Sentences with phrase «after public corruption»

He asked Mr. Cuomo for a general referral to go after public corruption in the state — something he said Mr. Cuomo backed when he himself held Mr. Schneiderman's job — but was denied.

Andrew Cuomo to go after public corruption.

In a questionnaire from Citizens Union, Cuomo's campaign would not take a position on whether the AG's office should be empowered to go after public corruption.

Not exact matches

«The state and city used Katrina to wipe away the dysfunction and corruption in the school system,» Medberry says, referring to the city's charter school initiative, which largely replaced public schools with privately operated institutions after 2005.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's left - wing government launched an auction Tuesday for four private national television licenses, reducing the number from seven after a heated public debate on corruption in the financially troubled country.

He's not under investigation for corruption as far as we know, but he might be after admitting this in public.

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.

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.

FBI officals confim that former Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is un custody after turning himself into federal officials earlier this morning on public corruption charges.

In his first public appearance after the corruption conviction of a former top aide, Joe Percoco, Cuomo acknowledged he had known that Percoco was using government offices while working for the governor's 2014 campaign team, but said he believed the work was not political and related to the transition.

After all, corruption does not act in the interests of the people, nor does it reflect public opinion.

NEW YORK (AP) A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

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.

A jury has convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid prison after a decades - long career as one of the most...

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is also awaiting sentencing on public corruption charges, has only $ 246,608 left in his campaign account after spending $ 1.5 million in the past six months.

Sheldon Silver, a former politician in New York, was reportedly found guilty Friday after facing charges of public corruption.

The Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption had begun an investigation into tax breaks like these and their connections to campaign contributions, but canceled a planned subpoena of REBNY's records after Cuomo's top adviser called one of the commission's chairs «in a fury,» according to the New York Times.

Prosecutors drop the case against former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell and his wife after the Supreme Court overturned his public corruption conviction on June 27, 2016.

Bharara said he would go after the public pensions of elected officials convicted of corruption charges when they are sentenced, starting with two state lawmakers currently being prosecuted.

Cuomo insisted he had «no concerns at all» about Schneiderman's ability to investigate public corruption in the Legislature after being a member of it since 1998.

Judges are allowed to strip pensions of public officials convicted of corruption, but it only applies to appointed and elected officials who joined the pension system after Nov. 13, 2011.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver faces a new trial on public corruption charges, after his earlier conviction was overturned on appeal.

But with voters focused on the issue of public corruption, after indictments of key officials including County Executive Edward Mangano, the candidates have said less than usual about the central issue in past campaigns: How to cut high county property taxes.

-- SILVER IS GUILTY AGAIN — Wall Street Journal's Corinne Ramey: «Sheldon Silver, former longtime speaker of New York's Assembly and once one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, was convicted Friday of all counts after his retrial on public - corruption charges.

Commission members, Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating to craft a new package of ethics laws that would include some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that the governor proposed after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers.

The three men in a room process was the subject of some very public criticism by US Attorney Preet Bharara, who mocked the practice in a speech delivered the day after the arrest on corruption charges of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and said it is the root of Albany's many problems.

In this March 19, 2003, file photo, Bridgeport, Conn., Mayor Joseph P. Ganim waits in a vehicle to leave U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., after being convicted on several counts of public corruption.

He resigned as speaker Jan. 27, 2015, five days after the FBI arrested him in the public corruption case.

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.

After the string of public corruption scandals that we have brought to light, many may rightly resign themselves to the sad truth that perhaps the most powerful special interest in politics is self - interest.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been steering clear of public events at the state Capitol recently, after a second major party legislative leader, the head of the Senate was forced to resign over corruption charges.

After noting his sadness at Friday's verdict, Senator Flanagan said that he takes corruption very seriously and is determined to work with his fellow legislators to swiftly and completely restore the public trust.

A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

Nassau County's former deputy commissioner of emergency management won't serve any jail time after admitting to lying about a criminal conviction on a job application and cooperating with the district attorney's public corruption unit.

A New York City Police Department detective says he has 300 signatures on a petition calling for the removal of Dean Skelos» name from a Rockville Centre sports complex and park after the former State Senate Republican leader was convicted of public corruption.

Whatever the outcome of Stevenson's case, the accusations alone — which came just days after corruption charges against two other elected officials — seem to have chipped off another chunk of the public's brittle trust of politicians.

DeFrancisco — a 23 - year Senate veteran praised by Democrats and Republicans alike for intelligence and toughness but seen by some as disengaged — decided to seek Skelos» job after it became clear Friday that Skelos and his son, Adam, faced arrest as soon as Monday on public corruption charges after a long investigation by US Attorney Preet Bharara.

«We are disappointed that Governor Cuomo has fumbled this historic opportunity to fix Albany's culture of corruption,» said Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group in a statement shortly after the budget bills were released.

The governor also offered a new assessment of his decision to disband the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which he convened in the summer of 2013 after lawmakers left the Capitol without doing anything to respond to the arrests of two other senators, Malcolm Smith and John Sampson.

New York, NY (AP / WBEN)- A jury convicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of public corruption charges Friday, dashing the 74 - year - old Democrat's second attempt to avoid years in prison after a decades - long career as one of the most powerful politicians in state government.

In court papers filed immediately after the hearing, the defense cited a news conference held to announce Silver's arrest, a speech on public corruption Bharara delivered at New York Law School the following day, and an extensive interview he gave to the MSNBC cable network two weeks later.

In a Q. and A. after his speech, Mr. Bharara said his public - corruption unit was «not closing up shop anytime soon.»

Three weeks after the Moreland Commission — which Governor Cuomo founded in 2013 — was due to release its report on public corruption in New York State, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal authorities on charges of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks.

The trip also came after several weeks of bad press for the governor, who is under fire for his office's involvement in the Moreland Commission To Investigate Public Corruption.

The talks are centered around reviving some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that Mr. Cuomo proposed in the spring after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers, these people said.

The President also observed that there are claims that he has stopped talking about corruption in public office after winning last year's election.

The Skelos news also comes a year after the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption was shuttered following an agreement on ethics reform in the state budget in 2014.

Also, a Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, described the APC's short list of names of alleged looters as an «anticlimax» after about three years of talking about fighting corruption and looting of public funds.

After reading the indictments, there is zero public corruption charges here with him and his sone.

According to the Ghana Integrity Initiative, the African Automobile cars left to rot at the Institute of Local Government Studies even after the Judgment Debt Commission has concluded its work and some indicted officials by the Commission still holding public positions shows that the country has not put in enough effort and commitment in tackling corruption.