Sentences with phrase «of public corruption cases»

«What makes this case both extraordinary and far outside the heartland of public corruption cases,» Gage wrote, «is that it arises from a father's love for a son.»

«Unfortunately, there have been a number of public corruption cases over the past several years.

That puts New York first for the number of public corruption cases, followed by Pennsylvania, where 24 cases have been filed over the past decade.

With a series of public corruption cases roiling the Legislature, Cuomo called for increased penalties for official misconduct and tighter disclosure rules that require greater disclosure of conflicts of interest.

That's according to Steve Cohen, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who sat down with Liz on Capital Tonight Tuesday evening to discuss the governor's push to overhaul ethics in Albany in the wake of a stream of public corruption cases.

He won all 130 of his public corruption cases.

Not exact matches

Before Comey tapped him to lead the Richmond office in 2014, he was section chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section, investigating some of the highest profile cases against government officials and civil rights violations in recent years.

Ahead of July's presidential election, public anger at government is running high thanks to high - profile corruption cases, drug gangs, and sluggish growth.

Two lead prosecutors handling the case — Thomas McKay and Nicolas Roos — are part of the public corruption unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan and prosecute public officials and people engaged in conspiracy or fraud against the government.

Initially scheduled to report to prison on July 1, Silver's appeal has gained some ground in recent weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell that narrowed the definition of an official quid pro quo in public corruption cases.

«Strikingly, these successes have come even though the Office of the Attorney General has long requested — and long been denied — original criminal jurisdiction to prosecute public corruption cases without first obtaining a specific referral from the Governor, Comptroller, or another State agency,» he wrote.

Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, declared: any court ruling on present corruption cases should take cognisance of law as it takes of public opinion.

The NPP presidential candidate, further explained that the Special Prosecutor, would be established by Act of Parliament, to be independent of the executive, and to possess «an exclusive remit to investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corruption, including those involving alleged violations of the Public Procurement Act and cases implicating political office holders and politicians.»

I was not stupid not to understand that if I commenced any action in the Supreme Court while those cases were still pending the ignorant public may think I was siding with the judges accused of corruption against Anas Aremeyaw Anas, which would not have been the case.

But other common practices in southern Europe, like turning public office into a livelihood by living off public resources indefinitely, appointing incompetent people to public positions, or shamelessly benefiting from the undemocratic functioning of political parties, are cases of serious corruption too.

The Supreme Court's ruling in McDonnell's case set a precedent that could help others accused of public corruption, including Sen. Robert Menendez (D - N.J.), who is awaiting an appeals court ruling in a corruption case; and former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver (D), who is aiming to overturn his corruption conviction.

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center for Public Policy, has long been skeptical of the state's SolarCity arrangement, which is now one of the focuses of the federal corruption case.

Thelegislation is part of a broader package of laws designed to improve enforcement of election laws, ease voter registration, strengthen anti-bribery laws, and provide district attorneys with greater power to prosecute public corruption cases.

The criminal case grew out of a public corruption investigation by the FBI and the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau.

In 2011, Attorney General Schneiderman and State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli formed «Operation Integrity,» a first - of - its - kind joint task force using the State Comptroller's power to refer cases involving the abuse of public funds to the Attorney General's office to investigate and prosecute public corruption.

And the case left in its wake a new legal definition of what constitutes public corruption, based on the Supreme Court's ruling tossing the former governor's convictions.

He's also called for ethics reform in the aftermath of several public corruption cases, including one involving Cuomo's former aide Joe Percoco.

The roundtable will assess the on - going fight against corruption, and is expected to come up with key programme agenda for among others mobilising Nigerians to get involved in the fight against corruption, and agenda for increasing the tempo of the anti-corruption fight including by revisiting outstanding cases of high - level official corruption and prosecuting high - ranking public officials.

Other critics charge the 11 - member commission, which would have appointees from the governor and leaders of the state Legislature, would discourage prosecutors from pursuing cases of public corruption.

John Edwards, also said the ruling «has real serious implications for the Department of Justice's approach» to public corruption cases.

The Schneiderman case lies at the intersection of two areas of the law with which Singas is familiar: sexual crimes and public corruption.

The decision, which overturned the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, has led to speculation in New York that convicting anyone on public corruption charges would become virtually impossible in all but the most explicit cases of favor - trading.

This time the cases of Sheldon Silver, former speaker of the Assembly, and Dean Skelos, former majority leader of the Senate, are being watched nationwide as test cases of federal prosecutors» ability to win public - corruption convictions under a new legal standard.

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But Bharara himself — who is making headlines probing a real estate deal involving the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and successfully prosecuted leaders of both the state Assembly and Senate — has suggested he would continue to be active in pursuing public corruption cases.

The case, now being deliberated by a jury, is one of the first major public corruption trials in New York since a landmark 2016 Supreme Court ruling significantly narrowed the definition of what actually constitutes public corruption.

Commission members, Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating to craft a new package of ethics laws that would include some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that the governor proposed after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers.

Bruno since his acquittal has become a critic of the power federal prosecutors wield, especially in white collar and public corruption cases.

Bill Mahoney, with the New York Public Interest Research Group points out that even though the case involves the New York City mayoral ballot, it's still fundamentally a state government based example of alleged corruption.

He added: «The Silver case is right at the fault line for some of the difficult questions that have been raised by the courts about what exactly constitutes public corruption.»

The ethics package that produced the pilot public campaign finance program for the state comptroller race also included the shuttering of Governor Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission, which was in the midst of probing possible corruption cases.

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.»

The defendants said it includes a description of one public corruption case — the prosecution of former Bridgeport (Connecticut) Mayor Joseph Ganim — with an outdated summary of the law that applies to corruption cases, and want the display covered or removed before their trial starts.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

To conduct special investigations and prosecute cases of public corruption, white - collar crime, tax fraud and arson.

«The exhibit as a whole may be interpreted by potential jurors as the Court's celebration of criminal convictions in significant cases, and particularly cases involving allegations of public corruption,» said the letter filed by Daniel Gitner, a lawyer for former energy company executive Peter Kelly, a co-defendant.

But Singas, who has worked as a prosecutor in Queens and Nassau and served as former District Attorney Kathleen Rice's chief deputy, contrasted her 24 years of trying criminal cases with Murray's record, and said she was best suited to tackle public corruption.

«How can we expect a president who has spent four years to protect his friends who were found to have allegedly stolen public funds through instruments such as GYEEDA and SADA to allow any case of corruption to be prosecuted?

On this much, most agree: That the Supreme Court took McDonnell's case means a good number of the justices think that U.S. public corruption law is worth examining.

The demise of the Menendez case is the latest in a series of setbacks for prosecutors in public corruption cases.

Prosecutors in former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's public corruption case have asked for him to be sentenced to prison for longer than any other state legislator guilty of public corruption.

Whatever the outcome of Stevenson's case, the accusations alone — which came just days after corruption charges against two other elected officials — seem to have chipped off another chunk of the public's brittle trust of politicians.

But one of its central characters is based on crusading U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (left), who made a name for himself with his relentless pursuit of public - corruption cases, taking down some of New York's top elected officials in the process.

The talks are centered around reviving some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that Mr. Cuomo proposed in the spring after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers, these people said.

The guilty verdict is another conviction for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York who has led a number of high - profile corruption cases of state lawmakers and public officials.