Sentences with phrase «convicted former legislative leaders»

Convicted former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos will collect New York taxpayer money to the tune of $ 79,223 and $ 95,832, respectively, while in prison.

NO PENSION FORFEITURE IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO HARD WORKING NEW YORK TAXPAYERS Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C - Canandaigua) Convicted former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos will collect New York taxpayer money to the tune -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Skelos is the second former legislative leader to win his case on appeal in the past two months, after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling revised the laws under which they were convicted.

That means two former state legislative leaders who face potential retrial for crimes they are accused of committing during the first half of this decade would get to keep their pensions if convicted.

Former Senator and briefly Senate Majority Leader, Pedro Espada was convicted by a Federal jury of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the health care clinic network he had created and ran in the Bronx, despite having an annual salary of $ 235,000 with generous perks on top of his legislative pay.

The measures are being pushed for nearly two months into the legislative session, which comes after a year in which both the former speaker in the Assembly and ex-Senate majority leader were convicted in separate corruption cases.

There hasn't been a lot of movement on ethics reform in Albany, as the legislative leaders remain at odds on key provisions like banning outside income and stripping pensions from convicted former public officials.

And, as we knew it would be, ethics reform is missing from the final product, despite the fact that this is the first budget since both former legislative leaders — ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — were convicted on federal corruption charges.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who convicted the two former legislative leaders and indicted a number of Cuomo's associates, said he's been asked by President - elect Trump to continue in his job in the new administration, and that he's accepted the offer.

The pension forfeiture push came after both legislative leaders — ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — were convicted of corruption, but allowed to keep their annual pension benefits totaling $ 80,000 and $ 96,000 respectively.

The issue rose to prominence after the 2015 indictments of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the former legislative leaders, who stoked popular rage when they began collecting pensions after they were convicted of selling their offices.

Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, the Texan architect of Republican power in Congress, was convicted Wednesday of illegally plotting to funnel corporate contributions to home - state legislative candidates in 2002.

The new poll follows a month in which former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos were sentenced to federal prison after they were convicted on corruption charges in separate cases last year.

State Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan is getting involved in the race to keep convicted crook Dean Skelos» former Long Island seat in Republican hands — blasting Democratic candidate Todd Kaminsky's backing of an ethics bill that would boost legislative pay.

Two special elections were also held Tuesday, to fill the seats vacated by the two former legislative leaders, who were both convicted of felony corruption and had to resign.