Sentences with phrase «own federal corruption trial»
The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/
The jury resumes deliberating in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial, which enters its eighth week today.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has kept a relatively low media profile — at least with Albany reporters — during the federal corruption trial of his former top aide, Joe Percoco, but that has neither stopped nor reduced coverage of the proceedings, and there's more to come.
Still no verdict in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial, which will enter its eighth week next Monday.
Also at 9:30 a.m., the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano continues, Courtroom 920, Judge Azrack; Federal Courthouse, Central Islip, Long Island.
We're still awaiting a decision from the jury in former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s federal corruption trial, but we do have some (more bad) news to report about the embattled former Bronx Democratic lawmaker.
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.
During Joe Percoco's federal corruption trial, prosecutors have shown how power players like Percoco navigated «the Albany game,» as one witness put it, and also how minor players in the game — like two developers from Syracuse — could get caught up in it.
Jury deliberations in the federal corruption trial of Joe Percoco continue in a Manhattan courthouse today.
The question of who is picking up Joe Percoco's legal tab is of particular interest because of his close relationship with Cuomo, whose name has surfaced repeatedly in the federal corruption trial of his former top aide.
The defense continues to make its case in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial in Manhattan.
A judge set a date for the start of jury selection in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and his wife, Linda, and former Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto.
Closing arguments are scheduled to begin in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial in Manhattan.
Also at 1 p.m., activists who have been opposing the CPV power plant react to the verdict in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial, 1 Railroad Ave., Goshen.
«Ziti,» the code name for bribes, figured heavily in the government's closing arguments today in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial.
Through testimony, photographs and emails, prosecutors in Joseph Percoco's ongoing federal corruption trial have sought to portray him as having more sway in the Cuomo administration than anyone other than Cuomo himself.
The Joe Percoco federal corruption trial continues in Manhattan federal court, with disgraced former lobbyist Todd Howe — the government's star witness — expected to testify this week.
He has telegraphed his intention to run for the seat since Skelos lost his seat upon his conviction following a federal corruption trial in December.
Here's the latest from the federal corruption trial of former Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver.
Several former Cuomo associates, including a former top aide, face federal corruption trials on charges of bribery and bid - rigging in connection with the contracts for some of the governor's signature economic development projects, including the Buffalo Billion.
As if to illustrate the findings of the State Integrity Investigation, the federal corruption trial of former state Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., continued this week, with Judge Frederic Block excoriating Espada's attorney for using questionable courtroom tactics, and with Espada characterized during trial as a «puppet master» for his alleged embezzlement of funds from the Soundview Healthcare Network.
Restaurateur Harendra Singh on Thursday finished his testimony in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, after 13 days on the stand and as the prosecution challenged two crucial sets of evidence submitted by defense attorneys.
After facing two federal corruption trials he was acquitted and then applied to be reimbursed for $ 2.42 million: $ 1 million for funds he spent from his personal bank account, and $ 1.42 million for funds spent from his campaign fund.
Closing arguments have begun in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano.
Jurors on Friday finished their first day of deliberations in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife, Linda, and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto without reaching a verdict.
The head of Governor Cuomo's economic development programs says he doesn't think federal corruption trials now taking place will have any effect on the projects.
Menendez, who just survived a federal corruption trial involving allegations he took bribes from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgin, is among the least wealthy members of the Senate.
The head of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs said he doesn't think federal corruption trials now taking place will have any effect on the projects.
Speaking at a press conference outside the office of the CFB Malliotakis referenced the recent testimony of Jona Rechnitz in the federal corruption trial of Norman Seabrook on his political contributions to de Blasio and, according to Rechnitz, the mayor's responsiveness to his requests in exchange for those contributions.
Artist sketch shows John Venditto, second from top left, and Linda and Edward Mangano, second and third from the right, during jury selection for their federal corruption trial in Central Islip on March 12.
Malliotakis sought to focus attention on recent testimony of de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz in the federal corruption trial of Norman Seabrook, in which Rechnitz said he donated large amounts of money to Mayor de Blasio in exchange for special treatment.
Yamali, testifying in the federal corruption trial of Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, said his company had won a 10 - year county contract in 2009 to exclusively supply food at county - owned properties and parks.
Good - government advocates had called the session Albany's «Watergate» moment after the ex-Senate and Assembly leaders were convicted in separate federal corruption trials.
The recording was played at the federal corruption trial of Skelos and his son on Wednesday, Nov, 18, 2015.
Donald Hoffman, an independing auditor for the Town of Oyster Bay, took the stand Monday in the federal corruption trial of former town supervisor John Venditto and former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano.
The Silver ruling will not affect the federal corruption trials later this year of nine former associates of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including Cuomo's former top aide, on bribery and bid - rigging because those trials will take place after the Supreme Court's McDonnell ruling.
It was the final shoe to drop in the federal corruption trial of Sheldon Silver, the man who was once the most powerful Democrat in New York State, who looked haggard and forlorn in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday.
The governor's chief of staff, Linda Lacewell, testified in the ongoing federal corruption trial of former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco that those schedules were prepared long after the events had taken place, left many types of events off, and didn't always include the names of all the participants at meetings and events.
The jury is deadlocked in the federal corruption trial of former top aide to Governor Cuomo, Joe Percoco.
The Arizona Republican was convicted in 2013 of 17 out of 32 counts in a federal corruption trial.
We caught up with Joe Percoco this afternoon as he departed from his federal corruption trial on a small bit of good news for him.
The auditor from the Port Jefferson Station - based Cullen & Danowski, LLP took the stand in the federal corruption trial of former town supervisor John Venditto, former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and his wife, Linda — now in its ninth week in Central Islip.
The governor's chief of staff, Linda Lacewell, testified in the ongoing federal corruption trial of former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco that those schedules were prepared long after the events had taken place.
-- Chris Churchill in the Times Union: «The federal corruption trial of Cuomo buddy Joe Percoco has shown it's even worse than we thought.
The defendants in the federal corruption trial — former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano; John Venditto, Oyster Bay's former town supervisor; and Mangano's wife, Linda — and their attorneys have the option to wait in a side room.
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.
Crowley and Hoffmann are prosecution witnesses in the federal corruption trial of former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, and his wife, Linda.
Testifying in the White Plains federal corruption trial of the plot's alleged mastermind, ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran, Manhattan GOP Chairman Daniel Isaacs said he called then - Republican mayoral candidate and Gristedes tycoon John Catsimatidis about the illicit offer made outside Spark's Steakhouse in Manhattan on Valentine's Day 2013.
The federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto and Mangano's spouse, Linda Mangano, isn't slated to begin until next month.
Singh, on the stand for the 11th day in Edward Mangano's federal corruption trial, made the admission under questioning by Linda Mangano's defense attorney, John Carman, who presented as evidence several email exchanges between his client and Singh employees.