Sentences with phrase «potential government witness»

The feds also proved Tabone tampered with a potential government witness, Philip Ragusa, who then chaired the borough's GOP, at his home and tried to convince him not to testify at Tabone and Smith's first trial last year.

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Prosecutors said Thursday that they expect Singh to be the government's leadoff witness, and they have said in the past that they have 100 potential witnesses lined up to testify at a trial that could last two months at the federal courthouse in Central Islip.

The «man - made hysteria» associated with the global - warming fraud is a real threat to mankind in the sense that it a) has the potential to, and in fact is, turning millions of gullible individuals into fanatical, anti-human ideologues, b) diverting precious time, money and resources that could be more usefully spent elsewhere into the ridiculous and unscientific attempts by environmental extremists to «control the climate» via enforced — through government legislation and burdensome taxes — behaviour modification of supposedly free citizens, and c) giving the practice of science a bad reputation amongst the general populace, which in turn has been a major contributing factor to the general decline in the understanding of basic scientific concepts, and reality in general, that we have been witnessing over the last 40 years or so (ex.

The Harper government cherry - picked a few of those, ignored some of the most crucial recommendations — such as giving the Commissioner of Elections (the chief investigator) the capacity to compel recalcitrant potential witnesses to share what they know — and then decided to use the need for reform as an opportunity to play outrageously partisan games.

Prosecutors complained that Bulger's lawyers were tainting the potential jury pool and violating local federal court rules governing lawyers by talking to reporters about the case and attacking the credibility of the government's witnesses.

Recently, the Association of Chief Police Officers proposed that the government consider giving the police unfettered powers to offer anonymity to potential witnesses, without the intervention of the court.

To sum up, the financial world witnessed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America, the conversion to bank holding companies by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the collapse of Washington Mutual, the acquisition of Wachovia by Wells Fargo, the potential suspension of mark - to - market accounting and the ability of the government to purchase mortgage assets, both residential and commercial mortgage - backed securities, as well as whole loans.