Sentences with phrase «one's official acts»

It would expand the definition of official acts to include setting up meetings, for example.

If the incompetent officials acted on their early season promise to crack down on this, then he would have given away several penalties by now.

The high court found that setting up meetings could not be considered official acts for politicians.

In the past, courts typically defined official act to encompass anything done in the course of official duty or under the color of the office.

They did rule, however, that had the jury been properly instructed on what now defines such official acts, it may not have decided that Silver was guilty.

Following his 2010 arrest, Levitis was asked by federal prosecutors to help them investigate allegations that Kruger performed official acts in exchange for campaign donations, a source told The Post.

Howe, a former lobbyist, has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud in exchange for testifying that Percoco allegedly received kickbacks in exchange for official acts as a close advisor and aide to Cuomo.

And they say Dean, a Rockville Centre Republican, never agreed to perform official acts in exchange for the jobs given to his son.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - As the first official act of 2016, Onondaga County legislators could take a step toward helping neighborhoods deal with the overabundance of deer.

Only concrete quid pro quos — where a pol pockets gifts in exchange for official acts like signing a law — qualify as a bribe, the Supreme Court ruled.

One of the last official acts of New Jersey's outgoing governor, Chris Christie, may be to have his cash - strapped statewide transit agency pay about $ 12 million to buy a maintenance facility for boats that it does not have.

«Nor did the instructions prevent the jury from concluding that meetings or events with a public official to discuss a given matter were official acts by that public official.»

Sweeney was also the focus of a grand jury investigation into whether the four - term congressman had taken official acts to benefit three clients of an Albany lobbying firm, Powers & Co., in exchange for «a stream of financial benefits.»

«Using one's influence as a high ranking state official to push through county legislation and to bestow a county - issued contract are indisputably formal exercises of governmental power constituting official acts under McDonnell,» the decisions states.

Boyland claimed he was wrongfully convicted because his jury was told that he could be found guilty for things like «contacting... other governmental agencies» — along with official acts like legislation.

This was my first official act when I joined the Rye City Council in June 2012 after a corruption scandal.

Kevin Schuler's attorney, Terry Connors: «All LPCiminelli company officials acted lawfully and are innocent.

Silver's side argued a quid pro quo couldn't have existed because neither witnesses nor written evidence ever spoke to it, and many witnesses were unaware Silver was benefiting personally as he directed money and took other official acts.

Skretny was careful to note that determining whether firearms regulation is wise or warranted is a political question, not a judicial one, limiting the court's function to determining whether elected official acted lawfully in passing the SAFE Act last January.

«All LPCiminelli company officials acted lawfully and professionally,» a representative for the developer said afterwards.

Instead, they depicted the Skelos scion as a troubled youth who had occasionally needed to fall back on family connections to «live the American dream» — in the words of Christopher Conniff, counsel to the younger Mr. Skelos, the jobs had «nothing to do with official acts and everything to do with friendships.»

In a motion to dismiss his indictment in July, Menendez's attorneys argued his meetings and interactions with executive branch officials can't be considered official acts under the McDonnell ruling.

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Dan Weiner, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice's Democracy Program at New York University, said that many of the allegations against Silver will still constitute official acts if the case again goes to trial.

«Conduct and activities of The Advance Group during the last election cycle may have involved the coordinating of independent expenditure Super PACs with official campaigns, and The Advance Group provided unpaid lobbying services to a public official and, as a consequence, The Advance Group will benefit from selling access to the public official to influence official acts,» the complaint alleges.

State officials acted as if that was the plan all along, even though a printed copy of the meeting agenda included the original $ 511 million request that was to be voted on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court held that these acts were not official acts for purposes of proving bribery because they did not constitute some formal exercise of government power.

Singh has testified that he footed the bill for rides Venditto, his wife and daughter took — rides prosecutors say were part of a «stream of benefits» Venditto received in return for official acts including backing Singh's loans.

DiPizio has filed a lawsuit in state and federal court claiming that state officials acted illegally when they terminated her company's contract to build the Canalside ice rink, alleging the contract was given to a Rochester - based firm that had contributed big money to Cuomo and other officer holders.

All these town officials acted at Venditto's direction, and he acted because Mangano leaned on him, she argued.

SALT LAKE CITY — An audit released Tuesday finds no merit to allegations by BYU that education officials acted inappropriately in selecting the University of Utah for a state contract to create math textbooks.

The jury only has to find that Silver provided official acts of some kind in order to convict him, Williams complained.

LPCiminelli, citing its three executives named in the complaint, said it was «confident that all company officials acted appropriately and legally» and would be vindicated.

Barry Bohrer, Percoco's lawyer, last week wrote to Caproni noting that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that extortion «is completed at the time when the public official receives a payment in return for his agreement to perform specific official acts.»

«There are issues that involved not just the response to the shooting but issues about how the mayor acted and town officials acted.

If we are going to tote up a lot of examples of government abuse from government officials acting illegally, let us not forget Lois Lerner of the IRS and her communications with the White House staff in denying tax - exempt status to conservative organizations.

The pleas of state immunity fail, as the interests or activities covered by the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property 2004, art 6 (2)(b) do not include reputational damage suffered by foreign states if it is proven that foreign officials acted contrary to their own laws.

But the Huffington Post UK revealed that outgoing Labour general secretary Iain McNicol in his last official act signed off on an indefinite extension of Mr Livingstone's suspension.

Malliotakis recalled the post-Sandy recovery in her assembly district, noting that local officials acted well before significant federal aid arrived.

«You certainly have to explain to the jurors what Percoco's role is, and how he was in a position to exert any influence over official acts.

Further complicating matters, officials acting against a PSC often do so clandestinely.

For example, one of the first official acts upon commemorating the rebuilding of Jerusalem, following the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile, was a public reading:

And though the Bears received a trophy — «I mean, it must be about three feet high,» Herrera marveled in his collect call that night — there was no formal presentation or other official act recognizing that Bowie had won Texas's inaugural baseball championship.

The upshot of that thread is a small number officials (mostly the President, legislators, judges and district attorneys) have absolutely immunity from civil or criminal liability for certain kinds of discretionary official acts.

The Supreme Court opened the floodgate for corruption appeals in June 2016 when it overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, rul ing that only official acts, like legislation, can be traded for bribes.

The «Nunes Memo» is a 4 - page document based on Republican congressman Devin Nunes» investigation that alleges that top FBI officials acted illegally to gain FISA warrants to conduct surveillance on the Donald Trump campaign.

«There were quid pro quos and official acts within the narrow definition of McDonnell.»

«Similarly, evidence of Dean Skelos's efforts to pass state legislation to fund various projects benefitting AbTech also supports a reasonable jury finding of legally cognizable official acts.»

«Because the charges in this case can not be proved by official acts purportedly taken by Percoco during that period, to the extent that it relies upon such acts, the indictment must be dismissed for failure to state an offense,» Bohrer wrote.