Sentences with phrase «public corruptions trials»

Jurors have been chosen in the public corruption trial of Governor Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco and told to report back at 9:15 am Tuesday morning for opening statements.

The case, now being deliberated by a jury, is one of the first major public corruption trials in New York since a landmark 2016 Supreme Court ruling significantly narrowed the definition of what actually constitutes public corruption.

Former Massachusetts Treasurer Tim Cahill took the stand for a second day in his public corruption trial on Friday.

Spring Valley village Trustee Vilair Fonvil, 54, denied stealing money from a summer camp program when he took the stand on Thursday during his public corruption trial.

Randall W. Jackson, a former federal prosecutor who in 2012 helped to try and convict Larry B. Seabrook, a Democrat who was then a member of the New York City Council, said that in public corruption trials, a defendant had «the potential to change even the physical dynamics of the courtroom.»

Ethel Shelton wept as the jury in her public corruption trial found her guilty Monday in Hammond's federal court.

A U.S. District Court jury in Manhattan found the former aide, Joseph Percoco, guilty of three felonies on Tuesday, culminating a seven - week public corruption trial.

Jurors have been chosen in the public corruption trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco, with opening statements scheduled to begin Tuesday.

The requests by Mr. Skelos, 68, a Republican from Long Island who forfeited his Senate seat upon his conviction, and his son, 33, come less than a month before both are to be sentenced on April 13 for their convictions in one of the two most prominent public corruption trials to be held in New York City in decades.

If more is done by Cuomo and the Legislature this session, it may overlap with at least six public corruption trials involving former New York politicians, according to a calendar put on display at the state Capitol by good government groups the day after the governor's speech.

The most prominent public corruption trial to be held in New York City in decades thus began with a starkly different portrayal of Mr. Silver and, in a sense, of the culture of Albany itself.

Jurors have been chosen in the public corruption trial of Governor Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco and told to report back at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday morning for opening statements.

The Capitol is still girding for a half - dozen public corruption trials and a coming battle over closing a $ 4 billion budget gap.

Bharara's office persuaded jurors to find former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, on left, and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, on right, guilty during 2015 public corruption trials.

The poll from March 11 through March 16 was conducted before and after the March 13 conviction of a top Cuomo aide, Joseph Percoco, who was found guilty of three felonies in a public corruption trial.

Federal prosecutors argue they should be able to introduce a real - estate developer's political contributions as evidence in Sheldon Silver's public corruption trial because the money reveals «Silver's state of mind...

As the public corruption trial of State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver heads to closing arguments on Monday, the clash in the courtroom has been handled largely by well - staffed government and defense legal teams, each with a wealth of experience in handling corruption cases.

This includes defending former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell in his highly - publicized public corruption trial and basketball player Jayson Williams in an alleged manslaughter case.

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.

VICTORIA: New Democrat leader Carole James is asking the B.C. Liberals to address public concerns they used $ 6 million in taxpayer dollars to secure a guilty plea to sweep the B.C. Rail corruption trial under the rug.

«This continual parade of corruption trials of New York's public officials has become a national embarrassment,» Schorr said.

Twice in the past three years, Silver has sat in the same Manhattan federal courtroom and heard opening statements in his public - corruption trial.

Blair Horner with the New York Public Interest Research Group said if past corruption trials are any indication, there will be plenty of unflattering testimony about the inner workings of Cuomo's government.

«Depending on what happens in the trials, the corruption parade could drive the session,» said Blair Horner, a longtime state government watchdog with the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Sugarman's unit was created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014 following a series of corruption trials, and also the premature closure of Cuomo's Moreland Commisssion to Investigate Public Ccorruption trials, and also the premature closure of Cuomo's Moreland Commisssion to Investigate Public CorruptionCorruption.

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

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

But as Karen DeWitt reports, there has been little public discussion about a corruption crisis that has led to the two most powerful men in the legislature both on trial in federal court this month.

«We need only look at the trials of former leaders Silver and Skelos to realize that our state has a long way to go to in responding to the crime wave of corruption — let alone the recent State Integrity Report that gave New York a D - minus for public integrity.»

Evidence introduced in the ongoing corruption and bribery trial of former Yonkers Councilwoman Sandy Annabi has cast the spotlight on another public official: state Senator Tom Libous, who, according to witness testimony, pushed a law firm to hire his son — and inflate his starting salary — in exchange for steering government business toward the firm's practice.

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.

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.

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver pleaded not guilty today to federal corruption charges as his lawyer accused U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of turning the public against him and undermining his right to a fair trial.

But there has been little public discussion about a corruption crisis that has led to the two most powerful men in the legislature both on trial in federal court this month.

Former New York state Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sitting in his own public - corruption trial Monday afternoon when he learned that a federal jury across the street convicted his longtime colleague, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, of trading his political influence for financial gain.

New York will be ranked among other states on its public integrity as the Sheldon Silver corruption trial enters its second week.

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

Instead, Ryan filed an ethics complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics pointing to testimony in a Yonkers corruption trial from disbarred attorney Anthony Mangone that alleged Libous had arranged for his son to receive a job at a law firm paid for by $ 50,000 from a lobbying organization.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn't on trial, but his political style and personality have been on display throughout the concurrent public - corruption trials in the past few weeks of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

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.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says if past corruption trials are any indication, there will be plenty of unflattering testimony about the inner workings of Cuomo's government.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn't on trial, but his political style and personality have been on display throughout the concurrent public - corruption trials in the past few weeks of former state Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Twice in the past three years, former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has sat in the same Manhattan federal courtroom and heard opening statements in his public - corruption trial.

Prominent Democrats were on the defensive in both public episodes — one a legislative controversy, the other a trial in Hartford Superior Court — relating to the clean - election program established a decade ago by the Democrat - controlled General Assembly after a corruption scandal sent Republican Gov. John G. Rowland to federal prison.

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.

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.»

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.

Lawyers representing Dean Skelos appealed his criminal conviction Thursday, arguing the former New York state Senate majority leader should get a new trial because a U.S. Supreme Court case had changed the definition of some public - corruption offenses.

The corruption trials of Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver, the former leaders of New York's Legislature, deepened voters» distrust of state government, and prompted public demands for root - and - branch ethics reform when lawmakers return to Albany next year.

Blair Horner, the executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that the case had, like previous corruption trials of Albany leaders and officials, raised «troubling questions,» about the State Capitol.