Sentences with phrase «weeks after the convictions»

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

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It was a welcome boost for Rooney, for whom the previous week had not been the best, starting with his drink - driving conviction and the former England captain then being left with a cut above his left eye and a bloodied face on Saturday after being caught by the arm of Bournemouth's Simon Francis.

The government has urged David Cameron to distance himself from the comments, which come weeks after the Tory leader said more must be done to increase the rape conviction rate.

The overturning of Skelos's 2015 conviction comes 10 weeks after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction was similarly tossed by a federal judge.

He was convicted of manslaughter last year after shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but the conviction was changed to murder by an appeal judge this week.

The voices calling for state Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D - East Elmhurst) to step down after his misdemeanor conviction for assaulting his girlfriend got a little louder this week as the Queens Democratic Party unanimously approved a resolution to that effect Monday.

Weeks after both the ex-Senate majority leader and former Assembly speaker were forced from office following their corruption convictions, a combined 89 percent of voters told Siena that corruption remains a serious problem in Albany.

Today's conviction comes just weeks after Mr. Bharara scored another major political conviction when a jury found former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat who had ruled that body for decades, guilty of corruption charges.

It was a bad week for Anthony Mangone, a former attorney whose cooperation aided in the conviction of three New York state senators, who was sentenced to 18 months behind bars this week after a judge said the «dirty lawyer» had committed crimes too serious to escape incarceration.

Less than two weeks after Silver's conviction, former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam were found guilty on federal corruption charges of their own.

Bharara trip to Albany not only comes weeks after securing the convictions of the top two state legislative leaders, but also after he said he found insufficient evidence to bring charges against Cuomo and members of his staff for their handling of the ill - fated Moreland anti-corruption commission.

Caproni is also giving defense and prosecution five weeks after the Supreme Court rules on McDonnell's corruption conviction to file revised arguments on Silver's request to stay out on bail while he appeals.

The request comes after the U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to hear Nassau's appeal of the 2014 award to John Restivo and Dennis Halstead, whose convictions in the rape and murder of Lynbrook teenager Theresa Fusco were overturned after they had spent nearly 18 years in prison.

Caproni said both sides in Silver's case will be given five weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on McDonnell's appeal of his corruption conviction to file a revised motion and rebuttals.

For many years after his injury, his father took him to see a film once a week, based on the conviction that he enjoyed it, she says.

In 2008, Stevens was voted out of office barely a week after being convicted of corruption (the conviction was tossed out in 2009 amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, and Stevens died in a plane crash the following year).

May 16, 2018 • The release of Anwar, who has served nearly a decade in jail on two separate convictions for sodomy, was less than a week after a stunning election upset by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

Yup, after missing its original release date of Nov. 2007 by just a teeny, tiny bit, Splinter Cell: Conviction is just a couple of weeks away.

Splinter Cell: Conviction was released for the PC two weeks after it came out on the Xbox 360.

I am home from the terrific Miami FSG conference (kudos to everyone involved), and on the way I was thinking about Judge Rakoff's decision this past week to give an enormous variance — the largest I have seen — to a corporate president who apparently faced a life sentence under the guidelines after a fraud conviction that resulted in $ 260 million in losses (basics here).

Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. moved to dismiss the conviction after evidence of serious prosecutorial misconduct emerged, including the failure of prosecutors to disclose evidence that might have helped the defense.

One week after the dramatic events unfolded on Yonge St., the Ontario Court of Appeal released its judgment in the Forcillo shooting case, upholding the conviction for attempted murder.

Cross» murder conviction — a rarity in vehicular death cases — came after a two - week jury trial, which included testimony from the defendant and witnesses who were at the site.