Sentences with phrase «skelos traded official»
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Skelos was convicted last year of trading official favors for money and jobs for his son, Adam.
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ESD last year tried to direct $ 15 million from the «transformative investment fund,» a $ 400 million pot created in the 2015 - 16 budget by former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, who left office after he was convicted of several federal felonies for trading official actions for payments to his son.
Mr. Dorego recalled Mr. Skelos making a similar threat against Jim Whelan of Real Estate Board of New York — and a former Bloomberg administration official — because the industry trade group had hired a Democratic consultant.
Republican members of the State Senate will convene behind closed doors this morning to discuss whether it's time for Skelos, a Long Islander who has led their conference for just shy of seven years, to relinquish the reins as he fights federal charges that he traded official favors with a major developer and environmental company that gave a job and money to his son.
The dearth of specific procedures for the TIF is coming to light as discretionary funds have come under criticism by good - government groups and some legislators after Skelos and his partisan opposite, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, were convicted last year of trading official favors for kickbacks to themselves or their children.