Sentences with phrase «public corruption convictions»

Federal authorities urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday not to review the public corruption convictions of former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell, arguing that he used his office to benefit a wealthy benefactor and was rightly found guilty of breaking the law.

«This decision illustrates the changing legal landscape which is making it increasingly difficult to obtain and sustain federal public corruption convictions,» Hartunian said.

In a dizzying year that saw the public corruption convictions of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Skelos at the hands of Bharara's office, what better candidate to run in Skelos» old district than a former prosecutor with a record of fighting corruption like Kaminsky?

«This decision illustrates the rapidly changing legal landscape which is making it increasingly difficult to obtain and sustain federal public corruption convictions,» said Hartunian, who will start next month as a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

At least Christie had amassed an impressive record of public corruption convictions as U.S. Attorney in Newark before running for Governor.

As former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, gear up for sentencing in their respective public corruption convictions today, the elder Skelos has hired noted appeals lawyer Alexandra Shapiro to help him argue his way out of prison.

Supreme Court unanimously voted to overturn the public corruption conviction of former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell.

In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and narrowed the definition of what constitutes an «official act.»

Prosecutors drop the case against former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell and his wife after the Supreme Court overturned his public corruption conviction on June 27, 2016.

The 2nd Circuit tossed out the conviction, citing the legal rationale in a recent Supreme Court decision that reversed the public corruption conviction of Virginia Republican ex-Gov.

The 2nd Circuit tossed out his public corruption conviction in July, citing a recent Supreme Court decision.

The U.S. Supreme Court vacated the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, potentially emboldening the appeals of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who were convicted in separate cases last year.

The appeals court said that the trial judge would need to instruct jurors on the law in a different manner to conform with a 2016 Supreme Court decision that reversed the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

But state officials have ruled Ganim can't participate in the clean elections program because of his prior public corruption conviction.

Skelos, a Republican, also had his public corruption conviction overturned as a result of a Supreme Court ruling that reversed the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell.

The appeals court said the trial judge would need to instruct jurors on the law differently to conform with a 2016 Supreme Court decision reversing the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

The results are another reminder of McDonnell's steep fall from grace, even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his public corruption conviction earlier this year.

The Supreme Court unanimously voted to overturn the public corruption conviction of former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell.

A bevy of high - profile supporters are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the public corruption conviction against former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell (R), McDonnell's team announced Monday.

It reversed the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell.

Not exact matches

The first trial involving a charge under the Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act was concluded this past summer, and resulted in a conviction.

A breakaway group of five state Senate Democrats who have been aligned with the Republicans are set to reintroduce an ethics package that would ban state public officials from receiving any outside income following Silver's corruption conviction.

In his first public appearance after the corruption conviction of a former top aide, Joe Percoco, Cuomo acknowledged he had known that Percoco was using government offices while working for the governor's 2014 campaign team, but said he believed the work was not political and related to the transition.

The Supreme Court's ruling in McDonnell's case set a precedent that could help others accused of public corruption, including Sen. Robert Menendez (D - N.J.), who is awaiting an appeals court ruling in a corruption case; and former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver (D), who is aiming to overturn his corruption conviction.

An appeals court tossed out that conviction, citing a recent Supreme Court ruling that changed the legal boundaries for public corruption.

And the case left in its wake a new legal definition of what constitutes public corruption, based on the Supreme Court's ruling tossing the former governor's convictions.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver faces a new trial on public corruption charges, after his earlier conviction was overturned on appeal.

The decision, which overturned the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, has led to speculation in New York that convicting anyone on public corruption charges would become virtually impossible in all but the most explicit cases of favor - trading.

Schaffer and Bellone traded barbs about the issue of public corruption following Bellone's State of the County address in March and the conviction of former Suffolk Police Chief of Department James Burke.

This time the cases of Sheldon Silver, former speaker of the Assembly, and Dean Skelos, former majority leader of the Senate, are being watched nationwide as test cases of federal prosecutors» ability to win public - corruption convictions under a new legal standard.

«Even, at the end of the day, if there is no conviction here [Cuomo] is going to have to deal with a continued focus on public integrity and corruption issues.»

When former Assembly Speaker Silver was convicted of corruption on all counts, there was also a second conviction: Albany's way of conducting the public's business.

An appeals court tossed out that conviction, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that changed the legal boundaries for public corruption.

Blair Horner, with the government reform organization New York Public Interest Research Group, says if the commission were truly independent it would be a good idea, following the corruption convictions of the former legislative leaders and a former top aide to Cuomo.

ALBANY — The corruption convictions of former state Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos and his son Adam B. Skelos were overturned by a federal appellate court on Tuesday in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that retooled the definition of an «official act» as it relates to public corruption.

«The exhibit as a whole may be interpreted by potential jurors as the Court's celebration of criminal convictions in significant cases, and particularly cases involving allegations of public corruption,» said the letter filed by Daniel Gitner, a lawyer for former energy company executive Peter Kelly, a co-defendant.

«Every investigation, arrest and conviction of a public official has sounded an alarm on corruption.

Nassau County's former deputy commissioner of emergency management won't serve any jail time after admitting to lying about a criminal conviction on a job application and cooperating with the district attorney's public corruption unit.

«Indeed, a juror might assume from the display that a conviction in a public corruption case will later be celebrated, and this could encourage the juror, either consciously or on a subliminal level, to vote for conviction.»

And he'll be running at a time when the Skelos conviction, and ongoing federal and local probes of Nassau County officials, have made public corruption a leading issue in the Senate district.

Last month, the US Supreme Court vacated McDonnell's corruption conviction and ruled that gifts to public officials must result in «official acts,» like legislation, to count as bribery.

Dean Skelos» conviction for running a shakedown scheme should be tossed because prosecutors» arguments now conflict with a new interpretation of public corruption law, his lawyer said Thursday.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Grievances go with territory for Ganim, who was denied public campaign financing because of his corruption conviction during his first stint as mayor of the state's largest city.

«The nearly simultaneous convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, whose corruption crimes were laid bare during fair and public trials, have no precedent.

The guilty verdict is another conviction for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York who has led a number of high - profile corruption cases of state lawmakers and public officials.

Following his conviction on federal corruption charges, former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos apparently will qualify for a public pension of up to $ 95,590 a year.

Federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to at least 12 years in prison, following his conviction on eight counts of public corruption charges, and asked that Skelos» son, Adam, be sentenced to more than 10 years.

Former Senate Majority Skelos» conviction on eight public corruption charges means that Cuomo «can't hide this time» when it comes to getting a Democratic elected to the Senate, a senior state Dem has told The Post's Fred Dicker.

Appealing his conviction, lawyers for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos say he should receive a new trial based on the outcome of a Supreme Court decision outlining how public corruption charges should be interpreted.