A former investment banking analyst has been sentenced to 1 ½ to 4 ½ years in state prison for stealing more than $572,000 from state tax authorities and attempting to steal an additional $4.6 million, prosecutors said yesterday.
The unit, which had about half a dozen assistant United States attorneys in 2009, now has 10; an additional 4 prosecutors work in a satellite office in White Plains, handling mostly political corruption cases, Mr. Zabel said.
Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland was already out on bail facing two counts of federal wire fraud this winter when he began orchestrating a scheme to defraud the victims of his earlier scams of an additional $100,000, prosecutors say.
Speer requested an explanation from Wolters, and Wolters admitted the censorship by letter in January 1970, saying, "I wouldn't have put it past the Ludwigsbergern [German war crimes prosecutors] to launch an additional prosecution against you on the pretext that this charge [of evicting the Jews] was not included in the Nuremberg Indictment".
The question of a presidential pardon arose after recent statements by Robert W. Ray, the independent counsel, who said he had hired additional prosecutors and was considering whether to indict Mr. Clinton after he leaves office.
In an innovation, the trial made room for about 90 "civil parties," who registered to apply for reparations and were represented in court by lawyers who acted as additional prosecutors.
The budget calls for financing increases for more agents to be hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to look into mortgage fraud and white-collar crime as well as for additional prosecutors and bankruptcy experts at the Justice Department to deal with growing problems arising from the financial crisis.
Bowen's testimony has an additional virtue that prosecutors treasure -- the fraud scheme he documented was easy to explain to a jury.
Under a preliminary hearing, if the judge finds in the prosecutors' favor, prosecutors have an additional 45 days to hold the defendant while seeking a grand jury indictment.
And in open court, the judge even offered prosecutors an additional day to renew it.
