So, the smart money now ... plea bargain before trial.
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This isn't just a plea bargain, it's a plenary indulgence.
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Plea bargain deals become a cornerstone of the investigation. Nov.
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He thinks they should offer a plea bargain of manslaughter.
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Today, one of them admitted his guilt in a plea bargain.
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Many convictions result from generous plea-bargain deals offered to suspects.
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"My defendant has signed a plea bargain deal," Pochuyev told TASS.
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But she said she had good reasons for the plea bargain.
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There have already been two indictments and one major plea bargain.
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Our sources say a plea bargain is still on the table.
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Prosecutors had sought the dismissal as part of Gates' plea bargain.
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Prosecutors and Ng's lawyer are trying to negotiate a plea bargain.
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Brazil's unprecedented sprawling graft investigations have been built on plea-bargain testimony.
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A plea bargain can even offer an immediate route out of jail.
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The plea bargain was not supported by the Manhattan district attorney's office.
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Both could seek lighter sentences if they agree to a plea bargain deal.
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"I am expressly rejecting the plea bargain as to Mr. Almena," Cramer said.
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Her lawyer arranged a plea bargain; the charges were reduced to criminal impersonation.
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He faced a potential 15-year sentence after accepting a plea bargain last year.
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As part of a plea bargain, the young woman will be sentenced on Aug.
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In Brazil, plea bargain testimony to prosecutors is confidential until approved by a judge.
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We broke the story ... he ended up avoiding jail time in a plea bargain.
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Batista was arrested on Sunday for concealing other crimes in his plea bargain deal.
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Amaral's lawyer had previously said that his client would not give a plea bargain.
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This week a judge accepted a plea bargain that kept Conor out of jail.
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Corsi this week claimed to have turned down a plea bargain deal with Mueller.
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Sometimes there is the story of a plea bargain that the judge didn't honor.
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In 2007, Bartley accepts a plea bargain, but his guilty plea is later vacated.
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This week, the company brought the case to a close with a plea bargain.
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But were the use of the images, the plea bargain and the sentence just?
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But because of a plea bargain, Reiakvam was sentenced to only two years in jail.
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Mercadante has denied the allegations, made as part of a plea bargain signed by Amaral.
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"The plea bargain was not as severe as I had assumed," one wrote to Millendorf.
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His lawyer has said he is not guilty and will not consider a plea bargain.
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In the Batistas' plea bargain, Temer was accused of working to obstruct a corruption probe.
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Some politicians have been cleared of wrongdoing after they were named in plea bargain testimony.
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Earlier this year the brothers struck a plea-bargain deal with prosecutors for bribing politicians.
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A strong showing could bolster his efforts to negotiate a plea bargain, at a minimum.
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Neves said Batista and prosecutors had set him up as part of the plea bargain.
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Since most of our system operates by plea bargain, much of it's not even public.
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The president said one mention in plea bargain testimony was not enough to dismiss a minister.
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The plea bargain will be nullified if the judge gives Durst a different sentence, McMahon said.
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At that point, the "substantive part of the discussion" about a plea bargain began, Kirshner said.
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Batista handed a recording of the conversation to prosecutors as part of a plea bargain deal.
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Maggi denied any wrongdoing, claiming in a statement that Barbosa "lied" in his plea bargain testimony.
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The plea bargain documents made public on Wednesday revealed the first formal accusations against Temer himself.
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Hill could face jail time if convicted -- but likely won't ... a plea bargain is almost certain.
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"We do not know if this plea bargain even exists," Lula Institute spokesman José Chrispiniano said.
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But that constitutional right doesn't apply when the defendant agrees to a plea bargain, they concluded.
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The guards had rejected a plea bargain the federal prosecutors had offered, the AP reported Friday.
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The teenager, Christopher Plaskon, 18, accepted a plea bargain during a brief appearance in court here.
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The lawyer declined because Gilberto Garza had waived his right to appeal during a plea bargain.
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Reuters could not determine what advantage Herz gains by striking the plea bargain deal with prosecutors.
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The plea bargain arose out of the giant graft investigation involving Petrobras, the national oil company.
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Dvorskiy is the 85033th person charged in the scandal to plead guilty via a plea bargain.
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Neves said all plea bargain deals should be made public so all people cited could defend themselves.
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Don't worry, Mr Fitzgerald told his client as he mulled a plea bargain, there's nothing to fear.
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Local media reports of a nearly final plea bargain have heightened expectations of an impending political bombshell.
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The case relied heavily on the testimony, derived from a plea bargain, of the jailed construction magnate.
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Were Hutchins to take a plea bargain, it would be "irrespective of actual factual guilt," Ghappour said.
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He was only offered a traditional plea bargain, one which had him formally confess to Hanna's murder.
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Plea bargain deals are confidential until the testimonies are collected by prosecutors and accepted by a judge.
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The BuzzFeed revelation comes as Cohen has agreed to a plea bargain with special counsel Robert Mueller.
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In Postville, ICE threatened to prosecute people for aggravated identity theft unless they took a plea bargain.
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Reuters had asked TBG and parent firm Petrobras on Tuesday about the previously unreported plea bargain testimony.
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He was sentenced to five years and served less than one as part of a plea bargain.
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The group can use its plea bargain powers to persuade witnesses to come forward, though few do.
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Andrada said the charges were based on "bogus" plea bargain statements that do not warrant criminal prosecution.
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Spota said at the time that he agreed to a plea bargain for Cushing only on Ruvolo's insistence.
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It's the DA who launches investigations, determines what charges to file, and whether to offer a plea bargain.
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Angling for a plea bargain, Mr Batista wired himself up for a late-night meeting with the president.
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Moreira Franco was named in the plea bargain statement as having received illegal campaign funds for the party.
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Gillooly accepted a plea bargain in exchange for his testimony against Harding and spent 6 months in prison.
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Plea-bargain testimony should open lines of inquiry, not provide the main evidence for their conclusions, they contend.
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One of these reportedly provided information on Moreira's transfers of 2200,22014 euros to Spain in a plea bargain.
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One of these reportedly provided information on Moreira's transfers of 200,000 euros to Spain in a plea bargain.
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Under Brazilian law, plea bargain deals to reduce jail time can take place after sentencing in certain cases.
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A spokeswoman for Odebrecht, citing his lawyers, said Marcelo Odebrecht has not opted for a plea bargain deal.
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Plea bargain deals are strictly confidential until the testimonies are collected by prosecutors and accepted by a judge.
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Later that month the brothers started negotiating the plea bargain deal in the same month, the source said.
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Other associates of the Trump campaign may have also reached plea bargain deals that are not yet public.
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There is a significant possibility that Manafort, Cohen or both will reach plea bargain deals with the feds.
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Flynn, as part of a plea bargain with Mueller, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in December.
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Instead, he struck a plea bargain of sorts with the outgoing president on his last day in office.
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Mooney's attorney advised him to accept a plea bargain because the case against him was open and shut.
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IVAN DE SÁ, FORMER HEAD OF PETROBRAS UNIT TBG, HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN GRAFT BY PLEA BARGAIN TESTIMONY
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But Judge Kosik rejected the plea bargain, saying the judges had not fully accepted responsibility for the crimes.
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Janot sought the arrests after Batista and Saud recorded themselves discussing crimes not covered in the plea bargain.
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Kuykendall said neither he nor Warren had received the plea bargain offer before it was made in open court.
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The testimony by Faria was among dozens of plea bargain testimonies released by Supreme Court Justice Luiz Edson Fachin.
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Originally charged with murder in the second degree, a plea bargain reduced the charge to manslaughter, The Blast reports.
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Originally charged with murder in the second degree, a plea bargain reduced the charge to manslaughter, The Blast reported.
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Emmanuel Aranda, 24, struck a plea bargain to avoid trial, said Chuck Laszewski, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
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Two ministers already resigned after leaked recordings in Machado's plea bargain deal suggested they favored interfering in the investigation.
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Loures has hired a lawyer to prepare a plea bargain, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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He and a J&F executive, Ricardo Saud, had recorded themselves discussing crimes not covered in their plea bargain.
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Because the case is likely to end with a plea bargain, the court allowed the lawyers to represent him.
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Federal prosecutors offered the guards a plea bargain, but the AP reported Friday that the officers declined the deal.
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Local media reported it may be connected with Machado who has been negotiating a plea bargain deal with prosecutors.
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Mr. Shanahan paid for defense attorneys for his son, who eventually entered into a plea bargain with the state.
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In February 2016, for instance, she successfully negotiated a plea bargain for a gynecologist accused of molesting six patients.
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In a plea bargain, she was found guilty of obstruction of justice and sentenced to nine months in prison.
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But if the arrest resulted in a dismissal, or plea bargain to a lesser charge, the transaction is approved.
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Our sources say it is "likely" plea bargain discussions will begin, but we're told no plea deal has been made.
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He entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to one year of probation as part of a plea bargain.
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Former Petrobras executive Sergio Machado accused Temer of asking for illegal campaign contributions while giving plea bargain evidence to prosecutors.
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The latest set of charges relies heavily on plea-bargain testimony of people who had dealings with the mega-gang.
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As part of a plea bargain, Weiner agreed not to appeal any sentence between 21 and 27 months in prison.
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Other Cabinet members have been mentioned in plea bargain statements by defendants, raising concern that other ministers could be implicated.
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On Thursday, Brazil's attorney general will share information from plea bargain deals by dozens of Odebrecht executives with relevant countries.
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Stay tuned for the next blockbuster event in the Russian scandal, which is probably imminent after the Flynn plea bargain.
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Kenney pleaded guilty in February to evidence tampering and as part of a plea bargain agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
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He told the District Attorney's office that he didn't want her to testify, and the office offered Polanski a plea bargain.
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When Cardenas Guillen was extradited to the US in 2007, he negotiated a plea bargain that got him a reduced sentence.
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Monte dei Paschi separately reached a plea bargain with prosecutors after it was also investigated over similar allegations, the sources said.
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The student, Jacob Walter Anderson, landed such a light sentence thanks to a plea bargain reached with prosecutors earlier this week.
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The brothers are accused of having used information about their plea bargain deal with Brazilian prosecutors to profit in financial transactions.
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The judge rejected the terms of the plea bargain, including a suspended sentence, community service and an option of a fine.
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The report cited a plea bargain Odebrecht is negotiating to reduce a 19-year prison sentence for bribery and money laundering.
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Now instead, the Republican attack ads howl that as a prosecutor, Lamb made a plea bargain deal with a drug dealer.
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The detainees can accept a plea bargain and "admit" to a lesser transgression in return for release or a lighter sentence.
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The team eventually negotiated a lenient plea bargain with federal prosecutors that allowed him to plead guilty to state prostitution charges.
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Trump will not know what former associates, who have copped a plea bargain, will have told the prosecutors, but Mueller will.
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Hashmi spent three years in pre-trial solitary confinement in Manhattan, and the day before trial took a government plea bargain.
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A source confirmed the executives had signed a plea bargain deal that is being handled by Federal prosecutors as it involved politicians.
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Other JBS executives in plea-bargain testimony accused Temer of taking nearly $5 million in bribes from the company in recent years.
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The judge's decision comes just a few weeks after the Justice Department opened up a probe into the decade-old plea bargain.
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She hoped a trial would not happen and that Sandford would be repatriated to Britain as part of a plea bargain agreement.
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" Almena&aposs attorney Tony Serra said his client agreed to the plea bargain to alleviate "the pain and suffering of all parties.
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Lula's lawyers said the plea bargain statements by two defendants proved nothing and were part of "political persecution" of the former president.
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In June, the United States attorney's office in San Antonio unsealed a plea-bargain agreement with a Coahuila businessman, Rolando González Treviño.
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But faced with overwhelming physical evidence, Watts admitted his guilt in a plea bargain that would save him from the death penalty.
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In June, former Tourism Minister Henrique Alves resigned after a former Petrobras executive accused him in plea bargain testimony of taking bribes.
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To some critics, his plea-bargain deals with gangsters like Nalo look like the dubious dealmaking that he has put on trial.
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Fachin's first task will be to act on explosive plea bargain testimony to prosecutors by 77 executives of engineering conglomerate Odebrecht [ODBES.UL].
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On Rectify, it took all of the third season to get Daniel to decide where he would go after the plea bargain.
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At first he was terrified—paralyzed by the prospect of facing his father (who ended up with probation after a plea bargain).
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That move would have effectively killed the entire plea bargain process that has only been legal in Brazil since 2013, prosecutors said.
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The problem with being the matinee defendant for the special counsel investigation is that a plea bargain is more costly to secure.
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In a plea bargain, Eddie Antar pleaded guilty to one charge of racketeering conspiracy and served nearly seven years in federal prison.
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In a hearing late on Friday, the prosecution announced it had reached a plea bargain with Bilash, his lawyer Aiman Umarova said.
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Wolff entered a plea bargain with the government, and according to the Washington Post, called Lundgren to buy the disks for $3,400.
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Ivan de Sá received with confusion and indignation the information that his name had been mentioned in plea bargain testimony, TBG said.
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Say you strike a plea bargain on Thursday before a trial on Tuesday, Christensen said, but the commander isn't available until Tuesday.
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As we reported, our sources say Lori and Mossimo will NOT enter a plea bargain ... they are determined to win at trial.
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At Indiana University, a former student, John P. Enochs, pleaded guilty last year to misdemeanor battery, the result of a plea bargain.
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In a plea bargain, he agreed to a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession, with a suspended jail sentence and two years' probation.
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Janot's allegations are based on plea-bargain testimony made by Silval Barbosa, who served as Maggi's vice governor from 2007 to 2010.
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Prosecution sources tell TMZ, any plea bargain they strike will have a prison recommendation attached, although it's ultimately up to the judge.
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Mr Corsi, who this week refused a plea bargain offer from Mr Mueller, has said he came to know this through "divine intervention".
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The arrests took place after Chief Prosecutor Carlos Baca met with Brazil's attorney general on Thursday to receive information from plea bargain deals.
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Details of a massive plea bargain deal by 77 executives of engineering company Odebrecht are still being kept secret by the Supreme Court.
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It is based on plea bargain testimony by Senator Delcidio Amaral, a key legislative ally for Rousseff before he was arrested in November.
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Part of the undeclared money was delivered in cash to Yunes' law office in Sao Paulo, Melo Filho claimed in his plea bargain.
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Bruce Leonard was originally set to stand trial with his daughter, but accepted a plea bargain for two counts of assault last week.
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Despite the temporary nature of the blockade, many of the digital protest's participants faced jail time before taking a plea bargain in 2013.
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He accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to 120 days in federal prison, 4 years probation and 1,000 hours of community service.
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Though federal law and some state laws dictate that victims must be told when a plea bargain is offered, that doesn't always happen.
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A Supreme Court judge is due to lift the seal on plea bargain testimony that could lead to the dismissal of five ministers.
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In 2013, Cristian's lawyers negotiated a plea bargain to the juvenile version of manslaughter, with a seven-year sentence in a juvenile facility.
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Faced with the challenges of entrusting any criminal case to a jury, prosecutors were increasingly skipping trial altogether, negotiating a plea bargain instead.
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Ms. Tamimi, 17, accepted a plea bargain that will end her trial and should bring about her release in July, her lawyer said.
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I let J. know this and described what would happen next: a series of court dates, a bond-reduction motion, plea-bargain offers.
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At a minimum, Mr. Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving premier, could use the electoral result to bolster his hand in negotiating a plea bargain.
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Then the case took an unusual turn: Mr. Hernandez refused to accept a plea bargain that would have kept him out of prison.
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In 1977, as part of a plea bargain to avoid more serious charges, Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful intercourse with a 13-year-old.
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In plea bargain testimony published by local media over the weekend, jailed construction magnate Marcelo Odebrecht reportedly claimed Temer had received illegal campaign funding.
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He then fled the United States, fearing a plea bargain with prosecutors would be overruled and that he would get a lengthy prison term.
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Though the Los Angeles District Attorney originally wanted a life sentence for Woodward, the no-contest plea bargain reduced the term to nine years.
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The judge said he found Harris to be sincere but because the plea bargain was for both Harris and Almena, both pleas were rejected.
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Hypera in April said that the police investigation was a result of a plea bargain testimony of a former executive, Nelson Jose de Mello.
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He negotiated a plea bargain with the state in exchange for a life sentence and alleged that Tafero and Jacobs had pulled the triggers.
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When we meet Peterson a final time, in the three new episodes that Netflix has added this year, he is negotiating a plea bargain.
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The judge also approved a prior plea bargain arrangement, in which Mr. Durst was sentenced to 85 months in prison for illegally possessing a .
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If it's easier to get a corporate plea bargain than to win a conviction against a top executive, that's the path prosecutors will favor.
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Two months later, two members of the family that controls JBS agreed to a plea bargain deal in Brazil relating to a corruption probe.
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Akindele's lawyers negotiated a plea bargain with federal prosecutors and they deliberated for four hours before Justice Maureen Onyekenu reached a judgment on Monday.
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Janot revoked the privileges granted to Batista and Saud after they appeared to have recorded themselves discussing crimes not covered in the plea bargain.
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Cosby is free on $1 million bail, and his lawyer has said the entertainer is not guilty and will not consider a plea bargain.
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He took a plea bargain that included pleading guilty to lesser charges but fled the U.S. when he learned he likely faced jail time.
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He faces up to 23 years in federal prison, though his plea bargain is likely to reduce the sentence to between four and six years.
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For District Attorney Dumanis, a plea bargain also removed, in her mind, the only impediment to an otherwise airtight case: proving who actually stabbed Luis.
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Leslie Knight, a spokeswoman for the county prosecutor Tim Lohmar, told The Associated Press that Richardson's N.F.L. career had not influenced the plea-bargain offer.
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Bruce Leonard was originally set to stand trial with his daughter, but accepted a plea bargain last week, pleading guilty to two counts of assault.
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The district attorney's office in June offered Corea Diaz a plea bargain of 7 to 21 years in prison, the newspaper reported, citing court records.
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He avoided the electric chair with a plea-bargain confession and said he carried out his killings using cyanide, arsenic, rat poison or petroleum distillate.
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Loures, a businessman turned politician, is expected to seek a plea bargain with prosecutors that could damage the president's case that he did nothing illegal.
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Aggarwal left ShopClues in 2013 after the Federal Bureau of Investigation began investigating him for insider trading (he later pled guilty in a plea bargain).
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They may end up with much more if Mr Zarrab, who faces up to 75 years behind bars, cracks and agrees to a plea bargain.
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The publication of plea bargain testimony by 77 employees of the Odebrecht engineering conglomerate this month will deliver another bombshell for Temer's scandal-plagued coalition.
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In 19693, as part of a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, filing a false tax return and making a false declaration.
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Temer refused to resign last week after the Supreme Court opened an investigation into bribery allegations made in plea-bargain testimony by billionaire Joesley Batista.
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Temer has refused to resign despite separate bribery allegations made in plea-bargain testimony by executives of the world's largest meatpacker JBS SA (JBSS3.SA).
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Mr. Cruz's lawyers have offered a plea bargain — consecutive life sentences without parole — in a bid to avoid a trial and the threat of execution.
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A majority of justices found he should have had a chance to make a closing argument after hearing accusations against him from plea-bargain testimony.
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As part of a plea bargain that enabled them to avoid prison, the brothers testified that Mr. Temer and several other politicians had accepted bribes.
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"He did not participate nor authorize any movement with the objective of avoiding a plea bargain or collaboration between the justice system" and Mr. Cunha.
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" As part of his plea bargain, Cohen admitted to paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, "at the direction of the candidate.
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Nuzman, who was briefly jailed and is now under house arrest, denies the charges, and his lawyer has described the plea-bargain testimony as worthless.
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Police investigated the role played by Wesley, 47, and his younger brother Joesley in suspected insider trading ahead of a plea bargain deal with prosecutors.
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In recent plea-bargain testimony, Odebrecht executives told prosecutors they funneled millions of dollars under the table to the 2014 campaign of Rousseff and Temer.
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On July 3, Omaha World-Herald reported that Eggeling's plea bargain eliminated the need for a week-long trial, which was set to begin last week.
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Lawyers for several of the suspected money launderers arrested as part of Operation Emperor said that they had opened negotiations for a plea bargain with prosecutors.
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The paper reported that the chairman of meatpacker JBS SA had presented a recording of the alleged conversation to prosecutors as part of plea bargain negotiations.
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Authorities say plea-bargain testimonies garnered from suspects alerted them to other possible schemes, including alleged bribes paid by multinationals to obtain public contracts in Brazil.
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Authorities say plea-bargain testimonies obtained from suspects alerted them to other possible schemes, including alleged bribes paid by multinationals to obtain public contracts in Brazil.
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In Georgia, which has allowed them since 22013, the share of convictions that involved a plea bargain rose from 290% in 223 to 21975% in 4453.
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He served 42 days in jail after a plea bargain but later fled the United States fearing a lengthy jail time if the deal was overruled.
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Newspaper Folha de S.Paulo last week reported former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva could be named by Pinheiro in a possible plea bargain testimony.
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In a plea bargain with the Alameda County district attorney&aposs office, Almena agreed to a nine-year prison sentence and Harris agreed to six years.
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Company executives said in plea-bargain testimony that the president took bribes for resolving tax matters, freeing up loans from state-run banks and other matters.
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The plea bargain testimony, implicating Mr. Temer and senior members of his governing coalition, stole the thunder from a landmark fiscal initiative revealed the same day.
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Federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein with sex trafficking and conspiracy after investigative reporting by The Miami Herald stirred outrage over the 2008 plea bargain.
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If so, the alleged discussion of pardons with Flynn's attorney occurred while the Mueller investigation was ongoing but before the plea bargain with Flynn was concluded.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that an indictment on campaign finance violations was drawn up against Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen before Cohen took a plea bargain.
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Mo also understands, the plea bargain says, that he may very well be deported after serving his prison term, even though his children are American citizens.
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In March, after being put on trial in an Israeli military court, Ms. Tamimi accepted a plea bargain, pleading guilty to charges including assault and incitement.
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Petrobras said it had immediately begun internal inquiries after learning about Herz's plea bargain testimony and had removed employees named in the testimony from their positions.
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Petrobras said it had immediately begun internal inquiries after learning about the plea bargain testimony and had removed employees named in the testimony from their positions.
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The prosecution believed that she was much more involved than what the plea bargain encompassed, but they accepted the plea since it included a felony charge.
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Wolfe reached a plea bargain with prosecutors that resulted in two of the three charges against him being dropped, shaving years from his potential prison sentence.
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Albert Tomei, a Brooklyn judge whose rejection in 22006 of a murder defendant's plea bargain crippled New York State's recently revived death penalty, died on Sept.
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Both the attorney general's office and the county prosecutor declined to comment on the specifics of Mr. Birdsall's statement, citing privacy rules for plea-bargain negotiations.
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The family's investment holding company, J&F Investimentos SA, paid a record fine of 10.3 billion reais ($3.3 billion) as part of the plea bargain deal.
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Ms. Fleming pointed out that under his plea bargain to become a cooperating witness, he had already agreed to forfeit all the proceeds of his crimes.
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Trump also commended Paul Manafort, his former campaign chair, for choosing to forgo a plea bargain and sit through a trial on his fraudulent financial activity.
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Gypsy was sentenced to 10 years in prison after a plea bargain agreement in July 2015, and Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison in February 2019.
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"We pleaded guilty, we had a plea bargain with the Director of Public Prosecutions and we pleaded guilty," said Rosalynn Mworia, Vodacom Tanzania's Director of Corporate Affairs.
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The accusation was made public on Wednesday as part of a rash of plea bargain deals by 77 Odebrecht executives caught up in a massive corruption scheme.
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Lawyers will poke holes in other evidence, including the plea-bargain testimony by Mr Batista and his brother, Wesley, co-owners of JBS, a giant meat exporter.
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The plea bargain has jolted Peru as it threatens to expose high-level corruption during the governments of Toledo and former presidents Alan Garcia and Ollanta Humala.
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Last week, a Jerusalem magistrate's court extended Mr. Olmert's sentence by a month after rejecting the terms of a plea bargain in an obstruction-of-justice case.
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Shuai's decision to take the plea bargain got her out jail but also robbed her and Pence of the opportunity to challenge the unconstitutional charges against her.
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O Globo reported that Batista and his brother, JBS Chief Executive Wesley Batista, presented the recording to prosecutors as part of plea bargain negotiations underway since March.
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All were then accused of cheating and offered a "plea bargain" to avoid penalties that could include losing the payment for participation and having their supervisors notified.
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He pleaded guilty in Los Angeles in 1977 to having sex with a 13 year-old girl and served 42 days in jail after a plea bargain.
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Executives at Salvador, Brazil-based Odebrecht targeted by the probe, known as "Operation Car Wash," will ask for plea bargain deals with prosecutors, a company statement said.
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Brazilian food processor JBS dropped about 5% after the country's top prosecutor requested the annulment of plea bargain deals previously signed with former executives of the company.
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Yet the investigation ordered by Fachin on Tuesday, based on plea bargain testimony by employees of engineering company Odebrecht, marked a major escalation of the political fallout.
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Pinheiro has already been convicted in the corruption probe and local newspapers have reported he is preparing to name Lula in a plea bargain deal with prosecutors.
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He served 42 days in jail due to a plea bargain, however, he fled to France when ordered to serve the remainder of his 90-day sentence.
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Federal judges routinely sentence defendants who dare to go to trial and lose far more harshly than they would sentence those same defendants in a plea bargain.
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Osagie, 23, was not in court on Monday but her lawyers told CNN she consented to a plea bargain made by Akindele, a requirement under Nigerian law.
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They received "undue advantages" disguised as donations negotiated with private companies through Transpetro, Janot alleged, based on the plea bargain statement of former Transpetro president Sergio Machado.
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Mr. Stang, now 36, who paid a fine and received probation but no prison time after accepting a plea bargain, was recently promoted to chief revenue officer.
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Mr. Hernandez spent 12 months in jail on Rikers Island, maintaining his innocence and refusing to take a plea bargain that would have let him avoid prison.
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Silveira and Senate President Renan Calheiros became the latest officials ensnared by leaked recordings secretly made by a former oil industry executive as part of a plea bargain.
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Lula maintains he never owned the penthouse apartment, criticizing prosecutors for what Lula's lawyers called a reliance on the plea bargain testimony of one witness, businessman Leo Pinheiro.
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The recording, which some local media have said shows signs of editing, is part of far-reaching plea-bargain testimony by JBS executives that was disclosed this week.
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ALEXANDRE DE JUNIACDirector-generalInternational Air Transport AssociationGeneva Power imbalances favouring the state often lead to improvident plea-bargain deals in the courts ("The shadow justice system", November 11th).
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Temer aides told Reuters they worry that if Rocha Loures decides to reach a plea-bargain deal with investigators, it will strengthen any charges filed against the president.
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Argentine media also reported Monday that one of President Mauricio Macri&aposs cousins, Angelo Calcaterra, is among those being investigated and that he has provided plea-bargain testimony.
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In an email to Reuters, Funes said Melendez got witnesses to implicate him falsely through plea-bargain deals while letting conservative politicians linked to graft off the hook.
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Haddad's campaign press team in a written statement on Tuesday denied he had committed any wrongdoing and said the prosecutors' case was based on false plea-bargain testimony.
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They all pleaded guilty to one charge each of "aggravated outrage of modesty ... while using wrongful restraint," a reduced charge as part of a plea bargain with authorities.
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Since the investigation began more than two years ago, prosecutors have used arrests as a way to press suspects to sign plea-bargain agreements and advance their prosecutions.
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Mancilla declined to comment on prospects for a plea bargain for Baratov, who presented himself on social media accounts as a wealthy young man who loved expensive cars.
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The crime lab mistakenly discarded crucial evidence, and she reached a plea bargain, reducing the charge to unlawful fondling; her client served less than a year in jail.
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Brazil's Supreme Court opened an investigation in April into Paes, accused in plea bargain testimony of taking at least 15 million reais in bribes related to Olympic contracts.
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JBS' executives have accused President Michel Temer in plea-bargain testimony of having received bribes and condoning paying off a potential witness, all of which the leader denies.
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McFarland was arrested back in June, and a trial is expected to begin in early 2018 if he doesn't strike a plea bargain with prosecutors in the meantime.
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In debriefings, after his plea bargain, he never told me or anyone else he was a CIA asset or had worked for any agency other than the DEA.
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But the Flynn plea bargain could also be a major problem for someone else extremely close to the president: Jared Kushner, his senior adviser and son-in-law.
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Do you authorize the arrest, request bail, argue to keep them in jail or let them out, go all out on the charges or take a plea bargain?
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Withdrawing the plea would void Flynn's plea bargain with prosecutors and expose him to the possibility of charges beyond the single false-statement felony count he admitted to.
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It rankled me to read that the only way out of prison for Woodfox was through a plea bargain—admitting guilt where there was overwhelming evidence of innocence.
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Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court deferred sentencing of Erik Lederman, 65, who under a plea bargain was spared an additional charge of criminal threats against the envoy, Marek Magierowski.
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The Supreme Court has opened an investigation into the revelations that were part of plea bargain testimony by the billionaire owners of meatpacking giant JBS SA (JBSS3.SA).
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The decree was announced as Congress launches an investigation into the stock and currency trades of JBS SA and news of plea-bargain testimony from its owners surfaced.
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Under a plea bargain, David Muial, a 33-year-old Israeli who worked in a restaurant in the bus station, admitted to a charge of "abusing the helpless".
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The release of the tape, part of Joesley Batista's plea bargain deal with prosecutors in which he accused the president of receiving bribes, exacerbated a political crisis in Brazil.
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He went on to serve 42 days in jail due to the plea bargain but fled the U.S. when ordered to serve the remainder of his 90-day sentence.
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Just as most civil cases are dismissed or settled before trial, so over 95% of criminal cases are either thrown out or settled with a plea-bargain before trial.
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In plea bargain testimony, Amaral said Rousseff knew about the massive graft scheme at state-oil company Petrobras and one of her ministers had tried to buy his silence.
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He starts the episode trying to wheel and deal his way toward the beginning of a plea bargain, but his sweaty, eczematic charm gets him nowhere with the prosecutors.
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"Achieving a plea bargain in the United States shows some progress, and could help to revive stagnated talks in Japan," SBI Securities senior analyst Koji Endo said in Tokyo.
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The final decision came after a brief hearing yesterday, August 4, when Rotella entered a plea bargain with prosecutors, who admitted they had "mishandled evidence" for the second time.
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They only want to cut a plea bargain deal with him if he really offers proof against leaders at the highest level or on an extraordinary number of politicians.
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McGregor's plea bargain paves his way back to the UFC octagon where, after some underwhelming pay-per-view cards, promoters will be eager to see their biggest star return.
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Russian Emergency rescuers and police investigators conduct searches on the Moika River, in Saint Petersburg Sokolov reportedly signed a plea bargain on Saturday, according to his lawyer, Alexander Pochuyev.
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But Barata has told prosecutors as part of a plea bargain deal that he personally negotiated bribes for Toledo in exchange for help winning two highway contracts in 2005.
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Announcing the agreement - effectively a corporate plea bargain - France's financial prosecutor said the company had also agreed to three years "light compliance monitoring" by the country's anti-corruption agency.
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As a result, prosecutors offered Mr. Lockett a no-jail plea bargain reserved for first-time, nonviolent offenders, said Oren Yaniv, a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney's office.
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A report from TMZ claims that a plea bargain is still on the table, though it appears that Loughlin and Giannulli are hoping to beat the charges at trial.
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A May plea-bargain deal showing how the Batista family bribed several high-ranking politicians led the bank's BNDES Participações SA investment arm to seek his removal from JBS.
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On the first day of jury selection, Jim Bob Darnell, the District Attorney of Lubbock County, offered Cole a plea bargain: five years of probation, with no prison time.
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Janot's team could also file the charges together to give them more punch, adding more incriminating evidence against Temer from new plea bargain statements by witnesses, the source said.
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Under a plea bargain deal, Flynn admitted in a Washington court that he lied when asked by FBI investigators about conversations with Kislyak just weeks before Trump took office.
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Nonetheless, he asked the district attorney's office to plea bargain for a milder sentence, even though the trial was over and the time for such bargaining had long passed.
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Wesley, who had the top job at JBS since 2011, was arrested last September on insider trading claims related to his knowledge of the plea bargain deal with Brazilian authorities.
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Last April, financial executive Morrie Tobin was looking to strike a plea bargain with the FBI for allegedly scamming investors out of millions of dollars, The Los Angeles Times reports.
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Under the terms of a plea bargain approved this week, she will serve 90 days in jail in 10-day increments over the next three years, Forum News Service reports.
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Palocci, who has not commented on the Folha story about the plea bargain, said at the hearing that he believed his revelations could give investigators grist to widen the probe.
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In a plea bargain signed last year, executives of construction company Odebrecht said they built Arena Corinthians to open the 2014 World Cup as a gift to the former president.
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She was originally charged with trespassing, contributing to the delinquency of a child and criminal mischief but had the two latter charges dropped by entering a plea bargain, Mumgaard says.
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Another key Temer aide, infrastructure investment secretary Wellington Moreira Franco, denied that he planned to quit after being named in the same plea bargain testimony by a former Odebrecht executive.
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In reality, they're more like a plea bargain crossed with a business memo, the core of which is a "plan of action" — an explanation of how you'll make things right.
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The severity of the police recommendations would appear to make both a decision not to indict and the offer of a plea bargain in return for Mr Netanyahu's resignation unlikely.
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He eventually took a plea bargain which did find him guilty of forcible sexual intercourse and has not returned to the United States for fear of being convicted and imprisoned.
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The conservative leader said that executives of the world's biggest meatpacker, JBS SA, who accused him in plea-bargain testimony, did so only to escape jail for their own crimes.
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The former Anonymous "agitator" was dealt a 24-month prison sentence in January 1, after signing a plea bargain that reduced his potential prison time by more than 62 years.
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A May plea-bargain deal that exposed the propensity of Batista's billionaire family for bribing politicians led the bank's BNDES Participações SA investment arm to seek his removal from JBS.
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It also allows the central bank to strike plea-bargain agreements with financial firms that admit breaching rules, in exchange for smaller fines or softer punishment terms for their executives.
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A source close to the negotiations, however, told Reuters that more than 70 executives at Odebrecht, Latin America's largest engineering company, would sign plea bargain deals on Wednesday or Thursday.
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A raid was also conducted at the Rio de Janeiro home of Marcelo Miller, a former federal prosecutor who allegedly helped Batista craft a May plea bargain deal, it added.
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Collins was convicted of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and faced up to five years in prison, although prosecutors recommended 18 months as part of a plea bargain.
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During more than a dozen visits to Guantánamo, Mr. Reichler negotiated with the United States military commission for a plea bargain that allowed Mr. Qosi to serve a reduced sentence.
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There is no corporate criminal liability for corruption, so companies such as Odebrecht have no legal incentive either to prevent corruption or to disclose it and seek a plea bargain.
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Brazilian prosecutors will only hand over the plea-bargain testimony that nearly 80 Odebrecht executives provided in the past two years if other countries promise to not prosecute Odebrecht executives.
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Polanski went on to serve 42 days in jail due to a plea bargain, however, he fled to France when ordered to serve the remainder of his 90-day sentence.
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The Asahi reported, without citing sources, that the informant gave the prosecutors information in a plea bargain, implying the person may have provided evidence in exchange for a lighter sentence.
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True, Mr. Netanyahu's criminal trial may have added to his motivation this time: A strong showing in the election could help him negotiate a lenient plea bargain or presidential pardon.
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Kenney, who said she cleaned up Berreth's townhouse at Frazee's direction, pleaded guilty in February to evidence tampering and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors as part of a plea bargain.
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Batista secretly taped Neves asking for money to defend himself from corruption accusations, a conversation that was turned in by the meat magnate as part of a plea bargain deal.
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He refused--I'm sure he refused a plea bargain that would put him out, but that would mean that he would have to say something different from his own conviction.
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Batista's arrest is the latest blow to JBS's controlling family, which last year signed plea bargain agreements with prosecutors admitting to bribing scores of politicians to advance their business interests.
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They have been accused by prosecutors of snapping up dollar future contracts based on their knowledge of a plea bargain deal in a corruption case they had signed last year.
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But as part of her plea bargain, Letourneau agreed to avoid any further contact with Fualaau, a condition she violated in 1998, when she became pregnant a second time by Fualaau.
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A White House correspondent for One America News Network, the right-wing media outlet that sided with Trump over CNN in a recent lawsuit, reported earlier Monday about the plea bargain.
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Nobody would ever believe you could get a plea bargain for Ted Bundy, but I did with one other lawyer… He turns around and says, 'I'm not going to do it.
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The accusation against Bendine is based on plea-bargain testimony from Odebrecht's imprisoned former chief executive Marcelo Odebrecht, who testified Bendine was paid in return for helping his company win contracts.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Jose Hawilla, the Brazilian businessman whose plea-bargain testimony was crucial to prosecutors in the FIFA corruption scandal, has died in Sao Paulo, hospital officials said on Friday.
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Rodrigo Janot, the attorney-general, has been widely criticised for his plea bargain with the Batistas, which broke good practice by granting them immunity from prosecution (rather than a reduced sentence).
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Because the first thing they're going want you to do is plea bargain rather than fight your case, because the courts could never sustain it if every case went to trial.
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Plea bargain testimony from Palocci, once one of Brazil's most powerful politicians, could widen the scope of investigations currently focused on construction and engineering firms to include banks and other corporations.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara, has reached a plea bargain in a fraud case over allegedly misusing state funds to order catered meals, Israel Radio said on Wednesday.
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J&F said that Joesley Batista's plea-bargain deal, which the Prosecutor General's office has asked be struck down, remains valid and therefore the executive faces no charge in this case.
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Both have been accused of taking bribes by defendants in the massive Car Wash graft investigation in explosive plea bargain statements that threaten to rock Brazil's political establishment and Temer's government.
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Weekly magazine IstoE also said on Thursday that the senator testified in his plea bargain that Rousseff had used her influence to keep directors suspected of corruption in positions at Petrobras.
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Kasinsky said he would recommend avoiding JBS shares "until we have more clarity on the final outcome from the leniency agreement," using a term which refers to the plea bargain deal.
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Moreira Franco, and the president himself, have been named in plea bargain testimony by defendants as beneficiaries of graft money, along with other cabinet ministers and leaders of his PMDB party.
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It is very possible that Mueller has been receiving evidence from multiple Deep Throat sources, and from new plea bargain agreements that have been reached but are not yet publicly revealed.
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In his plea bargain testimony, Joesley Batista accused President Michel Temer of endorsing bribes the company paid to politicians, setting off a crisis that led to corruption charges against the president.
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Batista gave the recording to prosecutors as part of the evidence in his plea-bargain testimony in which he also accuses Temer of receiving 15 million reais ($4.6 million) in bribes.
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According to the plea bargain agreement, Odebrecht and representatives paid some $98 million in bribes to government officials and intermediaries in Venezuela between 2006 and 2015 - the highest amount outside Brazil.
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Mr. Hernandez then became a cause célèbre for people seeking to abolish the cash bail system when he refused to accept a plea bargain that would have spared him jail time.
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Swift expected she would make a quick return home and get a plea bargain—an outcome that would put an end to the Muthana family's limbo, if not to Hoda's difficulties.
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He acknowledged, however, that his government is worried about the expected fallout from a massive leniency and plea bargain deal being signed with federal prosecutors by Brazil's largest engineering consortium Odebrecht.
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Brazil's Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot had stopped the investigation of Neves last year but is now asking to reopen it based on plea bargain testimony from another senator, Delcidio do Amaral.
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Odebrecht has admitted in a plea bargain with the United States' Department of Justice that it paid $11m in bribes to Colombian politicians in order to obtain the Ruta del Sol contract.
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Einspahr said she needed $15,000 as an initial restitution payment as part of a plea bargain that was set to go before a judge on Wednesday in an earlier case, police said.
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Michael Cohen, the president's erstwhile personal lawyer, struck a plea-bargain deal with federal prosecutors and admitted that he had paid off two women claiming to have had affairs with Mr Trump.
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The graft accusation, which Temer dismissed as "a lie," was made in plea bargain testimony by Marcio Faria da Silva, a former vice president of the industrial arm of scandal-plagued Odebrecht.
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Odebrecht's former Chief Executive Marcelo Odebrecht, currently jailed for his part in the Car Wash scheme, said in a separate plea bargain deal that he had made available $40 million to Lula.
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So, if you're poor and you don't have money, you get a public defender that's overwhelmed, has a caseload of way too many people and is going to plea-bargain you out.
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Mercadante, President Dilma Rousseff's former chief of staff and one of her closest advisers, was accused by Senator Delcidio do Amaral in plea-bargain testimony of trying to interfere in the investigation.
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He has not been accused of any crimes in Brazil and rubbished any chance of taking a plea bargain and cooperating with U.S. authorities, as some other former FIFA officials have done.
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Regardless, the head of Brazil's powerful national bar association, which is calling for Temer's impeachment, said plea-bargain testimony by JBS executives included more evidence against the president than just the recording.
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The open question is whether the latest turn of the screw will force him to make a plea bargain and possibly flip on his previous employer, the president of the United States.
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According to O Globo, the recording was made as part of a plea bargain that the brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista, who control the family-owned meat giant JBS, made with prosecutors.
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The third, Kevin Bernard McCloud, took a plea bargain in which he agreed to plead guilty and testify against Mr. Davis, a childhood friend, if prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.
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TMZ broke the story ... the U.S. Attorney is more open than ever for a plea bargain in Lori's case, especially after Felicity Huffman got sentenced to a scant 14 days behind bars.
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It also allows the central bank to strike plea bargain agreements with financial firms that admit breaching the law in exchange for softer fines or more lenient prison terms for their executives.
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Last week's arrests were the latest blow to JBS's controlling Batista family, which last year signed plea bargain agreements with prosecutors admitting to bribing scores of politicians to advance their business interests.
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Studies indicate that those incarcerated before a trial or a plea bargain or before charges are dismissed are at greater risk of losing their jobs, their homes or even custody of children.
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In a plea bargain, defendant Ben Deri had earlier confessed to the negligent manslaughter and aggravated injury of 17-year-old Nadim Nuwara - less serious than the full manslaughter charge he originally faced.
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Yang admitted as part of his plea bargain that the smuggled items were transported from China by freighter inside shipping containers and placed on display at the 2015 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.
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Two men are expected to accept plea bargain prison sentences Tuesday to resolve felony charges connected to a Northern California warehouse fire that killed dozens of partygoers at an unlicensed concert in 2016.
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Folha reported that plea bargain testimony from Palocci, once one of Brazil's most powerful politicians, could also widen the scope of investigations currently focused on engineering firms, to include banks and other corporations.
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The Batista brothers, Joesley and Wesley, controlling shareholders in JBS, claim President Michel Temer received 15 million reais ($4.6 million) in bribes from the world's largest meat processor, according to plea-bargain testimony.
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Mr Funes, who decamped to Nicaragua last year after he learned he was being investigated for corruption, tweeted that the "absurd accusation" is "based above all on what a plea-bargain delinquent says".
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According to the shooter's 2012 court-martial plea bargain, obtained by PEOPLE, he pled guilty to choking and kicking his wife and had a charge for pointing an unloaded gun at her dismissed.
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Brazil is facing political uncertainty after one of the main shareholders of JBS group -- the world's largest beef and leather producer -- reached a plea bargain in which he alleges President Temer endorsed bribery.
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The testimony, part of a plea bargain deal with 11 executives, would be the strongest link yet between the widening "Operation Car Wash" probe and Rousseff's campaign, the Folha de S.Paulo paper said.
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That case was ultimately resolved by a plea bargain, but I believe that the probationary sentence my client received was influenced, at least in part, by the judge's sympathetic view of my argument.
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And this week, Schwartz is due to appear in court on those criminal charges, to which he's pleaded guilty as part of a plea bargain—but we'll get to that in a bit.
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In one ad, the National Republican Congressional Committee noted that Mr. Lamb had reached a plea bargain with a drug kingpin, a potentially damaging line of attack in a region ravaged by opioids.
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The two were seen by lawyers as the most-likely route amongst the suspects to charges for Tesco Plc as a group or for a deferred prosecution agreement, a type of plea bargain.
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The federal prosecutors said in a statement that former Senator Delcidio Amaral had lied about Lula, as one of the country's most popular politicians is known, as part of a plea-bargain agreement.
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Brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista, founders of JBS's holding company J&F, signed plea bargain and leniency deals in May 2017 in which they confessed to running a political bribery ring in Brazil.
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This week, Brazil's prosecutor general requested new investigations into dozens of politicians based on plea-bargain testimony from executives at Odebrecht, a construction giant that was a major donor of illicit campaign funds.
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Instead he was accused of taking bribes and condoning the payment of hush money to a jailed politician in plea bargain testimony by Joesley Batista, an owner of JBS, the world's largest meatpacker.
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Under a plea bargain deal, Flynn admitted in a Washington court that he lied when asked by FBI investigators about his conversations with Russia's then-ambassador, Sergei Kislyak, just weeks before Trump took office.
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BEERSHEBA, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli court sentenced a French citizen on Monday to seven years' imprisonment under a plea bargain in which he confessed to using a diplomatic car to help Palestinian gun smugglers.
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This is still an open investigation until judge Elizabeth Hurley accepts the plea bargain, which would occur at the sentencing hearing, Saint Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit Assistant Commander Lt. Alex Arendt told CNN.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian to 18 years imprisonment on Monday for stabbing to death a British woman in Jerusalem last year, under a plea bargain acknowledging he is mentally ill.
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Cunha has warned he could tell all in a plea bargain that could compromise many in a discredited political establishment, where 50 politicians are already under investigation for taking kickbacks in the Petrobras scandal.
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Asked about a previous Wall Street Journal story saying the group was proposing to pay $1.3 billion, J&F said it would not be commenting on the plea bargain until an agreement was reached.
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The executives said in plea-bargain testimony that the president took nearly $5 million in bribes in return for help resolving tax matters, for freeing up loans from state-run banks and other matters.
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Company executives said in plea-bargain testimony that the president took nearly $5 million in bribes in return for help resolving tax matters, for freeing up loans from state-run banks and other matters.
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The Serbian High Court on Tuesday accepted a plea bargain by Cedo Colovic, 57, a former artillery officer who served with the military of the breakaway Serb republic in Croatia between 1991 and 1993.
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Executives from the Odebrecht construction group have said in plea bargain testimony that they made 300 million reais ($97 million) in illegal campaign contributions to Rousseff's 2014 re-election campaign, which Rousseff strongly denies.
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The indictment contained a text message exchange between Williams and the business owner in which he agreed to take steps to ease the terms of a plea bargain for an associate of the owner.
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That came on the back of plea-bargain testimony indicating Temer condoned bribing a witness in the sprawling "Car Wash" graft probe and that he had received 15 million reais ($4.59 million) in bribes.
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Low-income defendants, even those who are innocent, are thus encouraged to accept a plea bargain — which can lead to time in prison and a criminal record — just to get out of jail sooner.
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Thomas, joined by Alito and Gorsuch, wrote in dissent that Garza had waived his right to the appellate process itself during the plea bargain, so his lawyer had acted correctly by not filing anything.
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As former national security adviser Michael Flynn takes center stage in the Russia investigation with his plea bargain agreement with Robert Mueller and his special counsel team, the plot thickens and the noose tightens.
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Instead they vowed to retry the men unless they agreed to a plea bargain called an Alford plea, in which the defendant enters a guilty plea while also asserting his innocence for the record.
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But without the ability to charge Regan with rape, the state's attorney, John Connelly, was reluctant to go to trial in Palomba's case and had limited leverage as he worked on the plea bargain.
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In the case of Mr. Kelley, he entered a pretrial agreement — much like a plea bargain in the civilian world — where he pleaded guilty in return for capping his maximum sentence at 18 months.
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Mr. Polanski, now 83, fled the United States in 1978 when he thought the judge in the case was withdrawing a plea bargain and would sentence him to up to 50 years in prison.
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As a result, if a defendant speaks to his lawyer about evidence against him, or about the sort of plea-bargain offers he would be willing to accept, a prosecutor might be listening in.
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Lori Loughlin may not go to trial after all in her college admissions case, because our sources say there's an opening now for a plea bargain in the wake of Felicity Huffman's superlight sentence.
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According to a plea bargain agreement with U.S. authorities, Odebrecht and representatives paid some $98 million in bribes to government officials and intermediaries in Venezuela between 2006 and 2015 - the highest amount outside Brazil.
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Tourism Minister Henrique Alves was one of two dozen officials named in plea bargain testimony by a former Petrobras executive linking Temer and several of his closest allies to Brazil's biggest corruption scandal ever.
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Under a plea bargain deal, Flynn admitted in a Washington court that he lied when asked by FBI investigators about his conversations with Russia's then-ambassador, Sergei Kislyak, just weeks before Trump took office.
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Under a plea bargain arrangement, Mr. Durst will be sentenced to 250 months in federal prison, pending final approval by Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt of United States District Court, who is now handling the case.
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Their names were disclosed in plea-bargain testimony by former executives of Odebrecht, a firm at the centre of a scheme to siphon money from Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company, to parties and politicians.
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Airbus has reached a plea bargain with prosecutors in Britain, France and the United States and agreed to pay a record $4 billion in fines over bribery and corruption stretching back at least 15 years.
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A plea bargain between prosecutors and executives of Odebrecht, a construction firm at the centre of the Petrobras scandal, could lead to charges against 150-odd congressmen and several ministers, or so it is rumoured.
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The promotion highlighted Temer's confidence in Moreira Franco, who, according to a source, had drafted a resignation letter in December after plea bargain testimony in a major graft probe implicated him in illegal campaign fundraising.
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El Salvador's criminal justice system "relies heavily" on witness testimony and often from witnesses who have negotiated a plea bargain, according to Jeanne Rikkers, an expert on police and human rights issues in El Salvador.
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The nomination of Moreira Franco came just days after the Supreme Court officially approved plea bargain testimony from 77 executives and employees of Odebrecht, the construction conglomerate at the heart of the Petrobras corruption scandal.
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In her plea bargain, she copped to making just $214,000 from sales of the stolen prints, though she was originally charged with flipping the photos for more than $600,000 (see Crimes of the Art #16).
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Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at CIS, proposed in an article last week the return of several expedited deportation measures that essentially allow authorities to plea-bargain removal with foreigners under arrest or indictment.
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BRASILIA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Engineering group Odebrecht SA asked Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday to threaten fines against Venezuela's former chief prosecutor to stop her from divulging information from the company's confidential plea bargain testimony.
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With every new Russia revelation, every new indictment and every new plea bargain the news flow in the coming months gives Democrats the upper hand and raises the danger to Republicans to potentially catastrophic heights.
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News magazine Veja also reported a major break in the Petrobras case on Monday, providing details of alleged plea bargain testimony from the former head of engineering conglomerate Andrade Gutierrez that named several sitting ministers.
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His plea bargain, if confirmed, would be the first from a head of Brazil's biggest engineering groups, which have been at the center of the Petrobras investigation rattling the country's political establishment for two years.
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In the plea bargain to avoid the death penalty, Hruby was sentenced by District Judge Ken Graham to three consecutive sentences of life without parole and waived his rights to appeal, a court official said.
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Fachin agreed to a request by Brazil's Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot, who revoked benefits granted by a plea bargain deal struck by Batista and Ricardo Saud, a former director of holding company J&F Investimentos.
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Batista and his brother, Wesley, were arrested last year on charges of obstruction of justice and insider trading following a controversial plea bargain related to a corruption scandal that threatened to topple President Michel Temer.
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The length of the sentence offered in a plea bargain can hinge on the strength of the prosecution's case, and a thorough evaluation of the evidence can put defense lawyers in a stronger negotiating position.
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"Whether they plea bargain out or actually do jail time, I think it would mean a lot to the community," said Eric Mays, a Flint City Council member who is not related to Melissa Mays.
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Before the trial opened, there was broad speculation that the lead defendant, Reza Zarrab, had entered a plea bargain with the prosecution and would reveal damaging information about corruption and illegal dealings in high places.
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Leo Pinheiro is reported to have told prosecutors as part of a plea bargain that his engineering firm, OAS, paid the money at the suggestion of the former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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The disclosure of their plea bargain testimony, which involved key politicians, led to the filing of three corruption charges against President Michel Temer and triggered Brazil's biggest market sell-off in at least a decade.
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His lawyers have also challenge the plea bargain deal that yielded the wiretap of Rocha Loures, arguing that the billionaire beef tycoon who arranged the recordings was unfairly favored by a close aide to Janot.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara, appeared in court on Sunday to admit criminal wrongdoing over the misuse of state funds to order catered meals, in a plea bargain carrying no jail time.
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A former union leader who remains popular due to rapid economic progress during his time in office, Lula criticized prosecutors for what his lawyers have called a reliance on the plea bargain testimony of one witness.
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Under a plea bargain deal, Flynn admitted in a Washington court that he lied when asked by FBI investigators about his conversations last December with Russia's then-ambassador, Sergei Kislyak, just weeks before Trump took office.
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Although it's possible the check is a fine connected to a plea bargain, the more likely scenario is that it's the bail he's required to post when he appears Friday in court for his first hearing.
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Minarcin shared those accusations with Harvey's public defender, William Whalen, who worked out a plea bargain that required Harvey to confess to all his past murders in order to take the death penalty off the table.
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Electoral court judge Herman Benjamin is seeking to determine if a 10 million reais ($3.2 million) contribution allegedly sought by Temer was paid from graft money, as claimed by another Odebrecht executive in plea bargain testimony.
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Judge Eduardo Rocha Penteado noted in his decision that Moreira Franco had been appointed to a ministerial post just three days after the Supreme Court approved the plea bargain statements in which he is reportedly named.
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The raids are based on plea bargain testimony by JBS executives who suggested that 160 million reais ($48.78 million) in bribes were paid to speed up the release of tax credits to the company, police said.
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Following his guilty plea in 1977 and time in jail, he fled the United States, fearing a plea bargain with authorities at that time would be overruled and that he would get a lengthy jail term.
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SAO PAULO, March 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's top public prosecutor Rodrigo Janot asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to open 83 new investigations into politicians named in plea bargain testimony by executives of the Odebrecht engineering conglomerate.
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The testimony from Delcídio do Amaral, a former senator whom you referred to, was part of a plea-bargain agreement with the Federal Prosecutor's Office, allowing him to leave prison after his confession had incriminated others.
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As part of a plea bargain, he was expected to be sentenced to 250 hours of community service and had already paid the $250,000 he owes in restitution and fines, said Gerald J. McMahon, his lawyer.
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The Bovespa fell 3.3393%, with shares in food processor JBS SA extending losses for a second day after a top prosecutor requested the annulment of plea bargain deals previously signed with former executives of the company.
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After all, the recent plea bargain struck by Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is newsworthy precisely because he now says that the plans for building a Trump Tower in Moscow continued into the summer of 2016.
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In August, prosecutors in Argentina gained access to a trove of plea-bargain testimony that Odebrecht executives have provided to Brazilian prosecutors about corruption they carried out across Latin America, in the United States and Africa.
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As part of the investigation, Cade signed a plea bargain with Siemens AG, after the company voluntarily self-reported its alleged involvement in the price-fixing scheme to Brazilian authorities in 2013 to lessen its responsibility.
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Israel: Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accepted a plea bargain and will pay about $15,000 to settle accusations that she misused about $100,000 in public funds in managing the couple's official residence.
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She was one of four women named as possible co-conspirators and granted immunity from prosecution in a widely criticized plea bargain that Mr. Epstein struck with federal prosecutors in Florida more than a decade ago.
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The raids are based on plea bargain testimony by JBS executives who suggested that 160 million reais ($49 million) in bribes were paid to speed up the release of tax credits to the company, police said.
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Exclusion of the Odebrecht plea bargain testimonies by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal would strengthen Temer's assertions that his campaign received no illegal funding when he ran as former leftist president Dilma Rousseff's running mate in 2014.
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Following a 1977 guilty plea to rape and spending 42 days in jail, he fled the United States, fearing a plea bargain with prosecutors would be overruled and that he would get a lengthy prison term.
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His plea bargain deal is not related to the massive corruption probe centered around Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras, but prosecutors will ask the Supreme Court to authorize further investigations of the senators, Estado said.
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Andrade Gutierrez' executives have signed a plea bargain deal as part of a police investigation into a broad corruption scheme linking state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA , political parties and major builders, sources have told Reuters.
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Newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported on Tuesday, without citing sources, that Palocci met with investigators in recent weeks to discuss the terms of a possible plea bargain deal to give evidence against Lula and other party leaders.
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He agreed to the plea bargain after a judge ruled earlier this year that if the case went to trial, prosecutors could present evidence that two other woman allege Robertson raped them in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
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The transfer of 43-year-old Ahmed Muhammed Haza al-Darbi appeared to have stalled in February, when he became eligible but was not repatriated, as allowed under the terms of al-Darbi's 2014 plea bargain agreement.
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The decree announced this week also would allow the central bank to strike plea-bargain agreements with financial firms that admit breaching the law in exchange for softer fines or more lenient prison terms for their executives.
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Brazilian President Michel Temer said on Monday he expects some of his ministers to resign after they were accused of wrongdoing by Odebrecht executives in plea bargain testimonies and placed under investigation by a Supreme Court justice.
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Gilroy lards him up with character traits: He's a former civil rights activist turned low-paid lawyer, with a passion for defending those the judicial system saddles with unfair verdicts and/or the whole plea bargain system.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court on Friday approved a preliminary investigation into plea bargain deal allegations from former Transpetro head Sergio Machado that President Michel Temer had solicited campaign donations in 2012 that had illicit origin.
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The company said at the time that the investigation was a result of a plea bargain testimony of a former executive, Nelson Jose de Mello, and that the company itself was not a target of the probe.
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Jackie Warner, who starred in a Bravo fitness show, struck an amazing plea bargain which amounts to a slap on the wrist compared to the punishment she could have received for driving drunk and attacking a cop.
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The conviction for Odebrecht, the 47-year-old grandson of the company's founder, drew more attention to a news report that he could follow other recently convicted executives in striking a plea bargain to ease his punishment.
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Temer distanced himself from Cunha and refused to throw him political lifelines, leading to the now constant speculation that Cunha will pull all possible PMDB skeletons out of the closet should he be granted a plea bargain.
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In a plea-bargain agreement published by Brazilian prosecutors on Wednesday, the former head of a Petrobras' shipping and gas-pipeline unit said Temer asked him for cash from the scheme to finance an ally's political campaign.
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SAO PAULO, March 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors said on Wednesday no plea bargain talks are underway with executives from engineering conglomerate Odebrecht and that the company's public announcement of its intention to cooperate had no legal standing.
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The plea-bargain testimony of JBS executives, including brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista, chairman and chief Executive officer respectively, was made public last week and sparked a political crisis that threatens to topple Brazilian President Michel Temer.
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The recordings, taped secretly by a defendant in the Petrobras probe who made a plea bargain deal with prosecutors, appeared to support Rousseff's claim that her impeachment was an opposition conspiracy to seize power and avoid prosecution.
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He fired Sally Yates, then acting attorney general, after she warned the White House that Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser who has since reached a plea bargain with Mueller, could be subject to blackmail by Russia.
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Another shocker came that same day with news that Netanyahu's former chief of staff, an Israeli-American named Ari Harow, took a plea bargain to become a state's witness in a corruption case against his former boss.
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A lawyer who attended Monday's hearing on behalf of the Polish embassy voiced disappointment at not having been informed in advance of the plea bargain, saying that to have done so would have been "collegial, at least".
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By clinging to office, analysts say, Mr. Netanyahu would at least leave himself in better position to negotiate a plea bargain with state prosecutors, and could perhaps avoid trial altogether in exchange for retiring from public life.
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Growing speculation about a Palocci collaboration comes one week after details of a plea bargain deal by executives of engineering firm Odebrecht SA rocked Brazilian politics by implicating dozens of lawmakers, eight ministers and President Michel Temer.
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About that… It's ordinary in settlements like to this to "release" companies from claims that they violated an agreement — like a plea bargain where you get probation and no record in exchange for a fine and community service.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors and legal advisers of OAS SA are resuming talks for a plea bargain deal linked to the engineering group's participation in a massive corruption scandal, a person briefed on the matter said Tuesday.
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The strategy of revealing admissions was made as part of his plea bargain in hopes it might lead to a reduction in the sentences facing both him and his wife Adriana Ancelmo, who was also jailed for corruption.
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Brazil's Supreme Court revealed in June that parts of Machado's plea bargain testimony alleges that the campaign contribution requested by Temer was made legally by engineering group Queiroz Galvao but resulted from a kickback on contracts with Petrobras.
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Harding avoided serving prison time for the attack after Gillooly took a plea bargain in exchange for implicating her, but she was placed on probation for three years, sentenced to 500 hours of community service and fined $160,000.
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As we reported ... Salling pled guilty to possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor in December, and was facing 4 to 7 years in prison with 20 years of supervised release as part of his plea bargain.
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If Cunha leaves office, he will lose the partial immunity enjoyed by elected politicians, allowing him to be prosecuted by lower courts in several corruption cases brought against him and opening the possibility of another blockbuster plea bargain.
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Amaral's plea-bargain extended the reach of the corruption probe to new industries, including ethanol, and to opposition leaders, including Neves, who the senator accused of received kickbacks from a unit of Eletrobras, Brazil's state-led electricity utility.
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Tourism Minister Henrique Alves was one of two dozen officials named in plea bargain testimony by a former Petrobras executive linking the interim president, Michel Temer, and several of his closest allies to Brazil's biggest corruption scandal ever.
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The credibility of Temer's accuser was further undermined on Wednesday by the arrest of Batista's brother Wesley, the chief executive officer of JBS SA, for alleged insider trading to avoid hefty losses related to the May plea bargain.
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That settlement was based on a plea bargain signed by Joesley Batista and collaborators in May to deliver evidence including a recording of his conversation with President Michel Temer, which led to a corruption charge against the leader.
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The key point about this timing, and the reason the pardon issue is so explosive, is that Flynn knew about the pardon discussion while he and his lawyers were negotiating the terms of his plea bargain with Mueller.
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The allegations against them were made in a plea bargain statement by former Workers Party senator Delcidio do Amaral, who was jailed last year for obstructing an investigation into the massive bribery and kickback scandal centered on Petrobras.
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Manafort and his associate Rick Gates, who reached a plea bargain with Mueller in February, allegedly engaged in a scheme to hide tens of millions of dollars in income through offshore accounts in order to avoid paying taxes.
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Papadopoulos, a little-known former foreign policy adviser in the campaign, made a plea bargain that stated he had since "met with the Government on numerous occasions to provide information and answer questions," according to a court document.
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"Either he can double down in his resolve to fight it or it's the last straw and it breaks his will and he decides to work out a plea bargain," Michael Zeldin, a former federal prosecutor, told Reuters.
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That raises the possibility of a plea bargain, with the defense team potentially seeking a massive fine in exchange for zero or minimal prison time, said Ei Sun Oh, principal advisor at Kuala Lumpur-based Pacific Research Center.
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But the news followed reports that controlling shareholders had sold JBS stock and bought dollars, as Chairman Joesley Batista and six other executives engaged in plea-bargain talks that affected the value of JBS shares and the Brazilian real.
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Reuters reported on Thursday that controlling shareholders sold 329 million reais worth of shares in April, after top JBS executives had secretly begun negotiating a plea-bargain deal with prosecutors probing numerous corruption scandals in Latin America's biggest country.
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Federal prosecutors, including a current member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, broke the law when they offered wealthy financier and accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein a plea bargain in 22007 that allowed him to get off easy, a judge ruled.
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Federal prosecutors, including a current member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, broke the law when they offered wealthy financier and accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein a plea bargain in 153 that allowed him to get off easy, a judge ruled.
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The court opened an investigation on Friday based on a conversation, in which Temer appears to condone corruption, that was secretly recorded by billionaire meatpacker Joesley Batista, owner of JBS SA, as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors.
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His plea bargain testimony was crucial for prosecutors who eventually arrested some of the most important officials in world football, including high-ranking FIFA officials and former heads of the South American Football Confederation and the Brazilian Football Confederation.
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Federal investigators are probing the decade-old plea bargain — negotiated by a former prosecutor who's now in President Trump's Cabinet — that allowed the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein to evade federal charges over allegations that he sexually assaulted underage girls.
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We rejected it again the second time they offered it when they added more charges—we really wanted a trial—and we finally got a plea bargain that included a very rare appeal in San Francisco, which we accepted.
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Six members of Temer's cabinet as well as the president himself have been named in plea bargain testimony by defendants in Brazil's biggest corruption scandal, and many of the ministers could end up on trial before the Supreme Court.
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A judge must accept a proposed plea bargain, but the prosecutor has wide latitude to shape it, from choosing the charges the defendant will face to recommending the sentence the defendant will have to endure (or, sometimes, not endure).
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's top electoral court on Wednesday was split over whether to allow new evidence in plea-bargain testimony from construction company Odebrecht in an illegal campaign funding case that could lead to President Michel Temer leaving office.
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It is very possible, and in my view likely, that there have already been indictments issued and plea bargain agreements reached that for now remain under seal, which will be unsealed and announced in the coming days and weeks.
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The Bovespa fell 0.9% from its record high, with shares in food processor JBS SA extending losses for a second day after top prosecutor requested the annulment of plea bargain deals previously signed with former executives of the company.
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The electoral court had been expected to blame Rousseff and absolve Temer, but that is now unlikely due to recent plea-bargain testimony by executives of giant meatpacker JBS SA who alleged they gave illegal funds to his campaign.
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The charge is related to the plea-bargain testimony by executives at the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA. They have accused Temer of taking bribes in return for political favors and conspiring to stifle testimony that would implicate him.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - JBS SA's controlling shareholders sold shares in the meatpacker worth 329 million reais ($98 million) in April, according to securities filings, after JBS's top two executives had secretly begun negotiating a plea-bargain deal with prosecutors.
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And although more than 95 percent of cases result in a plea bargain and don't go to trial, some prosecutors articulated that sentencing was not under their control, and that those decisions are subject to state laws and judges.
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There are also the countless little everyday amnesties when officials exercise their discretion: the prosecutor who declines to pursue a case or drops certain charges as part of a plea bargain, the police officer who doesn't write a ticket.
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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's top court released plea-bargain testimony on Friday accusing President Michel Temer and his two predecessors of receiving millions of dollars in bribes, the most damaging development yet in a historic political corruption probe.
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Janot told Reuters that removing the threat of prison after a first appeal would destroy the best weapon used against corruption - the plea bargain agreements that were allowed in the passage of a 2013 law to combat organized crime.
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It all fell under the head of doing something useful with his life, part of a plea bargain he had made with the Almighty when, in 1944, his ship USS Lansdale had been sunk under him by German torpedoes.
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The testimony, as part of a plea bargain by the 11 executives, would be the first direct link between the sprawling 'Operation Carwash' investigation into kickbacks at state oil firm Petrobras and the election of President Rousseff, the paper said.
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In another gain for the political class, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that no one can be charged merely on the basis of plea bargain testimony by just one witness if no evidence is provided to back up the accusation.
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Independent auditors BDO approved JBS's financial statements "with reservations" due to uncertainty related to the involvement of J&F Investimentos, parent company of JBS, in plea bargain and leniency agreements with Brazilian authorities regarding participation in a far-reaching corruption scheme.
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Polanski moved to France in the '70s after being charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in the U.S. He plead innocent, but then plead guilty to "unlawful sexual intercourse" — which is essentially statutory rape — in a plea bargain.
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In court Tuesday, prosecutors unexpectedly offered a plea bargain to Warren, saying they would drop the two felony harboring charges if he would plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of aiding and abetting illegal entry without inspection, according to court records.
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Pessoa's plea-bargain testimony is part of Brazil's larger "Car Wash" corruption probe that has seen over 90 people convicted, and led to a graft investigation into President Michel Temer, about a third of his cabinet and scores of sitting congressmen.
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On Thursday, another federal judge had blocked the nomination, saying it could not be ignored that Moreira Franco had reportedly been named in plea bargain testimony that linked him to a massive political kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
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CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) - A long-anticipated plea bargain deal with the construction firm at the center of Brazil's largest graft scheme is at least "months" away and could fall apart due to interference by fearful politicians, a top prosecutor told Reuters.
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In a statement, the bank responded to local media reports that President Michel Temer had tipped off the chairman of meatpacking giant JBS SA about a rate decision - one of several accusations leveled in blockbuster plea bargain testimony revealed on Thursday.
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A May plea-bargain deal exposing a bribery ring run by Batista and his younger brother Joesley led BNDESPar to seek his removal from JBS, blaming the scandal for a 23 percent plunge in the company's stock price this year.
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A lawyer for Neves said his client was willing to help clarify issues for investigators, and that the police probe was based on plea bargain testimony from JBS executives most concerned with maintaining the "generous" terms of their plea deals.
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Temer's office said in a prepared statement that he "did not participate in or authorize any activity with the aim of avoiding a plea bargain or collaboration" by Cunha, adding that the president supported a full investigation of the allegations.
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The JBS executives' plea bargain agreement, including a fine of 225 million reais ($72 million), is being overseen by Supreme Court Justice Edson Fachin, who is responsible for the bribery investigation known as Operation Car Wash, according to O Globo.
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The ruling by Judge Sergio Moro adds to the pressure on Palocci, who served as finance minister under former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to reach a plea bargain with prosecutors in a bid to have his sentence reduced.
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The investigation into the overbilling began after the firm's executives entered into a plea-bargain deal to offer details about their role in long-running and massive political kickback schemes that have been uncovered by investigators in the past three years.
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In plea-bargain testimony, Juan Carlos de Goycoechea, a former head of the Argentina branch of Spanish construction company Isolux Corsan, said he was forced to pay officials in Fernandez&aposs 2007-2015 administration in order to get government contracts.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may be named in plea bargain testimony from the former chief executive of an engineering conglomerate who was convicted in a corruption probe, newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported on Wednesday.
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Plea-bargain testimony by two executives of JBS holding company J&F Investimentos SA implicated Temer and others in a bribery scheme and led prosecutors to accuse Rocha Loures of being a middleman for Temer, which the former president denied.
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In the New York case, Apple was asked to produce a list of iOS devices currently subject to federal investigation, in order to prove that the issues raised were still worth litigating after the initial defendant agreed to a plea bargain.
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The judge tasked with spearheading the case, Herman Benjamin, said the additional evidence in plea bargain testimony by Odebrecht executives was crucial to determine whether former president Dilma Rousseff and her running mate Temer used illicit funds in their 2014 campaign.
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Steven Greenberg tells TMZ ... the outcome of Jussie's criminal case in Cook County -- in which all 16 felony charges against him were dropped by the State's Attorney -- might be damaging for Kelly ... especially when it comes to a possible plea bargain.
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The Supreme Electoral Tribunal voted 4-3 to exclude plea-bargain testimony by Odebrecht executives who told prosecutors they funneled millions of dollars into the re-election campaign of former president Dilma Rousseff and her running mate at the time, Temer.
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KARASZEWSKI He could never shake the fact that a sort of cynical ploy that he thought was just going to lead to a plea bargain in fact led to a nine-month trial that tore the whole city and country apart.
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The announcement of the plea bargain of former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, for lying to the FBI in the Russia probe, brings evidence of Russian interference in the election further into the foreign policy team of the Trump campaign.
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The raids, conducted mostly in the city of Rio de Janeiro but also in neighboring towns of Duque de Caxias and São João do Meriti, stem from information obtained in plea bargain agreements with two of the people involved, it said.
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The prospects for a guilty plea from Stone seem remote; it's unlikely, given Stone's record of inflammatory and false public statements, that the Mueller office would offer him a plea bargain in exchange for his coöperation and his testimony against others.
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After breaking into a woman's home in search of drugs and beating the woman unconscious with the butt of a gun, Cartwright refused a plea bargain that would have given her a twenty-five-year sentence for the nonfatal attack.
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The most tantalizing question, which may soon be a topic of front-page national debate, is whether Mueller and Trump might reach a plea bargain agreement in which Trump would voluntarily leave office in return for protection from any future liability.
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My mind travels back a few years to when I was 30, and I stood before a district judge to accept a plea bargain for the crime of passing a single counterfeit hundred-dollar bill, to feed my addiction to drugs.
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SAO PAULO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Odebrecht SA has signed a plea bargain agreement with Brazilian prosecutors in which as many as 77 of the engineering group's executives would testify about widespread political graft, Folha de S. Paulo newspaper said on Thursday.
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It was announced Friday that Harow, who was Netanyahu's chief of staff before resigning amid corruption allegations against him in 2015, has agreed to testify against his former boss as part of a plea bargain in his own case, Reuters reported.
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They are associated with audio recordings attached to the case of Sergio Machado, a former senator arrested in the Lava Jato probe who has since negotiated a plea bargain and who taped himself in conversations with the four named this week.
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Glaser's legal team have used a range of tactics to try to ensure his release, including applying for a plea bargain deal, which would have seen Glaser deported back to Belgium, lawyers supporting the prosecution and a police source told CNN.
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The deal, effectively a corporate plea bargain, means Airbus has avoided criminal prosecution that would have risked it being barred from public contracts in the United States and European Union - a massive blow for a major defence and space supplier.
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Defendants should have all relevant evidence before accepting any plea bargain and should not be receiving discovery materials on the very eve of trial, but the pendulum has swung too far against the interests of victims, witnesses and police investigations.
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Executives from the world's biggest meatpacker JBS SA said in plea-bargain testimony to police that Temer condoned bribing a potential witness in the "Car Wash" corruption case and they paid the president nearly $5 million in bribes in recent years.
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Temer was charged in connection with a graft scheme involving the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA. Executives said in plea-bargain testimony the president took bribes for resolving tax matters, freeing up loans from state-run banks and other matters.
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But it was not simple vanity that, then and now, motivated prosecutors; it is his well-honed legacy of media strategy: dragging prominent and wealthy financial industry-types before the cameras has a funny way of pressing them to plea bargain.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police on Wednesday arrested the chief executive of JBS SA, the world's No. 221 meatpacker, accusing him of insider trading ahead of a plea bargain he signed this year whose disclosure pummeled the company's stock.
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The racketeering charge against Temer was based on the plea bargain testimony of Lúcio Funaro, a businessman who accused the president and his closest aides in the ruling PMDB party of operating a criminal organization to collect bribes in exchange for political influence.
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Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in American elections concluded that Paul Manafort, a senior member of Donald Trump's campaign team, had breached the terms of his plea-bargain deal by subsequently lying to prosecutors, and asked the courts to dismiss the deal.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer gave his blessing to an attempt to pay a potential witness to remain silent in the country's biggest-ever graft probe, according to plea bargain testimony by a powerful businessman, newspaper O Globo reported on Wednesday.
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After Dixon's attorney made it clear that the plea bargain would not be accepted, Stolz reiterated the strength of the prosecution's case against Dixon, reminding him that should he be found guilty, the sentence will likely be closer to the 25-year maximum.
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Plea bargain testimony by defendants in the bribery and political kickback scandal have led prosecutors closer to Rousseff's inner circle, including Workers' Party founder and former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who is being investigated for allegedly benefiting from graft money.
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Temer avoided commenting on the unprecedented wave of investigations triggered by plea bargain testimony from executives at engineering group Odebrecht, but he made clear the government was committed to implementing its ambitious reform agenda, which includes an overhaul of Brazil's creaking pension system.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - A jailed former finance minister in Brazil has said in plea bargain testimony that beverage giant Ambev SA made "inappropriate payments" to former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, according to a newspaper report.
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The French-Polish Polanski is still unable to make films in the United States since fleeing the country in 1978 due to fears that a plea bargain with prosecutors over his sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl would be overruled.
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The racketeering charge against Temer was based on the plea bargain testimony of Lúcio Funaro, a businessman who accused the president and his closest aides in the ruling PMDB party of operating a criminal organization to collect bribes in exchange for political influence.
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The online version of Brazilian paper O Estado de S.Paulo said Amaral, who was released from jail in February with some restrictions, had given preliminary testimony to public prosecutors outlining what he could reveal if granted leniency in a formal plea bargain.
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Another emphasized it would be difficult to reach a plea bargain with Cunha because they think he would only name certain politicians out of vengeance for either kicking him out of office or for somehow not protecting him from the Petrobras investigation.
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Temer was charged in June in connection with a graft scheme involving the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA. Executives said in plea-bargain testimony the president took bribes for resolving tax disputes, freeing up loans from state-run banks and other matters.
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A young California woman surely could have been thinking about both Baylor's and Waco's moral contradictions when she listened to a state district judge allow her accused rapist to accept a plea bargain that allowed him to walk free with no prison time.
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Federal Judge Vallisney de Souza Oliveira ruled that the agreement protecting J&F from fallout from its owners' plea bargain in a corruption case should not take effect in his jurisdiction until the Supreme Court rules on whether to uphold that plea deal.
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Newspaper Valor Economico also reported on Friday that plea bargain testimony from former Petrobras executive Nestor Cervero showed Rousseff's chief of staff, Jaques Wagner, received large sums of money diverted from Petrobras to run his 2006 campaign for governor of Bahia state.
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Flynn first heard about the memo when Mueller's team questioned him about it last year during debriefings after reaching a plea bargain on a charge of making false statements to the FBI and a cooperation agreement with the special prosecutor, the source said.
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Cunha has warned that if he is arrested he will take other politicians down with him, signaling a danger for interim President Michel Temer that a Cunha plea bargain could implicate more members of his government and ruling PMDB party in corruption.
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Ms. Maxwell, who has previously denied any wrongdoing, was one of four women named as possible co-conspirators and granted immunity from prosecution in a widely criticized plea bargain that Mr. Epstein struck with federal prosecutors in Florida more than a decade ago.
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Inside the small house was a 48-year-old school maintenance supervisor named David Martinez-Samano, who had a pair of felony convictions for domestic violence from 210 and 22012, plus a rape charge that a plea bargain reduced to a lesser charge.
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Mr. Williams rejected the standard no-jail plea bargain offered in similar cases and instead decided to challenge his arrest and use the trial as a political platform to highlight what he has described as the country's unfair enforcement of immigration laws.
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Writing about the ordeal in The New York Times Magazine in 1986, Mr. Clymer recalled his emotional courtroom appeal to the judge to reject a plea bargain under which the driver would have received 18 months of nights and weekends in prison.
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Glaser's lawyer told CNN that the "lies being peddled about the plea bargain are a crude attempt at circumventing the burden to prove Mr. Glaser's guilt in court," and denied that demands for a Flemish translator were attempts to delay the proceedings.
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They have pointed out in court that no one has accused Mr. Epstein of abusing underage girls since his conviction in 2008, when he struck a widely criticized plea bargain with prosecutors in Florida that shielded him from federal sex-trafficking charges.
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SAO PAULO, May 18 (Reuters) - JBS SA's controlling shareholders sold shares in the meatpacker worth 329 million reais ($98 million) in April, according to regulatory filings, after JBS's chairman and CEO had secretly begun negotiating a plea-bargain deal with government prosecutors.
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The testimony, as part of a plea bargain by 11 executives, would be the first direct link between the widening "Operation Carwash" investigation into bribes and political kickbacks at state-run oil company Petrobras and the election of Rousseff, the paper said.
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He pleaded guilty in Los Angeles in 1977 to having sex with a 13-year-old girl and served 42 days in jail after a plea bargain, but later fled the United States, fearing a lengthy jail sentence if the agreement was overruled.
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The fact that the brothers managed to avoid imprisonment despite testifying that they had shelled out 500 million reais in bribes to nearly 1,900 politicians in recent years enraged the public and largely prompted the Supreme Court to examine the plea-bargain issue.
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The conservative leader said executives of the world's biggest meatpacker, JBS SA , who accused him in plea-bargain testimony of arranging to take 38 million reais ($11.47 million) in bribes in the coming months, did so only to escape jail for their own crimes.
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RIO DE JANEIRO/HOUSTON (Reuters) - A former trader at oil firm Petrobras has signed a plea bargain agreement with Brazilian prosecutors investigating bribery allegations, defense lawyers and prosecutors said, a potential breakthrough in a case involving some of the world's top commodity trading houses.
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Just as incarceration during the course of one's criminal case increases the chances that a person might give up and take a plea bargain, detention during an immigration proceeding may pressure immigrants to voluntarily leave the US rather than continue to fight their case.
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Al-Darbi became eligible for repatriation under the terms of his 2014 plea bargain agreement, in which he admitted to his role in a 2002 attack of against a French-flagged oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, and agreed to cooperate with U.S. authorities.
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And it was written by Roman Polanski, who, in 1977, was convicted of the statutory rape of 13-year-old Samantha Gailey, then fled the United States, never to return, when he was told the judge had decided not to honor his plea bargain.
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Brazil's top public prosecutor, Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot, will also bring charges against Joesley Batista, the billionaire former chairman of JBS who implicated Temer but who was arrested on Sunday for concealing other crimes in his plea bargain deal, one of the sources said.
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The judge, noting the "vicious and inhumane" nature of the killings sentenced Watts to the maximum sentence agreed to in the plea bargain, three concurrent life sentences without parole, as well as additional time for unlawful termination of a pregnancy and tampering with deceased bodies.
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The conservative leader said executives of the world's biggest meatpacker, JBS SA, who accused him in plea-bargain testimony of arranging to take 38 million reais ($11.4 million) in bribes in the coming months, did so only to escape jail for their own crimes.
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J&F is the parent company of the world's largest meatpacker JBS SA. Two of its leading shareholders admitted to bribing politicians and unleashed a political crisis in Brazil with a plea bargain deal that accused Temer of endorsing the bribing of a potential witness.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Marcelo Odebrecht, the former chief executive of Latin America's largest construction company, will admit in plea bargain testimony that he personally oversaw illegal campaign donations for suspended President Dilma Rousseff in 13 and 2014, newspaper Folha de S. Paulo said on Tuesday.
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Prosecutors said all three were named in plea bargain deals with states' witnesses in a corruption and political kickback scheme at state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, but that the possible crimes raised by the witnesses were not necessarily related to the Petrobras investigation.
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Rousseff and Lula were meeting until late in Brasilia and no official announcement had been made as news of the planned appointment was overtaken by the publication of damaging new allegations from a senator in plea bargain testimony made public by the Supreme Court.
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ROME, Dec 13 (Reuters) - An Italian audit court prosecutor said on Wednesday U.S. bank Morgan Stanley could make a plea bargain in a legal case over derivatives contracts struck with the Treasury in Rome, but was more likely to dispute the local court's jurisdiction.
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In a 250-page plea bargain of ruling Workers' Party Senator Delcidio do Amaral, who was arrested in November for obstructing a federal investigation, the lawmaker recounts how funds allegedly skimmed from state oil company Petrobras were channeled into a massive ethanol start-up.
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Temer was charged in connection with a graft scheme involving the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA. Executives said in plea-bargain testimony the president took nearly $5 million in bribes for resolving tax matters, freeing up loans from state-run banks and other matters.
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JERUSALEM — Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, accepted a plea bargain on Wednesday morning and will pay about $15,000 in fines and restitution to settle accusations that she misused about $100,633 in public funds in managing the couple's official residence.
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The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in an announcement of the plea bargain that Mr. Knight would be sentenced to 11 years in prison for the manslaughter count, which would be doubled under California's three-strikes law based on his prior convictions.
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Official Washington is now in a state of high tension as special counsel Robert Mueller has begun prosecuting his case by bringing his first two indictments and announcing his first plea bargain, which will almost certainly be followed by more indictments and plea bargains.
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The former president's return to Brasilia was overshadowed on Tuesday by the release of plea bargain testimony from Senator Delcídio do Amaral, who alleged Lula and Rousseff knew about the graft scheme at Petrobras and one of her ministers had tried to buy his silence.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 2012, CeCe McDonald, an African American transgender woman from Minneapolis, accepted a plea bargain for 41 months in a men's prison on manslaughter charges after she defended herself from a racist and transphobic attack outside a bar.
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WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta is facing rising pressure — and a possible summons to testify before Congress — over the lenient plea bargain that he helped negotiate as Miami's top federal prosecutor with a wealthy acquaintance of President Trump's accused of trafficking children for sex.
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Serco, one of Britain's largest government contractors, said on Wednesday its Serco Geografix (SGL) unit and the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had reached a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA), the SFO's fifth court-approved corporate plea-bargain since such deals were introduced in 2014.
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Eletrobras CEO Wilson Ferreira was in New York meeting with investors last week when news broke about the plea bargain deal of Joesley and Wesley Batista, owners of meatpacker JBS SA , which set off a political fire storm and calls for President Michel Temer to resign.
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But it is unlikely the court would accept that argument based on recent plea-bargain testimony by executives of giant meatpacker JBS SA, as well as construction firm Odebrecht saying it had agreed to pay millions in illegal campaign funding with Temer or his top aides.
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Janot charged Temer with obstruction of justice and being a member of a criminal organization days before leaving office based on plea bargain testimony by the owners of meatpacker JBS SA. Janot had to revoke that plea deal after evidence emerged of crimes committed by the witnesses.
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The crisis will deepen in the next few weeks when Brazil's top prosecutor Rodrigo Janot will ask the Supreme Court to make public plea bargain statements of 77 Odebrecht executives who are expected to name up to one-third of Brazil's federal lawmakers for taking kickbacks.
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Anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro unsealed the plea-bargain testimony of jailed former Finance Minister Antonio Palocci stating that PT founder and then-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ordered the collection of bribe money in 2010 to fund the campaign of his successor Dilma Rousseff.
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In a plea bargain, the former head of Odebrecht's infrastructure arm said it had paid 94m reais in bribes and donations to the state's former governor, who was later convicted on corruption charges, to win a development deal that included the federally-funded cable-car project.
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The chief prosecutor's request to the Supreme Court came following the release of recordings made by Sérgio Machado, a former senator and PMDB ally who struck a plea bargain deal with prosecutors to collaborate in the sweeping corruption probe that has plunged Brazil into political mayhem.
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Janot said in a 93-page opinion, which was sent to the Supreme Court last week and obtained by Reuters on Monday, that he had no doubt that Temer also was guilty of corruption, based on plea bargain testimony from executives at meat packing company JBS.
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BRASILIA, March 3 (Reuters) - Brazilian ruling party Senator Delcido do Amaral, arrested in November on obstruction of justice charges, has agreed to a plea bargain implicating President Dilma Rousseff and ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Petrobras graft scandal, local media reported on Thursday.
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SAO PAULO, May 23 (Reuters) - JBS SA shares skidded as much as 10 percent, bringing the scandal-tainted Brazilian meatpacker's nosedive over the past five days to 46 percent, on growing concern about the impact of a plea bargain by its owners on the company's finances.
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But because the case never went to trial, the public may never fully understand the state of evidence that led to the outcome -- and that's more concerning to some lawyers than the actual plea bargain that spared the former fraternity president jail time or sex offender registration.
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We need infer to Reckmeyer no sophisticated understanding of the law or legal tactics nor any special prescience about human nature to hold that he had to know that Dowd's private interest would be best served by a plea bargain, whether or not that best served Reckmeyer's.
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If Gates was present at a second Trump Tower meeting to plan for the expected dirt Russia had promised to provide against Clinton in the major Trump Tower meeting, Mueller would know exactly what happened at that meeting from his plea bargain deal with the Feds!
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Federal Judge Vallisney de Souza Oliveira held up the criminal immunity of additional J&F executives until the Supreme Court makes a final ruling on Joesley Batista's plea bargain in a corruption probe, whose benefits were revoked due to evidence he had hidden some crimes from prosecutors.
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SAO PAULO, May 19 (Reuters) - Brazil's securities regulator has launched a probe into currency and stock trades made by executives at meatpacker JBS SA after they made plea bargain testimony that suggested Brazil's president had condoned bribery, Valor Econômico newspaper reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
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BRASILIA, April 18 (Reuters) - Former Brazilian Finance Minister Antonio Palocci entered talks with federal police to strike a plea bargain deal, in a potential blow to former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's chances of running in next year's election, newspaper Folha de S.Paulo said on Tuesday.
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Details of a plea bargain deal by executives of the world's largest meatpacking company JBS released on Friday showed Temer is accused of attempts to obstruct a sweeping corruption investigation and of receiving $4.6 million in bribes - shocking even Brazilians inured to three years of the graft probe.
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Under a plea bargain arrangement, Sheela and Ma Anand Puja—another senior figure in the group—admitted their roles in a 1984 food poisoning attack that affected more than 750 people, which was intended to influence a local election and remains the largest biological terror attack in US history.
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The allegations are based on plea-bargain testimony from JBS executives, who say they paid Temer at least $4.6 million in bribes since at least 2010 to help win lucrative government contracts, resolve massive tax disputes with the government and free cheap loans from the state development bank.
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The criminal charges filed against the president were based on the plea-bargain testimony of the owners of the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA. They accused Temer of taking bribes in return for political favors and of conspiring to buy the silence of a witness who could implicate him.
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For instance, in response to Flynn's lawyers' arguments that he never admitted that he knew certain foreign-agent registration forms he signed were false, prosecutors acknowledge that the statement of facts agreed to by both sides as part of the plea bargain didn't address whether Flynn intentionally lied.
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Trump had a pretty bad day yesterday, and it's really hard to know what's worse here, the indictment of his former election campaign chairman Paul Manafort, or the plea bargain by Michael Cohen, the president's former personal lawyer for violating campaign finance laws," Trubowitz told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe.
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A plea bargain testimony by Palocci, once one of Brazil's most powerful politicians, could also add fuel to the country's political and economic turmoil by widening the scope of the so-called Car Wash investigation, currently focused on engineering firms, to include banks and large corporations, Folha said.
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The dramatic turn in the investigation, dubbed Operation Car Wash, comes just days after local media reports said that the former PT leader in the Senate, Delcido do Amaral, had struck a plea bargain with prosecutors following his November arrest that directly implicates both Rousseff and Lula in the Petrobras scandal.
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They said that unless Cunha is able to provide evidence against senior ministers to President Michel Temer, or against the president himself, it is unlikely they would be willing to negotiate any plea bargain with Cunha, given the amount of bribes and wide-ranging graft he stands accused of committing.
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In a case in 1997, it was claimed that he had appointed an attorney general solely to obtain a plea bargain in a corruption case involving a political ally — in hopes of gaining support from that ally for an Israeli troop withdrawal from most of the West Bank city of Hebron.
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This means everyone had a 50-year or longer sentence to try and make it through, making these the most heinous criminals outside of death row—or more likely, in Texas, people who refused to plea bargain because they foolishly believed some fading ghost of Lady Justice still haunted courtrooms.
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SAO PAULO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police detained JBS SA Chief Executive Officer Wesley Batista early on Wednesday, as an investigation into his and his younger brother's role in potential insider trading ahead of a plea bargain deal with prosecutors escalated, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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This means if Lori and her husband now want to plea bargain their cases, instead of a minimum range of 2 to 2 and a half years in prison ... prosecutors would recommend to the judge a MINIMUM RANGE OF 4 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS UP TO 13 YEARS AND 11 MONTHS.
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BRASILIA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - An Odebrecht SA executive told prosecutors in a plea bargain deal that Senator Aecio Neves, the head of the main allied party in President Michel Temer's coalition, participated in discussions for a kickback scheme while he was governor of Minas Gerais, newspaper Folha de S. Paulo said on Thursday.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian strategist was paid $21 million under-the-table for the 220 re-election campaign of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, much of it handed over in cash by the man who now leads Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro, according to a plea bargain statement made public on Thursday.
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At an early May hearing for both Raniere and Mack at United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, Raniere's lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, whose firm represented Dominique Strauss-Kahn and is currently employed by Harvey Weinstein, told a crowd of reporters that Raniere was unwilling to plea bargain.
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The plea bargain over the gun charge requires LA prosecutors to arraign him by August 18, meaning they have a little over six months to put the case together and transfer Durst from New Orleans to California, where his crack defense team will contend with Berman's execution-style murder by a gunshot to the head.
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Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE's plea bargain with special counsel Robert Mueller is the latest harbinger of disaster for the Trump administration, according to various media reports.
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Jerome Corsi, an associate of Trump confidant Roger StoneRoger Jason Stone3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Judge rejects Stone's request to dismiss charges Judge dismisses DNC lawsuit against Trump campaign, Russia over election interference MORE, refused a plea bargain from Mueller that he said would force him to lie.
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Warner is fighting extradition in Trinidad and Tobago after maintaining innocence for wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering in 2011, and Blazer (who had two Trump Tower apartments—one for his cats) struck a plea bargain after agreeing to become an FBI informant in 2011 for the investigation that led to the 2015 FIFA arrests.
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What began as a plea bargain for a sentence to be determined by the judge — a maximum of five years with the right to argue for a sentence of as little as six months — became an offer of time served plus three years of probation, in return for a guilty plea to a felony.
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The Globe and Mail first reported in early February that last fall, the prime minister and his office pressured Jody Wilson-Raybould, then the justice minister and attorney general, to seek a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, which is equivalent to a plea bargain, for SNC-Lavalin, a politically well-connected civil engineering firm based in Montreal.
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The PSDB's own candidate in that race, Aecio Neves, has since been charged for graft himself, accused of taking millions in bribes from the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA. In plea-bargain testimony given in Brazil's sprawling "Car Wash" graft investigation, Odebrecht executives said the company channeled millions of dollars to the Rousseff-Temer campaign in illegal donations.
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Mr. Temer came under scrutiny this year when Delcídio do Amaral, a senator whose testimony as part of a plea bargain has jolted Brazil's political elite, told investigators that Mr. Temer had played a key role in obtaining posts at Petrobras for two executives who have since been sentenced to prison on charges including fraud and bribery.
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BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A middleman in a graft scheme at Brazilian state oil company Petrobras has implicated the chairman of global energy trading firm Vitol in a bribery operation to obtain oil contracts, as well as two high-ranking executives at rival Trafigura and its former CEO, according to plea bargain testimony seen by Reuters.
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On Monday, jury selection is to begin in the Federal District Court trial amid broad speculation that the lead defendant, Reza Zarrab, who is accused of managing a billion-dollar scheme to smuggle gold for Iranian oil, has entered into a plea bargain with the prosecution and may reveal damaging evidence about corruption and illegal dealings in high places.
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The increase in spending comes at a time when Temer is facing charges with taking millions of dollars in bribes in connection with a graft scheme involving the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA. Company executives said in plea-bargain testimony that the president took bribes for resolving tax matters, freeing up loans from state-run banks and other matters.
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In separate evidence, details of which were published this month, Carlos Emanuel Miranda, a former lieutenant to the former governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral, told prosecutors as part of a plea-bargain agreement that payments were made to African sporting officials in relation to the 2016 bid in which Rio overcame Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago.
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My view is that the odds are 90 percent that between now and November 2018, there will be at least one major plea bargain agreement reached between the special counsel and a high-level associate of Trump and at least one major indictment and probably more resulting from the investigation that has relentlessly advanced in recent weeks.
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Temer was charged by Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot with obstruction of justice and racketeering based on the plea-bargain testimony of the owners of the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA. They accused Temer of taking bribes in return for political favors and of conspiring to buy the silence of a witness who could implicate the president.
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James Comey, the FBI director who was managing the FBI side of the investigation of Putingate, was fired by Trump after allegedly being asked both to make a loyalty pledge to the president and to shut down the investigation of retired General Michael Flynn, his ill-fated former national security advisor who is now rumored to be seeking a plea bargain.
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On Friday, the New Yorker published an explosive exposé showing that the Media Lab accepted much more in donations from Epstein—who was known to be a convicted sex offender following a controversial 2008 plea bargain deal with prosecutors, but made a point of ingratiating himself with members of the scientific community with promises of funding—than it had publicly admitted.
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Related: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Reelected in Bitterly Close Race The questioning of Lula came after an intense 24 hours of political intrigue that began with the publication by popular Brazilian magazine IstoÉ of what it claimed were details of a plea bargain statement by Delcídio do Amaral, a senator from Lula's Worker's Party arrested in the Operation Car Wash swoop.
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The Supreme Court has opened an investigation into the revelations that were part of plea bargain testimony by the billionaire owners of meatpacking giant JBS SA. The court had been expected to decide this week whether to suspend the investigation at Temer's request until it could be determined if the recording of his March conversation with JBS chairman Joesley Batista was doctored to implicate the leader.
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If the pardon talk was knowingly initiated for the purpose of inducing Flynn or Manafort to not reach a plea agreement with Mueller or to falsify testimony to the grand jury or in interviews with Mueller, it could be grounds for charging obstruction of justice or charging bribery, the offering of a pardon in return for not accepting a plea bargain or committing perjury in testimony.
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Police said in a statement they were searching for evidence related to plea-bargain testimony given by the Ricardo Pessoa, the former chief executive officer of engineering firm UTC Engenharia SA. Pessoa testified in 2015 that he was approached by the treasurer of the Workers Party (PT) to pay a 2.6 million-real ($806,501) debt that the campaign of the PT's candidate, Fernando Haddad, had with a graphic design firm.
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Amaral was the leader of the ruling Workers' Party (PT) in the Senate and a close Rousseff ally until he was arrested in November on charges of attempting to bribe a former executive of state-run oil company Petrobras in exchange for his silence in the investigation.. He left the party this week after agreeing a plea bargain, one of several deals prosecutors have used to advance their probe.
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It could not be ignored, Formisano wrote, that Moreira Franco had reportedly been named in plea bargain testimony that linked him to the giant corruption scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras The judge's move came shortly after another court overturned a ruling by a different federal judge on Wednesday to block Moreira Franco's appointment to the ministerial post in which he would oversee infrastructure, communications and ceremonies.
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SAO PAULO, May 19 (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court released plea-bargain testimony on Friday that includes accusations President Michel Temer received 15 million reais ($4.6 million) in bribes in 2014 before he took office from executives of meatpacking giant JBS SA. The testimony also claims former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received $50 million in bribes in offshore accounts from JBS, while ex-President Dilma Rousseff took $30 million in bribes in offshore accounts.
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It is the same law protecting former Trump counsel, Michael Cohen, who taped his own client secretly in New York, another "one party" state, and released one of those tapes in an apparent bid to attract Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE with a possible plea bargain.
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