A pair of decisions Monday from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit kept the conviction of former New York state Sen. John Sampson for obstruction of justice and lying to federal agents in place, while giving the office of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York another crack at previously dismissed embezzlement charges.

The panel of Circuit Judges José Cabranes, Debra Ann Livingston and Susan Carney ruled in the first suit—an appeal by Sampson following his 2015 conviction—that the six arguments raised failed on their merits.