Sentences with phrase «stand at his corruption»

MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — Embattled Assemblyman Sheldon Silver said he will not take the stand at his corruption trial.

Chicago Tribune: Blagojevich plans to take witness stand at his corruption retrial, sources say Rod Blagojevich's retrial on corruption charges has been mostly a scaled - back repeat of last summer's first installment, but that could soon change dramatically if the former governor testifies in his own defense and calls Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel among his first witnesses.

Not exact matches

For example in Transparency International's corruptions perceptions index Poland stood 29th while Romania is at 57th place.

A once - prominent cancer doctor, Robert Taub, took the witness stand at Sheldon Silver's corruption retrial yesterday, telling jurors he was lured into a corrupt scheme by the former head of the state Assembly within days of meeting him in 2003.

De Blasio bristled at the prospect of being called to the stand during the Mangano corruption trial, where he would grilled about his relationship with Harendra Singh, an ex-restaurant owner who has said in court that he bribed de Blasio with campaign contributions.

Cuomo's eighth State of the State address occurred against a backdrop of widening state deficit that stands at $ 4 billion and counting, a potential $ 2 billion revenue loss in federal aid, a beleaguered New York City subway system, an uneasy State Senate and an flurry of upcoming political - corruption trials.

If the Legislature is serious about restoring the public trust in government, then this first step says that New Yorkers will not stand for the corruption of our politicians who want to enrich themselves at the expense of the taxpayers of this State.

Genova, who has received immunity in exchange for his testimony, was on his second day on the stand at the federal corruption trial of Venditto and former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano.

PRNigeria gathered that the Federal Government was infuriated by the action of Magu in engaging Keyamo as a private counsel to prosecute the CCT boss in purported corruption charge because, the same Keyamo is the counsel to Rasheed Taiwo Owolabi who is standing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and who made the allegation in the course of his trial on criminal offence.

A once - prominent cancer doctor took the witness stand at Sheldon Silver's corruption retrial Monday, telling jurors he was lured into a corrupt scheme by the former head of the state Assembly within days of meeting him in 2003.

Public Financing Can Stem Corruption in Albany As the public stands appalled by the shameful behavior of their representatives in Albany, Lawrence Norden, senior counsel at the Brennan Center, offers a solution to re-engage citizensin the political process in the Press and Sun Bulletin.

Jonathan Sinnreich — on the stand at the federal corruption trial of Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto — said that he had warned town officials repeatedly against what he believed to be a «grossly illegal and inappropriate» plan.

Yet, at a time when corruption in Albany has become the only story in the state's capital — and lawmakers and officials remain squarely in the sights of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (pictured)-- Heastie hardly stands out as a reformer.

At a time when two Democratic lawmakers stand accused of bribery and public corruption, California's most powerful labor unions have kicked back more than a million dollars to the California Democratic Party.

A former Queens city councilman took the stand at his own corruption trial Thursday, and tried to play the sympathy card.

ALBANY — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that former Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr.'s corruption conviction should stand even though the jury instructions at his trial may have been improper under a 2016 Supreme Court decision.

Lawyers for Shaun McCutcheon, an Alabama electrical engineer and conservative political activist, argued that the per - donor caps — which currently stand at $ 48,600 to candidate committees and $ 74,600 in contributions to PACs and party committees in each two - year cycle — burden his First Amendment rights while doing little to protect public officials from corruption.

During his ninth day on the stand at Mangano's corruption trial, Singh, during questioning by the defense, said, «I raised a lot of money for [former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor] John Venditto, Ed Mangano and Bill de Blasio.»

In a communiqué issued at the sidelines of a two - day Communications Workshop of the party in Kumasi, the Regional Communications Directors noted that, this action by the President is an unprecedented act of corruption and must not be allowed to stand.

«Cause I can't stand corruption and this city is so dirty from that mayor on down and this guy that I just looked at right now in the courtroom, he's a sleazebag and the mayor's a sleazebag for giving him money and that's what we're dealing with right now.»

The Presidency on Wednesday said there was no truth in the reports that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Kola Awodein, gave Justice Niyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, currently standing trial for alleged corruption, N500, 000.00 at the behest of President Muhammadu Buhari during the certificate issue affecting the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress.

The group of mostly Republican leaders, along with stand - alone Democrat Michael Kearns, says the legislative process in Albany is at a standstill while corruption charges loom over one of the state's most powerful leaders.

Saraki is currently standing trial on a 13 - count charge bordering on false asset declaration and corruption at the CCT.

If Liu's mayoral campaign goes pear - shaped as a result of the corruption probes, at least he'll be able to stand by the legacy that he made the office of City Comptroller seem worthy of a tell - all memoir for possibly the first time.

Kenneth E. Riddett, who was legislative counsel to the Senate majority for many years, took the stand Tuesday at Bruno's federal trial on corruption charges and spent hours answering questions about the lawmaker's financial disclosure forms that are at the heart of the government's case.

After years of enabling his corruption, playing along with a system that put everything up for sale and excusing gross misconduct, the Democrats are standing with the strongman at whose knee they have worshipped.

The candidates are each taking a stand against corruption at the capital, a regular election - year issue.

Looking at the latest NSW corruption enquirie, s NSW politicians stand to loose some income as well.