the New York legislature on fraud and corruption charges highlights the need for better state laws against wrong doing.
The former National Security Adviser (NSA) Colonel Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) who is being unlawfully detained against court orders by Department of State Service (DSS) has approached the Court of Appeal Abuja Division praying the court to set aside the subpoena issued against him by the federal high court to appear before it to testify in a N400m corruption charges brought against Former National Publicity Secretary of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) Mr. Olisa Metuh.
SUNY Poly's seemingly precarious financial state — particularly since former president Alain Kaloyeros resigned in October after state and federal corruption charges were filed against him related to his oversight of bidding processes at two of the school's affiliated nonprofits — has been widely reported, but the internal documents offer a rare glimpse at how the crisis has been perceived and deliberated internally.
Yet, in the most bizarre of the spate of federal official corruption indictments against Mangano, former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto and former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the charges against Walker seem to relegate him to the junior varsity.
SUNY Poly's seemingly precarious financial state — particularly since former president Alain Kaloyeros resigned in October after state and federal corruption charges were filed against him related to his oversight of bidding processes at two of the school's affiliated nonprofits — has been
Additionally, the problem of Albany corruption again being addressed not by internal state watchdogs, but instead by the U.S. Attorney who this month is prosecuting charges against the two most recent former legislative leaders, demonstrates the clear need to strengthen our state's own ethics enforcement.
The hedge fund at the center of a scandal involving corruption charges against former Correction Officers Benevolent Association president Norman Seabrook was able to convince a Manhattan judge that it has the cash to repay a $ 30 million loan.
Federal prosecutors bringing corruption charges against elected officials are «out of control» and can ruin lives, former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno on Friday said.
Titled «FR VS Danladi Umar (CR / 109/18) request for Briefing,» the query read in part: «The attention of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation was drawn to news report that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed charges of corruption against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Hon. Justice Danladi Umar, before the FCT High Court.
«The attention of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation was drawn to news report that you have filed charges of corruption against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Hon. Justice Danladi Umar, before the FCT High Court.
The NJC noted that the trial of Justice Ademola had been concluded, even as he was discharged and acquitted of all the 18 - count corruption charges the Federal Government preferred against him.
President John Mahama has charged the new board of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) to respond to the various allegations of corruption against the authority.
It was learnt that various issues affecting the region, including corruption charges levelled against ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, and the halted Nigerian Maritime University in Okerenkoko, Warri South - West Local Government Area of Delta State, are to be considered at the meeting in Abuja today.
The trial is the first growing out of a corruption scandal that rocked Albany in April when Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, announced charges against Mr. Stevenson and said that another Democratic assemblyman, Nelson L. Castro, had resigned and was cooperating with the government.
Dadey says the continued secrecy has fueled the state's present «culture of corruption», that has led to serious charges against Speaker Silver and several other past legislative leaders.
The charge against him read in part, «That you, Robert Obuoha, on or about the 12th day of February, 2016 in Port Harcourt at the Port Harcourt Judicial Division did corruptly give N150, 000 only to Mr. Ishaq Salihu, a public officer and Zonal Head of Operations, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, South - South Zone, for the purpose of recharge cards and with a view to influencing his decision in a case wherein you are being investigated and thereby committed an offence, official corruption, contrary to Section 13 (1)(a) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2003 and punishable under section 13 (1) of the same Act.»
Federal corruption charges were announced on Thursday against two former close aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a senior state official and six other people, in a blow to the governor's innermost circle and a repudiation of the way his prized upstate economic development programs were managed.