Sentences with phrase «powerful federal judge»
She's closed that door, living a dedicated life to her career; of being a very successful, powerful federal judge and after all, she does have a cat for company.
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Otherwise, «any powerful person who asks someone to do something is committing a federal crime because people are afraid of powerful people and want to curry their favor,» Appeals Court Judge Richard Wesley noted in the Silver hearing.
(Reuters)- Lawyers for once - powerful former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver asked a judge on Tuesday to throw out federal corruption charges against him because a top prosecutor made «prejudicial» public statements about his guilt.
«the compensation system for federal judges in the United States creates a very powerful economic incentive to retire at a reasonable retirement age by virtue of how the defined benefit pension plan works, that most judges assent to not long after reaching that age.»
But, the compensation system for federal judges in the United States creates a very powerful economic incentive to retire at a reasonable retirement age by virtue of how the defined benefit pension plan works, that most judges assent to not long after reaching that age.
A federal judge on Monday ordered state Sen. Malcolm Smith's fraud and bribery trial to begin June 2, quietly rejecting the powerful Queens Democrat's bid to push the date back...
A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corruption.
Carl Kruger, the once - powerful New York State senator from Brooklyn who resigned his office in disgrace and pleaded guilty to corruption charges in December, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday by a federal judge in Manhattan.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas imposed the sentence in White Plains Federal Court on the once - powerful Queens pol, who was stone - faced throughout the proceeding.