Sentences with phrase «perform official acts»

Bohrer wrote the information in these interviews «directly undermine crucial elements of the crime charged: that Percoco was a State official at the time he performed an official act, and that he was a State official, held himself out as a future State official, at the time he entered into a quid pro quo agreement with the Syracuse defendants.»

If no public official performed an official act in exchange for the money, then crimes of bribery or extortion can not be charged.

They wrote that the McDonnell ruling did hold that exerting pressure on another public official to perform an official act qualifies as an official act under bribery statutes.

Or to use his or her position to «exert pressure on another official to perform an official act.»

Mr. Percoco is accused of taking at least $ 315,000 in bribes from his co-defendants in return for performing official acts on their companies» behalf.

To substantiate corruption charges, prosecutors must prove the person suspected of wrongdoing performed an official act in exchange for some benefit.

Not exact matches

Such skepticism about the Fed's plans to end policy calibrated to fight a financial crisis and recession forces officials to perform a difficult balancing act.

The White House's National Economic Council will be performing «industry outreach» regarding the Department of Labor's redraft of its rule to amend the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, according to an industry official.

The Supreme Court said that in the future, bribery - related charges would require that any official act performed as part of a quid pro quo would have to involve a formal exercise of government power, not just a meeting or a phone call.

The jury instructions in the Percoco case spell it out: «The Government must prove that Mr. Percoco knew that he was expected to perform an official action act in exchange for the property that he allegedly obtained from CPV and COR Development, respectively.»

The conviction was reversed for faulty jury instructions after the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of an «official act» that must be performed as part of a criminal quid pro quo arrangement.

In the Skelos case, jurors were told that an «official act» can encompass «acts customarily performed by a public official,» including those that further long - term goals or are only steps toward achieving some outcome — language that the Supreme Court later found wasn't specific enough.

Trump performed his first official acts as commander in chief at a signing ceremony attended by lawmakers.

«That you, Bala A. Mohammed, while being the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, sometime in 2014 in Abuja within the Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory did accept gratification of a house worth N550, 000,000 (Five Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) only situated at No. 2599 & 2600 Cadastral Zone A04 Asokoro District, Abuja from Aso Savings & Loans Plc as reward for performing your official duties and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18 (b) of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000 and punishable under Section 18 (d) of the same Act.»

The people of New York «did not tangibly suffer from any of the official acts Mr. Silver allegedly performed in exchange for receiving the referral fees at issue,» Silver's lawyers wrote to the judge.

Prosecutors» claims that Percoco engaged in an extortion scheme in 2014 was, however, «far before the government has alleged that Percoco performed any «official act» relating to the Syracuse developer,» Bohrer wrote last week.

Silver's conviction had rested on the premise that he had performed «official acts» in exchange for kickbacks in two bribery schemes, according to the decision.

The Borough President acted under the authority of a new state law enacted last month that gives the two elected officials who appoint the Board's members the power to remove the Trustees they have appointed when those Trustees fail to satisfactorily perform their duties.

The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned his conviction last month because Caproni did not correctly describe the type of «official act» Silver had to perform to be guilty in a bribery scheme, but it said there was sufficient evidence for a properly instructed jury to convict.

All AMISOM personnel, including locally recruited Somalis, are immune from local legal processes in Somalia for any acts they perform in their official capacity, Don't you think this is injustice to the victims of sexual violence since perpetrators can't be prosecuted in Somali courts or even in AMISOM run military courts in Mogadishu.

At the same school three years ago — just before the enactment of California's Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, the official name of the state's parent trigger law — parents complained that district officials were silent after dozens of school community members presented a makeshift petition to oust the principal of the low - performing school.

ear after Maryland lawmakers created the state's first private school voucher program, indications are that the state is gearing up for big changes to address low - performing schools as education officials work to draft a plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

At the time, Byrd - Bennett said that the warning list would allow officials «an opportunity to look at charter school performance on an annual basis and to act immediately if a charter school is not performing, rather than to wait for a renewal cycle.»

Functional immunity arises from customary international law and treaty law and confers immunities on those performing acts of state (usually a foreign official).

The Act recognizes that officials of religious groups are free to refuse to perform marriages that are not in accordance with the religious views of their respective faiths.

In Samantar v Yousef (699 F. 3rd 763, 2012) the Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit concluded that «under international and domestic law, officials from other countries are not entitled to foreign official immunity for jus cogens violations, even if the acts are performed in an official capacity».

As noted in that post, consular officials are only entitled to functional immunity from prosecution, i.e immunity in respect of acts performed in the exercise of her consular functions, and may be arrested for grave crimes (pursuant to a decision of a competent judicial authority).

Two closely related writs are the writ of prohibition, by which a court may prevent a lower tribunal from acting upon matters that are not within its jurisdiction or from exceeding its lawful powers, and the writ of mandamus, by which a court may compel an official to perform a duty the law requires but that the official has failed or refused to perform.

885, 890 (2)(2009)(noting that «arresting a person for conduct occurring in an officer's presence is a discretionary act»), and therefore official immunity shields the officer from liability unless he performed the arrest with «malice or intent to injure,» id.

However, it dismissed his appeal on the basis that he was not entitled to immunity because he was permanently resident in the UK and the claim did not relate to any official acts he was performing in the exercise of his functions.

Indeed, every bribery case in Canadian history is recognizable by the payment of money (or other reward), followed by the government official performing (or omitting to perform) an act within that actor's range of power designed to benefit the giver (or related party).

According to tax department officials, the raids — conducted under section 133A of the Indian Income Tax Act — were performed in order to collect the identities of digital currency investors, their transactions, the bank accounts used, emails, and other data.

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16 SB 319 / HCSFA S. B. 319 (SUB)- 1 - HOUSE SUBSTITUTE TO SENATE BILL 319 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1 To amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and 2 businesses, so as to provide that professional counseling includes diagnosing emotional and 3 mental problems and conditions; to clarify that persons licensed as professional counselors, 4 social workers, and marriage and family therapists are not authorized to conduct 5 psychological testing; to provide for legislative findings and intent; to provide for a 6 curriculum of continuing education relating to diagnosing; to provide for the establishment 7 of rules and regulations regarding testing conducted by licensed professional counselors; to 8 clarify that psychological testing is part of the practice of psychology; to provide that certain 9 licensed persons are able to perform certain tests other than psychological testing; to revise 10 definitions; to amend Code Section 37 -1-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, 11 relating to definitions relative to the general provisions governing and regulating mental 12 health, so as to conform a cross-reference; to provide for related matters; to provide an 13 effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.