Morrison & Foerster LLP
Carrie Cohen is an expert in public corruption and state and local government who made a name for herself by prosecuting former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. At Morrison & Foerster – or MoFo – she has assisted the New York City Council in investigations into the behavior of several members, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in a review of overtime practices, and a Rochester City Council probe into the death of Daniel Prude.
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Executive Director and Attorney-in-Chief, Federal Defenders of New York
A federal defender for nearly 20 years, David Patton in 2011 became the executive director and attorney-in-chief of the Federal Defenders of New York, a group that provides representation to those in need. During the coronavirus pandemic, Patton has been representing prisoners who are at high risk of catching the disease, telling Slate that the response by “prosecutors and prison officials to COVID-19 has been hard to fathom.”
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“In today’s regulatory environment, health care providers are forced to navigate within a labyrinth of complex governmental regulations, and one wrong can carry drastic consequences.”
The coronavirus pandemic clamped down on Albany last summer, bringing most policymaking and lobbying to a halt. However, that didn’t happen for Hinman Straub Advisers, LLC, and the Centers Health Care company.
Hinman Straub, an Albany-based lobbying firm, has been pushing the interests of Centers Health Care, one of the largest nursing home care providers in the entire state, at the expense of residents and families after the Legislature failed to pass crucial nursing home-related legislation.
Heroin gang boss who made £2.5m transporting drugs into Wales ordered to pay back £134,000
Sean Doolan, 34, was estimated to have traded £16.8m worth of drugs over a nine-month period
Sean Doolan (left) with 2kg of heroin recovered from an address involved in the conspiracy (Image: Tarian)
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