Sentences with phrase «turned government witness»

Howe turned government witness this summer during the U.S. Attorney's Office investigation and is mentioned frequently in the 80 - page criminal complaint as assisting prosecutors in the probe.

By the time that Todd Howe, the Albany insider turned government witness, begins his testimony in the Percoco trial this coming week, his reputation as a routine liar will have already preceded him.

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With the government's case over, the trial is now turned over to Silver's defense team, which told the court Wednesday that it was not planning on calling any witnesses.

The mayor's name was dragged into the bribery trial of ex-union official Norman Seabrook when a defense lawyer referred to de Blasio's relationship with the government's star witness: donor - turned - felon Jona Rechnitz.

Political sources told Kramer the feds are looking to turn some of the defendants into government witnesses in order to catch bigger fish.

The feds had failed to timely turn over as evidence for more 90 hours of phone calls — some of which were in Yiddish and yet to be translated — and more than 3,100 text messages from a wire - wearing government witness, crooked Rockland County developer Moses Stern.

While infiltrating a military encampment to rescue the captives, Nick learns that government officials General Hemlock and Marion Mallon are responsible for the outbreak and witness them turning the U.S. President into a zombie as well to assume full control of the government.

Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei himself has risen as a cultural political pop icon due to the controversy surrounding his arrest by the Chinese government, in turn, artists around the world created politically charged pop artwork to demonstrate for his release, hence bearing witness to unforeseen polipop culture in the making.

We are dismayed to see people being forced from their homes due to incessant, wind turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound; and horrified as we witnessed those in positions of power not only fail to help those people, but turn on these victims of a government - sanctioned, subsidy - soaked industry.

The «man - made hysteria» associated with the global - warming fraud is a real threat to mankind in the sense that it a) has the potential to, and in fact is, turning millions of gullible individuals into fanatical, anti-human ideologues, b) diverting precious time, money and resources that could be more usefully spent elsewhere into the ridiculous and unscientific attempts by environmental extremists to «control the climate» via enforced — through government legislation and burdensome taxes — behaviour modification of supposedly free citizens, and c) giving the practice of science a bad reputation amongst the general populace, which in turn has been a major contributing factor to the general decline in the understanding of basic scientific concepts, and reality in general, that we have been witnessing over the last 40 years or so (ex.

Asked by Bronstad when the trial turned in the defense's favor, Krakoff said one significant point was when the government's star witness, Bob Locke, took the stand.