Sentences with phrase «special prosecutor on»

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH» - moh) has picked Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas to serve as special prosecutor on the case.

Since 2005, Staten Island DA Donovan has been appointed special prosecutor on more than 150 Brooklyn cases.

Smith said that since 2005, Donovan has been appointed special prosecutor on more than 150 Brooklyn cases.

Not exact matches

In fall of 1973 the special prosecutor was fired on a Saturday night (known as «the Saturday Night Massacre»).

Legal experts told Business Insider that the plea deal struck by Michael Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, with the special counsel Robert Mueller was most likely evidence that Flynn has damaging information to offer prosecutors on other persons of interest in the Russia investigation.

The FBI was acting as part of a probe related to Cohen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who were acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

Prosecutors proposed that the jury be presented with a special verdict form that would have revealed on which theory, if either, the jury convicted on.

If Trump does abandon his campaign vow to appoint a special prosecutor for Clinton, it will be a reversal of a position he mentioned almost daily on the campaign trail, when he dubbed his rival «Crooked Hillary,» and crowds at his rallies often chanted: «Lock her up.»

Yet stocks have been extremely jumpy even as they «ve made no net progress, as swirling hard to read issue on trade, tech regulation and a special prosecutor «s investigation provide constant noise.

Prosecutors, on the other hand, wanted to use a special team of investigators, who would be walled off from the team pursuing Cohen, to examine the materials and decide what qualifies for attorney - client privilege.

FBI Director James Comey nearly called for a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's email server in the spring of 2016 after Clinton's lawyers refused on the grounds of attorney - client privilege to turn over their laptops for examination by the bureau's agents.

President Donald Trump's growing desire for his lawyers to more forcefully counter the ongoing special counsel investigation drove yet another shake - up of his legal team on Wednesday, putting the White House on a war footing with federal prosecutors...

On the advice of counsel, Yap didn't give a statement to the RCMP during their investigation, according to the special prosecutor.

Was the decision by Mike de Jong on behalf of the B.C. Liberal government to offer to pay the defence costs, estimated at $ 6 million, made before the special prosecutor's offer of reduced charges and could that have operated as...

Kevin Kane, a special prosecutor in the office of Austin McGuigan, the Chief State's Attorney for Connecticut, last week obtained warrants to arrest a player and three gamblers on charges of rigging and conspiring to rig games in 1977 at the Milford Jai Alai fronton.

If Holder hadn't been so political, special prosecutors would've found just as much criminality in the Obama white house, you can bank on that.

As Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino pushes for a special state prosecutor to pursue a concurrent Moreland Commission investigation, Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy declined to comment on the proposal.

So far, no one has commented on why it took so long for Donovan's request for a special prosecutor to be granted.

Mr Martin Amidu, President Akufo - Addo's nominee for the office of the Special prosecutor has told Parliament's Appointments Committee that all the allegations he levelled against former President Mahama and the NDC before the 2016 election were based on perception not reality.

EMILY's List, feminist Gloria Steinem, former prosecutor Linda Fairstein, Denise O'Donnell (who took a pass on running a second time herself and endorsed Rice in May), Teresa Heinz (wife of Sen. John Kerry), and «special guest» Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (one of Rice's fellow Long Island Democratic electeds).

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who acted as the special prosecutor in Sen. Kevin Parker's assault case, released a statement in the wake of the Brooklyn Democrat's conviction on two misdemeanor charges, saying he respects the jury's decision despite the fact that it did not deliver a felony guilty verdict.

Donovan was appointed special prosecutor in this case on Aug. 3 after the Brooklyn DA, Charles Hynes, recused himself.

Democrats should refuse to vote on President Donald Trump's pick for the next FBI director unless a special prosecutor is named to take over the investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

While Vance insists he is able to prosecute Schneiderman as a private citizen, a top Cuomo administration counsel on Wednesday said the order empowering Singas as special prosecutor grants her purview over the AG's office itself.

«The criminal assault trial of Kevin S. Parker, a state senator from central Brooklyn, was thrown into turmoil on Thursday, as a judge granted the Brooklyn district attorney's office's request to have two special prosecutors appointed — one who would take over the case, and another who would investigate possible improprieties by an assistant district attorney.

A war of words escalated on Wednesday between Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance over empowering Nassau County DA Madeline Singas to serve as special prosecutor to review the alleged actions of ex-Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Maloney did add that it was too soon to talk about replacing Comey, and that the focus should be on appointing a special prosecutor for the Russia investigation.

Updated 3:26 p.m. The criminal assault trial of Kevin S. Parker, a state senator from central Brooklyn, was thrown into turmoil on Thursday, as a judge granted the Brooklyn district attorney's office's request to have two special prosecutors appointed — one who would take over the case, and another who would investigate possible improprieties by an assistant district attorney not directly involved in the proceeding.

«The rules of law apply regardless of who is investigating a case, but our concern is that there will be pressure on a special prosecutor to indict an officer for the sake of public perception and that does not serve the ends of justice,» Lynch said.

Left on the table from last session is a law establishing a permanent special prosecutor for cases involving civilian deaths at the hands of police.

I also asked Heastie if he's concerned about the governor's increased reliance of late on his executive powers to circumvent the Legislature on key policy issues like a minimum wage increase for the state's fast food workers and creation of a special prosecutor to handle cases in which unarmed civilians die at the hands of law enforcement officers.

An attorney for Staten Island Councilwoman Debi Rose confirmed to The Staten Island Advance on Aug. 5 that Rose had also received a subpoena, is not a target of Adler's investigation and would also be «cooperating fully» with the special prosecutor.

Astorino called for a special prosecutor to investigate the matter, although he was vague on some of the details around a special prosecutor.

The state's highest court in a ruling on Tuesday found that a special prosecutor can continue an investigation into whether the labor - backed Working Families Party broke election laws during a 2009 Staten Island city council race.

The JCOPE report on Lopez and Silver's handling of the payments has been forwarded to the Legislative Ethics Commission, and Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, the special prosecutor in a separate investgiation of Lopez, has requested the report not be released.

«While the Court's reliance on papers filed under seal and hidden from us and the public to uphold the special prosecutor's appointment is disappointing, we know that we have done nothing wrong.

ALBANY — Following a meeting with the mothers and relatives of 10 men and women who died in interactions with police officers, Governor Andrew Cuomo indicated for the first time that he would unilaterally appoint a special prosecutor to review such cases if the Legislature didn't act on his proposal for an independent police monitor.

Cuomo made the issue a focus of his State of the State Address in 2015 but faced major pushback from Senate Republicans and dissension amongst Democratic legislators who had various ideas on what a special prosecutor bill should do.

President Buhari commended President Nana Akufo - Addo of Ghana on his achievements in the first year in office, lauding his committed fight against corruption and the passing of the Special Prosecutors Bill into law.

ALBANY — The head of the Assembly codes committee says he doesn't understand the governor's threat to appoint a special prosecutor to review police incidents with civilian fatalities if the Legislature doesn't act on his proposal to enact an independent monitor.

«If there's a shooting up in Buffalo, New York, a young unarmed guy is killed by the police up there, a special prosecutor is supposed to swoop down and deal with it but what happens if something breaks out in Brooklyn a week later and it breaks in Syracuse — how is this person supposed to tell the folks up in Buffalo, «Hold on, I'll be back, I've got ta go to Brooklyn?»»

If any of the women do want to proceed with a criminal complaint, it would be handled by the special prosecutor that Gov. Andrew Cuomo named on Tuesday.

It was a sharp contrast to a letter he wrote on Tuesday to the governor regarding Cuomo appointing a special prosecutor to the Schneiderman investigation.

«We're held accountable and are elected by the members of our community and a special prosecutor wouldn't have that same accountability to the voters,» Mr. Donovan told Brian Lehrer on WNYC this morning.

On Tuesday night, Cuomo announced a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations against Schneiderman.

When Mr. Schneiderman and a bevy of city Democrats called for a special prosecutor last year, Mr. Donovan declined to comment on the proposal, unlike his counterparts in the other boroughs.

Back in August, Soares» office had asked Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to take over the investigation into Ivy's death, based on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive order giving Schneiderman special prosecutor powers in police - involved civilian deaths.

The Lopez scandal, which includes claims of sexual harassment made against him by two other women, is the subject of probes by the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics and Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan who is acting as a special prosecutor.

After a grand jury chose not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner last year, Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins called for the placement of body cameras on police officers and introduced legislation that would require the use of a special prosecutor in cases involving police officers who kill unarmed legislation.

The appointment of a special prosecutor was prompted by a number of recent incidents where civilians were killed by police, including Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who police put in a choke hold after Garner was accused of selling illegal cigarettes on the sidewalk.