Sentences with phrase «year grand jury investigation»

The result of a five - year grand jury investigation?

Not exact matches

Bevilacqua, now 87 and reportedly in ill health, was one of the subjects of a two - year Philadelphia grand jury investigation that ended just two weeks ago.

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.

Maziarz was one of two people indicted by the same grand jury year ago, in a broad investigation connected to the Niagara County Republican Committee.

Last year, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office sought authorization from Governor Andrew Cuomo's office to investigate the death of Edson Thevenin, claiming the investigation was incomplete when Abelove presented the case to a grand jury.

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.»

A year after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said his department is still waiting for the U.S. Department of Justice to complete its investigation before proceeding with any administrative departmental action.

The investigation has focused on whether Abelove interfered with the attorney general's jurisdiction last year when he quickly presented the fatal shooting case to a grand jury that cleared a Troy police sergeant of wrongdoing in the slaying of a DWI suspect.

The investigation has focused on whether Abelove interfered with the attorney general's jurisdiction last year when he quickly presented the case to a grand jury that cleared a Troy police sergeant of wrongdoing in the slaying of a DWI suspect.

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.

Earlier this year, Cuomo signed another order that allowed Schneiderman's office to expand that investigation and examine Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove's controversial handling of the 2016 shooting, including his decision to rush the case before a grand jury that cleared the sergeant, Randall French, less than a week after the shooting.

The report chronicling Schneiderman's year - long investigation into the shooting death of Edson Thevenin, 37, highlighted the controversial decision by Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove to secretly grant immunity to Sgt. Randall French when the officer testified before a grand jury that cleared him of wrongdoing.

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.

But on Capitol Hill, party strategists are nervously taking stock of Donovan, who oversaw the grand jury investigation that declined to indict the officers involved in the July chokehold death of Eric Garner, a 43 - year - old black man.

TROY — A nearly 4 - year - old grand jury investigation into allegations the Rensselaer County Democratic chairman was shaking down government workers for political contributions has re-emerged in the backdrop of a contentious district attorney's race.

«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.

Finally, during the height of a grand jury investigation between March and May last year, Harris allegedly instructed witnesses to lie to FBI agents, which they did.

The always - topical documentary category is likely to keep its crown as the newsiest bracket at the Oscars by nominating not one, but two features about Syria — festival favorite City of Ghosts, acquired by Amazon in a $ 2 million deal, and Last Men in Aleppo, winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize — as well as Icarus, an investigation into Russia's shady doping program (which should get a boost from the news that Russia has been banned from the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics), and Jane, a lyrical look at pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall, who spent years battling a scientific community that refused to take her seriously.

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.

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.

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.