Sentences with phrase «person under indictment»
You should know, and I assure you that Carl Heastie would have never become Speaker if Sheldon Silver, a person under indictment, would have said that he wanted Carl Heastie to be his successor.
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«We've got so many disclosure laws right now and we've got people under indictment now — one was convicted (Thursday), (former Sen.) Malcolm Smith (of Queens), with the current disclosure law,» DeFrancisco said.
Not exact matches
There's a reason why people close to Cuomo keep winding up under indictment for corruption.
«Kevin Schuler is a good man, but he's not the first person to plead guilty under the pressure of a federal criminal indictment,» Paul Shechtman, an attorney for Louis Ciminelli, said in a statement.
«There is a reason that people close to Andrew Cuomo keep winding up under indictment for corruption,» Nixon continued.
«If the validity of his appointment is not decided now, his investigation may continue for many more months or years under a cloud that will not be removed until or unless he obtains an indictment, and the person indicted moves to dismiss it on the ground that Adler was never validly appointed.
«There is a reason that people close to Andrew Cuomo keep winding up under indictment: their corruption,» Nixon argued.
State and federal investigators last week seized papers, a laptop and cell phones belonging to Frances Libous, a vice chair of the Workers Compensation Board and the wife of Sen. Tom Libous, who is under indictment, two people familiar with the raid said.
His particular agenda in Albany this time around, he said, is to «clean that place up,» noting that in current state legislative races, «There are four people running under indictment... There's something wrong with that.»
A statement from Louis Ciminelli's attorney Paul Shechtman: «Kevin Schuler is a good man, but he's not the first person to plead guilty under the pressure of a federal criminal indictment.
«The person holding the awesome power to decide whether people go to jail or not can not effectively serve under federal indictment for corruption,» Bellone said in a statement.
Top Republicans, mindful of the hazards of relying on several octogenarians and a person under federal indictment to keep their razor - thin control, seems happy to have him.
About all he will say on the record is that the charges are just that: Federal indictments are expected shortly, and under our system a person is considered innocent until proven guilty.
It is worth pointing out that a person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both, and on conviction on indictment to a fine or imprisonment not exceeding ten years, or both.
Nothing in KRS 432.230 to 432.270 shall prevent any court or judge from proceeding against any person writing or publishing a libel or slanderous words concerning such court or judge in relation to his judicial conduct in court by indictment, nor prevent any court from punishing any person guilty of a contempt in resisting or disobeying any judicial order or process issued by or under the authority of such court.»
The offence of cruelty to a child under 16 in the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, s 1 is a much more serious offence, and the maximum sentence following conviction on indictment is 10 years» imprisonment and / or an unlimited fine.
If a person is convicted on indictment of an offence under s 32 (1), then they are liable to a term of imprisonment up to three years, or to a fine, or to both of these.
An indictment for bigamy under sect. 5352 may, therefore, be found in a district court of Utah, by a grand jury of fifteen persons, impaneled pursuant to the laws of that Territory.
It was testimony given on a former trial of the same person for the same offence, but under another indictment.