Sentences with phrase «prosecutors call»

Guilty verdict in what prosecutors call «most lucrative insider trading scheme in U.S. history», Reuters

According to documents filed by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, Silver used his relationship with JoRon Management, a Buffalo - area company run by Jordan Levy, to invest his money in Counsel Financial, which prosecutors call a «private investment vehicle that promised a high annual rate of return with little risk.»

In a motion seeking to keep both men off the witness stand, prosecutors call the testimony «utterly irrelevant» and improper under federal legal precedent.

Now, Skelos and his father, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre), face federal extortion, conspiracy and bribery charges in what prosecutors call the senator's «monetizing» of his office to «take care of Adam's needs.»

A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin - related Ponzi scheme.

The 73 - year - old Boone was convicted in the 1980s in what prosecutors called the «largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history,» spending more than a decade in prison.

The scrutiny on Cohen and his firm grew in November when former portfolio manager Mathew Martoma was charged in what U.S. prosecutors called the biggest insider - trading scheme in history.

Lionel Messi's tax fraud trial has concluded with a public prosecutor calling for the player's acquittal and the government prosecutor renewing his demand for a conviction.

Federal prosecutors called for Terry to serve a prison term of four and a half years.

The ethics commission's first meeting comes on the same day that State Senator Carl Kruger pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to felony charges, for accepting more than a million dollars in bribes to maintain what prosecutors called a lavish lifestyle, including a large house owned by a former mafia boss and a Bentley automobile.

A prosecutor called his cooperation «complete and truthful» and his lawyer called it «remarkable.»

In opening arguments today, prosecutors called Joe Percoco Cuomo's «right - hand man,» while defense attorneys deemed the former top administration aide, a mere public servant with limited influence over state government.

A prosecutor called former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver a «master of deception» as summations began in the Manhattan Democrat's closely watched corruption case.

Prosecutors called it all a bribe deal intended to influence Joseph Percoco, who later took a number of steps — mostly via email — to help the company with a couple of its snags on issues before state government.

In closing arguments at his obstruction of justice trial, a Brooklyn federal prosecutor called state Sen. John Sampson a crook who instinctively relied on criminal tactics to avoid law enforcement...

The first hint that something was amiss came on Thursday when Bharara's office received a call from Trump's assistant requesting that the Manhattan prosecutor call the White House, the New York Times reported.

In prosecuting their case against Saraki, the government through its prosecutors called for only 4 witnesses and tendered 48 exhibits during the trial.

Asked about those unrelated cases — including the contracts for political donors, as well as what prosecutors called «helping someone you had a personal relationship with obtain contracts with entities with business before the county» — Walker said, «I'm ready to answer any questions that they may have.»

Prosecutors said Seabrook funnelled hundreds of thousands of dollars in discretionary funds to friends and family, including more than $ 300,000 to nonprofit groups owned by his mistress at the time, Gloria Jones - Grant, a woman prosecutors called «incompetent,» according to reports.

Monster is what the prosecutor calls 17 year old honors student and aspiring filmmaker Steve Harmon.

Monster / U.S.A. (Director: Anthony Mandler, Screenwriters: Radha Blank, Cole Wiley, Janece Shaffer, Producers: Tonya Lewis Lee, Nikki Silver, Aaron L. Gilbert, Mike Jackson, Edward Tyler Nahem)-- «Monster» is what the prosecutor calls 17 year old honors student and aspiring filmmaker Steve Harmon.

The linking of teachers» employment, and sometimes their pay, to test scores has also been blamed for sporadic incidents of cheating, and on Friday, 35 Atlanta educators, including the former superintendent, were indicted in a what prosecutors called a widespread scheme of doctoring students» answers.

Prosecutors called the case an «unprecedented» national tragedy, and the indictments ended two years of waiting for patients and families desperate for justice.

Not exact matches

- Though Hunter was their entire case, prosecutors were sufficiently wary of her (or perhaps of drawing additional attention to her precise role in the matter) that they did not call her to the witness stand.

Prosecutors alleged that Hutchins was the author of a password - stealing program called Kronos.

Prosecutors had said Gray was illegally arrested after he ran away from a bike patrol officer and the officers failed to buckle Gray into a seat belt or call a medic when he indicated he wanted to go to a hospital.

All told, the facts of the case that prosecutors appear to be building around Cohen's work and those «privileged communications» between Cohen and his clients could, in theory, prompt those prosecutors to call Cohen to testify against his own clients.

Prosecutors say that in 2015 - 16, Kane Gamble conned call centers into revealing information that got him into the accounts of then - FBI director Mark Giuliano,...

And Shkreli seemed to be at pains to suggest he wasn't taking the trial seriously: dropping in on reporters during the trial (he called the prosecutors «junior varsity»), taking to social media during the evenings, declining to wear a tie in court, and ostentatiously reading a book during closing arguments.

Last May, following Trump's surprise firing of James Comey as FBI director, the two were among 180 former prosecutors from the district who signed a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein calling for the appointment of a special counsel.

Prosecutors said Livingston, who owned a spam company called A Whole Lot of Nothing LLC, hired Chmielarz of Rutherford, N.J., to write computer programs that send spam in a manner that conceals their origin and bypasses spam filters.

The Senate Minority Leader called for an independent prosecutor to handle the Russia investigation

Susan Long, a professor of quantitative methods at the school of management at Syracuse University, co-founded a Web data clearinghouse called TRAC, which has been tracking prosecutor referrals from virtually every federal agency for more than a decade.

Donald Trump called for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, NBC News reports.

Democrats, meanwhile, are calling for an independent prosecutor.)

They could call the government's bluff, wagering that, in an era of malleable red lines, prosecutors would never round up the usual suspects in Silicon Valley and throw them in prison.

It was the willingness of the prosecutors to call out the executives who had been a party to fraud.

The reports have prompted calls from lawmakers in Britain and the United States for renewed scrutiny of Facebook, and at least two American state prosecutors have said they are looking into the misuse of data by Cambridge Analytica.

In her first comments since Bill Cosby was found guilty of sexual assault, Mrs. Cosby invoked Emmett Till and called for a criminal investigation of prosecutors.

Camille Cosby called for a criminal investigation into the prosecutor behind his sexual assault conviction, but Andrea Constand's lawyers brushed off her statement, saying «there is nothing else that needs to be said.»

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has called for regulating digital money as securities, while central bank officials vowed to work with prosecutors to block websites that allow retail investors access to bitcoin exchanges.

FBI Director James Comey nearly called for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's email server in the spring of 2016 after Clinton's lawyers refused on the grounds of attorney - client privilege to turn over their laptops for examination by the bureau's agents.

Prosecutors plan to call the ranger as a witness in the trial.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday called again for federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against drug traffickers who cause overdose deaths.

The website relied on the so - called Tor network, which lets users communicate anonymously, and accepted payment through bitcoins, which according to prosecutors allowed users to conceal their identities and locations.

Prosecutors say that later that day Alfred Degiorgio, acting as the spotter on a hill overlooking the Caruana Galizia home, called to tell his brother, George Degiorgio, when Caruana Galizia left the house.

In a number of other advanced economies — most notably the United States and Britain — prosecutors in certain kinds of cases involving corporate misbehaviour have the option of negotiating what are called «deferred prosecution agreements.»

SNC management wants Ottawa to consider letting federal prosecutors make so - called «deferred prosecution agreements» (DPAs) with companies accused of corruption.

The former FBI director said he considered calling for a special prosecutor to be brought in to oversee the probe but decided it would be «brutally unfair» to do that.

Bill Cosby's wife is calling for a criminal investigation into the prosecutor behind his sexual assault conviction, saying the case was «mob justice, not real justice» and a «tragedy» that must be undone.