Sentences with phrase «convicted felons on»

She hired a reputable department store to clean her air ducts, and the company sent two convicted felons on the service call.

The move would be accomplished by pardoning convicted felons on parole, allowing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sidestep the State Legislature.

Appealing to his left flank, Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday that he's signed an executive order to give convicted felons on parole the right to vote.

The mayor of Bridgeport, Joe Ganim, plans to appeal directly to Democratic voters in Connecticut to gauge whether they are willing to put a convicted felon on the ballot during this summer's primary for governor.

Going for full blown casinos with a convicted felon on the payroll would be interesting for sure.

And there is no bigger blow to the heart than realizing that your soulmate is no more than a mean pretender, or worse, a convicted felon on the run.

Not exact matches

Convicted felon Martin Shkreli, not exactly known for his discretion or restraint, could find himself in jail (even sooner than currently scheduled) thanks to bizarre comments he made on social media offering $ 5,000 to anyone who brings him snippets of Hillary Clinton's hair during her upcoming book tour.

A retired ICE agent who believes in a hardline stance on immigration policy found himself helping a convicted felon avoid being deported.

You can't be taken seriously or have your opinion trusted when you support a CONVICTED felon... you're a blemish on humanity.

add on the fact that he's probably about to be a convicted (or at least pled - to) felon, and i think i'm happy that that particular trade never went through.

I decided to Google the name of the convicted felon (and registered sex - offender) who served his time and is now back on the youth sports scene in Honolulu.

For example, go through one - by - one the list of all purged voters and investigate whether each was or was not indeed a convicted felon (or had other legitimate reasons for being on the list).

According to multiple sources, none other than John Haggerty, a convicted felon who stole a million dollars from Michael Bloomberg and is out on appeal pending his request for a retrial.

Freddie Dean Smith, a convicted felon with a lengthy criminal record and former Assistant Superintendent in New Rochelle, was granted an administrative license by NYSED while he was then on probation after a felony conviction for endangering a police officer in Virginia and while awaiting sentencing on two separate sex crimes in South Carolina (he followed women around in stores with his penis hanging out of his pants while he masturbated).

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has had to calculate and sign off on the pensions for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who are both convicted felons, as well as several other lawmakers convicted of felonies.

One of the dead victims was on probation and forbidden from being inside any establishment which serves alcohol; two of the eight who were shot had served state prison time on weapons or assault charges; five are convicted felons and six had been arrested by Buffalo police since 2008.

«Recycling Ed Cox and Rob Astorino's pathetic lies that hinge on the hearsay testimony of a convicted felon is a feeble attempt by Dean Skelos» heir apparent to distract from the fact that he, unlike Senator Kaminsky, doesn't support comprehensive ethics reform,» Azzopardi said.

Cuomo signed an executive order on Wednesday that will let more convicted felons vote.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Sweeping clemency action by Governor Andrew Cuomo on December 30 — in which he commuted the sentences of seven felons, pardoned five others, and conditionally pardoned 101 nonviolent youthful offenders — came as welcome news to a longtime gay leader who in recent years has made rehabilitated convicts a key mission -LSB-...]

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Seeking to be harsher on convicted felons, putting them in jail instead of drug treatment programs, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis has reintroduced a bill named after a police officer who was killed by a career criminal.

«This is a convicted felon who was lying on the witness stand,» Astorino said of Rechnitz's testimony.

Terry McAuliffe in 2016 announced convicted felons would have their voting rights restored, arguing the old system was based on denying people of color the right to vote.

«Let's be clear, Ali has no plans on taking money advice from someone who consistently fails to pay his own taxes but if he wants to look at connections, let's look at the fact that Murphy was elected only two years ago after taking over a million dollars from convicted felon Dean Skelos to help him join Albany's culture of corruption.

Some people accuse Jeb Bush of rigging Florida 2000 by purging voter rolls of innocent voters on the pretext of them being convicted felons from out - of - state, when in fact they were not.

Convicted felon and disgraced former Queens politician Hiram Monserrate lost his comeback bid for a seat on the NYC Council as voters in his working class district couldn't look past his history of corruption and domestic abuse, electing Assemblyman Francisco Moya instead.

Others on the list included former longtime Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, state Sen. Diane Savino (D - Brooklyn / Staten Island), former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Yonkers political operative and convicted felon Anthony Mangone, and the late former state Sen. Guy Velella (D - Bronx), who resigned in disgrace after pleading guilty to bribery charges.

Lawmaker - turned - lobbyist Nick Spano can keep influencing his former colleagues, despite today's guilty plea on tax evasion and his pending status as a convicted felon.

In addition to those 35,000 Cuomo will pardon, he plans to issue a pardon to each month's convicted felons as they go on parole.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) will be granting all convicted felons in the state who are on parole a pardon, a move that will restore voting rights to more than 35,000 people.

After spending weeks defending his decision to march in a parade that planned to honor convicted FALN felon Oscar Lopez Rivera, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday claimed he had...

«Organizations like the New York State Correction Association, who advocate solely on inmates» behalf, continue to conduct biased research based on interviews with convicted felons whose credibility certainly can be questioned,» Miller said.

Gonzalez declined to comment on whether it was appropriate for parade organizers to award convicted felon Oscar López Rivera the march's first National Freedom Award.

Anthony Scaramucci must have some time on his hands — and a soft spot for a convicted felon attempting a political comeback.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has had to calculate and sign off on the pensions for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos, who are both convicted felons, as well as several other lawmakers convicted of felonies.

«Nor has Barack Obama come clean on his close friendship with Tony Rezko, a felon convicted on bribery charges who subsidized the purchase of Barack Obama's home.»

He's being prosecuted for allegedly stating falsely on his application for a notary public license that he wasn't a convicted felon.

It showed how Percoco continued to use his government office and assistant while he ran the Cuomo campaign, and how a convicted felon, Howe, had access to the state's highest officials and weighed in on personnel decisions.

«My opponent is a convicted felon who has zero credibility on this or any other issue in the campaign,» he said.

It doesn't appear that state law would have stopped him, as New York has no direct prohibition on convicted felons lobbying.

Governor Cuomo and the legislature announced in March that they had agreed on a process to change the state's constitution to revoke pension of legislators who are convicted felons, but the Assembly never actually approved the deal, offering an alternative bill instead.

The mechanism through which Mr. Cuomo plans to do so is unusual: He would consider pardons for all 35,000 people currently on parole in New York, as well as any new convicted felons who enter the parole system each month.

Yet, Chairwoman Stavisky didn't speak up to object to the presence of a convicted felon and admitted interloper on her Party's line.

The analyzed studies, published from 1994 to 2015, focused on false social and political news accounts, including misinformation in reports of robberies; investigations of a warehouse fire and traffic accident; the supposed existence of «death panels» in the 2010 Affordable Care Act; positions of political candidates on Medicaid; and a report on whether a candidate had received donations from a convicted felon.

My memory's a convicted felon who keeps on pleading for innocence and thus won't serve my mind its time and purpose well.

«I was on a date with a guy who turned out to be a convicted felon.

PR NEWSWIRE — Oct 2 — TRUE's lawsuit against a convicted felon who misrepresented himself on TRUE has been settled.

Even though Dee has no prior drug record and no drugs were found on her in the raid or any subsequent searches, she is offered a hellish choice: plead guilty and go home as a convicted felon or remain in prison and fight the charges thus, jeopardizing the custody of her children and risking a long prison sentence.

Scott just wants to live on the straight and narrow in order to be the best dad in the world, but being a convicted felon is giving him difficulty, because no will give him an honest job.

She takes especial pleasure from throwing barbs at the daughter of a scout volunteer, who gets it worse for daring to think that it might be a bad idea to have a convicted felon run a business that depends on child labor.

«Prophet's Prey,» her documentary on Warren Jeffs, the former leader of the polygamist sect Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints and convicted felon, premiered at Sundance in January and will open theatrically this fall before it airs on Showtime.