Sentences with phrase «said the case against»

Skelos lawyer Robert Gage declined comment, but he said the case against the former state Senate majority leader was «very similar» to that against McDonnell.

But I'd say the case against Silver (which prosecutors will retry) and the overturned insider - trading convictions are pretty big cherries.

In an apparent reference to Howe's cooperation, Bohrer said the case against Percoco is «based on information provided by someone of utterly unreliable credibility.»

Lawyers for Aiello and Gerardi say the case against them is built on lies from former lobbyist Todd Howe, who has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with prosecutors.

Prosecutors from his office, led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Carrie Cohen, said the case against him boiled down to three elements.

Lawyers for the men say the case against them was built on lies from former lobbyist Todd Howe, who has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with prosecutors.

Mr. Clifford, the spokesman for the district attorney's office, dismissed the accusation, saying the case against Mr. Rodgers came from a whistle - blower and «the timing of the investigation was based solely on the complaint made to the district attorney's office.»

Defence counsel, Augustine Obour says the case against one of the two persons standing trial for the murder of Member...

The court said Sherman's failure to secure the alibi evidence «was constitutionally inexcusable» and said the case against Skakel was «far from overwhelming.»

Histed said the case against him should be tossed due to the perception of bias.

Not exact matches

Mueller said on Thursday that the government would need likely need three weeks to present its case in court against Manafort and Gates.

Experts said at the time that if Trump knew Flynn had lied to investigators when he asked Comey to drop the FBI's investigation into Flynn the day after the national security adviser was fired, it would significantly bolster the obstruction case against him.

He also relies heavily on claims made by human rights groups and the United Nations in supporting his case against the Assad regime — claims that some skeptics have said are made with zero verification.

From there, we will look at whether these cases warrant an administrative posture or criminal investigation,» said Benner, acting head of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations, which oversees cases against employers.

The other issue that makes the case against Cohen, and possibly Trump, stronger than the Edwards case is when the payment was made, Ryan said.

As one expert explained, the Justice Department's case against Cohen, and possibly Trump, is «much stronger» than the case against Edwards, which he said was «rightly» prosecuted.

Lombardo says he does not expect charges to be filed against Paddock's girlfriend, Marilou Danley, who had been previously called a person of interest in the case.

The case against Valeant could yield charges within weeks, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

In April, the country's justice department indicted Deguito and the owners of Philrem but dropped the case against Wong, citing a lack of evidence, Salido says.

The bear case against Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has evaporated, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday.

He also wanted to know whether the department was pursuing a criminal case against Flynn and expressed concern that taking action against Flynn could «interfere with the FBI investigation,» she said.

«One case led to another and before I knew it I had spent a decade representing wait staff against restaurants and hotels and country clubs,» Liss - Riordan said.

While some charges of trafficking authentication features were dropped against Brown, Burnett said the charges overall still influenced his case.

The district judge assigned to Paul Manafort's case said the gravity and number of charges against President Donald Trump's former campaign manager means he could possibly spent the rest of his life behind bars, according to Politico.

«Sometimes issues involving non-bank dealers overlap with end - user issues and in those cases, they can be working with the banks and against the banks at the same time,» the lawyer said.

Bloom, a former general counsel to the senate antitrust committee, says the FTC does have a case against Google for an antitrust investigation.

«It creates a potential for someone — a network provider in this case — to discriminate against rivals who would have content,» said Mark Jamison, an economist at the University of Florida who served on Trump's FCC transition team, when asked about AT&T's treatment of DirecTV Now.

Lawyers say they have at least 400 possible cases against GM.

And in any case, the U.K. Information Commissioner says it can take action against individual directors even of a company that's been declared insolvent, Collins added.

A ruling against Aereo would conflict with its earlier decision in the Cablevision case, the majority said.

The Federal Communications Commission, in a report to for seven Democratic senators, said it had reviewed the cases, which involved wireless carriers exempting streaming video from counting against customers» monthly data limits, a practice known as zero rating.

After learning more about the case, Kondoker said he is now in favor of Apple and agrees with the tech giant that «this software the government wants them to use will be used against millions of other innocent people.»

«For more than four years, the government of Ecuador has offered to cooperate in facilitating the questioning of Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as well as proposing other political and legal measures, in order to reach a satisfactory solution for all parties involved in the legal case against Julian Assange, to end the unnecessary delays in the process and to ensure full and effective legal protection, Ecuador said in a statement, Press Association reported.

«In the case, you take action against us because we are successful at what we do, you open a Pandora's box of headaches because effectively you have to change everything,» Clark said.

I wouldn't say that a finding by the jury of infringement in this case is going to open up the door to a lot more similar cases being filed against Led Zeppelin per se.

The case against Carlos is also based on witness testimony from his former brothers - in - arms, including Hans - Joachim Klein, a German to whom the Venezuelan is said to have admitted he wanted to «apply pressure to get the Japanese man freed.»

On Tuesday, there was a federal court hearing for Greenlight's case against Apple and the judge said that he needed more time to consider Einhorn's request for an injunction to block the vote on Apple's proxy.

Now, Alphabet, which filed a lawsuit against self - driving truck startup Otto and Uber for patent infringement and stealing trade secrets back in February, says the contents of the letter might contain information that could be relevant to the case.

Such a violation, if eventually confirmed by the Federal Trade Commission, could lead to many millions of dollars in fines against Facebook, said David Vladeck, who as the director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection oversaw the investigation of alleged privacy violations by Facebook and the subsequent consent decree resolving the case in 2011.

«It's the nuclear option,» said Jeffrey Neiman, a lawyer in Florida who was one of the lead prosecutors on the federal government's initial 2009 case against UBS's Swiss bank.

Separately, the SEC said it would initiate a case against an S&P executive for allegedly fraudulently misrepresenting how S&P calculated some ratings criteria.

While Ackman has a long position in Valeant and Hempton says his fund, Bronte Capital, is betting against it, the opposite has been the case on Herbalife, with Ackman short and Hempton long.

«It started with Schlichter doing cases against very large corporations in America,» Wagner said.»

Hamburger says these lawsuits mark «the beginning of a trend» that starts with suits against large plan sponsors and large financial services firms — which, in the case of New York Life and Morgan Stanley, are one and the same — then spreads to smaller sponsors and smaller financial firms.

The case against Hillary Clinton is easily prosecutable, says former prosecutor and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Anyway, what the article takes an awful long time getting around to — after twice saying the question they pose isn't so outlandish or premature and that the recent volatility shows how jittery people are AND pointing out that the tax plan and increased spending «boxed» the economy into a corner against the chance for stimulus in case we have a recession — is this: It's going to be hard on people.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's court case over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be damaged by the NDP government's previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, says a legal expert.

Zillow and Trulia's issues with ListHub look «problematic,» and the top portal's legal case against the syndicator looks «flimsy,» Walmsley said.

That said, the SEC has brought a number of cases against blatant fraudsters in the cryptocurrency markets as well as against ICOs that clearly fall under the scope of securities law (e.g., Munchee).

An early investor files a new case against the social network saying, «The defendants were unjustly enriched because they realized enormous profits and financial benefits from the IPO.»