Sentences with phrase «said local prosecutors»

Critics have said local prosecutors can not properly investigate or prosecute such cases because of their close relationships with police.

While many district attorneys opposed the law, Schneiderman's office said local prosecutors have been «cordial» and not attempted, before Abelove's «end - run» last week, to impede the attorney general's review of deadly incidents involving police use of force.

Not exact matches

Larson said he was contacted a week ago by the Justice Department and local prosecutors about representing the victims, prior to the dispute becoming public.

«One of the 10 people detained in today's operation is the ex-president of the republic, Alvaro Colom,» Juan Francisco Sandoval, chief anti-corruption officer at the public prosecutor's office, said on local radio.

Members of the Trump campaign who worked on local community outreach unwittingly aided that effort, while the Russians paid to advertise the rallies on Facebook and Instagram, prosecutors said.

Former Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and a former finance minister who is now chairman of Oxfam International were arrested on Tuesday as part of a local corruption investigation, the public prosecutor's office said.

The bank said in a regulatory filing Thursday that the SEC has joined other federal state and local government agencies and states attorneys general, prosecutors» offices and Congressional committees, performing formal or informal inquiries, investigations or examinations.

«I look forward to putting this controversy behind me,» Bud Schultz said in a letter to local prosecutors.

«A lot of this criticism is coming from people who never bothered to attend the trials,» says Hampton prosecutor Colleen Killilea, who gained a measure of local fame by urging the judge to «just do it» to Iverson after he imprudently jetted to a Nike - sponsored tournament when his trial broke for the weekend.

Citing the local prosecutor, French press agency AFP said he had now done so, arriving at a police station in Versailles shortly before 9 a.m. on Wednesday.

Hawkins said that to effectively hold police officers accountable to the law, federal prosecutors must be appointed who are not tied to the local «old boys» networks» in the local justice system.

Prosecutors said was an officer with Local 365, Utility Workers Union of America.

Prosecutors say Mangano received bribes and kickbacks from a local restaurateur in exchange for benefits including a county contract.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Senate Democrats have pushed for special prosecutors to look into police shootings of unarmed citizens, but many Republicans oppose the idea because they say it will undermine locals District Attorneys.

I would encourage those people to call their local prosecutors,» he said.

Rice enrolled as a Republican when she first registered to vote (she has said that everyone in Nassau County defaulted to GOP, since the party controlled the local government), and then switched that to independent when she became a federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania.

Federal and local prosecutors said that there was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges in the 2015 death of a prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional Facility who died after an altercation with a group of guards there.

Percoco, prosecutors said, was later able to help Cor with several issues, including getting an expensive «labor peace» arrangement with local unions waived by state officials for a Syracuse Inner Harbor project.

«We remain committed to demanding an executive order for a special prosecutor for all police killings, because establishing prosecution that is independent and external of local DAs is the only way to resolve the conflict of interest that has systemically failed to provide justice in these cases within our state and across the nation,» the group said in a joint statement.

(Dietl recently escaped some hot water himself: Nassau County prosecutors recently said they would not file any charges over a $ 24,000 report his firm did on the possibility of merging two local police departments — a report which appeared to have been plagiarized).

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said that lawmakers don't have a good reason for failing to update the state's antiquated criminal code and give local prosecutors the necessary tools to fight cybercrime, fraud and corruption.

Moreland Commission co - chair / Onondaga County DA Bill Fitzpatrick says people «erroneously thought we were super cops,» urges anyone with tips to contact local prosecutors.

Federal prosecutors said two alleged co-conspirators in the 2013 George Washington Bridge lane - closure scandal «bragged» to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie while the closures were occurring about the traffic havoc they had created and their refusal to respond to requests for help from local officials.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone is asking state officials to examine whether bonuses given by the local district attorney's office to its prosecutors were legal, saying they «were not authorized by the county legislature pursuant to any legal process or authority that I am aware of.»

On Wednesday, Cuomo said a special prosecutor was needed to ease the perception that district attorneys work too closely with local police.

It was the attorney general's reaction to horror stories of seemingly unwarranted seizures across the country that mostly resulted from roadside stops by local police agencies, said Thomson, the federal prosecutor who handles the forfeiture cases in the Syracuse area.

Schneiderman's aides took four people into custody Wednesday in connection with what prosecutors said was a bid - rigging scheme at the Monroe County Local Development Corporation.

Questions about the campaign money, said Soufer, the AG's spokesman, will eventually gain the attention of local prosecutors.

Dennis C. Vacco, a former state attorney general, said that state law empowers a governor to appoint a special prosecutor at their discretion when there may be a potential conflict of interest involving a local district attorney.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office says the group will include members of the New York State police working with the state's Division of Human Rights as well as prosecutors and local school and law enforcement officials as needed.

Steve DiMeo, who leads a local development group called Mohawk Valley EDGE, said things «froze» when news first broke late in 2015 that federal prosecutors, led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, were examining how SUNY Poly let contracts on other facilities it is building in Buffalo and Syracuse.

«I'm confident that over time, we will see a notable difference in perception and reality, as it relates to the integrity of these types of prosecutions, just because of the real, inherent conflicts of interest that exist between police officers and local prosecutors,» Jeffries said.

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.

The tears and abrasions can be tiny, sometimes no more than 2 millimeters.But thanks to new technology available at four local hospitals, these minuscule wounds on victims of sexual assault are the telltale signs that Erie County prosecutors can now show a jury to take rape cases beyond matters of «he said, she said.