Sentences with phrase «with the federal prosecutors from»
«JoRon has fully cooperated with the federal prosecutors from the southern district.
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Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).
It's full of quotes from advisers to President Donald Trump — some anonymous, but several on the record — discussing two possibilities: that Michael Cohen will remain «loyal» to Trump, or that the threat of criminal prosecution will cause Cohen to «flip» and cooperate with federal prosecutors against Trump.
A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin - related Ponzi scheme.
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.
With such lack of accountability it is not surprising that Alphabet contributed substantial funds to the tech lobbying groups who are opposing federal legislative efforts to give additional options to prosecutors and civil trial lawyers to fight websites like Backpage (child sex trafficking) and prevent them from flourishing.
In that case, led by the civil division of the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of California, prosecutors found that JPMorgan flouted federal laws with its sale of subprime mortgage securities from 2005 to 2007.
(Chicago constructed this story from thousands of pages of federal court records, police reports, and court testimony from related cases, as well as from official government reports and dozens of interviews with federal and local law enforcement officials and attorneys for some of the defendants; through a spokesman, prosecutors in the Zambada case declined comment.)
The search warrants were sought and executed by FBI agents and federal prosecutors in New York in coordination with special counsel Robert Mueller's team after an initial referral from Mueller's office.
The search warrants were sought and executed by FBI agents and federal prosecutors in coordination with special counsel Robert Mueller's team after an initial referral from Mueller's office.
Mr. Solomon faced a development of a different kind on Wednesday when federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment charging Nicolas De-Meyer, 40, with stealing $ 1.2 million worth of rare wine from a former employer.
The previously unreported testimony from the onetime senior Uber official, as well as interviews conducted by Reuters with five current and former Uber employees, rebuts statements made in an explosive 37 - page letter last year that triggered the internal probe and drew the attention of federal prosecutors, who are still investigating.
It features insight from a former federal prosecutor who now works for a prestigious New York City firm who spoke exclusively with the National Alliance for Youth Sports to help youth sports administrators nationwide.
«As a former federal prosecutor, Todd started his career taking on corrupt politicians from both parties, and we need someone with that independence working to clean up Albany and restore New Yorkers» faith and trust in their state government,» Rice said.
Self - help guru Keith Raniere, who has charged by federal prosecutors with running a violent sex - slave cult called NXIVM, allegedly used the star power of two actresses from the Superman - prequel TV series «Smallville» to lure other women into his organization.
De Blasio has angered Republicans in the Senate with his past support for a Democratic - led chamber and actively worked to flip control, which ultimately led to an investigation from federal and city prosecutors without charges.
Federal prosecutors, faced with a defense request to move the «Buffalo Billion» case from Manhattan to Buffalo, filed a new indictment.
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to revoke the bail of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who was convicted in May after a prolonged and colorful trial of stealing close to half a million dollars from Soundview, the federally funded Bronx health clinic he founded and ran for years with the assistance of allies and members of his family.
I fully concur with Senator Ball on this one.Leibell and company dishonestly framed this all as reasonable requests for leniency, as if what he had done was not so bad (and as if he had contritely cooperated with authorities), when in fact the former State Senator has been defiant in NOT helping Federal prosecutors — AND some of the letters in Leibell's behalf came from people who are still being actively investigated by Federal prosecutors.
Flowers resigned from that position when federal prosecutors began probing the accounting practices of a nonprofit she created with Meeks and Smith.
That scheme is one of two federal prosecutors say Percoco participated in between 2012 and 2016, in which he netted more than $ 300,000 from companies with business before the state in exchange for his taking «official action» on their behalf.
A palatial $ 2 million Staten Island mansion on Lighthouse Hill allegedly paid for with profits from a $ 16.6 million opioid pill - mill scheme was targeted in a forfeiture action by Brooklyn federal prosecutors.
Federal prosecutors subpoenaed a large quantity of records from the party in December 2009, putting it on the defensive and posing a potential headache for Democrats around the state who had been elected with the party's support.
Federal prosecutors have amassed about 11 million pieces of evidence, including more than 28,400 pages of emails and images from the phone Kelly used as an executive with Competitive Power Ventures Holdings, LLC, (CPV) the company that is building a natural gas - fired power plant in Oxford and has not been linked to the alleged corruption.
Bellone ticked off a long list of what he said were failings by Spota, including the prosecutor's support for Burke and Spota's blocking of Suffolk police from cooperating with federal agents on the Gilgo Beach murders.
No county officials were charged with wrongdoing, but federal prosecutors allege that Dean and Adam Skelos improperly influenced the awarding of the contract to an environmental company as a way to get Adam Skelos more money from the company — which had hired him as a consultant.
Prosecutors also said Silver's arrest was handled «with great sensitivity — from the choice to allow the defendant to surrender, to the decision to drive the defendant to the courthouse as opposed to having federal agents walk the defendant across the plaza, to the use of an unmarked car to handle the transport.»
ALBANY — The hits keep coming from federal prosecutors in the capital, with the No. 2 Republican in the state Senate becoming the latest legislator to be indicted.
In New York City, without a public schedule, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, whose administration was hit with a subpoena last week on the Buffalo Billion investigation from the same federal prosecutor who got the Silver conviction, issued a brief written statement saying that the Silver sentence sends «a simple message that officials who abuse the public's trust will be held accountable.»
A third search warrant obtained by the state attorney general's office in May 2016 — information from which was shared with federal prosecutors — also was based on flimsy evidence, Miller wrote.
Negotiations for the interview with Mueller took a hit when federal prosecutors in Manhattan, reportedly on a tip from the Russia investigation, raided the office of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen last month.
Local authorities teamed up with the FBI and federal prosecutors to identify White, and managed to nab him after running a surveillance photo of him from the dealership through the facial recognition system, according to acting Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez.
In order to proceed with a federal civil rights charge, prosecutors would have had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Haste «lacked probable cause to believe that Mr. Graham posed a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to others, and that he willfully deprived Mr. Graham of his right to be free from excessive force.»
Federal prosecutors have charged Burke with beating Christopher Loeb, who had stolen a duffel bag from Burke's department - issued SUV, as Loeb was handcuffed to the floor in a police precinct in December 2012.
Republican congressional and State Senate candidates Thursday called on Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto to resign after the GOP lawmakers were charged by federal prosecutors with receiving bribes from a businessman.
Federal prosecutors allege Percoco solicited bribes from a power company and a developer with business before the state.
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and his chief deputy, Rob Walker, both plan to refuse to answer questions from federal prosecutors about their relationships with indicted Long Island restaurateur Harendra Singh, according to several sources.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors now intend to move forward with a second trial and will retry Espada on four counts that stem from his tainted operation of Soundview Healthcare Network, a chain of medical clinics in The Bronx, a source told The Post.
While Bart Schwartz enjoys a solid reputation from his time as a federal prosecutor, his role with the Cuomo administration is unclear.
Newsday also reported that, according to several sources, Mangano has said he would refuse to answer questions from federal prosecutors about his relationship with Singh.
Local newspapers are reporting that AM Nojay was to be criminally charged by federal prosecutors in connection with an alleged embezzlement of $ 1.8 million from an account he handled for a longtime client and friend, architect Carlton «Bud» DeWolff.
Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, predicts that there will be some kind of token reform passed before lawmakers leave for the summer, but he says the real changes are coming not from the state level, but form the federal prosecutor's office.
Bharara said he was speaking as much as a citizen of New York as a federal prosecutor, and said the issue may just be with him, as, being originally from India, «it's like a billion people in the room.»
Cuomo, after receiving a warning letter from US Attorney Bharara last week, has said he will no longer comment on the specifics of the federal probe, but the governor does say he personally has not been asked to speak to federal prosecutors, but he's told his staff to provide the US Attorney with any thing that Bharara wants to know.
According to prosecutors and an indictment unsealed this morning in federal court, Mr. Sampson abused his position as an attorney supervising foreclosed properties for years and allegedly embezzled approximately $ 440,000 between 1998 and 2008 from escrow accounts he was charged with watching over.
ALBANY — Federal prosecutors on Thursday spent roughly four hours trying to pluck facts from Jared Abbruzzese, a horse owner and telecom consultant and Republican fund - raiser who struck a $ 20,000 - a-month consulting agreement with former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, before Bruno's lawyer asked a simpler, pointed question.
CPV, the company building the 680 megawatt plant, was in the news in 2016 when federal prosecutors charged Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with accepting bribes from the firm in an unrelated matter.
Federal prosecutors in October charged Mangano with receiving «bribes and kickbacks» from a businessman who also gave Mangano's wife, Linda, a lucrative no - show job.
Federal prosecutors subpoenaed a slew of records from the Working Families Party in December 2009, forcing party officials into a defensive crouch and presenting a potential headache for Democrats around the state elected with the party's support.
Federal prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York charge Walsh with stealing more than $ 80,000 from county taxpayers by filling out false timesheets while working as a corrections lieutenant.