Sentences with phrase «own federal trial»

-- Pat Robertson, after the city of Dover, Pennsylvania voted to boot the current school board, which inst.i.tuted an intelligent design policy that led to a federal trial

Ex-jockey Con Errico's conviction in a federal trial gives major impetus to the sport's wide - spreading scandal

Defense lawyers have recommended that a federal trial be scheduled no earlier than January 2018 for Joseph Percoco, the former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo charged with corruption, and three other defendants including Cor Development executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi.

Venditto, Mangano and Mangano's wife, Linda, are scheduled for a federal trial March 12 after pleading not guilty in an alleged bribery scheme.

His closest aide is now on federal trial for selling his office for in exchange bribes and kickbacks,» the narrator says.

On day one of week nine of the federal trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto came word that another juror had been excused, because of health issues.

Silver's counterpart in the Senate until recently, former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and his son, Adam, are enduring their own federal trial in Manhattan.

Prosecutors played more than two dozen phone conversations Tuesday at the federal trial of Adam Skelos and his father, Sen. Dean Skelos in Manhattan.

He told them he's disappointed that they failed to act on measures to change the way billions of dollars in state contracts are solicited and awarded, even though several of Cuomo's former associates are facing federal trials on corruption charges next year.

For example, during the 2011 federal trial of former City Council member Larry Seabrook, it was discovered that he had used the Northeast Bronx Democratic Club as his personal ATM.

COR Development Co. president Steven Aiello — a co-defendant in a Manhattan federal trial along with former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco — planned to deliver the hefty contribution at the 2013 fundraiser, star prosecution witness Todd Howe testified.

Now, the testimony of two witnesses at a federal trial unfolding in Newark has placed Cuomo in close proximity to what has principally been a New Jersey - based narrative of lies, retribution and planned cover ups as early as October of 2013 — just weeks after the sudden closure of several lanes on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge.

Mei was being cross-examined in the sixth week of the federal trial of Venditto, former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Mangano's wife, Linda.

Today, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit denied disgraced former Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson's appeal of his federal trial judge's order seizing his pension contributions assets that can be used to pay his $ 22,000 restitution penalty.

LaValle in the past has predicted that Walsh's influence will wane as he faces a federal trial later this month.

But the other candidates are sure to seize on the jaw - dropping testimony in a federal trial this week of Jona Rechnitz, a de Blasio donor who said his contributions bought him access and favors from Hizzoner.

The Skelos verdict came about two weeks after former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on seven counts of corruption in his own federal trial.

This is all with the backdrop of a federal trial that's raised questions about the mayor's relationship with the industry.

He told them he's disappointed that they failed to act on measures to change the way billions of dollars in state contracts are solicited and awarded, even though several of Governor Cuomo's former associates are facing federal trials on corruption charges next year.

Former Queens Councilman Daniel Halloran testified at his federal trial that an envelope of cash he took from someone who turned out to be a government informant wasn't a bribe but a personal loan.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today dismissed as «gossip» claims that he colluded with his New Jersey counterpart, Chris Christie, to conceal the real reason for the disruptive closure of lanes on the George Washington Bridge — but claimed he could not recall how he first learned of the «Bridgegate» incident, now the subject of a federal trial.

Wildstein's comments today in the federal trial of several Christie appointees to the Port Authority, however, undercuts the two politicians» claims of innocence.

The piece mentioned, among other corruption cases, the upcoming federal trial of former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros, who is alleged to have rigged bids for upstate construction projects through a SUNY - affiliated nonprofit, Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, several years ago.

Espada faces a federal trial in October on charges he misused Medicaid funds to fund a lavish lifestyle.

Just last month, Mr. Sharpton called for the suspension of a deputy inspector whose racially tinged comments on stop - and - frisk practices, secretly recorded by a subordinate officer, were prominently presented during a federal trial over the constitutionality of the tactic.

Hearn also suggested that the city await the outcome of a federal trial on stop and frisk to see if the judge appoints a federal monitor.

Jury deliberations could begin Thursday in the federal trial of State Senator John Sampson, after lawyers presented their closing arguments Wednesday in his obstruction of justice case.

Cox also accused the governor of trying to send a message to Vance at at time when the Republicans have formally called on the prosecutor to investigate the Cuomo administration for corruption after it was revealed in a federal trial that Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, continued to use his government office after leaving the state payroll to run Cuomo's 2014 re-eelction campaign, which would violate state law.

Outside the lower Manhattan courthouse on Thursday where Joseph Percoco, Mr. Cuomo's former confidante, is on trial, Republican Sen. John DeFrancisco, who is running for governor, took a shot at Mr. Cuomo, saying the federal trial shows that to do business with the Cuomo administration...

Three sitting legislators — William Boyland Jr., Malcolm Smith and John Sampson — are currently on federal trial for corruption, and a felony conviction would automatically force them to resign.

The announcement was sent out on the same day that former Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam were convicted on eight counts of bribery and extortion following a federal trial, and weeks after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted of abusing his office by receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from companies with business before the state.

The chart was introduced into evidence in his federal trial on Jan. 23, 2018.

Miner cited Davis» failure to appear as a witness in a federal trial over a police brutality lawsuit in November.

Former Queens City Councilman Daniel Halloran testified at his federal trial Thursday that an envelope of cash he took from someone who turned out to be a government informant wasn't a bribe but a personal loan.

(Kaloyeros» federal trial will be held no earlier than May 15, 2018; he has not yet been indicted in the state case.)

The movement on the measures comes amid a federal trial over the department's use of stop and frisk, and it follows a series of stories by The Associated Press that revealed how city police systematically listened in on sermons, hung out at cafes and other public places, infiltrated colleges and photographed people as part of a broad effort to prevent terrorist attacks.

Kenneth E. Riddett, who was legislative counsel to the Senate majority for many years, took the stand Tuesday at Bruno's federal trial on corruption charges and spent hours answering questions about the lawmaker's financial disclosure forms that are at the heart of the government's case.

Federal prosecutors revealed the new details about the Columbia University doctor's state of mind in advance of Silver's Manhattan federal trial on corruption charges, which is slated to begin Nov. 2.

Mangone made the statements during a federal trial.

They used recently decided cases in other federal trials, as well as the U.S. Constitution, as ammunition.

During their federal trials in Brooklyn, ex-Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. drove to the courthouse with a suspended driver's license, and Sampson parked his SUV in a no - parking zone protected by a placard in the window claiming he was on «official» state business.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Defense lawyers have recommended that a federal trial be scheduled no earlier than January 2018 for Joseph Percoco, the former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo charged with corruption, and three other defendants including Cor Development executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi.

Quinn's approval, which will allow the legislation to come to a vote, comes as a federal trial is beginning on a class - action lawsuit challenging the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy.

He did not testify in the three - week federal trial.

William Boyland Jr. was found guilty of extortion and multiple conspiracy counts at a federal trial in March 2014 in Brooklyn.

In what has turned out to be a landmark decision, the Court ruled in Daubert that federal trial judges must act as gatekeepers in order to exclude unreliable evidence from the courtroom.

Eventually, the Supreme Court was called upon to determine the proper standard for the admissibility of expert scientific testimony in federal trials.

Moreover, federal trial courts in Pennsylvania (Snyder v Millersville, 2008) and Connecticut (Spanierman v. Hughes, 2008), allowed school officials to terminate a student teacher's placement for making inappropriate postings on MySpace and the employment of a teacher who posted unacceptable material on Facebook, respectively.

In early cases, parents successfully challenged AUPs in federal trial courts in Missouri (Beussink ex rel.

In addition to managing OCT's YouCAN Program, Coreal heads our federal trial mobilization efforts and is our point person for individual and organizational partnerships.