Sentences with phrase «with jury president»

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Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, was indicted by a grand jury on Monday morning along with his business associate Rick Gates on a range of charges, including laundering over $ 21 million.

Andrew Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School who was an associate in the White House counsel's office under President Barack Obama, said he was «glad to see the Trump administration acknowledging the legitimacy of the findings of our intelligence community and the Mueller grand jury: that Russians illegally interfered with our elections.»

President Bill Clinton, meanwhile, testified to a grand jury via video from the White House during special counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation into Clinton's investment in an unsuccessful land deal in Arkansas that expanded to include his extramarital relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

COIB's announcement of the fines, and Stringer's scrutiny of Department of Correction spending, comes the same day that a jury is reportedly deadlocked in the corruption trial of former correction union president Norman Seabrook, who is accused of making a deal with a hedge fund to pocket $ 60,000 in exchange for agreeing to steer union money into the fund, which has since been revealed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in recent memory.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to the grand jury's decision today in the death of Eric Garner: «My heart and prayers are with the family of Eric Garner, especially with his surviving six children.

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.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Said Oddo: «In this matter, the Garner family, the NYPD and the office of the Borough President speak with one voice when we say that disagreeing with the conclusion of the grand jury is your absolute right, and so is peacefully protesting the result and advocating for change.»

As a jury continues to deliberate in the bribery trial of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, the Democrat has been keeping his focus on other matters, including appearing with former Vice President Al Gore to talk about energy and the environment.

Tomorrow, Cannes jury president Isabelle Huppert will meet with her formidable, female - dominated team of eight — including the diverse likes of Robin Wright Penn, Asia Argento, James Gray and Hanif Kureishi — to pick over the 20 Competition titles they have seen over the last fortnight and select their collective favorites.

The awards were presented, briskly and with little preamble, by this year's Un Certain Regard jury president Benicio Del Toro — himself an award winner at Cannes 10 years ago, when he won Best Actor in Competition for Steven Soderbergh's «Che.»

And oh yeah, jury president Steven Spielberg is total buds with the director.

While Barbera has broken an 11 - year run of male Venice jury heads by appointing Annette Bening as this year's president, the number of female film - makers at this year's festival is less impressive, with just one — the Chinese director Vivian Qu — appearing in competition.

Haneke's Palme d'Or chances could face a bigger obstacle in jury president Isabelle Huppert who, as a two - time collaborator with the filmmaker, might not want to risk accusations of bias.

Already slated to serve as the jury president, WKW will be opening the Berlin Film Festival with «The Grandmaster.»

The jury president was looking to make a point that our society has become too disposable, and there is no reason to crowd our landfills with perfectly good clothing.

I've now mused several times with fellow critics about why they chose this image to represent UCR, given that Tim Burton isn't even president of that jury — my beloved Claire Denis is.

He wanted more after serving on the jury for the 2010 Cannes Competition with president Tim Burton, Kate Beckinsale, and composer Alexandre Desplat, among others

With Pedro Almodovar announced as jury president, it will be interesting to see if he continues the trend of ambivalent Cannes juries who seem to be more interested in making political statements.

Tomorrow, Cannes jury president Isabelle Huppert will meet with her formidable, female - dominated team of eight — including the diverse likes of Robin Wright Penn, Asia Argento, James Gray and Hanif Kureishi — to pick over the 20 Competition titles they have seen over the last fortnight and select their -LSB-...]

But if Cannes jury president Pedro Almodóvar softens his anti-Netflix stance when it comes to doling out the silverware, hopefully Ahn will at least be in with a shot of bringing home the bacon.

The Berlin Film Festival came to a close this weekend when jury president Meryl Streep announced the winners with her fellow jury members.

In fact, no film can win more than two prizes and if a film is awarded two is must be a combination of Best Screenplay or the Jury Prize with a Best Performance award, with a special dispensation of the Festival's President.

In her testimony before the grand jury on August 6, Lewinsky had spoken in a general way about her sexual relationship with the president.

Listeners will be able to check out some current bestsellers, such as The Girl on the Train, Fifty Shades of Grey, Gone Girl, Wild, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and A Game of Thrones; award - winning recordings such as Bill Clinton's My Life narrated by the former president, John Grisham's Runaway Jury narrated by Michael Beck, Kathryn Stockett's The Help narrated by Jenna Lamia, Octavia Spencer, Bahni Turpin, and Cassandra Campbell; and renowned narrators including Christopher Plummer, Diane Keaton, Barbara Walters, Kate Winslet, and more.

Bob Sutherland, who is president of the Alaskan Malamute Assistance League, said Thursday he is happy with the jury's verdict.

Venice Biennale Jury visiting the Zimbabwe Pavilion with Hassan Khan, President of the Jury, in the foreground.

The Jury comprises distinguished, international museum directors, curators, and art critics together with Dakis Joannou, president of the DESTE Foundation.

The grounds of appeal were that the Lord Ordinary had erred in stating that the Lord President in Hamilton had made clear that previous jury awards must be treated with «great caution», rather than as was said by Lord Hamilton, with «appropriate caution».

Yesterday, in the perpetually entertaining trial of Rod Blagojevich, the jury got to hear tapes of a wiretapped conversation between Blago and his then - chief of staff John Harris, in which the former Governor suggested filling President Obama's vacated Senate seat with none other than Oprah Winfrey.

«Our jury panel was impressed with this integrated facility and efforts to include the community in the planning and design process,» stated FIABCI - USA President Ruth Kruger.