Sentences with phrase «top federal prosecutor»

The indictments especially brought public attention to the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, who campaigned publicly for a need to clean up state politics.

The name of Buffalo's next top federal prosecutor depends entirely on who is elected president.

Bharara had served as Manhattan's top federal prosecutor since 2009, and since his firing has become an outspoken critic of the president.

And the answer is that I have come to really love the sound of nervous laughter,» Manhattan's top federal prosecutor quipped.

Bharara was canned as Manhattan's top federal prosecutor in March by Trump and has typically took to Twitter to air his grievances against the president.

Onondaga County GOP Chair Tom Dadey, a member of Trump's transition team, wants Central New York's next top federal prosecutor to be an attorney with no experience prosecuting criminals: Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci.

According to top federal prosecutor in Minnesota Andrew Luger, four were arrested in Minneapolis and two in San Diego.

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, a former law partner of ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has been recused from involvement in the FBI's probe of Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Speaking on ABC News» «This Week» in his first televised interview since Trump fired him in March as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Bharara said he believed Trump's calls to him violated the usual boundaries between the executive branch and independent criminal investigators.

Trump intends to nominate Acting U.S. Attorney Grant Jaquith to serve as the top federal prosecutor in a 32 - county region of upstate that includes Syracuse.

U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian will begin his final week Monday as the region's top federal prosecutor, leaving behind a legacy of successful cases against domestic terrorists, financial investment crooks and gang members along with an unresolved investigation into a quadruple arson - homicide in Schenectady.

The interview on public radio this April, a long - planned event to discuss a range of topics, seemed like a garden - variety appearance for Preet Bharara, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A member of Donald Trump's transition team wants Central New York's next top federal prosecutor to be an attorney with no experience prosecuting criminals.

Mr. Garcia, most recently a partner at a New York City law firm, was the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan from 2005 to 2008.

Bharara demonstrated those qualities as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, notably when he called out a fellow Democrat, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for shutting down the corruption - fighting Moreland Commission for doing its job too well.

President Trump will nominate a law partner of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as Manhattan's next top federal prosecutor, The Post has learned.

As the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, he oversees one of the most influential arms of the Justice Department.

Weeks ago, @realDonaldTrump promised to keep Preet Bharara as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan.

That case — one of his very first as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan — foreshadowed a theme that Mr. Bharara harped on throughout his tenure pursuing a host of public corruption, terrorism, civil rights and Wall Street cases: Politics and prosecution do not mix.

As the top federal prosecutor in New York, it was Bharara who brought the case against the once powerful Democrat, and the verdict may have cemented his reputation as a crusading corruption fighter.