Sentences with phrase «public corruption»

Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was convicted of public corruption charges in late 2015.

As part of that approach, prosecutors could take the unusual step of producing a grand - jury report on systemic public corruption in the state capital.

Silver, who's 73, was sentenced last year to 12 years in prison after he was convicted of public corruption charges.

More corrupt states spent less on education at all levels, public welfare, health and hospitals, areas that offer fewer opportunities for public corruption.

That's because of his past public corruption convictions.

«We have a number of public corruption investigations going on,» he said.

«Our unfinished fight against public corruption continues,» he vowed yesterday.

Forty - eight percent of respondents said fighting public corruption is the top issue for the incoming district attorney to address.

He has been found guilty of multiple public corruption crimes, including one count of monetary transactions involving crime proceeds.

What happened: Not every state lawmaker was hit with public corruption charges last spring — it just felt that way.

Those convicted of public corruption offenses would be permanently barred from holding any elected or civil office, as well as lobbying, contracting, or receiving any funding from the state.

Successful representation of individuals and entities investigated in federal public corruption investigations.

So the governor is defining public corruption as using public service for private gain, so much as asking us to see if that definition would fit him.

We will continue to root out public corruption wherever we find it.

Local district attorneys have shown little inclination to pursue public corruption cases.

She has criticized the governor over his failure to pass campaign finance reform to address public corruption.

Silver, 74, faces multiple federal charges in an alleged public corruption scheme.

I have repeatedly called for greater transparency into administrative dealings and stronger laws to prevent public corruption.

My goal here is to get public corruption under the jurisdiction of the attorney general.

It's an initiative aimed at stopping public corruption in the state.

Lawyers for the defendants deny the charges and have been seeking to toss the case on a number of grounds over the past year, including court decisions in unrelated public corruption cases.

He secured numerous convictions in terrorism cases and more than 160 convictions in public corruption matters.

This is the culmination of a long and well - documented public corruption investigation by the state attorney general's office.

Of course, their fundraising tactics during that election cycle led to complaints that opened the door to a wide - reaching public corruption investigation.

Legal analysts said the appeals court's decision reinforces how prosecutors will face significant challenges in bringing and winning public corruption cases.

Federal law enforcement brings formidable human, financial and technological resources to its fight against public corruption.

Perhaps, rather unexpectedly, about successful ways of dealing with public corruption.

It will be watched nationwide as a test case, indicating how much federal law has been weakened in public corruption cases.

The criminal cases involved charges of public corruption, securities fraud, bank fraud, bankruptcy fraud, mail and wire fraud, election law violations, conspiracy and money laundering.

I want to focus on reducing gun and gang violence, addressing public corruption and keeping children safe from internet and sexual predators.

This includes the defense of organizations and individuals targeted for prosecution in federal and state court in false claim, environmental, tax or public corruption investigations.

Maziarz's campaign fund first came under scrutiny when the state Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption investigated possible crimes involving election law, campaign expenditures and fundraising in 2013.

His work there included the first successful prosecution in professional boxing in more than 40 years and which was featured in an A&E documentary, as well as two related racketeering and public corruptions trials for which he received the U.S. Department of Justice Director's Award for Superior Performance.

In 2013, the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption probed payments that Hikind received from Maimonides Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital in Brooklyn that had advertised on Hikind's weekly radio program.

The Democrat, Small, noted in her press release, the plan comes on the heels of a major public corruption scandal where nine people were arrested, including three executives from Western New York developer LPCiminelli.

With potential campaign finance law violations under scrutiny, one person said, the Cohen investigation was assigned to career prosecutors in the office's elite public corruption unit, which has a track record of convicting politicians on both sides of the aisle.

They were sentenced, respectively, to 5 - and 6 1⁄2 - year prison terms, but their convictions were reversed last year by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals because jury instructions did not comply with a new Supreme Court decision narrowing federal public corruption laws.

He recalled the prosecutor being tenacious and having «zero tolerance for public corruption from the day he took office.»

Majority Republicans in the Nassau County Legislature plan to introduce legislation tomorrow to bar individuals convicted of felonies involving public corruption from running for county office or holding a county - appointed board or commission seat.

Hong Kong is considered to have built one of the most successful institutions to combat public corruption.

«He has taken on big fights and produced results, going after public corruption among fellow Democrats, keeping the pressure on Wall Street and producing other meaningful changes, most notably in student lending.»

Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, co-chair of the Moreland Commission, says it doesn't bother him that many New Yorkers are unaware of the group's probes into public corruption.

The Court's opinion in McDonnell has had direct consequences on public corruption prosecutions.

Percoco and the other defendants maintain their innocence and have pleaded not guilty to all charges; the case — particularly in the wake of a 2016 Supreme Court ruling that made public corruption allegations more difficult to prove — appears far from a cakewalk for prosecutors.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara spoke about public corruption at Fordham Law School Friday.