Sentences with phrase «bombshell corruption»
Cuomo returned to Buffalo on Friday, a day after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced bombshell corruption allegations that included bid rigging to build the plant at RiverBend for SolarCity.
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«Lawmakers on both sides of aisle call on Sheldon Silver to quit in bombshell corruption case», New York Daily News, Jan. 22, 2015
In the wake of the latest bombshell corruption scandal, which netted two New York City GOP officials from Queens and the Bronx, other party leaders were quick to volunteer that knew absolutely nothing about the scheme to essentially buy a GOP ballot line in the NYC mayor's race for Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith.
The news comes after the FBI announced the basketball program as part of a bombshell corruption scandal.
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A bombshell in college basketball has caught up to as many as 10 college basketball assistant coaches and others involved in the sport in a corruption case related to bribery.
CORRUPTION BOMBSHELL SHAKES ROCKLAND, NEW YORK CITY AND ALBANY added by dskriloff on April 2, 2013 View all posts by dskriloff →
The bombshell arrests cast a pall on the state's political system, which has already seen a slew of disgraced elected officials convicted of corruption in recent years.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, making his first public comments since U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's bombshell yesterday charging nine men with ties to the governor with corruption in connection to upstate economic development projects, insisted he had «no idea» about anything untoward taking place in his administration.
That night, the Times» website dropped another bombshell: Bharara would be arresting Silver on corruption charges.
Harendra Singh dropped the bombshells while testifying at the unrelated corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, where he's the prosecution's star witness.
The Trump administration dropped a political bombshell late Friday as all 46 holdover United States attorneys were ordered to immediately resign — including New York's political - corruption - busting crusader, Preet Bharara.
Federal prosecutors said they'll retry Sheldon Silver on corruption charges in light of Thursday's bombshell decision to overturn his conviction — and they're confident he'll be found guilty a second time.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to quit Thursday morning after his bombshell surrender on unspecified corruption charges.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver declared his innocence Thursday after facing bombshell federal corruption charges of soliciting $ 4 million in dirty money over the last 15 years.
Former Cabinet Minister and Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police Julian Fantino recently swore an affidavit containing bombshell allegations of corruption by an Ontario Federal Court Justice, several lawyers and an OPP Detective Sergeant under his command at the time.
Markelle Fultz — along with a slew of huge names and top college basketball programs — have been named in a bombshell report into NCAA hoops corruption involving illegal payouts to players.