Sentences with phrase «by corruption arrests»

The Raise the Age proposal is one of many agenda items still lingering unresolved as a legislative session overwhelmed by corruption arrests draws to a close.

The television spot is straightforward: Mr. Cuomo, in a red tie, looks into the camera and promises to clean up Albany, which has been disturbed by the corruption arrests of several legislators this year.

Not exact matches

Tillerson was asked by a reporter if the arrests in Saudi Arabia were «overreach» and if he was concerned there's a «power grab happening under the guise of anti corruption.»

Sawiris said his view of Saudi Arabia was negatively impacted by a corruption crackdown that led to the arrest of high - profile princes and billionaires in November.

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The release of the 40 - page document comes amid a large crackdown by U.S. authorities, who recently arrested several top officials from the global soccer organization on corruption charges.

Two directors of Indoguna, Juardi Effendi and Arya Abdi Effendi, were arrested by Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission at a city hotel on Wednesday with 1 billion rupiah ($ 101,000) in cash in the car boot.

The firm severed ties with the former assemblyman after he was arrested on corruption charges by Bharara.

Skelos, 67, and his son, Adam, 32, were arrested Monday by federal authorities on corruption charges.

Mount Vernon — Mount Vernon Mayor Richard W. Thomas was arrested and arraigned Monday morning on criminal charges including grand larceny as part of a corruption probe by the New York State Attorney General's Office into campaign finance irregularities.

A state senator, NYC council member, suburban small - town mayor and Deputy Mayor, and Queens and Bronx GOP leaders were arrested today by the FBI in a political bribery scandal that covers the spectrum of political corruption in New York.

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano is facing trial for accepting bribes while surrounded by a cloud of corruption owing to the arrest of his aide Edward Ambrosino.

Rebekah Brooks, who is now on bail after being arrested on charges of phone hacking and corruption, was lent the horse by the Met police in 2008.

-LSB-...] County Executive Ed Mangano is facing trial for accepting bribes while surrounded by a cloud of corruption owing to the arrest of his aide Edward Ambrosino.

Mangano and his wife were arrested and charged with corruption by federal authorities in October.

The three men in a room process was the subject of some very public criticism by US Attorney Preet Bharara, who mocked the practice in a speech delivered the day after the arrest on corruption charges of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and said it is the root of Albany's many problems.

The arrest stemmed from an investigation by the U.S. Attorney's office and alleged the Speaker's involvement in a vast kickback and corruption enterprise that spanned many years.

The president also promised not to be bias with anti graft war, when asked about the status of his anti-corruption efforts and why no one in his administration has been arrested by the EFCC despite allegations of corruption.

The governor frowned at the publicized arrest of President Buhari's associate and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Jafaru Isa, and his reported refund of N100 million to the EFCC describing it as the first trick used by the Federal Government in its attempt to deceive Nigerians into believing that the fight against corruption was not selective.

Silver was indicted by a grand jury last week on three counts, after having been arrested in late January and charged with five counts of federal corruption.

The three executives were arrested and charged last year with bribery as part of a larger corruption investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Buffalo Billion economic development program.

Several Rockland County and New York City - based lawmakers were arrested by federal authorities on corruption charges today.

«Most importantly, it is assumed that before anyone can be arrested for alleged corruption, the EFCC ought to have done its job by gathering necessary facts.

This morning, Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the State Assembly, was arrested on corruption charges, hours after the Times broke the story — and barely half a day after Silver sat smiling onstage as Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered his 2015 State of the State address and was featured by the governor in humorous slides as one of the «Three Amigos» atop state government.

Carl Heastie was elected unanimously by Democrats in the New York State Assembly to be the next Speaker on Tuesday, less than two weeks after former Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running a massive multimillion dollar corruption scheme.

The bill comes after officials, including Republican County Executive Edward Mangano, who were arrested in federal corruption cases, tapped their campaign funds to pay for their defense, as is allowed by law.

Carl Heastie was elected unanimously by Democrats in the Assembly to be the next Speaker, less than two weeks after former Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with running a massive, multi-million dollar corruption scheme.

The change was prompted by the May arrests of state Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) and his son, Adam, on federal corruption charges partially related to a $ 12 million county contract.

The plan was proposed by the Independent Democratic Conference, the same group that the focus of the corruption investigation, Senator Malcolm Smith, was aligned with until his arrest.

Democrat Laura Curran — who won her primary decisively on Tuesday — and Republican Jack Martins each kicked off the race to Nov. 7 by releasing television ads focused on proposals to restore trust in government after the arrest last year of Republican County Executive Edward Mangano on federal corruption charges.

But prosecutor Jason Maismore said that Dean Skelos created a «vortex of corruption» and he wasn't deterred by other state lawmakers getting sent to prison or Silver getting arrested.

DeFrancisco — a 23 - year Senate veteran praised by Democrats and Republicans alike for intelligence and toughness but seen by some as disengaged — decided to seek Skelos» job after it became clear Friday that Skelos and his son, Adam, faced arrest as soon as Monday on public corruption charges after a long investigation by US Attorney Preet Bharara.

«Top aides arrested, signature initiatives plagued by corruption, widening scandals at every turn,» the Republican committee said in a release on its website, which made reference to «ziti,» a code used for illicit payments according to the 2016 criminal charges.

Mr. Silver, who resigned on Monday as speaker after being arrested on federal corruption charges in January, was accused of essentially facilitating the harassment by not acting forcefully to prevent Mr. Lopez's behavior as leader of the Assembly, which was also named as a defendant in one of the lawsuits.

It was prompted by a corruption crime wave that's hit the State Capitol in recent years and resulted in dozens of arrests, indictments, convictions and imprisonments.

The judge said she was «troubled» by remarks Bharara made after the arrest that seemed to bundle together unproved allegations regarding Silver with broader commentary on corruption and a lack of transparency in certain aspects of state politics.

Led by Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, the 23 - member caucus asked in an open letter today that the speaker replacing Sheldon Silver, who was arrested on corruption charges a week ago, consider a series of questions related to how the body is governed and requested that the next speaker establish a task force to address reform.

Three weeks after the Moreland Commission — which Governor Cuomo founded in 2013 — was due to release its report on public corruption in New York State, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal authorities on charges of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks.

Bratton's comments marked the first time he's said arrests were expected in the corruption scandal first reported by The Post.

All together, the package was billed as a five - point plan designed to enhance disclosure and regulation of campaign finance and lobbying at a Capitol rocked by scandal and corruption arrests in recent years.

Cuomo earlier this year suggested a salary increase would be nixed if lawmakers failed to approve the budget by the end of the state's fiscal year or if there were further corruption arrests.

But now, Skelos is out of the Senate's leadership structure following his arrest in May on corruption charges, and was replaced by Suffolk County Sen. John Flanangan.

Despite the string of arrests doing little to help Albany's reputation for corruption, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the new state legislative leaders acknowledge there is little they can do to stem the arrests by passing new ethics and anti-corruption laws.

The Empire State's poor showing comes, however, after a year in which state government was rocked by twin corruption arrests, ultimately taking down Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Over the course of three days, an Assemblyman has been censured by the chamber's ethics committee for sexual harassment, and a State Senator has been arrested on corruption charges.

The high - tech college, founded and helmed until his arrest by Alain Kaloyeros, managed the projects that led to the state and federal corruption charges this autumn.

The Assembly's proposal was released after business hours on Friday by Speaker Carl E. Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, who rose to power last year after the arrest of the past speaker, Sheldon Silver, who was convicted of federal corruption charges in November.

Waiting until the last days and hours of the session to cast votes on critical items is a longstanding tradition in Albany, but this year the work is complicated by a recent rash of corruption arrests that have highlighted Albany's backroom culture.

Similar panels ordered by governors over decades have resulted in lengthy corruption probes and arrests.

Colon was known to hang out in the now - shuttered Harlem restaurant Hudson River Café, which was owned by Hamlet Peralta, a suspected con man recently arrested by the feds for operating a $ 12 million Ponzi scheme linked to the corruption scandal.