Sentences with phrase «trial of his aides»

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He was on the prosecution team for the trial of former ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk.

Talk about ethics reform in the new legislative session has been largely muted this year, even as a year filled with corruption trials involving prominent New York figures is underway, including the ongoing trial this week of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The proposal comes as the corruption trial of former gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco gets underway this week.

Still, Republicans hope Cuomo is unexpectedly vulnerable this year given the $ 1 billion tax and fee increases in the budget as well as the ongoing corruption trial of his former top aide, Joe Percoco.

As the corruption trial of his former close aide and confidant Joe Percoco played out in New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo stuck to a largely similar script when asked about the details of the testimony.

Government prosecutors and attorneys for a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo are sparring over access to evidence in the corruption trial of Joe Percoco.

DeFrancisco, meanwhile, kept the focus on the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, the former close aide to the governor who is accused of fraud and bribery.

A former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco, will go on trial next month in connection with charges of fraud and receiving bribes.

The trial of Joe Percoco has yielded the release of the longtime aide's vetting documents for the executive chamber.

Next year, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco, will go on trial along with the former president of SUNY Nanotech and upstate developers, who are accused of being involved in a bribery and bid - rigging scheme for economic development projects.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has kept a relatively low media profile — at least with Albany reporters — during the federal corruption trial of his former top aide, Joe Percoco, but that has neither stopped nor reduced coverage of the proceedings, and there's more to come.

Today's testimony at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Cuomo, Joe Percoco, has been canceled due to the illness of a defense lawyer whose questioning last week led to the arrest of the prosecution's star witness, Todd Howe.

DeFrancisco challenged Cuomo to «man up» and explain the ethics revelations emerging from the bribery trial of his longtime top aide.

The poll decline for Schumer comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ratings have also dipped in polls this month, which the governor's office has insisted is tied to the national mood facing Democrats and a reflection of the shutdown politics in Washington, not to the trial of Cuomo's former aide, Joe Percoco.

Todd Howe, the star witness at the bribery trial of a longtime top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, returned to the witness stand and faced an aggressive cross-examination about his surprise arrest last week for allegedly violating his bail conditions.

The question of who is picking up Joe Percoco's legal tab is of particular interest because of his close relationship with Cuomo, whose name has surfaced repeatedly in the federal corruption trial of his former top aide.

The jury in the corruption trial of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo top aide Joseph Percoco announced for the second time that it was deadlocked, dimming the prospects once again for a verdict in the trial.

Jury deliberations in the corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco appeared to have run aground on their fourth day, as three jurors issued notes asking to be excused from the case, with one expressing concern about the storm expected to slam the New York City metro area; and another saying that she has sick children.

The head of the state's Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the state's public ethics commission, alleging that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his former top aide — Percoco, now on trial for bribery — broke the state's public officers law.

DeFrancisco spokesman Bill O'Reilly took note of the corruption trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former aide Joe Percoco, whose fate is now in the hands of a jury.

Joseph Percoco scored a minor victory ahead of closing arguments at his corruption trial, when the judge tossed one of the seven felony counts against the former top Cuomo aide.

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.

Jurors heard opening statements today in the trial of four of the five men accused in connection with the death of Cuomo aide Carey Gabay, who was one of the hundreds running for cover, when gunfire rang out on Sept. 7, 2015 and a bullet struck him in the head in the crossfire.

A prosecutor argued at the bribery trial of former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco that he proved his guilt by quoting from the mob drama «The Sopranos» with the now infamous use of the word «ziti» to indicate bribes.

Several former Cuomo associates, including a former top aide, face federal corruption trials on charges of bribery and bid - rigging in connection with the contracts for some of the governor's signature economic development projects, including the Buffalo Billion.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom deal - making.

A coalition of progressive groups sent a letter calling on Gov. Cuomo to cancel all state permits for the Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) natural gas power plant that is central to the trial of Joseph Percoco, the governor's long - time friend and former aide.

The bribery trial of Governor Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, begins its third week in federal court Monday.

The head of the state's Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the state's public ethics commission, alleging that Governor Cuomo and his top aide, Joe Percoco, now on trial for bribery, broke the state's public officers law.

Joseph Percoco scored a minor victory Monday ahead of closing arguments at his corruption trial, when the judge tossed one of the seven felony counts against the former aide to Gov. Cuomo.

The prosecution and defense offered two very different versions of events in the trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco and three business associates in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Tuesday.

The flu epidemic is hitting the corruption trial of Governor Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, with proceedings delayed for a day and a half because a key defense attorney has come down with the virus.

The procession opens Jan. 22 when the trial of Joseph Percoco, Cuomo's former closest aide, opens in federal court in Manhattan.

Jurors have been chosen in the public corruption trial of Governor Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco and told to report back at 9:15 am Tuesday morning for opening statements.

The first will be the trial of Joseph Percoco, a former close aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Testimony at the trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, has highlighted some practices inside the governor's office that government reform groups say is at the very least questionable, and possibly even illegal.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco, a GOP candidate for governor, said testimony and evidence in the trial showed that when Percoco was off the state payroll for most of 2014, and managing Cuomo's re-election campaign, he continued to use his state offices and privileges, making 837 phone calls and meeting with other Cuomo aides.

Testimony at the trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, has highlighted some practices inside the governor's office that government reform groups say is at the very least questionable, and possibly even illegal.

-- STILL NO PERCOCO VERDICT — New York Times» Vivian Wang and Benjamin Weiser: «The jury in a major New York corruption trial announced for the second time that it was deadlocked, dimming the prospects once again for a verdict in the trial of a former senior aide to Cuomo.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's political enemies are launching an all - out, online blitz as the corruption trial of a former top aide heats up this week with testimony from the prosecution's star witness.

Governor Cuomo's chief of staff was one of the first witnesses to testify at the corruption trial of Governor Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco.

First up on Jan. 22 is the trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, and others related to alleged corruption and bribery in connection with Cuomo's economic development efforts.

The Silver ruling will not affect the federal corruption trials later this year of nine former associates of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including Cuomo's former top aide, on bribery and bid - rigging because those trials will take place after the Supreme Court's McDonnell ruling.

A top Senate aide to former majority leader Dean Skelos set up a meeting on fracking with the state Department of Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption trial.

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano is facing trial for accepting bribes while surrounded by a cloud of corruption owing to the arrest of his aide Edward Ambrosino.

The governor's chief of staff, Linda Lacewell, testified in the ongoing federal corruption trial of former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco that those schedules were prepared long after the events had taken place, left many types of events off, and didn't always include the names of all the participants at meetings and events.

The jury is deadlocked in the federal corruption trial of former top aide to Governor Cuomo, Joe Percoco.

The governor's chief of staff, Linda Lacewell, testified in the ongoing federal corruption trial of former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco that those schedules were prepared long after the events had taken place.

More recently, the topic of LLCs came up repeatedly in the trial of former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco.

And then there's the upcoming trials of his former close aide and upstate development executives that could expose unseemly practices in the state's job - creating programs.