Sentences with phrase «than a former prosecutor»

In a dizzying year that saw the public corruption convictions of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Skelos at the hands of Bharara's office, what better candidate to run in Skelos» old district than a former prosecutor with a record of fighting corruption like Kaminsky?

No one is in a better position to fight the prosecution than a former prosecutor.

Not exact matches

More than half of those surveyed say that Jones, a former federal prosecutor, has higher standards of personal moral conduct than Moore, who is facing multiple allegations that he made inappropriate sexual advances toward teenage girls while he was in his 30s.

His indictment comes more than two years after he confirmed while testifying in the corruption trial of former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos that federal prosecutors were probing his role in county contracts that went to political campaign contributors.

Under questioning from a prosecutor, Kerri Hamm, a former teaching consultant with Lisa Percoco at CPV, often characterized Lisa Percoco's duties as less taxing than her work, though Hamm was paid less than the $ 90,000 annual fee given to the wife of the former Cuomo aide.

The ethics commission's first meeting comes on the same day that State Senator Carl Kruger pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to felony charges, for accepting more than a million dollars in bribes to maintain what prosecutors called a lavish lifestyle, including a large house owned by a former mafia boss and a Bentley automobile.

Prosecutors pushed for a prison sentence of at least 15 years, which would have been longer than the 14 years that former Brooklyn State Assembly Member William Boyland received Sept. 2015.

For nearly a decade, federal prosecutors said, a former top official at the Staten Island DA» soffice used his agency's American Express card to buy himself and his family more than $ 400,000 in luxury gifts, resort vacations, even an extensive knife collection, hiding the transactions by logging them under the internal billing code his office used to pay informants and conduct surveillance operations.

In addition to more than 11 million pages of records, the feds» arsenal includes former lobbyist - turned - cooperating witness Todd Howe and emails in which he and Percoco allegedly referred to payoffs as «ziti» — a code word for cash that prosecutors say they lifted from an episode of HBO's mob drama «The Sopranos.»

The governor's office hired Schwartz, a former prosecutor, a little more than a year ago after learning about an investigation into potential bid - rigging with several state contracts.

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- A federal prosecutor told a jury Tuesday that a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo accepted more than $ 300,000 in bribes, but defense attorneys belittled the claim, saying the bulk of the money was his wife's salary at a legitimate job.

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

Prosecutors in former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's public corruption case have asked for him to be sentenced to prison for longer than any other state legislator guilty of public corruption.

Lowell, who represented Williams's former company in the McDonnell case, said prosecutors would now have to decide in the cases of Menendez and others «whether the allegations go to what the Supreme Court said was the public official's authority to act, and to be doing more than what is the typical, expected constituent service that our system depends on.»

With the last batch of absentee ballots counted, Lamb, a 33 - year - old former prosecutor and first - time candidate, saw his edge shrink slightly, to 627 votes Wednesday out of more than 224,000 cast, according to unofficial results.

If you're looking for a guide to the upcoming federal corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco and businessmen Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, look no further than the jury questionnaire recently agreed to by prosecutors and the defense.

The Democrats opposing Sessions are making a «big mistake» and being «intellectually dishonest,» according to former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was can associate attorney general for former President Ronald Reagan when Sessions was a federal prosecutor, a relationship that dates back more than 30 years.

Federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to at least 12 years in prison, following his conviction on eight counts of public corruption charges, and asked that Skelos» son, Adam, be sentenced to more than 10 years.

More than a month after Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that Bart Schwartz, a former federal prosecutor, would head an «independent investigation» into the Buffalo Billion economic development program, it remains unclear whether Schwartz has begun his

Crooked former state Sen. John Sampson continued to break laws after his corruption conviction and should be locked up for more than seven years, Brooklyn prosecutors said in a filing...

He is a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, and says he prosecuted more than 100 gang members while in that post.

During the recent trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, federal prosecutors presented a 54 - page document itemizing millions in political spending by real estate giant Glenwood Management, sums that had been parceled out through more than 20 limited liability companies.

More than # 100,000 was spent by prosecutors pursuing the former couple.

The former prosecutor served as de Blasio's campaign treasurer in 2013, donating more than $ 7,000 to the mayor's election effort.

Prosecutors say Kelly, who oversaw external affairs and government relations for CPV, arranged for the wife of Joseph Percoco, a former executive deputy secretary to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to receive more than $ 287,000 in bribes from CPV by hiring her in a low - show job.

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Monday to sentence former state Senate majority leader Dean Skelos to at least 12 years in prison, following his conviction in February on eight counts of public corruption charges, and asked that Skelos» son, Adam, be sentenced to more than 10 years.

The officials who received sentences that mirrored the government's recommendations — former assemblyman Anthony Seminerio, and former state senators Carl Krueger and Efrain Gonzalez, Jr. — were convicted of «conduct... less serious than here because they did not approach the level of power that Dean Skelos had as Majority Leader,» prosecutors wrote.

What better way to replace an unsavory pol than with a former federal prosecutor known for fighting corruption and upholding the rule of law?

Who better to replace the disgraced former Senate Majority Leader, Dean Skelos, than a former federal prosecutor known for fighting corruption, upholding the rule of law, and supporting his constituents effectively as a distinguished local Assembly Member?

Could you imagine, dear reader our Governor, the former State Attorney General, the one who is supposed to be above everybody else, better than Caesar's wife, being associated, according to the New York Times, in a situation that, if it were anybody else, this same Governor would be the first one to request an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Integrity or appoint a special prosecutor?

More than a third of voters - 39 percent - said the quality they were looking for most in a candidate was the ability to bring change, and most of them said they had voted for the Republican Chris Christie, a former federal prosecutor, who CNN projects won the race.

Katko, a second - term former federal prosecutor, won both of his elections by more than 20 percentage points.

«I did not believe one word that you said,» Lynch said, sounding more like tough - talking U.S. District Court Senior Judge Gary Sharpe or state Supreme Court Justice Thomas Breslin than a former defense attorney who carried the reputation of a prosecutor's worst nightmare after taking the bench in January 2013.

It appears from the motions filed in late January by the state in the Connecticut Coalition of Justice In Education Funding v. Rell lawsuit that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former prosecutor, would prefer to fight schoolchildren in the courtroom than to sit down with plaintiffs and realistically consider the state's options.

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS in New Hampshire are preparing to charge more than a dozen current and former American Honda Motor Co. executives with accepting bribes from dealers in exchange for franchises and hot - selling Honda models from 1986 through 1991.

Prosecutors in Germany have indicated former VW CEO Martin Winterkorn could have known about the diesel emissions - cheating efforts earlier than he told investigators, Automotive News Europe...

It provides considerably more detail about the prosecutors» legal strategy than the general outline provided at their announcement in March, which was headlined by former Vice President Al Gore.

She has litigated more than 100 bench trials and more than 20 jury cases as a former prosecutor with the Miami - Dade State Attorney's Office.

Attorney Gus Kostopoulos is a former prosecutor with more than 18 years of legal experience.

Bearing this in mind, together with the fact that the discount for co-operation with a DPA will never be greater than for a company who did not self - report but got caught (although in the former there is no conviction) may mean that what the MoJ claims will be the motivator for self - reporting, a prosecutor's ability to offer a specific DPA, is more mythical than real.

Gus Kostopoulos is a former prosecutor with more than 18 years of legal experience.

For example, if the judge used to represent a party in a case (other than in a criminal case, where they can be a former prosecutor who represented the state) or if the judge is has been in litigation against you or your lawyer, they are likely to recuse themself, especially if you file a motion to that effect.

Combining our longstanding and market - leading labor and employment team with deep crisis management experience and the investigative backgrounds of former leaders from the US Attorney General's Office, former federal prosecutors, state prosecutors, and leaders from other government agencies — including a special team of more than 30 female attorneys — we built a team over decades that can strategically and effectively manage complex internal investigations on behalf of clients and defend them in the matters that result when allegations of harassment by a top member of management becomes a crisis.

Col. Morris «Moe» Davis, former Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor says: «I am often asked why I resigned as chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay after serving in the job for more than two years.

At the office of Jerry Loftin & Associates, we have more than 65 years of combined experience and even have a former prosecutor on our team.

We are the largest DUI defense firm in the state, possess 3 of the less than 10 in the state who are dual certified on the Alcotest and in Field Sobriety Testing by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and employ several former drunk driving prosecutors, including Nicholas Moschella, Esq., who has previously served in this capacity in Holmdel Municipal Court.

Mr. Moschella is a member of the defense team at Marshall, Bonus, Proetta & Oliver, which is the largest in Monmouth County, includes several other former prosecutors and possesses 3 of less than 10 attorneys in New Jersey who possess dual certification on the Alcotest and as instructors in Field Sobriety Testing by the NHTSA.

We possess over 100 years of experience between us, include several former DUI prosecutors, and employ three of the less than ten lawyers statewide who are dual certified on the Alcotest and as instructors in Standardized Field Sobriety Testing by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The former prosecutor and former Akin Gump partner stole more than 40 whistleblower fraud cases in 2016 and tried to sell the secret information to companies under federal investigation, prosecutors said.

With more than 19 years of litigation and appellate experience as both a former New York City homicide prosecutor and a criminal defense counsel in the United States Army, Mr. Smith has served as lead counsel on more than one hundred trials on charges to include murder, manslaughter, vehicular homicides, armed robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, drug distribution, rape, child molestation, child pornography, rape and aggravated sexual offenses, grand larceny, embezzlement and fraud on the...