The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday began hearing arguments in bids by an ex-aide to Democratic former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and a businessman to overturn their bribery and fraud convictions in a pair of cases that could make it harder to pursue public corruption prosecutions.
The justices were considering the appeals by Joseph Percoco and Louis Ciminelli, who were charged in related cases in 2016 in a corruption crackdown by federal prosecutors in Manhattan centered on the halls of the state capital of Albany.
The Supreme Court's eventual rulings, expected by the end of June, also will affect three co-defendants charged in corruption and fraud cases during Cuomo's tenure as governor involving state contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Percoco was sentenced in 2018 to six years in prison. Howe pleaded guilty and cooperated with investigators. Real estate developer Steven Aiello, who prosecutors said orchestrated bribes to Percoco, was also convicted at trial.
"He took no oath of public office, he received no salary from the public fisc, he possessed no legal authority to bind the state or make decisions for it," Yaakov Roth, Percoco's lawyer, told the court. "What he did have, like many lobbyists and donors and interest groups and others, was influence." "There has to be something wrong like that," Kagan said. "But your theory would suggest that we can't prosecute the public official under this statute."
日本 最新ニュース, 日本 見出し
Similar News:他のニュース ソースから収集した、これに似たニュース記事を読むこともできます。
U.S. Supreme Court to weigh Cuomo-era New York corruption casesThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider a pair of cases that could it harder to pursue public corruption prosecutions - bids by an ex-aide to Democratic former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and a businessman to reverse bribery and fraud convictions.
続きを読む »
Cuomo-era New York corruption cases go before U.S. Supreme CourtThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday is set to consider bids by an ex-aide to Democratic former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and a businessman to overturn their bribery and fraud convictions in a pair of cases that could make it harder to pursue public corruption prosecutions.
続きを読む »
Supreme Court weighs scope of public corruption law in New York casesOne case centers on whether an ex-aide to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was lawfully convicted on a bribery charge under a federal law that requires “honest services' be provided to the public.
続きを読む »
Lancia Design Day heralds start of a new eraLancia is back! A new logo, a new philosophy and new cars coming, too. Hopefully they'll have wheels 🛞
続きを読む »
State lawyers ask Utah Supreme Court to step in after judge declines to dismiss gerrymandering lawsuitLawyers for the state are asking the Utah Supreme Court to intervene after Utah Third District Judge Dianna Gibson declined to dismiss a lawsuit alleging new congressional maps drawn by the Utah Legislature last year are an illegal gerrymander.
続きを読む »
Georgia Supreme Court reinstates abortion banAbortion providers who had resumed performing the procedure past six weeks after the lower court ruling will again have to stop.
続きを読む »