Sentences with phrase «public corruption prosecutions»
«Nine months may be the proper and natural gestational period for a child, but in our experience it is not the amount of time necessary for a public corruption prosecution to mature.»
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The defendants said it includes a description of one public corruption case — the prosecution of former Bridgeport (Connecticut) Mayor Joseph Ganim — with an outdated summary of the law that applies to corruption cases, and want the display covered or removed before their trial starts.
The U.S. Attorney, in announcing the charges behind Silver's arrest last week, suggested ominously that the press and public «stay tuned» for more corruption prosecution news.
Chief Oyegun who was represented by APC National Deputy Chairman (South), Engineer Segun Oni, said the President's widely lauded war on corruption has started to yield fruit, just as astronomical sums of money have and continue to be recovered from corrupt public officials with several prosecutions carried out by a newly re-energized EFCC.
Several of those federal prosecutions, though, have been troubled, especially after the Supreme Court issued rulings that narrowed the definition of public corruption.
She said the Commission will «refer the matter of the possible forgeries of these signatures to the Ghana Police Service and the Attorney General for investigation and prosecution in line with the following sections of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29): Section 211: Perjury Section 248: making false declaration etc. for office or voting; Section 251: Deceiving a public officer Section 256: Corruption, Intimidation and impersonation in respect of election.»
This has been preceded by a flurry of media headlines, subjecting him to an open - air political trial and a trial in the court of NPP public opinion supported with earlier pressure from some leading Members of New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Government, to commence prosecution of former NDC Government appointees including Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni for alleged acts of corruption for over a year now.»
That case — one of his very first as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan — foreshadowed a theme that Mr. Bharara harped on throughout his tenure pursuing a host of public corruption, terrorism, civil rights and Wall Street cases: Politics and prosecution do not mix.
In 2011, she acted as defence counsel in the first prosecution under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act.
During his six years as a federal prosecutor, he led the investigation and prosecution of a wide range of federal crimes, including financial fraud, money laundering, public corruption, asset forfeiture, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, and murder.
Honest Services Fraud: Federal Prosecution of Public Corruption at the State and Local Level, Florida Bar Journal (2010)
In criminal matters, Mr. Cooper handles white collar criminal cases, including the defense of organizations and individuals targeted for prosecution in federal and state court in false claim, environmental, tax or public corruption investigations.
In Canada, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act has been around since 1998, but there's only been one significant prosecution under the act — the case against Niko Resources Ltd., which this past June was hit with a $ 9.5 - million fine for its actions in Bangladesh.