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The bold particulars — $ 4 million in personal gain, a shakedown to turn cancer patients into fee - generating plaintiffs — unfurled over a three week trial as prosecutors led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara painted Silver as a dry, inscrutable, greedy embodiment of Albany's problems.
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During the trial, prosecutors argued that Dzhokhar was a full and equal partner in the bombing, while Clarke characterized him as a naive teenager who was greatly influenced and radicalized by his older brother.
Ackal's trial began Monday with a blistering opening statement from a federal prosecutor detailing the contraband sweep, which he said involved deputies beating handcuffed inmates with metal batons as they screamed in pain abd begged for mercy, the Acadiana Advocate reported.
Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, has not been identified as a witness for prosecutors, her lawyer said when the trial began.
She also did not rule out the possibility of using a «privilege team,» also known as a «taint team,» which would review which of the seized materials are considered privileged through attorney - client privilege, and which materials can be turned over to the potential trial prosecutors and federal agents.
Prosecutors plan to call the ranger as a witness in the trial.
Shkreli did not testify at trial, but was active on social media throughout it, describing his case as a «silly witch hunt perpetrated by self - serving prosecutors.»
During Joe Percoco's federal corruption trial, prosecutors have shown how power players like Percoco navigated «the Albany game,» as one witness put it, and also how minor players in the game — like two developers from Syracuse — could get caught up in it.
«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.
The pregnant widow of former Cuomo aide Carey Gabay, who was killed in a Brooklyn gang shootout, wept as prosecutors described his violent death in the opening of his alleged killers» trial yesterday.
Through testimony, photographs and emails, prosecutors in Joseph Percoco's ongoing federal corruption trial have sought to portray him as having more sway in the Cuomo administration than anyone other than Cuomo himself.
The trial detailed addendums such as meals and a fishing trip to curry favor with Percoco, a man who prosecutors sought to portray as an influencer in Cuomo's hierarchy both when he was in and out of state government.
Steve Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who served Cuomo as attorney general and during his first year as governor, doesn't expect major news out of the trial for Cuomo, noting that the media and court filings have already aired the case.
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.
But former federal prosecutor Robert Ray, who succeeded Kenneth Starr as independent counsel in the investigation of President Clinton, said it was «inevitable that in all likelihood both Silver and Skelos will get new trials.»
As Gail Skelos, the ex-senator's wife and Adam's mother, passed Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was sitting in the back of the courtroom throughout the trial, she told the federal prosecutor: «You can go to hell.»
Federal prosecutors are seeking to use the evidence at the upcoming trial of Percoco and two executives of the Syracuse firm COR Development, as well as Peter Kelly, a former official at Competitive Power Ventures, which is based in Maryland.
NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- The government's star witness in the bribery trial of a former top aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was bracing for a scolding from prosecutors as he left the witness stand Thursday after admitting that his proclivity to tell lies did not end when he promised not...
One of the state's most powerful politicians badgered companies reliant upon his legislative support to funnel more than $ 300,000 to his son, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a corruption trial Tuesday as defense lawyers countered that she was trying to criminalize a typical father - son relationship.
Federal prosecutors are seeking to use campaign contributions to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as evidence in the upcoming corruption trial of a former top Cuomo aide and three others.
Caproni rejected the prosecutors» motion to use the information at trial but kept it sealed for possible use as relevant to sentencing should Silver be convicted.
As prosecutors make their closing arguments, TRD takes a look back at the events leading up to the criminal trial
Through testimony, photographs and emails, prosecutors in Percoco's ongoing federal corruption trial have sought to portray him as having more sway in the administration than anyone else other than Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo himself.
According to a prosecutor at the Skelos trial, employees hired at Bonomo's behest are known internally as «AB Referrals,» and were uniquely allowed to work from home — something Bonomo denied.
As he waited for the proceedings to begin, Bharara spoke briefly to Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, a Westchester Democrat who was sitting behind him and who had testified for Bharara's prosecutors at the trial of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Both pleas became public in January as prosecutors turned over records to the defense ahead of the trial.
He is currently standing trial in France on corruption charges and agreed to relinquish the home, as well as his car and extensive collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia, to settle federal prosecutors» claims.
«Because of the pride on how we tackled terrorism and defeated Boko Haram terrorists through our gallant troops and partners in the twilight of the previous administration, which is the reason I have insisted on open and public trial of my stewardship rather than secret trial in the court as being canvassed by my prosecutors.»
U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni on Tuesday denied the ex-Assembly speaker's attempt to stop prosecutors from presenting campaign contributions from Glenwood Management as evidence in Silver's upcoming corruption trial.
The pregnant widow of the former Gov. Cuomo aide who was killed in a Brooklyn gang shootout wept as prosecutors described his violent death in the opening of his alleged killers» trial Monday.
«Because of the pride on how we tackled terrorism and defeated Boko Haram terrorists through our gallant troops and partners in the twilight of the previous administration, that is the reason I have insisted on open and public trial of my stewardship rather than secret trial in the court as being canvassed by my prosecutors.»
Bob McManus: «Certainly an intense gubernatorial focus will be on two federal courtrooms in Manhattan next month, as a pair of former confederates in state government go on trial for their freedom — and the chief federal prosecutor makes no secret of his interest in Cuomo as well.»
A federal prosecutor said former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos «abused his power» to «line the pockets» of his grown son Adam as opening statements began today in the closely watched corruption trial in federal court in Manhattan.
Stevenson showed up late to the trial, and then shook his head repeatedly as a prosecutor described him as a politician who sold his office for thousands of dollars in cash from four businessmen.
More than 100 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires yesterday, as prosecutors and defense lawyers sought to identify potential bias or conflicts that might disqualify people from serving next week in the corruption trial of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
In her opening statements at the corruption trial of Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, prosecutor Tatiana Martins said Skelos started trying to cash in on his role as Senate majority leader even before he officially had the job — and continued brazenly «strong - arming» companies to make payments to his family after he formally got the gig.
Among the first people who made into this list (as was admitted) were the judges and prosecutors of the trial over Khodorkovsky, a Russian businessman who was accused in illegal privatization, tax evasion and murdering people via his security service.
The SC is not a trial court but an appellate one and should never constitute itself into a prosecutor, judge and jury and sit in its own cause as if it is the Chief's Palace where the accused is hauled before the Chief and his elders, tried, found guilty and ordered to present seventy - two rams and seventy - two bottles of schnapps to pacify the gods and ancestors in a constitutional democracy.
The scandal involving Percoco — and which featured a trial in which a who's who of Cuomo administration current and former officials testifying or mentioned in evidence by prosecutors — is the most serious to tag someone so close to Cuomo, who rode into office in 2011 pledging to end Albany's notorious reputation as a hotbed of corruption.
Cuomo also wants to speed trials and the discovery process by requiring prosecutors and the defense to share information before trial as it becomes available.
Coffey, an established trial lawyer and one - time federal prosecutor, has been advanced as a successor to Ben Lawsky, who left D.F.S. in June to start his own consulting firm.
At the evidence sessions of the committee which has just finished scrutinising the legislation Labour MPs tore into the Catholic Bishops as if they were prosecutors at a war crimes trial.
The ex - jail guards» union chief left $ 60,000 in a black Ferragamo man - purse sitting in his department issued - car after receiving the cash as a bribe — beca use he was too embarrassed to be seen with a «murse,» prosecutors suggested at Seabrook's corruption trial Monday.
As the trials of Skelos and Silver play out over the coming months, the greater drama will be just off in the wings: a clash between a wily, aggressive governor and a prosecutor who may be wilier and more aggressive than he is.
But as the trials of Silver and Skelos provide a high - stakes test of the prosecutor's Albany crusade, the new investigation is a reminder of just how far Preet Bharara is willing to roam to show Andrew Cuomo what he thinks the rules of state government should be.
Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Times reported that «federal prosecutors have served subpoenas on about 10 staff members in the California Legislature who may be called as witnesses in the August corruption trial of former state Sen. Ronald Calderon.»
Federal prosecutors have until Nov. 23 to persuade a grand jury that Joe Percoco, an aide Cuomo once likened to a brother, as well as former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros should stand trial for extortion and bid - rigging with executives at upstate development firms.
Workers armed with shovels and a snowblower still were clearing away mountains of snow from the plaza outside the Alphonse M. D'Amato U.S. Courthouse in Central Islip Thursday as prosecutors, lawyers and defendants returned from a snow day to resume proceedings in the trial of Edward and Linda Mangano and John Venditto.
The dual trials have had a tremendous impact on the workings of Albany, casting a pall over the idea of business - as - usual in the capital — which is what Mr. Silver's lawyers have maintained was going on, despite prosecutor's insistence the conduct was illegal — and slowing down negotiations over the budget late last year.
As a law firm owner and former prosecutor, she is a member of the Florida Justice Association, which represents state trial attorneys.