Sentences with phrase «conviction of assembly member»

The ruling comes after the conviction of Assembly Member William Boyland Jr. and Assembly Member Eric Stevenson this year on bribery charges.

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The last time a member of the Assembly was expelled without conviction was 1920, when five Socialist Party members were expelled for disloyalty.

Persaud, who is running to fill the seat vacated by the July felony conviction of Sen. John Sampson, has been a member of the state Assembly since beating Ferretti by 47 points in 2014.

Two veteran Assembly members and an official from the governor's office said they expect a deal will be struck on the popular ethics measure this legislative election year after an unprecedented string of corruption convictions within the last 12 months.

After the corruption conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Silver's replacement, Carl Heastie, met with 20 of his members to discuss the idea of possibly barring or restricting outside income for legislators.

The House of Assembly, in the exercise of its historic right to expel a member in appropriate circumstances, hereby expels from the Assembly the member last elected before the coming into force of this Act for the electoral district of Inverness South by reason of his conviction on four counts of using forged documents in respect of money received by him in his capacity as a member, and the seat of that member is and is deemed to be vacant until an election is held in that electoral district according to law.