Sentences with phrase «skelos corruption trial»

In New York City, the Dean Skelos corruption trial nears an end as the jury has begun deliberations.

Robert Walker, chief deputy to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, leaves the Federal court house after testifying in the Dean Skelos corruption trial in Manhattan, Dec. 4, 2015.

A top - level state Senate staffer, Welquis «Ray» Lopez, left the Skelos corruption trial courtroom after being accused of coaching a witness on the stand and warned by the judge that he would be expelled.

In July 2012, the trade association sent out a fundraising appeal, emails from the Skelos corruption trial show.

Anthony Bonomo, the head of Physicians Reciprocal Insurers and a prolific political donor, testified Thursday at the Skelos corruption trial, noting that less than two weeks after being hired as a program manager for the Long Island - based company, Adam Skelos relayed to his father that his supervisor, Christopher Curcio, was treating him unfairly.

A top Senate aide to former majority leader Dean Skelos set up a meeting on fracking with the state Department of Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption trial.

Not exact matches

Republican former Senate Majority Dean Skelos, who was convicted in a separate corruption trial in December, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 25.

The federal government refused to grant immunity to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has threatened to take the Fifth Amendment if called to testify at the political corruption trial of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

And that trial will be followed shortly by former Republican Senator George Maziarz's corruption trial and the retrial of Deno Skelos and son.

He has telegraphed his intention to run for the seat since Skelos lost his seat upon his conviction following a federal corruption trial in December.

Two of the trials will be «do - overs»: Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of Manhattan and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of Rockville Centre originally were found guilty of bribery and other corruption charges in 2015.

Glenwood Management has topped headlines for over a year now thanks to its high - volume donations throughout New York state, as well as its ties to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-State Senate Leader Dean Skelos, both of whom are currently and separately on trial for corruption.

His indictment comes more than two years after he confirmed while testifying in the corruption trial of former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos that federal prosecutors were probing his role in county contracts that went to political campaign contributors.

The conflict of interest is obvious, and Mr. Agata is the wrong choice to run JCOPE less than six months after Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos were convicted in corruption trials which laid bare Albany's culture of legal and illegal corruption.

In 2018, New Yorkers will witness five corruption trials, two involving officials linked to the governor and two retrials — Sheldon Silver in April and Dean Skelos in June — implicating the capital's most senior legislative offices.

When former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos faces his second corruption trial in June he will already have spent over $ 2 million of his campaign funds on his legal defense.

In another blow, wiretaps in the corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos revealed that he pressured Mangano to give a $ 12 million storm water - treatment contract to a firm that was paying the senator's son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month.

In the Kaminsky - McGrath race, for example, the Communications Workers of America PAC, which endorsed Kaminsky, gave $ 109,600 to Nassau Democrats on April 12, while the state Trial Lawyers Association's PAC, which has backed a GOP - led Senate, gave more than $ 100,000 to the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee in the months after Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) vacated his seat due to a federal corruption conviction.

The recording was played at the federal corruption trial of Skelos and his son on Wednesday, Nov, 18, 2015.

In the case of the $ 99,118 in donations Diaz received, the money was tied to a comparatively small outfit, MJM Construction — not exactly as bold - faced a firm as those that made eye - brow - raising cameos in corruption trials of former elected officials like Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver.

Dean Skelos, son Adam arrive at court Republican State Sen. Dean Skelos, his son Adam, and their lawyers arrive at a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 2015, the second day of jury selection in their corruption trial on charges of conspiracy, bribery and extortion.

Skelos, for example, may seek to win a new trial based on recently disclosed information that a key witness in his 2015 corruption trial has been accused of being a very naughty businessman.

Protesters call on state Sen. Kemp Hannon to step down Community groups rallied outside state Sen. Kemp Hannon's law firm in Uniondale on Dec. 2, 2015, and called for him to step down after recently uncovered facts came to light during Sen. Dean Skelos» federal corruption trial.

Senate officials and Ruskin have said Skelos, whose corruption trial begins Nov. 16, never got involved with any of the firm's lobbying efforts for clients, saying there was a «total wall» between the two.

«We need only look at the trials of former leaders Silver and Skelos to realize that our state has a long way to go to in responding to the crime wave of corruption — let alone the recent State Integrity Report that gave New York a D - minus for public integrity.»

Percoco's trial is among several scheduled this year over alleged Albany corruption, including the re-trials of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Long Island), who had their unrelated convictions tossed due to a US Supreme Court ruling that acquitted former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

The filings show both ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and former Sen. George Maziarz have used the money to pay for attorneys as they face corruption trials in the new year.

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos was stone - faced and silent as he left a federal courthouse where a jury found him and his son Adam guilty of public corruption charges today, after a four - week trial and just about eight hours of deliberations — but attorneys for both men said they would pursue legal challenges to the verdict.

Mr. Silver and Mr. Skelos are now awaiting trial on corruption charges, their arrests sending their respective houses of the legislature into chaos.

His corruption trial and the continuing corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) have revived calls by good - government groups and some legislators to deny or restrict pensions for convicted politicians.

Silver's counterpart, the former Leader of the State Senate Dean Skelos, is also on trial for corruption charges that have to do with his outside income.

Tilzer says the near - simultaneous trials of Silver and Skelos demonstrate that the corruption bipartisan.

WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with WAMC's Brian Shields about the verdict Friday afternoon in the federal corruption trial of Dean Skelos, the former New York state Senate Majority Leader, and his adult son, Adam.

A top Nassau County official who is under investigation for possible conflicts of interest involving county contracts testified Friday at the corruption trial of former senate majority leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, in connection to a stormwater treatment contract within the county.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the second «man in a room» with Governor Cuomo, was hit with federal corruption charges in May, and his trial began last week.

On Aug. 3, 2010, as the bills neared the floor, Glenwood executives panicked, according to an email disclosed in the corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

A top - level state Senate staffer scurried out of the corruption trial of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Monday after being accused of coaching a witness on the stand.

Lawyers for former New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos have asked a federal appeals court for a new trial in his corruption conviction.

THE BRONX — Bronx Assemblyman Michael Blake is not taking a job with a top political consulting firm, following outcry over the announcement he made the same day former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was convicted in a corruption trial.

Ex-State Senate leader Skelos and his son found guilty at corruption trial Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, were convicted on all counts Friday for shaking down more than $ 300,000 in payoffs by trading on -LSB-...]

Dean Skelos, is in the midst of another federal corruption trial, accused of misusing his influence to gain jobs and money for his son.

Audio recordings released by the US Attorney's office at the corruption trial of Senator Dean Skelos aim to show that the Senate Leader and his son colluded to use Skelo's official position to help his son get employment.

Yet Anthony J. Bonomo, a star federal witness in last fall's corruption trial of ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, has been in talks to sell the company that runs PRI to a firm in California for what could be a significant amount, according to multiple sources.

Bharara's prosecutors won corruption convictions against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, and Senate Leader Dean Skelos, a Republican, before both were granted new trials.

A longtime friend of state Sen. Dean Skelos testified at the former majority leader's corruption trial Thursday that he couldn't fire the powerful politician's son for not showing up to the cushy job he'd arranged because he feared he'd «have a problem in Albany.»

Jurors in the corruption trial of former Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam convicted the Long Island pair Friday of bribery, extortion and conspiracy in a sudden, decisive verdict that ended the career of one of New York's and Nassau County's most influential politicians in scandal.

Former New York state Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sitting in his own public - corruption trial Monday afternoon when he learned that a federal jury across the street convicted his longtime colleague, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, of trading his political influence for financial gain.

In their opening statement in the corruption trial of state Senator Dean Skelos on Tuesday, federal prosecutors painted a picture of a powerful politician who abused his office to benefit his son and co-defendant, Adam.

The Skelos verdict came about two weeks after former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on seven counts of corruption in his own federal trial.

The federal government refused to grant immunity to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has threatened to take the Fifth Amendment if called to testify at the political corruption trial of former state Senate leader Dean Skelos, according to a transcript of proceedings Friday.