Sentences with phrase «before former legislative leaders»

With a recent poll showing that nearly 90 % of New Yorkers believe that unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government a month before former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are sentenced for public corruption, the governor and legislative leaders have an obligation to New Yorkers to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform.

Not exact matches

At 9:30 a.m., an hour before former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is sentenced for corrupting his office, government watchdog groups will weigh in on the heightened need for ethics reform before the end of the legislative session, Foley Square, intersection of Lafayette, Worth, and Centre streets, Manhattan.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says he still needs to consult with the other legislative leaders before he can set a date to vote on a replacement for former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to serve out the remainder of the term, which ends December 31.

Among those who were being mentioned as a possible replacement was former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who brought corruption charges that led to the convictions of two former majority party legislative leaders, as well as Cuomo's former closest aide, before Bharara was fired by President Donald Trump.

Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, the former leader of the I.D.C., spent the hour before the session rearranging décor in his new office on the sixth floor of the legislative office building, three floors beneath the spacious office from which the Republicans had wasted no time in ejecting him after his defection.

Legislative Ethics Commission Commissioner John J. Nigro, who had been active with the Joe Bruno Legal Defense Fund before Bruno's conviction Dec. 7, is continuing his support as the former Republican leader awaits sentencing for two fraud convictions.

Former US Attorney Preet Bharara brought corruption charges that led to the convictions of the two former majority party legislative leaders, as well as Cuomo's former closest aide, before he was fired by President Former US Attorney Preet Bharara brought corruption charges that led to the convictions of the two former majority party legislative leaders, as well as Cuomo's former closest aide, before he was fired by President former majority party legislative leaders, as well as Cuomo's former closest aide, before he was fired by President former closest aide, before he was fired by President Trump.

Bharara also said he might have done some things differently in his prosecution of two former legislative leaders had the cases come before a recent Supreme Court ruling that reversed the corruption charges against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says he still needs to consult with the other New York legislative leaders before he can set a date to vote on a replacement for former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to serve out the remainder of the term, which ends December 31.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he still needs to consult with the other legislative leaders before he can set a date to vote on a replacement for former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to serve out the remainder of the term, which ends Dec. 31.

Bharara also said he might have done some things differently in his prosecution of two former legislative leaders, had the cases come before a recent Supreme Court ruling that reversed the corruption charges against former Virginia Governor McDonnell.

Before the two legislative chambers took up the so - called one - house budget resolutions, good - government groups decried what some have seen as a silence on ethics reforms in the first session following the conviction of the two former legislative leaders.