Sentences with phrase «as state attorney general»

No woman has ever served as state attorney general.

Do we need permission from the state real estate commission or any other law enforcement entity, such as the state attorney general?

Sens. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.), as well as State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D., N.Y.), have all pledged to donate their campaign contributions from Weinstein to women's charities.

Below you will find, compliments of the TU's CapCon, the Troopergate - related memo Gov. Andrew Cuomo so desperately wanted to keep from public view that he sent two top aides to the state Archives to remove it from the cache of documents there that date back to his four - year term as state attorney general.

Percoco, 48, from the lower Hudson Valley, was often seen by Andrew Cuomo's side during Cuomo's time as state attorney general and during his first five years as governor.

The U.S. Attorney, Preet Bharara, as well as the State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, are investigating Cuomo's economic development programs over pay to play allegations.

While Eric Schneiderman wrapped up his final day as state attorney general after multiple allegations of abuse, the Democrat - led Assembly passed a package of bills aimed at strengthening support for survivors of domestic violence.

It also comes as State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is charging SUNY Poly's Kaloyeros and another SUNY Poly board member with felony bid rigging in connection with several public development projects.

The ad is something of a departure from past spots that note his efforts as state attorney general who busted white - collar wrongdoing.

SEIU / 1199, which is backing Sen. Eric Schneiderman to replace Andrew Cuomo as state attorney general, dropped an introductory mailer for its preferred candidate that started landing late last week.

Citing his law enforcement experience as a state attorney general and local prosecutor, Cuomo again declined to comment.

Maloney, a former top aide in the Spitzer and Paterson administrations, played a role in the aftermath of the Troopergate scandal (he was the former governor's internal counsel), which Cuomo investigated in his former role as state attorney general.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who got the ball rolling against Pedro Espada Jr. during his stint as state attorney general, clearly feels vindicated by the jury's conviction today of the former Senate majority leader on four counts of theft from his taxpayer - funded Bronx health clinic.

But there has been political tension between the governor and Mr. Klein, who may face a primary challenge from Oliver Koppell, a former assemblyman and City Council member from the Bronx, who served as state attorney general for a year during the administration of Mr. Cuomo's father.

The case was prosecuted by the Bronx district attorney's office after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance recused himself because of close ties to Spitzer, who also served as state attorney general from 1999 to 2006 and was dubbed the sheriff of Wall Street.

Eric Schneiderman resigned as state attorney general shortly after 4 women accused him of violence

«A settlement in a New York pension fund scandal between the Obama administration's former «car czar» Steven Rattner and the Securities and Exchange Commission is on hold as state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo seeks to strike a similar deal, said a person familiar with the matter.»

He also says that Spitzer's successor as state Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo lost the SCA file.

And, if successful, Healey will become the nation's first openly gay person elected as a state attorney general.

Mr. Spitzer leaned on his reputation, formed during his tenure as state attorney general, as the «sheriff of Wall Street,» arguing that he was more independent and had more financial experience than Mr. Stringer.

Barbara Underwood, the state solicitor general, is serving as state attorney general on an interim basis.

Michigan, too, has already seen considerable jockeying, as state Attorney General Mike Cox, Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, 2006 Senate nominee Mike Bouchard and 2006 gubernatorial nominee Dick DeVos are already circling one another for the GOP nomination.

Prior to ascension, he served as state attorney general under Republican Governor George Pataki.

It was a moment unimaginable in the governor's first term, or in his four years prior as state attorney general, when he forged a reputation as a cutting - edge social liberal and a cast - iron fiscal conservative, a triangulating centrist contemptuous of public sector unions and of the anti-Wall Street outrage that erupted after the 2008 financial collapse.

He said he would focus on public policy discussions, the city budget and corporate governance, much as he did as state attorney general for two terms before he was elected governor in 2006.

The debate that we had between Spitzer and Tom Suozzi in the Democratic primary race shows that it isn't in Spitzer's DNA to just sit there when he's attacked or respond only by citing his achievements as state attorney general.

Eric T. Schneiderman's resignation last week as state attorney general may have unleashed powerful new forces in New York politics.

Schneiderman resigned as State Attorney General late Monday night, May 7 just hours after he was accused of committing physical abuse while in romantic relationships by four women in a New Yorker story published less than three hours earlier.

During a brief period as State Attorney General, he employed a deaf lawyer in a significant administrative position and currently employs a wheelchair user on his Council staff.

Spitzer, who made his name crusading against Wall Street as state attorney general, resigned the governorship in March 2008 after he was caught using high - end prostitutes in a federal probe.

But Bharara's blistering attack on politics, writ large, must sting a little for any number of people — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who, in his previous job as state attorney general, pledged to clean up Street State, much the way his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, had taken on Wall Street.

Cuomo became Governor of New York in 2011 after serving as the state Attorney General since 2007.

The Democratic field could be packed: Providence Mayor David Cicilline as well as state Attorney General Patrick Lynch, state Treasurer Frank Caprio and Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts are being mentioned.

Cuomo, six months into his term as state Attorney General in 2007, investigated allegations that the state police, under former Governor Spitzer, improperly re-created travel records of the then - Senate Majority Leader Bruno, in a case that became known as Troopergate.

But Cuomo, already riding high from four years of leading corruption investigations as state attorney general, just got even stronger.

The Syracuse school district says it's already working to improve discipline with the city's public schools as the state attorney general investigates its practices.

«I feel the public is going to give me a fair hearing,» Spitzer said, with «a gut instinct» about how people will recall his record as state attorney general and as an advocate on financial matters.

Eric Schneiderman shares some qualities with each of his immediate predecessors as state attorney general — but Schneiderman's core is quite different.

Cuomo has been the top recipient of hedge fund campaign contributions, taking in $ 4.8 million in donations during his time as state attorney general and governor, a new «Hedge Clippers» report found.

If Cuomo plans to run for a third term in 2018, the charges against his former aides could hurt his re-election hopes and embolden rumored possible challengers such as state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Cuomo has talked about what he believes are too many layers of government since his days as state attorney general.

It also comes as State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is charging Kaloyeros and another SUNY Poly board member with felony bid - rigging in connection with several public development projects.

In the letter, Gleason claims he spoke with two women who had «identical» stories of abuse by Schneiderman, then in his first term as the state attorney general.

But the criminal charges, brought last week by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as well as state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, have sparked widespread calls for more oversight and check - off procedures to prevent the kind of bid - rigging and pay - to - play allegations facing the defendants.

McDonnell has experience as a state attorney general and a military officer.

The TU's Jim Odato notes this morning that a Moreland Act commission would enable Cuomo to reprise his role as state attorney general - a job he sometimes appears to sorely miss.

Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, was expected to have a sleepy race for the job once held by his father, three - term governor Mario Cuomo, the culmination of a longstanding plan that included a stint as state attorney general and as President Bill Clinton's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

He has served as New York's top lawyer, as state attorney general from 2006 through 2010.

Spitzer launched his broadside on Cuomo — his successor as state attorney general — in an interview published yesterday on the front page of The New York Times.