Sentences with phrase «on the corruption case»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday gave his most expansive comments to date on the corruption case of his former close aide Joe Percoco, calling his behavior «an aberration.»

Most of the so called undemocratic regimes easily make corruption unattractive because of the space to take fast decisions on corruption cases without going through rigorous and well webbed processes of democratic dialogue and accountability with their cumbersome dilutions.

The Democrats have put up Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, a former prosecutor who worked on the corruption case against former Senate Leader Pedro Espada, who is now in jail.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (right) thinks it's in Dean Skelos» best interests to step aside so he can focus on his corruption case.

Recall that a Federal High Court in Abuja had taken its final decision on the corruption case involving Justice Ngwuta, pointing out that the prosecution in the Justice Ngwuta's case failed to comply with the condition precedent before bringing charges against a judicial officer.

Carrie Cohen, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District, also worked with Bharara for seven years on corruption cases.

Not exact matches

Mark Branson, chief executive of the Swiss financial regulator FINMA, said on April 7 that it is dealing with a number of money laundering cases that look like «blatant and massive corruption», citing controversies around Brazil's Petrobras and 1MDB as two prominent examples.

if I am in his case and i can have access on it,, I would do the same no matter what it takes,, corruption is corruption it should be curtailed and for God sake please if you considered it a house of the Lord please do what is right... God bless you Gabriele...

We hope the Senate will keep to its promise on this, and that reports of corruption cases that Nigerians bring to it will be objectively, fairly and effectively addressed and that any such process is completely transparent.

In this case, that's Cuomo and his best friend Joe P who was just convicted on 3 counts of corruption.

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.

A Westchester County judge on Tuesday declared a mistrial in the corruption case against Democratic Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith after four jurors needed to excused as the case was expected to continue for another month.

(Recall that the AG's office actually doesn't have subpoena power in corruption cases until the governor specifically refers a case to his office, which is why Andrew Cuomo couldn't compel testimony in the Troopergate case, but former Chief Judge Judith Kaye — working as Cuomo's request on the ethics charges lodged against Gov. David Paterson — can do so).

A juror in the Joe Percoco corruption case was called for service on a second jury as deliberations stretch into the seventh week of trial.

During Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, defense attorneys have now tried at least twice to suggest heavy handed tactics on the part of prosecutors to cajole witnesses into cooperating with their case.

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

But Democrats have been able to win two seats on Long Island in the last year, with corruption cases to thank.

In Albany on Monday, some state lawmakers were disappointed to see Bharara leave, worried some of this more prominent and ongoing corruption cases may fall by the wayside.

Silver was proclaiming his innocence, and the SCOTUS decision in the McDonnell case this week may ultimately prevent Silver, convicted on all seven corruption counts last year, from ever spending a day in prison.

Jury deliberations in the corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco appeared to have run aground on their fourth day, as three jurors issued notes asking to be excused from the case, with one expressing concern about the storm expected to slam the New York City metro area; and another saying that she has sick children.

While some say campaign finance reform is an appropriate response Ranzenhofer doesn't believe either alleged case of corruption can be blamed on the current campaign laws.

A rare exception occurred in 2005, when staff at Beijing News went on strike against their editor's removal, after the publication exposed a sensitive corruption case in Hebei province outside Beijing.

Silver's retrial is one of several Albany corruption cases on the Manhattan federal court calendar this year.

Within living memory, two leaders of the small Labour group on the council have been convicted on criminal charges — smuggling booze and fags in one case and corruption in the case of his successor.

A federal appeals court in Manhattan agreed Thursday to postpone any retrial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges until the Supreme Court acts on a planned petition to further review his case.

Since Silver was convicted in late 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a significant ruling on public corruption cases.

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

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.

His former aide and friend Joe Percoco, meanwhile, went on trial for corruption and was ultimately convicted last month; the same judge that oversaw the Percoco case will preside over another, larger corruption trial relating to the governor's «Buffalo Billion» project this summer.

Prosecutors drop the case against former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell and his wife after the Supreme Court overturned his public corruption conviction on June 27, 2016.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio explained why he has refused to comment on the blockbuster appeals court ruling in favor of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, claiming he hasn't «paid attention» to the state's biggest political corruption case in decades.

«On the part of the EFCC, I can assure you that the effect of our even more penetrating investigations and commitment to rid Nigeria of all forms of corruption and economic and financial crimes can — and will continue to be — seen from the cases we take to court for trial,» he said.

«For years we have been relying on federal prosecutors to bring the lion's share of corruption cases against state officials,» Kaminsky said.

Attorneys representing former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted, along with his son Adam, on corruption charges, have — like Silver's lawyers — used the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of former Gov. Bob McDonald to appeal the conviction of the ex-Long Island Republican lawmaker.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

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.

The proposal comes on the heels of two federal political corruption cases last week involving elected officials in New York.

Earlier this month, Silver's lawyers argued that thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, Silver's case, too, would likely be thrown out — and he should be allowed to stay out of prison on bail while he made his appeals case.

Silver's successful appeal was based on a 2016 US Supreme Court ruling that reversed the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and limited the definition of «official act» in a corruption case.

On Tuesday, Federal District Court Judge Kenneth M. Karas declared a mistrial in the corruption case involving New York State Senator Malcolm Smith and former Vice Chairman of the Queens County Republican Committee Vincent Tabone.

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.

In its decision regarding Silver's case, the appeals court ruled in 2017 that the definition of official corruption provided to the jurors differed from the one used by the U.S. Supreme Court when it overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and so it was possible the jury could have ruled differently had it been instructed on the updated definition of the law.

On Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for the governor indicated that Cuomo is now looking more broadly at revising procurement contracts in New York State, and going beyond the scandal in the executive chamber to address problems highlighted in recent corruption cases in the legislature as well.

Then Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is now on trial on unrelated corruption charges, was skewered for his handling of the case.

Teachout made a splash in Cobble Hill on Saturday when she called for an investigation into the sale of Long Island College Hospital (LICH), calling the state's sale of the hospital to a developer a case of «classic corruption.»

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano is expected to be charged as early as Thursday on federal corruption - related matters, according to sources familiar with the case.

Bharara was aware that the Supreme Court decision in McDonnell was pending but chose not to modify the cases brought against Silver and the Skeloses on anticipation of the corruption definition possibly being narrowed.

And please, let us do proper investigation so that when we take a case to court, we would have successfully prosecuted the individual and not all the needless energy on bail and media trial because if the case is not strong and the accused is set free, people will turn round to blame judges for corruption.

Astorino's 2014 running mate, Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss, also issued a statement on the Skelos scandal, declaring himself «sick» of the endless corruption cases in Albany.

All we are hearing about this so - called anti-corruption war is about arrests, bail or no bail, handcuffs and so on and, when the cases collapse, you will turn round to accuse the judges of corruption.