Sentences with phrase «after an assembly investigation»

Mr. Kellner eventually lost that race and was stripped of his committee chairmanship after an Assembly investigation found him in violation of the Assembly's anti-sexual harassment rules.

Not exact matches

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and a Brooklyn state Senator cut hefty checks to the campaign of Assemblywoman Pamela Harris after she found out she was under federal investigation — and she promptly drew on the funds to pay for high - priced defense lawyers.

In 2013, Micah Z. Kellner, a Democratic assemblyman from Manhattan, was barred from leadership posts, stripped of his interns and forced to cut his staff after an Assembly ethics investigation found that he had sexually harassed aides.

Rensselaer County's new county executive was sanctioned last year by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie while he was still an assemblyman, after an independent investigation into allegations of workplace harassment and recommendations from the Assembly Ethics Committee.

The Buffalo - area assemblywoman was sanctioned by the Assembly after an investigation concluded that she had a sexual relationship with a male staffer, then retaliated against him after the relationship ended.

by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie while he was still an assemblyman, after an independent investigation into allegations of workplace harassment and recommendations from the Assembly Ethics Committee.

The Buffalo - area assemblywoman was sanctioned by the Assembly after an investigation concluded that she

After the child care dust - up, the Assembly Democrats held an oversight hearing on the governor's economic development polices, which are the target of a federal investigation.

That tumble came less than four months after the arrest of Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — in another investigation conducted by Bharara's office — ultimately forced him out of the leadership position he had held for more than two decades.

In February, sources told The Post that the courthouse was under federal investigation over its alleged ties to Silver, who was forced to give up his role as Assembly speaker after being indicted on federal corruption charges.

While the Assembly updated its policy after the Lopez case to have investigations of members be reviewed by its Ethics Committee, the Senate's updated harassment policy still doesn't provide a separate mechanism to address accusations of sitting senators.

And like the vast majority of Democrats in the Assembly, she stood by former Speaker Sheldon Silver after he was criticized for mishandling a sexual harassment case and was revealed to be a subject of an unrelated federal investigation.

«[Assembly Speaker Sheldon] Silver covered up sexual abuse of young interns and staffers for years, using hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to pay off victims, and Andrew Cuomo protected him from criminal investigation after Silver got caught doing it,» Mr. Astorino said.

New York state government has been rocked by one scandal after another in the past few years, with corruption cases toppling the Assembly and Senate leaders and an ongoing investigation into the executive chamber.

After the report drew the interest of Moreland Commission staff in their investigation of legislative corruption that was later picked up by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, both former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Majority Leader Dean Skelos were indicted on federal corruption charges brought by Bharara's office.

The leaders of both the Assembly and the Senate were forced to relinquish their positions earlier this year after being charged in separate corruption investigations.

Previous ethics investigations were dropped after the Assembly member stepped down, and the Daily News notes that after 32 years of government service, Gabryszak can collect a pension estimated to be worth $ 53,000 a year or more.

Assemblyman Vito Lopez, the powerful Brooklyn Democratic boss, has been removed as chairman of the Housing Committee in the Assembly, stripped of his seniority and forced to undergo training after an investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed two legislative employees beginning in June of this year.

He was appointed Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigation in February 2011, after previously serving as the chair of the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology, the Legislative Task Force on People with Disabilities and the Subcommittee on Mitchell - Lama Housing.

Four months after Dennis Gabryszak resigned in disgrace following allegations he had sexually harassed female staff members, the Assembly's ethics committee has formally dropped its investigation into the matter.

NEW YORK CITY — Bowing to a growing chorus demanding action, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he would seek the ouster of disgraced Assemblyman Vito Lopez after an official investigation detailed his harassment of female staffers, reports said.

February 6, 2016: The secretary general of the Nobel Assembly — the body responsible for choosing the Nobel Prizes — resigns after saying «he may be involved» in KI's investigation of Macchiarini.

During the 2016 election cycle, the CCSA spent $ 30,282 to re-elect Matt Dababneh to the California State Assembly after he sponsored a bill that would have limited the ability of school districts to conduct independent investigations of charter schools.