Sentences with phrase «silver in a federal lawsuit»
The largest recipient was Proskauer Rose LLP, who received $ 141,000 for defense of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in a federal lawsuit regarding sexual harassment allegations against Vito Lopez.
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The dozens of asbestos lawsuits were filed by Weitz & Luxenberg, where Silver was «of counsel» and received $ 5.3 million in what federal prosecutors say were kickbacks.
Mr. Silver, who resigned on Monday as speaker after being arrested on federal corruption charges in January, was accused of essentially facilitating the harassment by not acting forcefully to prevent Mr. Lopez's behavior as leader of the Assembly, which was also named as a defendant in one of the lawsuits.
A federal judge in Western New York dismissed former Speaker SHeldon Silver as well as the Assembly and the state as defendants in a lawsuit brought by Caitrin Kennedy, a former staffer for ex-Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak.
According to federal prosecutors, however, Silver took nearly $ 4 million in bribes over 12 years from referring asbestos lawsuits to personal injury firm Weitz & Luxenberg.
WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.
Silver's lawyer Bettina Plevan wrote Manhattan federal Judge Analisa Torres Wednesday saying Silver «consents» to the ex-Brooklyn political boss» request that the former political allies have separate trials in a pending sexual harassment lawsuit against them.
And though he wasn't accused of any crime, Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez was forced to resign his seat in May in the wake of a scathing report about his bullying and sexually inappropriate treatment of female staffers — now the subject of state and federal lawsuits against Lopez and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who apologized for quietly settling earlier complaints against Lopez with a taxpayer - funded confidential settlement.