Sentences with phrase «year federal grand jury»

Represented a regional construction firm and its owner in a five - year federal grand jury investigation of minority business enterprise fraud, persuading federal prosecutors not to pursue criminal charges or seek civil remedies against the firm or any of its employees.

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PG&E already faces fines for its role in a fatal explosion of natural gas in San Bruno in 2010, a federal felony indictment connected to the San Bruno blast, and a federal grand jury probe into a gas explosion in Carmel earlier this year.

But when Walker learned last year of a federal investigation into potential corruption in Nassau County government, including circumstances surrounding the payment, he spoke to the contractor several times «in an attempt to convince the contractor to conceal the existence of the $ 5,000 payment from the grand jury,» according to authorities.

She disclosed in a court filing obtained by the Times Union that she has a conflict because her husband, Henry, an attorney and former Niagara County GOP chairman, testified two years ago before a federal grand jury probing Maziarz.

Attorney William McGinley says Friday that federal prosecutors intend to charge his client after more than two years of investigation plagued by «malicious leaks, violations of grand jury secrecy, and strong - arm tactics.»

According to the Times, a federal grand jury has subpoenaed records to try to document just how Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver earns what he says is $ 650,000 a year from the Manhattan firm Weitz and Luxenberg, and possibly other law firms.

The Times, which frequently breaks news regarding the activities of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office, reported that federal prosecutors have begun presenting evidence to a grand jury related to Skelos and his 32 - year - old son, Adam, centering on a contract awarded to AbTech Industries by Nassau County.

The investigation, which is being led by the U.S. Department of Labor, was revealed last month when a federal grand jury subpoena was sent to the Rockland County PEF union formerly headed by Deborah J. Lee, whose purchases first drew scrutiny within her union's ranks two years ago.

The Skelos duo was indicted by a federal grand jury earlier this year on charges including extortion, wire fraud, conspiracy and bribe solicitation, with the government's case including cameos from real estate firms like Glenwood Management and Tishman Speyer.

Even after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, sparking nationwide protests, the case promised to drag on for years thanks to a federal civil rights investigation, internal NYPD probe, and civil suit from Garner's family.

In an unusual step that county Democrats say is politically motivated, a former Rensselaer County prosecutor wrote a letter to the Justice Department earlier this year asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether District Attorney Richard McNally had improperly ended the grand jury probe that was started by McNally's predecessor, Patricia DeAngelis, a Republican who did not seek re-election in 2007.

Detective Michael Milici, a 26 - year veteran assigned to the 66th Precinct in Brooklyn, had been put on modified duty and stripped of his badge and gun after refusing to answer federal grand jury questions.

«Specifically, over a period of more than four years, the defendants attempted to cover up the assault of a handcuffed prisoner by Burke by obstructing the federal grand jury investigation and, when they learned that the scope of the investigation expanded into an investigation of the obstructive conduct, the defendants then attempted to obstruct the obstruction investigation,» Rohde wrote.

Speaking for the first time since Comptroller Scott Stringer announced the settlement late Monday, the family and Sharpton said they would continue with efforts to have federal prosecutors indict officer Pantaleo after a Staten Island grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against him last year.

Nine Iranians working on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hacked the computers of 7998 professors at 320 universities around the world over the past 5 years, an indictment filed by a federal grand jury alleges.

A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a 23 - year - old Jacksonville man with aggravated sexual abuse by force.

Represents individuals, including public officials, lobbyists, and high - level state administrators, as well as businesses, in state and federal criminal investigations and grand jury proceedings; clients accused by the government of fraud; students accused of sexual misconduct; Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; Best Lawyers in America «Lawyer of the Year» in Non-White-Collar Criminal Defense; listed in Best Lawyers in White - Collar Criminal Defense and Civil Rights Law categories.

Open Whisper Systems, a maker of a widely used encryption app called Signal, received a subpoena in the first half of the year for subscriber information and other details associated with two phone numbers that came up in a federal grand jury investigation in Virginia.

Earlier this year, a federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian national and three Russian groups, including the IRA, for running Eastern European and Russian «troll farms.»