Sentences with phrase «as dean skelos»

The letter came hours after Silver's lawyers asked U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni to treat their client just as Dean Skelos was treated in an entirely separate case and allow Silver to remain free pending appeal.

I intend to change the Republican Party as we have known it with the voluntary or forced resignation of previously identified RINO County Chairs like Vinny Reda, in Rockland County, as well as Dean Skelos as Majority Leader of the Senate and Brian Kolb as the Minority Leader of the Assembly.

To compare what I did to bribery and extortion, an abuse of my public office as Dean Skelos has done, is ridiculous.»

Not exact matches

As former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, gear up for sentencing in their respective public corruption convictions today, the elder Skelos has hired noted appeals lawyer Alexandra Shapiro to help him argue his way out of prison.

«The only thing we know Flanagan supports are double dipping elected officials who voted for large increases in state spending, installed Pedro Espada and Dean Skelos as their leaders and gave state grants to themselves and their families.»

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos criticized New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday for attempting to help Democrats gain full control of the state Senate as «inappropriate.»

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

In fact you will be helping to re-elect both of them and helping to elect a Senate Majority, with Dean Skelos as their Leader.

So it raises the question: How can Silver get the measure passed the GOP - led Senate — where Majority Leader Dean Skelos referred to it as a «job killer» — and convince Gov. Andrew Cuomo to go along with it as well?

The back and forth comes as the seat itself was vacated by Republican Dean Skelos, who was convicted of corruption charges in December.

Dean Skelos insisted on Monday that he did not personally lobby his colleagues to pick John Flanagan as the new majority leader of the chamber, even as he personally supported his bid.

A Cuomo spokeswoman yesterday was harsher in the assessment of de Blasio's minimum wage proposal, calling it a non-starter with the state Legislature, as did a spokesman for Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Suffolk County is also home to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who is seeking a full term at the top post after succeeding the scandal - scarred former Sen. Dean Skelos as GOP leader last spring.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said in a brief interview this afternoon that he agreed with Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos's hope that House lines could be released as early as March 1.

Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has seized on today's scathing IG report on AEG as proof that state government is suffering mightily under the «arrogance» of single - party rule.

Both Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb have criticized Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as being the only holdout in moving the budget process forward with committee hearings, which can not begin until both majority leaders sign on.

Chief among Nunziato's backers is NYC Councilman Eric Ulrich, who has been floated (by none other than Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos) as a potential opponent to Addabbo himself.

As he did in the wake of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's sentencing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a brief statement in response to the five year sentence handed down by a federal judge in the corruption case of ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

State Senator Marc Panepinto and his supporters are firing back after the Buffalo - area Democrat was mentioned in a GOP defense of their initial decision not to replace Dean Skelos as Majority Leader.

«As with Sheldon Silver, SDNY will retry Dean and Adam Skelos,» Bharara, who this summer began a podcast, tweeted.

Barring a successful legal challenge from Republicans, Democrat Todd Kaminsky is likely to be seated as the next senator from the 9th district, replacing scandal - scarred Dean Skelos, the former majority leader.

Contrary to my faulty memory, Sen. Dean Skelos was, at the time, voted in as majority leader.

But the wage debate opened fissures within the conference that were first exposed last year, Dean Skelos stepped down as majority leader and was replaced by a fellow Long Island lawmaker, John Flanagan.

Though Flanagan formally announced her decision, he did not do the same with several other stop attorneys who dated back to the days when Dean Skelos was majority leader and had also decided to part ways with the Senate GOP, including, as the DN's Ken Lovett reported, first assistant counsel Rebecca Lovullo, program senior counsel Tim Atkins, and Frank Alleva, a program assistant counsel.

The special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Republican ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos will be held April 19, the same day as the state's presidential primary.

The commercial then switches tone, knocking McGrath, a first - time candidate, as «an insider from the Skelos machine» — referring to Republican former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who stepped down in December following his conviction on corruption charges.

As reported earlier on this blog, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos also sent $ 7,500 to Ulrich's nascent effort.

The U.S. attorney was also asked if he believes that the corruption problem in Albany is getting better as a result of all the cases he has brought in recent years — including the successful prosecution of two men who were once among the state's most powerful political players, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Anthony Bonomo, described by one insider as «just one of those guys everyone in state government knows,» is believed by many to be cooperating with U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's case against former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam.

Is determined to push Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos right of center, in order to make the Republican Party as irrelevant as the Conservative Party; or at the very least unable to support Cuomo's Progressive legislation agenda.

The move comes as another mayor Cuomo has differed with, New York City's Bill de Blasio, has decided to return contributions from Glenwood Management, the real - estate firm that has played a role in multiple corruption cases and donated heavily to the convicted former leaders of the Senate and Assembly, Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver.

Dean Skelos may very well be innocent as he claims.

While he's not running himself, Paladino remainds mad as hell and hell bent on teaching his perceived enemies in Albany a lesson — including the four GOP senators who voted «yes» on same - sex marriage and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

We earlier looked at Sen. Steve Saland's numbers, as well as the perpetually early filer Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

In 2015, he sought to succeed Dean Skelos of Rockville Centre as Senate majority leader but lost a close vote among his peers to Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport).

«Right now the budget process is like ships passing in the night,» he said, as pictures of white battleships popped up along with cut - out heads of «Commanders» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and with Cuomo wearing a Captain's hat.

As the Democrats appear to be slowly losing their grip on the majority (despite their claims to the contrary), Conference Leader John Sampson is reaching across the aisle to his GOP counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, and proposing a post-election spirit of cooperation for the Nov. 29 lame duck session.

In her first few weeks, «there was a change in leadership in the senate,» she said, referring to the indictment of state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and the selection of state Sen. John Flanagan as his successor.

Glenwood Management has topped headlines for over a year now thanks to its high - volume donations throughout New York state, as well as its ties to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-State Senate Leader Dean Skelos, both of whom are currently and separately on trial for corruption.

This happened as the developer was meeting with Dean Skelos to discuss legislation that would prove lucrative to the real estate company, the complaint says.

Bonomo, a major political player in the state, earned fame as the main witness who cooperated with prosecutors to convict former Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos (Nassau County) for accepting bribes.

In the unlikely event that the Senate's current Independent Democratic Conference - Republican powersharing agreement (in which the leaders of the two conferences divide time serving as majority leader) continues in perpetuity, Senator Dean Skelos would break Warren Anderson's record for most days as majority leader on December 21, 2039.

In a flash of parliamentary procedure, Libous called a vote installing Dean Skelos as the majority leader and Espada as temporary president.

Dean (bottom right) and Adam Skelos allegedly wanted to use Sandra Lee's (left) income as a stick against Gov. Andrew Cuomo (top right).

In his State of the State speech, he's jokingly displayed a Photoshopped image of himself, and the two then - majority party legislative leaders — Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos — as ship captains, and, most recently, in sombreros, where the governor called the trio the «three amigos.»

When the rallying to oust Skelos became louder, Nozzolio and Seward joined 14 other senators in signing a letter that said «We strongly believe that Senator Dean Skelos should remain on as majority leader of the New York State Senate.»

For example, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has «Repealing MTA Tax» as one of his four basic positions on the front of his campaign website.

State Senate Democrats are licking their chops as Gov. Andrew Cuomo reportedly plans to set an April special election for the Long Island seat vacated by Republican Dean Skelos.

As co-leaders of the Senate, Klein (pictured) and Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) each have the power to block legislation from coming to the floor for a vote.

Kelli Cummings, chief spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - LI), defended the raises, some as small as 3 percent, saying they were the first in four years.