Rotich was due to be freed on bail after his lawyers argued he was not a flight risk. He was accused alongside other senior officials of conspiring to defraud the public, among other charges, having spent the night in a police cell. Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti granted him bai...
He was released on $200,000 bond and headed back to the airport for his return flight home to New Jersey, flashing a thumbs-up through the window of his sport utility vehicle as his motorcade left. Unrepentant but subdued after the brief jail visit, he insisted as has repeatedly ...
the recusal must apply to the entire office, not just the elected or appointed prosecutor;”“prosecutors should not take advice from politically connected friends of the accused;”“when a prosecutor seeks to resolve a case through diversion or some other alternative to prosecution, it should be ...
Let’s be cynical and assume that GS will be the spring from which derivatives’ regulators will be drawn. That would be one way to avoid embarrassing fraud charges from the SEC, and a way to watch what other dealers are doing, in the bargain. Death by regulation. If I were sitting a...
Although the client was facing a sentence for the subsequent offence, and despite the fact that the client’s driving privileges in Massachusetts were in fact suspended, Attorney Topazio convinced the prosecution and the court to dismiss the case on court costs....
“I’ll let SDNY speak for itself about their plans. But I do want to note that speaking generally, we’ve had state prosecutions and federal prosecutions proceed as parallel matters, and we’re in conversations with our law enforcement counterparts,” Bragg said in an unrelated news c...
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“I’ll let SDNY speak for itself about their plans. But I do want to note that speaking generally, we’ve had state prosecutions and federal prosecutions proceed as parallel matters, and we’re in conversations with our law enforcement counterparts,” Bragg said in an unrelated news conferen...