Sentences with phrase «perjury charge»

Two days later, Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson was arrested for taking bribes, and his fellow Bronx Assemblyman Nelson Castro revealed that he had taped Stevenson and others for federal investigators in order to resolve a previously undisclosed perjury charge.

As for the perjury charge that led to his work as an informant, Castro stresses that the actual case had nothing to do with his work in the Assembly.

The perjury charge, a felony, relates to comments from Abelove before the grand jury convened by the AG.

A perjury charge against an acting district attorney «taints the very essence of who we are as prosecutors and goes against all that we strive to do to ensure the public's trust in the criminal justice system,» said DAASNY president and Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara.

Scott called the special election after former Rep. Daisy Baez, a Coral Gables Democrat, resigned after pleading guilty to a perjury charge in an investigation into her residency.

Baroni's testimony before the committee was technically not under oath, which may make indicting him on a perjury charge more difficult.

He got dragged into the federal corruption probe when he was caught on a wire offering a bribe to Nelson Castro, a Bronx assemblyman who had agreed to cooperate with the government to get out of a perjury charge.

Bill Clinton left office with a perjury charge and never won a majority of the vote.

In the end, Libous was convicted of a sole perjury charge and automatically removed from the Senate.

And to me that's an aggravating factor that points the finger toward a perjury charge.

He later entered a plea of no contest to a felony perjury charge in a deal that spared him a jail term.

Even before being hit with a federal securities fraud lawsuit by the SEC and independent perjury charges by the DOJ last month, the founder of a now - defunct cryptocurrency exchange had left a trail of lawsuits.

Before being hit with federal fraud and perjury charges, the founder of a now - defunct cryptocurrency exchange had a trail of legal tussles.

White House officials and others close to the president insist that last week's decision to pardon former Vice President Dick Cheney's senior aide I. Lewis «Scooter» Libby on perjury charges dating to his service in the George W. Bush administration was not intended to send a message to Cohen — but it nonetheless could go a long way toward reassuring the president's lawyer.

Mueller's office has obtained a wealth of subpoenaed documents about the president's conduct and has taken secret testimony from cooperating witnesses — Michael Flynn, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and former campaign aide Rick Gates — any one of whom would be in a position to contradict Trump and expose him to perjury charges.

A New York police officer was arraigned on perjury charges after prosecutors said he repeatedly lied about how the police found a gun in a Brooklyn apartment.

Castro resigned April 8 as part of his plea deal with prosecutors, which involved wearing a wire after he was busted on perjury charges — leading to the federal bribery arrest of fellow Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson.

Bad move — especially when it involved a high - ranking officer who, Kaye reports, lied under oath but then «corrected» his testimony, avoiding perjury charges.

Bronx Assemblyman Nelson Castro cooperated in the investigation in return for the dismissal of felony perjury charges related to what he called a «civil» matter prior to his election.

In exchange, the feds agreed not to prosecute Castro on perjury charges from 2009 stemming from statements he made under oath in an election fraud case.

The NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board is sick of people lying about police misconduct — and wants to make complainants sign a document warning them that they could be hit with perjury charges for filing false claims.

Of course, the twin David Johnson domestic violence and Yankees tickets scandals — investigated by former Chief Judge Judith Kaye at Cuomo's request — put the kibosh on that plan, and now the governor might be facing criminal perjury charges to boot.

Bronx Assemblyman Nelson Castro may face perjury charges after it was discovered that nine voters in last September's primary, now suspected to be his and his girlfriend's relatives, were registered to Castro's West Bronx apartment.

She found that Mr. Paterson had misled state investigators about his acceptance of free tickets to the World Series and forwarded her findings to the Albany County district attorney to determine whether there was sufficient evidence for perjury charges.

Byron Taylor, 32, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to obstruction of justice and perjury charges for lying to a federal grand jury about the death of Ronald Spear.

Standing in the way, along with the rigors of a campaign and the incumbent, is the fact that Castro served as a government informant for years - to avoid perjury charges.

Democrat Rafael Espinal said he wants to talk with NYPD brass about the possibility of filing perjury charges against accusers who file false complaints against cops.

Before he had to go to parliment and becoming liable to perjury charges Phil Jones admitted the following: 1) There hasn't been any statistically signifigant Global Warming in 15 years 2) There has been statistically insitnifigant Global COOLING in the last seven years 3) That the 80s - 90s warming was very simular to the previous 3 warming periods 4) That there was a Medival Warming Period in the Northern Hemisphere at least.

Whether Ellis disagrees with forced jury service or was simply trying to make a joke, he now faces perjury charges for his little rebellion.

Today's two appeals were companion cases involving perjury charges against two RCMP officers in the tasering death of a Polish visitor, and the SCC has now dismissed both appeals.

«Law Firms Breaking Records for Revenues and Profits Per Partner Main Will Roger Clemens Face Perjury Charges?»

However, Henning does not believe that perjury charges would stand against Clemens (since a jury would not believe McNamee).

Is Goodling taking the Fifth because if she testifies under oath she would lie and face perjury charges rather than tell the truth?

Another commenter, Katherine Darmer, a former U.S. Attorney quoted in this MLB article opined that Clemens «simply was not credible» and that he ought to prepare himself for the likelihood of perjury charges.

The more pressing question is whether Clemens will face perjury charges for lying under oath before the House Committee.

The DMCA handles this by opening the submitter to perjury charges if the takedown was submitted illegally.

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Two top Penn State university officials who were allegedly told about the abuse and declined to notify authorities have been charged with perjury and with failure to report suspected abuse.

Former MSP Tommy Sheridan has been charged with perjury after a year - long investigation into his successful libel trial against the News of the World.

The EFCC dragged Odukoya before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja on a four - count charge bordering on forgery, use of false information, perjury and stealing to the tune of N1, 741, 994, 962.04 (One Billion, Seven Hundred and Forty - one Million, Nine Hundred and Ninety - four Thousand, Nine Hundred and Sixty - two Naira, Four Kobo).

Then, in April, federal prosecutors charged Mr. Grimm with 20 counts of tax fraud and perjury, relating to the operation of a Manhattan restaurant he co-owned prior to his 2010 election.

Abelove is charged with felony perjury and official misconduct, a misdemeanor, for his handling of a fatal Troy police - involved shooting of a driver in April of 2016.

Debra Ortutay, chair of the Rockland County Independence Party, has pled guilty to charges of forgery and perjury pertaining to ballots filled out when her son - in - law Frank Sparaco Jr., ran for Assembly against Kenneth Zebrowski.

Being forcibly questioned on oath and without warning or legal advisors, with no hint of what the questions related to or whether it was a matter involving them or someone else (maybe a family member or friend), the subject either had to incriminate themself or someone else by telling the truth, be charged with perjury if they lied or other witnesses said differently when questioned in turn, or be charged with contempt of court if they didn't speak.

Congressman Michael Grimm pleaded not guilty this afternoon to a slew of federal charges, including mail, wire and health care fraud, filing false tax returns, perjury, obstruction of an official proceeding and hiring undocumented workers.

Maybe this is why no one wants to have them on their list of supporters: Assemblyman Nelson Castro: soon to be charged for perjury State Senator Pedro Espada: under allegations he funneled state money to his own personal business; under investigation for not filing campaign finance forms; led the Albany stalemate in June which has made our State Legislature even more disfunctional Assemblymember Carmen Arroyo: her grandson is under investigation (oops, sorry - he was arrested) for using non-profit money for personal and lavish spending in Puerto Rico (don't tell she did not know?)

Grimm pleaded not guilty last month in Brooklyn to charges of filing false tax returns, mail fraud, wire fraud, hiring unauthorized aliens and perjury.

Embattled Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove has been charged with official misconduct and perjury.

Lee was found guilty of bribery, embezzlement, perjury and other charges centred on payments and promises by Samsung totalling 43.3 billion won (around $ 40 million) to Park's secret confidante Choi Soon - Sil.

He never did get one, however, which might have had something to do with the fact that David Giffiths, his onetime law partner and campaign treasurer, was charged with perjury by the feds.