Sentences with phrase «prosecutors said agents»

In court, federal prosecutors said agents confiscated two guns from the home, and Lichtenstein had licenses for both.

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The FBI agent says De-Meyer denied using a fake name, as he was accused of doing in an indictment unsealed Wednesday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

Asha Rangappa, a former FBI agent and senior lecturer at Yale University, said the news means prosecutors may be onto a strong case.

Manafort laundered millions of dollars in payments for the Ukraine work and failed to properly register as a foreign agent, prosecutors say.

A day after Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani likened federal law enforcement agents to stormtroopers, Caputo said his experience with investigators reminded him of the Soviet KGB and Russian prosecutors.

But prosecutors and F.B.I. agents have also been able to determine that for some time, Mr. Silver had failed to disclose income from another law firm besides Weitz & Luxenberg, the people said...

If that isn't hot enough for you the Justice Department is said to be considering having federal agents and prosecutors from the Southern District of New York join the jamboree originally launched by feds in the Northern District.

Mr. Boyland's father, William F. Boyland Sr., a former assemblyman, took the agent outside to accept the money on behalf of his son, prosecutors said.

Flores met with Milla at a hotel in San Salvador, displayed a badge and identified himself an agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, prosecutors said.

The judge considered encrypted text messages, testimony from the victim and law enforcement agents, and photographs from the meeting, prosecutors said.

Bellone ticked off a long list of what he said were failings by Spota, including the prosecutor's support for Burke and Spota's blocking of Suffolk police from cooperating with federal agents on the Gilgo Beach murders.

The FBI agent also asked for something in return — $ 80,000 in cash — which City Councilman Dan Halloran, who was allegedly working with Smith, promised to provide by illegally funneling City Council funds to the FBI agent, prosecutors said.

BREAKING: FIRST CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED IN BENGHAZI ATTACK PROBE... Federal agents and prosecutors investigating the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi have filed charges against Ahmed Khattalah, leader of a Libyan militia that officials believe was involved in the assault, people briefed on the investigation said.

The FBI agent's invented real estate developer was also involved in another piece of the scheme in Spring Valley, N.Y., along with a «confidential witness» who has not been identified, prosecutors said.

In addition, the FBI agent secured a promise from Smith that Smith would offer state support for roadwork that would benefit the development project, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors also said Silver's arrest was handled «with great sensitivity — from the choice to allow the defendant to surrender, to the decision to drive the defendant to the courthouse as opposed to having federal agents walk the defendant across the plaza, to the use of an unmarked car to handle the transport.»

Prosecutors say Smith turned to the agent posing as a businessman and Moses Stern — a crooked Rockland County developer turned federal witness — for money and help plotting the botched scheme to buy the GOP line for mayor.

A federal agent who interviewed the wife of the then - Nassau County executive about what prosecutors say was her no - show job testified Thursday that Linda Mangano initially discussed performing a large volume of work but later broke down in tears when she was subpoenaed for evidence.

Smith, the prosecutor said, turned to crooked Rockland County developer Moses Stern and an undercover agent for money and help pulling off the scheme.

Oliva was known to be close to federal agents and prosecutors, who had been investigating then - Suffolk Chief of Department James Burke, the sources said.

Prosecutors said Boyland sought reimbursements for travel to Albany while he was 150 miles away soliciting bribes from undercover FBI agents.

«I think it is a different thing to say that people shouldn't be talking to potential witnesses in a case when prosecutors and FBI agents and other investigators are looking at something.

An undercover DEA agent bought 700 pills in September and October from the Jakackis, who leased a $ 100,000 Land Rover and a $ 45,000 Porsche, prosecutors said in Manhattan federal court.

Rafael Flores, a political operative and one - time surrogate for Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano in the Latino community, was charged with extortion in El Salvador on Tuesday after prosecutors said he impersonated a U.S. drug enforcement agent in a plot to extort a local mayor.

Rafael Flores, a political operative and one - time surrogate for Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano in the Latino community, was charged with extortion in El Salvador on Dec. 20, 2016 after prosecutors said he impersonated a U.S. drug enforcement agent in a plot to extort a local mayor.

An official who spoke to The Daily Caller said an investigation by Bharara's office «would be seen by agents as a positive development as prosecutors there are generally thought to be more aggressive than the career lawyers within the DOJ.»

Tabone later frisked an undercover FBI agent for a wire, which he missed, and then stepped outside into the agent's car and accepted $ 25,000 in cash, prosecutors said, with the promise of $ 25,000 more.

In another alleged bribery scheme, prosecutors said Halloran agreed to route city discretionary funding to Stern and an undercover FBI agent, who Halloran believed was a wealthy business partner of Stern's, in exchange for $ 24,800 in donations for his own failed congressional bid.

The prosecutors, from the office of Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the FBI agents were seeking to determine precisely what Silver has been doing for the payments, the people said.

Prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan and agents of the FBI have found that the law firm, Goldberg & Iryami PC, has paid Silver the sums over roughly a decade but that he did not list that income on his financial disclosure forms, the people said.

Prosecutors also said agents attended a dog fight set up by the defendant; spectators were said to have placed bets of up to $ 5,000.

During a November 18 court hearing for two of those charged, prosecutors said undercover agents paid one of the men $ 1,500 for a puppy for dog fighting.

Prosecutors say that Sonnen was a real estate agent for a Portland home when he arranged for a title company to pay $ 69,000 to a plumbing company for repairs in a home that were never completed.