Sentences with phrase «silver on corruption»

It was Bharara — who was fired by President Trump in March — who successfully prosecuted Silver on corruption charges, one of a string of high - profile convictions he won while fighting Albany corruption.

Federal prosecutors said they'll retry Sheldon Silver on corruption charges in light of Thursday's bombshell decision to overturn his conviction — and they're confident he'll be found guilty a second time.

They cite the court's recent overturning of the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

«The pattern by now is pretty familiar,» Mr. Schneiderman told reporters on the steps of Tweed Courthouse, alluding to the hasty statements and reform proposals that followed the indictment of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges earlier this year, and the subsequent arrest of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on misconduct allegations.

Heastie was elected to replace Sheldon Silver as speaker on Feb. 3 after Manhattan federal prosecutors indicted Silver on corruption charges connected to a bribery and kickback scheme.

Paterson noted he's not the only one to criticize Bharara: A federal judge knocked the prosecutor for public comments made after the arrest of Assemblyman Sheldon Silver on corruption charges, saying they walk «up against the line» of appropriate.

The conviction of Sheldon Silver on corruption charges is not the end of legal proceedings for the former assembly speaker.

That night, the Times» website dropped another bombshell: Bharara would be arresting Silver on corruption charges.

The conviction of Sheldon Silver on corruption charges is not the end of legal proceedings for the former Assembly Speaker.

Cuomo has pledged to hold up an agreement if ethics legislation is not included, a promise he made last month following the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

Following Schneiderman's fall from grace and this week's re-conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges, former Erie County Democratic Chairman Leonard R. Lenihan said doors have opened for new candidates while Schneiderman provided a «wake up call» that shines the political spotlight on reform.

He was the chief investigator in the prosecution of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges and an investigator in the corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam.

In the wake of the arrest of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges, many legislators and the governor have floated proposals for ethics reform.

The arrest of former state Assembly SpeakerSheldon Silver on corruption charges loomed large in both stories.

But Cuomo's push — which comes following the arrest of former Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges last month — could lead to a late budget, something that hasn't been seen in Albany since 2010.

Talk of reform returned to the Capitol after the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

The GOP conference announced it backs «enhanced disclosure» and pledged, without details, to alter Cuomo's own ethics proposals, introduced following the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

Governor Cuomo has proposed the disclosure of lawmakers» outside income as a major reform in response to the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

Barry was instrumental in the successful prosecution last year of former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

Ethics reform legislation was re-injected into the Albany budget debate this year following the arrest of former Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

A federal appeals court in Manhattan agreed Thursday to postpone any retrial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges until the Supreme Court acts on a planned petition to further review his case.

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New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez was ordered to face 18 counts of corruption — dashing his hopes for an early acquittal based on the same Supreme Court decision that overturned convictions for two ex-New York legislative leaders: Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

Silver's convictions were overturned last year based on a Supreme Court decision which narrowed the definition of an official act and how it can be used in a corruption trial.

An upstate - downstate divide is just one of several rifts within the conference that have emerged since Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest on federal corruption charges last week touched off a furious round of discussions — both public and private — about whether the Manhattan Democrat is too damaged to continue in his leadership role.

Silver in may was sentenced to 12 years in and prison and owes nearly $ 7 million in civil penalties stemming from his conviction late last year on corruption, fraud and self - dealing charges.

Initially scheduled to report to prison on July 1, Silver's appeal has gained some ground in recent weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell that narrowed the definition of an official quid pro quo in public corruption cases.

Disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will remain free until at least Oct. 27 as he seeks bail pending appeal of his November 2015 conviction on corruption charges.

The longtime speaker of the Assembly, Silver was removed from the post after his arrest on corruption charges, but remained in the chamber pending the outcome of his trial.

After toppling both Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Leader Dean Skelos with public corruption last year, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said he has his eye on the executive branch, too.

Sources close to Silver say he seems no different since a jury last week found him guilty on seven federal corruption counts, and is confident he'll win on appeal.

Thursday following Silver's arrest on fraud and corruption charges, the South Buffalo Democrat seemed to offer a bit of an «I told you so» to the Assembly Democratic Conference.

for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on federal corruption charges is largely expected to track that of the first trial, and prosecutors would still seem to hold an advantage.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will once again not take the stand in his retrial on federal corruption charges, with his lawyer saying his defense will consist of documents «but no live testimony.»

The jury is deliberating in the retrial on federal corruption charges of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

And a vote that was originally scheduled for February 10, will now be held Tuesday — less than two weeks after Silver was arrested on corruption charges.

During Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, defense attorneys have now tried at least twice to suggest heavy handed tactics on the part of prosecutors to cajole witnesses into cooperating with their case.

In the interview, Heastie did not reference how he came to power earlier this year after Sheldon Silver resigned following his arrest on corruption charges.

Silver was proclaiming his innocence, and the SCOTUS decision in the McDonnell case this week may ultimately prevent Silver, convicted on all seven corruption counts last year, from ever spending a day in prison.

Sheldon Silver, the former powerful Democratic speaker of the state Assembly, was found guilty of federal corruption charges less than a year after his first conviction on the same charges was thrown out.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's re-trial on federal corruption charges starts in Manhattan today.

The retrial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on federal corruption charges continues in Manhattan.

The very day after Silver was arrested, Bharara gave a talk at New York Law School where he urged people to focus their outrage and join him in taking on the culture of corruption in Albany.

More broadly, Democratic Assemblyman Sheldon Silver is under indictment for corruption charges and will be arraigned on a superseding indictment on Tuesday.

This spring, former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos face retrial on corruption charges, after their initial convictions were thrown out on appeal.

The next day, then - Speaker Silver was arrested on multiple corruption charges.

After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.

Silver's retrial is one of several Albany corruption cases on the Manhattan federal court calendar this year.

And Cuomo, who still hasn't told the public about what he knew of Silver's and Skelos» illegal activities as he shuttered the doors on the corruption - fighting Moreland Commission, is clearly the runner - up as Loser of the Year — with talk increasing that he'll face a challenge in the Democratic primary should he seek re-election in 2018.

NEW YORK (WROC / CBS NY)- Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been convicted in his retrial on corruption charges.