Sentences with phrase «charges against the speaker»
«I can't speak to the specific charges against the speaker, but I can say that outside income for legislators is a certain recipe for corruption.»
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Silver's attorneys earlier released a statement calling the charges against the speaker «meritless,» and said, «Mr. Silver looks forward to responding to them — in court — and ultimately his full exoneration.»
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The Ethics Committee dropped its final charges against Gingrich not long before he resigned as speaker, despite finding that Gingrich had in fact violated one rule by repeatedly using a political consultant paid by GOPAC to develop the Republican political agenda, because there was no evidence he was continuing to do so.
The board — composed of longtime members Michael Van Skaik and Larry Osborne as well as business leaders Jon Phelps and Matt Rogers (who were added after popular evangelical speaker Paul Tripp and Harvest Bible Chapel's James McDonald resigned over the summer)-- also added that many of the formal charges that had been levied against him were «altogether unfair or untrue.»
The charges against Silver, who until last week was Assembly speaker, are numerous and serious.
Silver, who would become the longest - serving speaker in state history next year, has survived previous ethical scandals, including widespread complaints over his handling of sexual harassment charges against former Assemblyman Vito Lopez and the earlier conviction of his top aide, Michael Boxley, on a charge of sexual misconduct.
According to the complaint against Silver, Meara (who has also lobbied for a firm connected to the charges against former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos) served as a conduit between the former speaker and a developer widely identified as Glenwood Management.
The charges against Silver center on the speaker's alleged failure to report outside income — exactly the kind of ethical lapse that Moreland was supposed to probe.
One of the charges against the former speaker involves a doctor who purportedly steered clients to Silver after he was given state money.
When corruption charges were brought against then - Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver earlier this year, the Democratic conference initially stood squarely behind their leader, but support began to wane as members had more time to examine the charges.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara ominously told state politicians to «stay tuned» after he brought charges against Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, forcing the Democrat to relinquish the speaker post he held for more than two decades.
Lawyers for Sheldon Silver were back in federal court Thursday, arguing to dismiss all of the federal corruption charges against the former Assembly speaker.
The trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, in Federal District Court in Manhattan on an eight - count indictment that includes bribery and extortion charges is scheduled to begin today — just as the unrelated corruption case against Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the State Assembly, enters its third week.
The government wrapped up nearly three weeks of testimony and evidence in its corruption case against former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, resting its case after calling two witnesses who testified in support of the money - laundering charges against the assemblyman.
In a sign of how common corruption charges against state legislators have become, political observers say the news sent shockwaves through the New York's political establishment, not because of what Silver is charged with, but because of the speaker's stature.
Only days after Chartock's predications hit the papers, now - former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver was indicted on corruption charges, That was swiftly followed by similar accusations against now - former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos.
CITY HALL — A Staten Island attorney and former counsel to Sheldon Silver is reportedly tied to criminal charges filed against the assembly speaker on Thursday.
The problem isn't the arrest itself or the charges levied against the speaker, who for years has accumulated wealth through private law firms in New York City.
John Aretakis of Troy, an advocate for the Child Victims Act, said in a letter to the federal prosecutor who brought corruption charges against Silver in 2015 that Lynch effectively flipped the Assembly speaker on the issue.
The work of the Moreland Commission helped Mr. Bharara's office bring corruption charges against Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who recently stepped down as speaker and whose arrest in January refocused attention on the need for better oversight on ethics.
Attorneys for Sheldon Silver have asked a federal judge to throw out corruption charges against the former Assembly speaker, citing the Supreme Court case that invalidated the convictions of Silver's old counterpart in Albany, former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno.
Litwin has not been charged with any wrongdoing in relation to the speaker's law firm, though he appears to be the individual identified in the federal complaint against Silver as «Developer - 1.»
Outside income was also at the heart of the case against Sheldon Silver, the Manhattan Democrat who served as the Assembly speaker for two decades before being arrested on federal corruption charges in January 2015.
Many good government groups had the expectation that the workgroup's proposals would help empower individual members while decreasing the speaker's ability to control all legislation, something they saw as playing into the charges against Silver, who had long resisted calls for basic technological changes to increase transparency.
The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, announces the charges against Sheldon Silver, the longtime Assembly speaker, who was arrested Thursday morning.
On the bottom, a USB Type - C charging port is flanked by a headphone jack and speaker grill; and on the back is the single - lens camera that almost sits flush against the rear.