Sentences with phrase «charges against state officials»
His decision to empower former SUNY Polytechnic president Alain Kaloyeros to manage big - ticket projects built at taxpayer expense upstate has mired his administration in scandal, culminating in criminal charges against state officials and developers, and leaving many planned developments in limbo.
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The impetus was Cardinal Bernard Law's charge that the CTSA, the largest and most prestigious association of Catholic theologians in the United States, had become little more than a «wasteland» of dissent against official Church teachings.
Therefore, in order to move to a proportional representation system, you would need the state officials in charge of drawing congressional districts (traditionally the state legislature) to draw districts against their own interests when it is perfectly legal to blatantly draw them in your favor (so long as you don't do so in such a way as to not explicitly dilute the power of some actual protected class, i.e. race, gender, etc.).
John Garee, 69, of Seneca Falls, wanted since June for making threats against local and state officials, has been found and charged, officials said.
Percoco's defense against the federal bribery charges — that one has to be a state employee in name, if not in fact, in order to act as a public official — troubles good government groups.
Percoco's defense against the federal bribery charges — that one has to be a state employee in name to act as a public official — troubles good government groups.
It's been a week since a federal corruption investigation exploded in New York state, bringing fraud and bribery and charges against developers and state officials for allegedly running a pay - to - play scheme involving upstate economic development projects.
Yet, in the most bizarre of the spate of federal official corruption indictments against Mangano, former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto and former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the charges against Walker seem to relegate him to the junior varsity.
Although Percoco is still facing federal bribery charges, Judge Valerie Caproni agreed to dismiss a charge against Percoco of using his power to extort the Syracuse developers for the bribes, because he wasn't technically a state official at the time.
The charges against the former aides, Joseph Percoco and Todd R. Howe, and the state official, Alain Kaloyeros, were the culmination of a long - running federal investigation into the Cuomo administration's efforts to lure jobs and businesses to upstate New York's limping economy by furnishing billions of dollars in state funds to developers from Buffalo to Albany.
Federal corruption charges were announced on Thursday against two former close aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a senior state official and six other people, in a blow to the governor's innermost circle and a repudiation of the way his prized upstate economic development programs were managed.
She said her problem was not with the charges against her, to which she pleaded guilty, but the way in which she was indicted by state officials.
New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat filed an official grievance through the state court system against a man who was filmed this week going on a racially charged rant in a Midtown Manhattan lunch market.
ALBANY — The five felony charges against former State Sen. George D. Maziarz should be dismissed because state election officials may not agree the Niagara County Republican broke any law, his lawyers said today in an Albany courtState Sen. George D. Maziarz should be dismissed because state election officials may not agree the Niagara County Republican broke any law, his lawyers said today in an Albany courtstate election officials may not agree the Niagara County Republican broke any law, his lawyers said today in an Albany courtroom.
In addition, corruption charges were announced against another former aide, a senior state official and six other people.
The Republican officials said Carl Paladino, a Western New York developer who is the state's leading Trump booster, is leading the charge against Pataki.
Cuomo said the Singas would have broad powers to subpoena, investigate and, if warranted, prosecute criminal charges against Schneiderman, who, until he announced his resignation Monday night was the state's top law enforcement official.
But Mr. Silver's defense attorney Steven Molo said the government simply disapproved of the entirely legal fact that Mr. Silver and other state lawmakers can hold outside employment and, instead of trying to change such laws — which he said will present «inherent conflicts of interest» — the government was «leveling false criminal charges against one of the senior legislative officers, senior government officials in this state.»
The five felony charges against former State Sen. George Maziarz should be dismissed because state election officials may not agree the Niagara County Republican broke any law, his lawyers said today in an Albany courtState Sen. George Maziarz should be dismissed because state election officials may not agree the Niagara County Republican broke any law, his lawyers said today in an Albany courtstate election officials may not agree the Niagara County Republican broke any law, his lawyers said today in an Albany courtroom.
In each restatement of the charges, federal prosecutors have refined the wording of their complex and wide - ranging case against two former high - ranking state officials and six other individuals.
An official of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Mr. Samuel Madojemu, on Thursday explained why the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, was not invited by the bureau before charges were filed against the former Governor of Kwara State before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
AMS pulled out of the deal last year, citing the charges against Kaloyeros, but state officials continue to steer money to the site in hopes of attracting another corporate partner.
ALBANY — Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara wasn't the only one bringing charges against a top state official Thursday.
reported, based on public records and other media accounts, that public and quasi-public entities» spending on outside counsel related to state and federal investigations that led to corruption charges against a total of ten former state officials and business executives could approach $ 7 million.
In early July, The Alt reported, based on public records and other media accounts, that public and quasi-public entities» spending on outside counsel related to state and federal investigations that led to corruption charges against a total of ten former state officials and business executives could approach $ 7 million.
Governor Cuomo, and one of the Co-Leaders of the State Senate have already taken some preemptive action before the legislature's scheduled return to the Capitol, following federal bribery charges against a State Senator and an Assemblyman, as well as other officials.
Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.
Last summer, she lost her job as European correspondent for Renewable Energy World, an online publication, after filing charges with the F.B.I. against the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and several top U.S. government officials, claiming they are part of a plot to depopulate the United States using tainted H1N1 flu vaccines.
Nation Flint water crisis update: Charges were filed on Wednesday against two state officials and a Flint city administrator, with MIchigan Attorney General saying they were «only the beginning.»
Newcombe said he also plans to meet with officials from the Orange - Osceola state attorney's office today to discuss possible criminal charges against the owner of the horses, an Orlando woman he refused to identify.
When the group returned to Pennsylvania hours after the purchase, state SPCA officials prepared charges against six of the 12 Lancaster County breeders who sent dogs to the auction.