Sentences with phrase «top public prosecutor»
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Democrat Eric Schneiderman has hired one of the top public - corruption prosecutors under former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to focus specifically on issues involving the Trump administration.
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New York City's public advocate, Tish James, said she is running to be New York's top prosecutor.
(Reuters)- Lawyers for once - powerful former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver asked a judge on Tuesday to throw out federal corruption charges against him because a top prosecutor made «prejudicial» public statements about his guilt.
They included Kathleen Rice, a U.S. representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney from Manhattan; Alphonso David, Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Letitia James, the New York City public advocate; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D - N.Y.; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.
Democratic state AG Eric Schneiderman has hired Howard Master, one of the top public - corruption prosecutors under former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, to focus specifically on issues involving the Trump administration.
In opening arguments today, prosecutors called Joe Percoco Cuomo's «right - hand man,» while defense attorneys deemed the former top administration aide, a mere public servant with limited influence over state government.
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.
State prosecutors in November and December met with campaign fund - raiser Ross Offinger, top political aide Emma Wolfe, union political operative Josh Gold, and political consultants Bill Hyers and Hayley Prim of Hilltop Public Solutions to answer questions, according to a second political source.
A group of top New York and federal prosecutors is scheduled to testify at the first public hearing of the state's new anti-corruption commission.
Bonus recipients included deputy chief homicide prosecutor Robert Biancavilla, who received a total of $ 108,886 between 2012 and 2017, and division chief Edward Heilig and top public corruption prosecutor Christopher McPartland, who each received $ 73,000, according to records obtained from county Comptroller John Kennedy's office through the Freedom of Information Law.
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.
NEW YORK — Arlo Devlin - Brown, most recently the Chief of the Public Corruption Unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and one of its top securities fraud prosecutors, has joined Covington as a partner in its white collar defense and investigations practice resident in the firm's New York office.