Sentences with phrase «assembly speaker»

The mayor, who said he hasn't spoken to Silver since the charges were announced, said he didn't think he should resign as assembly speaker.

He served as the powerful assembly speaker for more than 20 years.

A federal appeals court in Manhattan on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, but prosecutors quickly signalled that they would seek to re-try the case against the once powerful Albany powerbroker.

Barry was instrumental in the successful prosecution last year of former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges.

Yet the initial surge of «Buffalo Billion» investment was clouded last year by federal indictments in a «pay - to - play» investigation led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office had registered high - profile corruption convictions against former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

It has still never come to a vote in the Assembly, though Rousey said the ouster of Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver — who kept it from the floor out of deference to several senior colleagues — has improved its chances.

When Carl Heastie became New York Assembly speaker in February, two lobbying firms linked to him saw a boom in business.

Although it has never been brought to the floor in that chamber, there's renewed hope new assembly speaker Carl Heastie will make it happen.

For years, Sheldon Silver held the UFC in submission, but with the former state assembly speaker in a legal hold, the UFC believes it now has a fighting chance in New York State, 1010 WINS» John Montone reported.

In normal times, a candidate for governor of New York who fathered a love child with an employee, admitted to forwarding bestiality porn and racist chain e-mails, compared health - care reform to 9/11, and referred to the state's longtime Assembly speaker as «Hitler» and the «Antichrist» might not have a shot as a mainstream nominee.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A federal prosecutor accused New York's former assembly speaker on Monday of taking millions of dollars in legal fees as bribes, while a defense lawyer insisted there was nothing illegal about the transactions.

Virtually all major decisions are made by consensus with Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, Republican Senate leader John Flanagan, and Democratic Assembly speaker Carl Heastie, with the Republican - aligned Senate Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeff Klein sometimes included.

The chair of the influential Assembly housing committee, Mr. Wright was briefly a candidate for Assembly speaker after the former speaker, Sheldon Silver, was indicted on corruption charges and resigned.

Cuomo used the same excuse in May when asked whether Sheldon Silver should be ousted as Assembly speaker saying, «The Assembly will decide who is the leader of the Assembly.

Roth will continue to serve on JCOPE, while Jacob will depart after helping the ethics and lobbying watchdog panel complete its search for a new executive director, according to Michael Whyland, the spokesman for Heastie, the new Assembly speaker who made the appointments.

But next year is an election year for both the governor and the legislature, and aside from Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, none of the so - called three men in a room have expressed support for the measure.

Prosecutors made their closing arguments Monday in the public corruption case against Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker with extremely close ties to the real estate industry.

Mr. Silver, the once powerful Assembly speaker in New York, is being retried on public corruption charges, after an early conviction was overturned.

Does Cuomo also unleash an investigation, or maybe try to oust Democratic Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, as the New York Post's Fred Dicker suggested recently?

The law firm also has ties to Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker convicted of fraud and money laundering earlier this year.

The former Assembly speaker came under scrutiny in the Vito Lopez scandal for his decision to authorize secret payments to two women who had accused Lopez of harassment.

Timothy Cardinal Dolan said that the Education Investment Tax Credit, which has been stalled in Albany for years, has a better chance of becoming law now that Sheldon Silver is no longer Assembly speaker.

When Heastie suddenly became Assembly speaker in February, after Silver's downfall, he promised a new attention to transparency and integrity.

These are some of the initiatives that Bronx officials are lobbying Carl Heastie to bring to fruition as he takes a seat at the state's negotiating table, making history as the first Assembly speaker from the Bronx.

A Democrat who served more than two decades as Assembly speaker before resigning after his arrest in January 2015, Silver automatically forfeited the Assembly seat he had held since 1977 after his conviction last fall.

Heastie, the first African - American Assembly speaker, spoke about it in February.

A prosecutor says New York's former assembly speaker took millions of dollars in kickbacks, but his lawyer insists the money wasn't a bribe.

The Harlem state lawmaker earlier this year was a brief candidate for Assembly speaker following the resignation of Sheldon Silver.

Silver's legal team contended the former Assembly speaker did not accept more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks while acting under an «official» capacity.

Skelos» counterpart in the Assembly echoed that view: «While it is true, as in any profession, that some legislators and lobbyists have taken advantage of the system, the vast majority of my colleagues are hard - working, caring and public spirited,» said Sheldon Silver, who was Assembly speaker at the time.

Silver has gone toe - to - toe with five New York governors — from the late Mario Cuomo to his son Andrew Cuomo — since early 1994, when he was selected Assembly speaker to replace the ailing Saul Welprin.

Newly - elected Assembly speaker Carl Heastie says he expects education to be the most challenging part of the budget.

The prosecution alleges the former Assembly speaker engaged in a quid pro quo scheme with a physician that was worth millions in fees.

NEW YORK (AP)-- New York's former assembly speaker returns to federal court Monday to listen as prosecutors accuse him for a second time of collecting $ 4 million in illegal kickbacks from a cancer researcher and real estate developers.

We sit down with Joe Morelle, the majority leader of the State Assembly, and discuss the issues around the Sheldon Silver incidents (including the indictment that came down during the program), who may be the next assembly speaker after he pulled himself out of contention, and the status of the Democratic party in Monroe County.

The former Assembly speaker allegedly helped developer Glenwood Management, which has a building in the neighborhood a methadone clinic was supposed to move to.

Say what you will about former Assembly speaker Shelly Silver.

state Senate majority leader Warren Anderson fumed to reporters after emerging from a «three - men - in - a-room» meeting with Cuomo and Assembly speaker Stanley Fink.

Mr. Silver, who was then Assembly speaker and one of the state's most powerful politicians, envisioned not just a subway station in his district but a soaring transit hub, «the Grand Central of Downtown,» complete with an enormous glass dome and mirrors to filter sunlight into underground passageways.

Three previous Assembly speakers served while under investigation in Albany, where only a felony conviction can throw a lawmaker out of office.

The wheels turned again Monday on the Vito Lopez scandal and potential cover - up when Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver told the Daily News that he called Lopez on Friday and asked him to step down.

Prosecutors claim former state assembly speaker used official action on behalf of Glenwood Management

According to Hill and Nevada assembly speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, who both attended the meeting, Musk — who was in Europe, then due in Japan for its launch of the Model S — had a schedule conflict with the press conference.

How one could «be» without new recruits was not explained» a reflection, perhaps, of the same cast of mind that led a recent LCWR annual assembly speaker to praise the «post-Christian» stance of some religious orders.

Key Democrats Could Deny Farm Workers Overtime Pay as Battle Goes Down to the Wire California assembly speaker, Anthony Rendon, postponed farmworker overtime bill vote until Monday...

A spokesman for the state Assembly speaker responded on Twitter that the room they needed was booked until that time.

Cuomo knows that picking a fight with one Assembly speaker means he's picking a fight with an entire legislative conference (minus Buffalo's Michael Kearns) that could completely stall what's left to do this spring.

Prosecutors took the first full day of testimony in the corruption trial of Sheldon Silver to lay out one of two bribery and kickback schemes they allege the former Assembly speaker undertook.

On Tuesday, the fate of Sheldon Silver falls to a dozen jurors who have spent the last three weeks listening to competing versions of how the former Assembly speaker wielded power for the last decade: with secretive calculations to enrich himself or with the same quirks, favor - trading and inherent conflicts that is irrevocably baked into the state government.