Sentences with phrase «arrest on corruption»

Heastie was first elected speaker last year when he replaced longtime Speaker Sheldon Silver following Silver's arrest on corruption charges.

Now reeling from an arrest on corruption charges and fighting to retain his post, Mr. Silver appears less and less likely to survive to lead his 150 - member chamber, opening up the speakership to another Democrat for the first time in 21 years.

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest on corruption charges Thursday may yet yield a «political tsunami» that would roil the State Capitol, but history and Assembly Democrats say the corruption charges against Albany's most powerful leader over the past 20 years won't likely change Albany in the short term.

(The IDC briefly included Malcolm Smith, a black lawmaker who was kicked out after his 2013 arrest on corruption charges.)

His proposals still face a battle in Albany, which has been thrown into turmoil in recent months by the arrest on corruption - related charges of Sheldon Silver, a Democratic assemblyman and former speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, the Republican majority leader in the Senate.

Silver held the post for 21 years before his arrest on corruption charges.

Should Skelos resign, he would follow Sheldon Silver's decision to step down as speaker of the Assembly following his own arrest on corruption charges just months ago.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- There have been many calls from Democrats for Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano to stop down after his arrest on corruption charges.

But the body has a largely untested Speaker in Carl Heastie of the Bronx, who last month replaced longtime leader Sheldon Silver following the latter's arrest on corruption charges.

(CNN)- Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is making his first public statement since his arrest on corruption charges.

WASHINGTON — A day after Mayor Bill de Blasio defended Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as a «man of integrity,» he acknowledged that the speaker's arrest on corruption charges would create a «different» atmosphere in Albany and the upcoming legislative session.

The statement comes after the elevation of Carl Heastie to the speaker's post, who is the first black lawmaker to hold the position following former Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest on corruption charges.

Flanagan, who became majority leader in May following Dean Skelos's arrest on corruption charges, had decided to keep Libous in the number two post.

Skelos's legal troubles come only months after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was forced to resign his post after his own arrest on corruption charges.

But the Kavanagh group is wary of Mr. Heastie, a county leader cozy with the real estate industry and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and isn't yet convinced that he will be a significant departure from Mr. Silver, the iron - fisted speaker who lasted two decades until his arrest on corruption charges a week ago.

The campaign to retain the seat is also an early test for Flanagan, who ascended to the leadership post in May following Dean Skelos's arrest on corruption charges.

It's a key distinction as Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made disclosure of outside income and lawmakers» business partners a major component of his ethics push in the wake of Sheldon Silver's arrest on corruption charges.

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 the interview, Heastie did not reference how he came to power earlier this year after Sheldon Silver resigned following his arrest on corruption charges.

In the recording, Temer allegedly agrees to buy the silence of Eduardo Cunha, the powerful former speaker of House — now under arrest on corruption charges — who is widely believed to possess incriminating information on much of the political elite.

The longtime speaker of the Assembly, Silver was removed from the post after his arrest on corruption charges, but remained in the chamber pending the outcome of his trial.

This comes after the world of football was rocked with news that several executives of FIFA had been arrested on corruption charges (via BBC Sport)

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FIFA council member Constant Omari has been arrested on corruption charges related to his role as president of the football federation of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

FIFA's attempts to rebuild its credibility received another blow when it emerged that Congolese Federation of Association Football (FECOFA) president Constant Omari has been arrested on corruption charges in Kinshasa.

The firm severed ties with the former assemblyman after he was arrested on corruption charges by Bharara.

The state Democratic Committee pushed back in a statement, knocking Cox's stake in a gas drilling company while also pointing to the Republican elected officials who have been arrested on corruption charges in recent years.

And a vote that was originally scheduled for February 10, will now be held Tuesday — less than two weeks after Silver was arrested on corruption charges.

In November, Brooks narrowly defeated incumbent freshman Micheal Venditto, whose father Oyster Bay town Supervisor John Venditto, was arrested on corruption charges weeks before the election.

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

Saladino has sought to portray his administration as a break from past scandals that saw Venditto and other former town officials and vendors arrested on corruption charges.

Silver, who was arrested on corruption charges just months prior to Skelos, had his conviction tossed this summer when a judge determined the jury was given incorrect instructions.

The Speaker replaced Sheldon Silver who was arrested on corruption charges earlier this year.

The proposals come two and a half weeks after the Democratic Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver was arrested on corruption charges, and one week after he resigned as speaker.

Flanagan says those allocations were made before he became leader in May, after the previous leader was arrested on corruption charges, and that he's going to take another look at the distribution of the funds.

This morning, Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the State Assembly, was arrested on corruption charges, hours after the Times broke the story — and barely half a day after Silver sat smiling onstage as Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered his 2015 State of the State address and was featured by the governor in humorous slides as one of the «Three Amigos» atop state government.

Empire State Development, a state economic development agency, took over the project from SUNY Poly a year ago after the college's president, Alain Kaloyeros, was arrested on corruption charges and resigned from the university.

He resigned in 2016 after he was arrested on corruption charges.

A charity with ties to disgraced Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver sent out an SOS Thursday — just hours after the powerhouse politician was arrested on corruption charges.

The proposals come two - and - a-half weeks after the Democratic Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested on corruption charges, and one week after he resigned as speaker.

«Politicians in Albany had the chance after both leaders were arrested on corruption charges last year to enact tough ethics reform laws and they failed.

Led by Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, the 23 - member caucus asked in an open letter today that the speaker replacing Sheldon Silver, who was arrested on corruption charges a week ago, consider a series of questions related to how the body is governed and requested that the next speaker establish a task force to address reform.

Skelos is expected to step aside as majority leader — but not as a senator — if arrested, much like Assemblyman Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) did as speaker in February after Bharara arrested him on corruption charges.

The ad comes as Venditto's father, Oyster Bay town Supervisor John Venditto, last month was arrested on corruption charges along with Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano.

Judge Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan noted that even before Mr. Silver's arrest, when some of his fellow legislators had been arrested on corruption charges, he remained undeterred.

Over the course of three days, an Assemblyman has been censured by the chamber's ethics committee for sexual harassment, and a State Senator has been arrested on corruption charges.

But come February 10, when the Assembly will vote to replace Sheldon Silver, the once - dominant speaker arrested on corruption charges last week, one of those five names will start to appear in many more newspapers, websites and telecasts.

Sampson is the third sitting state lawmaker this year to be arrested on corruption charges.

Agata says the commission goes through more than 20,000 financial disclosure forms each year, but he wouldn't say whether Joseph Percoco or any of those arrested on corruption charges last week were among them.

Both Farrell and Wright were potential replacements for Silver, who stepped down from post last year after he was arrested on corruption charges.