Complainant is a heart transplant nurse at a certain hospital who sued eight defendants for having allegedly violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”) by defrauding and conspiring to defraud the United States Treasury. She brought her suit under the qui tam provisions of the FCA which allow individual citizens to…
Sometime in January 2005, the defendant allegedly engaged in a sexually explicit textual internet communications with an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl. In June 2006, the defendant purportedly waived indictment and entered a plea of guilty to the sex crime of attempted rape in the third degree…
A Nassau Criminal Lawyer said that, this case is a criminal proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus to compel the Presiding Justice, the Clerk, and the Deputy Clerks of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, to accept for filing an application for leave…
This proceeding originated from an appeal filed by a man. A man, who is an inmate at one of the correctional facility, is challenging an officer’s failure to enroll him in the treatment program despite the alleged order of the man’s sentencing court. The man was sentenced as a second…
In 1998, respondent was charged in two criminal indictments with breaking into four different homes and attempting to rape or sexually abuse the female occupants of each. In January 2000, he entered guilty pleas under both indictments in exchange for concurrent sentences of eight years imprisonment in each case. Specifically,…
The defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the fifth degree in connection with his purchase of cocaine from another individual. At sentencing, the court suspended the defendant’s driver’s license for a period of six months, in accordance with the Vehicle and Traffic Law because the defendant’s conviction was drug-related. On…
A man initiated an appeal from a decision convicting him of criminal possession of marijuana in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial of the branch of the man’s motion which sought suppression of physical evidence. Consequently, the…
On 10 March 2003, the County Court of Suffolk County rendered judgment convicting defendant of rape in the first degree (five counts), sexual abuse in the first degree (seventeen counts), and endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict. The criminal defendant…
In March 1983, the respondent New York State Liquor Authority (the Authority) issued an on-premises liquor license to the petitioner for its premises. Thereafter, the license was renewed annually upon application. By notice, the Authority instituted a proceeding pursuant to Alcoholic Beverage Control Law § 118 to revoke petitioner’s license,…
In January 2003, the petitioner was sentenced in Supreme Court, Nassau County, as a second felony offender, to an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment of 3 to 6 years upon his conviction of the crime of Attempted Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance 3°. Although the record before the Court is…