Sentences with phrase «skelos on corruption»

State Sen. Tony Avella said he was abruptly reassigned to a different committee in May following the arrest of then - Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on corruption charges.

The anti-corruption crusader succeeded in convicting not only Silver but ex-State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on corruption charges this past December.

The upcoming legislative session marks the first since the convictions of former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos on corruption - related charges.

Bharara, whose office also successfully prosecuted former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on corruption charges, spoke at an evening forum at the College of St. Rose.

Convening barely a month after the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on corruption charges, the Legislature's new leaders vowed to move beyond the turmoil of the past year but already appeared at odds over what steps, if any, to take.

Flanagan ascended to the majority leader post in May 2015 following the arrest of Sen. Dean Skelos on corruption charges.

Flanagan assumed the majority leader's post last year following the arrest of former Sen. Dean Skelos on corruption charges.

Not exact matches

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.

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

Skelos surrendered his seat in December following his conviction on corruption charges.

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.

Republican former Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam are due in court this morning to be sentenced following their December convictions on corruption charges.

Skelos, who was forced from office in December, is due to be sentenced on corruption charges later this month.

Kaminsky has focused heavily on corruption and ethics issues during the campaign to replace Skelos, a key race that could put the narrowly divided Senate in play.

The race for the seat was kicked off after former Majority Leader Dean Skelos in December was ousted from his seat after he was convicted on corruption charges.

The corruption conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday was overturned by a federal appeals court, dealing yet another blow to the prosecutors who had sought to crack down on Albany's unseemly way of doing business.

His campaign has focused heavily on ethics and anti-corruption measures, a theme that he hopes resonates with voters after the ouster of disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was convicted on corruption charges in December.

While Kaminsky has campaign heavily on anti-corruption and ethics in the wake of Skelos's conviction on corruption charges, Republicans have pointed to the negative consequences of a Democratic Senate in Albany.

Nevertheless, Democrats plan to continue their criticism of Larkin for backing the leadership of ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was ousted late last year following his conviction on felony corruption charges.

The race is a closely watched special election to replace Skelos, who was removed from office in December following a conviction on corruption charges.

The push from Senate Republicans comes after Democrats successfully flipped the district on Long Island once held by former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was ousted in December following his conviction on corruption charges.

Kaminsky, first elected to the Assembly in 2014, ran the Senate campaign on a platform of ethics reform after Skelos was ousted following a corruption conviction in December.

So it's no wonder he blocked efforts to remove Skelos from power after his indictment on federal corruption charges.»

The commercial then switches tone, knocking McGrath, a first - time candidate, as «an insider from the Skelos machine» — referring to Republican former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who stepped down in December following his conviction on corruption charges.

Skelos was removed from office in December following his conviction on corruption charges.

Kaminsky won the seat vacated by former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted on federal corruption, in a special election last April, defeating McGrath.

Obviously, with the Skelos verdict coming earlier in the day on Friday, and people lamenting the lack of transparency in Albany as part of a «culture of corruption,» the timing of the vetoes could not have been worse.

A spokesman for the Senate Democrats declined to comment, but questioned how much money Republicans have received over the years from ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is being retried later this spring on corruption charges.

After Skelos was arrested on federal corruption charges in early 2015, Martins initially said he should keep his leadership post.

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 second of the state legislature's two former leaders has now been convicted on multiple corruption charges after a jury lost no time in finding former Senate Leader Dean Skelos and son Adam guilty on all eight counts.

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.

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.

Skelos, 67, and his son, Adam, 32, were arrested Monday by federal authorities on corruption charges.

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.

Would a gift ban have stopped former State Sen. Dean Skelos — whose conviction on federal corruption charges was reversed — from pushing a county contract that also benefited his son, Adam?

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 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.

Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is set to be sentenced Thursday on federal corruption charges.

Former Senate Leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay over $ 334,000 in restitution after his conviction on corruption charges.

In a statement after former Senate Leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to five years in federal prison on May 12, Bharara said that the «most effective corruption investigations are those that are truly independent and not in danger of either interference or premature shutdown sentencing».

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

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.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos are both facing retrial after their separate corruption convictions were overturned on appeal.

(Nine months later, Mr. Skelos was convicted on unrelated corruption charges.)

Attorneys representing former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted, along with his son Adam, on corruption charges, have — like Silver's lawyers — used the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of former Gov. Bob McDonald to appeal the conviction of the ex-Long Island Republican lawmaker.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

Democrats walked out of the Senate in protest yesterday after Republicans blocked their effort to oust the majority leader, Dean Skelos, following his arrest on federal corruption charges.

Democrats also expect to hit on the theme of corruption, especially after the conviction and sentencing of Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, hoping the anti-incumbent sentiment helps them in down - ballot races.

Mr. Silver got arrested on corruption charges, as did former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.