Individuals in New York and throughout the country could face jail time and other penalties for engaging in insider trading. However, there is no law that specifically says what insider trading is. A panel led by a former federal prosecutor says that the government...
Month: January 2020
Month: January 2020
DECISIONS OF THE WEEK ENDED -JANUARY 24, 2020
As CA2’s prior reversals of former NYS Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (707 Fed.Appx. 733 (2017)), and House Speaker Sheldon Silver (864 F.3d 102 (2017), had previously shown, prosecuting politicians for bribery schemes, and instructing juries on the parameters of...
Man to be sentenced in embezzlement scheme
A New York man who owned several nursing home and rehabilitation facilities entered a guilty plea to multiple charges in a Bridgeport federal court. The 71-year-old acknowledged that he stole $4.1 million from the Bridgeport Health Care Center pension plan between...
Ed Sapone’s DECISIONS OF THE WEEK-January 17, 2020
It was another uneventful week in the Circuit, with only a handful of mundane summary orders. There were a few interesting decisions in the state’s First, Second, and Third Department’s with two of them—Martinez and Arana—reminding us that, for guilty pleading...
Heavier federal charges against man accused of Hanukkah attack
A New York man accused of attacking participants at a Hanukkah celebration taking place at a rabbi's home in Rockland County is facing a number of federal criminal charges. In addition to the indictment for the alleged attack itself, the man is also facing elevated...
Ed Sapone’s DECISIONS OF THE WEEK -January 10, 2020
Not much to report this week in the Circuit, with the exception of its decision in Anderson, which contains a thorough review of the rules relating to sentencing when the defendant has related and/or contemporaneous state court charges. A quiet week in the state...
The elements of bribery
Those who try to offer government officials something of value in exchange for favorable treatment may be engaging in bribery. In many cases, both the party giving the bribe and the party accepting the bribe can be charged with a crime. To prove that bribery occurred,...
Book printer indicted for wire fraud, embezzlement
On Dec. 19, the owner of a book printing business in New York was arraigned on charges of embezzlement and wire fraud. The 63-year-old man was handed 10 wire fraud counts for allegedly submitting falsified invoices. In addition, he was charged with one count of...
