Sentences with phrase «as the state attorney»

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

Cuomo, as you'll recall, was running for governor in 2010, but still serving as state attorney general.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Tuesday, he packed up his office and ended his term as state attorney general.

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.

No woman has ever served as state attorney general.

As state attorney general, Andrew Cuomo saw for himself how helpful emails could be in exposing truth and bringing wrongdoers to justice.

As state attorney general five years ago, Cuomo made headlines prosecuting so - called «pay - to - play» cases at New York's pension fund.

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.

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.

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.

Speaking Spitz, as state attorney general he seemed clueless when it came to public corruption.

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.

As state Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman publicly supported the #MeToo movement.

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.

His father, former City Comptroller Alan Hevesi, was prosecuted for corruption by Cuomo when the governor served as State Attorney General.

«I think his point that we need ethics reform is the same thing that I have been saying,» Mr. Cuomo said, later noting that when he served as state attorney general, he had successfully prosecuted a state senator and a comptroller on corruption charges.

Sixteen candidates have lined up to finish out Eric Schneiderman's term through the end of the year as state attorney general, Politico reported.

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.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been the top recipient of this money, taking in $ 4.8 million in donations tied to hedge funds during his time as state attorney general and governor, the report found.

Percoco, age 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.

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

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

In 2007, as state attorney general, Cuomo investigated the mortgage industry.

Known at the «Sheriff of Wall Street» during his time as state Attorney General, Spitzer's new ad, which premiered online Thursday, features images of an empty Wall Street with patriotic music playing, financial powers apparently running scared.

Pol to Watch: One more from N.C.: Roy Cooper rolled up increasingly big margins in four terms as state attorney general, and is now running against Governor Pat McCrory, who has overseen North Carolina's recent and fairly unpopular legislative lurch to the far right.

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.

Public Advocate Letitia James wasted no time trying to elbow her way to the front of the pack seeking to replace Eric Schneiderman as state attorney general, The Post has...

He said he will file a class - action lawsuit and restraining order early next week to block the shutdown, and curb what he called «character assassination» by the media and Cuomo, who, as state attorney general, initiated the investigations into Espada's management of Soundview.

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.

And his columns for Slate, especially about the financial crisis and the federal bailout, were smart and fiery plutocrat - populist reminders of what had made Spitzer so good as state attorney general.

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.

As state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman diplomatically noted in a Thursday radio interview, «I don't think we have the level of focus that we need» on ethics reform — from Cuomo as well as Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Public Advocate Letitia James wasted no time trying to elbow her way to the front of the pack seeking to replace Eric Schneiderman as state attorney general, The Post has learned.

Cuomo's move to purge state emails follows a similar move he made as state Attorney General.

As we've noted in this space before, Spitzer wants to bring voters back not to his failed governorship, but his time as the state attorney general, who became reknowned for busting financial impropriety.

Spitzer served as state attorney general and later governor until he resigned in 2008 after admitting that he paid prostitutes for sex.

Buffalo's plans for body cameras come as the state Attorney General's Office is investigating the deaths of two men in the past three months during encounters with Buffalo police officers.

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.

Cuomo, dating back to his days as state attorney general, has proposed that New York end the days of a single person — the state comptroller — serving as the pension's fund sole trustee.

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.

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.