Sentences with phrase «arrests hitting the state»

Mr. Stevenson was convicted on four counts stemming from charges that he drafted legislation and performed official government services in exchange for more than $ 20,000 in cash bribes — the latest in a long string of corruption arrests hitting the state's lawmakers.

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«Our county and state have been hit by bipartisan political scandal and arrests today — Democrats in Spring Valley, Albany & Queens; Republicans in Albany, Queens & the Bronx.

Records show that nearly 300 state executive agency employees were arrested, hit with ethics charges, or investigated by the state inspector general's office since 2005, including 213 since Cuomo took office, the Daily News recently reported.

Early on Wednesday the NYPost reported that «Queens Assemblyman William Scarborough was hit Wednesday morning with a 23 - count indictment charging him with using campaign funds for personal expenses, authorities said.Scarborough, a Democrat first elected in 1994 to represent the 29th Assembly District in southeast Queens, was arrested following a joint probe by the offices of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.»

It was prompted by a corruption crime wave that's hit the State Capitol in recent years and resulted in dozens of arrests, indictments, convictions and imprisonments.

There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard, who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from headquarters; and that the governor was at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.

No vaccines have been provided by the State or Federal Government to prevent or arrest the scourge and neither has any care been provided for the afflicted and this is the best and only contribution that the Governor of one of the worst hit states can make?

Jake steps in to stop the kid, and, after a stray bullet hits a deputy, the sheriff John Taggart (Keith Carradine) arrests Percy against his loud, vocal protests stating his father's influence.

In most states, it is against the law for men to hit women, nor can women hit men without the possibility of being arrested.