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The convictions of both former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on multiple federal corruption charges led many legislators and advocates to assume that this year would see significant action on government ethics reform.

A federal appeals court's decision to overturn the convictions of former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver shows how public corruption cases have become much more difficult to substantiate in the wake of a Supreme Court decision narrowing what qualifies as corruption, legal analysts said.

And although we do not generally support stuffing the budget with policy items, it might be smart to put ethics reform there, given the urgency for change after the recent corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The convictions of former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and son on charges of corruption came as no particular surprise.

Federal authorities urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday not to review the public corruption convictions of former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell, arguing that he used his office to benefit a wealthy benefactor and was rightly found guilty of breaking the law.

The felony convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, now suddenly former assemblyman, had to send cold chills through the Dean Skelos camp, where the former majority leader of the state Senate was, along with his son, on trial across Foley Square in Manhattan federal court on similar bribery and influence - peddling charges.

He was even more explicit in his comments following the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last year, saying the back - to - back convictions «should be a wake - up call for the Legislature and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms.»

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, said in a statement that the «convictions of former Speaker Silver and former Majority Leader Skelos should be a wake - up call for the Legislature, and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms.»

«There has been a dark cloud hovering over government for several years now as a result of federal investigations into abuse of power and corruption,» said the county executive, in an indirect reference to the corruption convictions of former Suffolk police Chief James Burke and former Suffolk Conservative Party chairman Edward Walsh.

Bharara's office has already cut a wide swath through the Capitol, handling the prosecutions of a double - handful of state lawmakers, including last year's back - to - back convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Mr. Cuomo's abrupt scuttling of the Moreland Commission in 2014 following an agreement with the State Legislature prompted Mr. Bharara to take a closer look at the activities of the state's most influential figures — culminating in the corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos last December.

The upcoming legislative session marks the first since the convictions of former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos on corruption - related charges.

Bharara has already seen his record on Albany corruption tained after his high - profile convictions of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County) and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) were overturned on appeal as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that came out after their trials that limited what is considered bribery.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Monday the political system in Albany «looks pretty terrible» following the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-State Sen. Majority Leader Dean Skelos for corruption.

«The convictions of former Speaker Silver and former Majority Leader Skelos should be a wakeup call for the Legislature and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms,» he added.

The state's independent ethics commission took the first official ethics - related action in Albany since the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday when it appointed a man with ties to both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders as its new executive director.

ALBANY — Glenwood Management, the development company at the center of two federal corruption convictions of former Albany leaders, hasn't completely given up its political giving.

During the last months of Fliedner's tenure, where he helped land the convictions of former NYPD Officer Peter Liang and Officer Joel Edouard, he questioned Thompson's leadership toward staffers and judgment for allegedly handing executive positions to unqualified persons.

«The justice system worked today... The convictions of former Speaker Silver and former Majority Leader Skelos should be a wakeup call for the Legislature and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms,» he said in a statement.

The recent convictions of both former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos both hinged on corruption schemes involving the same Long Island real estate company.

ALBANY — One of the state Legislature's proposed responses this year to the cloud of corruption caused by the convictions of its former leaders is actually something lawmakers gleefully agreed to do last year, but then didn't: strip state pensions from convicted felons.

Glenwood Management, the development company at the center of two federal corruption convictions of former Albany leaders, hasn't completely given up its political giving.

After the corruption convictions of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam were tossed on Tuesday, the inevitable call for new ethics legislation came from good - government groups and lawmakers.

After the convictions of the former top legislative leaders in the Assembly and Senate were tossed, ethics reformers fear fighting corruption may be a lost cause.

The corruption convictions of former state Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, were overturned by a federal appellate court in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that retooled the definition of an «official act» as it relates to public corruption.

(He's siding with the governor in rejecting good government advocates» calls for a special session to pass more ethics reform, saying that despite recent corruption convictions of former senators, it's impossible to «legislative morality»).

The groups note that secret lump sum expenditures featured in the corruption convictions of both former Speaker Sheldon Silver and former State Senator Malcolm Smith.

Orange County Democrats fired a third salvo at state Sen. Bill Larkin on Monday over the question of banning the outside income some state lawmakers earn in the private sector — an issue likely to be taken up in the coming legislative session after the recent corruption convictions of former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

He referred to the December convictions of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan).

Convening barely a month after the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on corruption charges, the Legislature's new leaders vowed to move beyond the turmoil of the past year but already appeared at odds over what steps, if any, to take.

Pension forfeiture has been bogged down for more than a year due to an impasse over the scope of the proposed amendment, despite the arrest and convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The felony convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, now suddenly former assemblyman, had to send cold chills through the

With the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the use of «Albany» as shorthand for «dysfunctional and corrupt state government» has exploded.

«It turns out that the state Legislature does not have any kind of monopoly on crass corruption in New York,» said Bharara, whose office won convictions of former top lawmakers Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos last year, at a noontime press conference.»

NEW YORK — Real estate giant Glenwood Management was fined $ 200,000 by a state ethics commission for its role in the federal corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once two of New York's most powerful politicians.

A federal appeals court has affirmed the convictions of former state Senate Democratic Leader Malcolm Smith and Queens GOP official Vincent Tabone for scheming to get Smith's name on the 2013 New York City Republican mayoral primary ballot.

Calls for anti-corruption legislation grew late last year after the convictions of the former Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the Senate, in separate corruption cases.

There were also special elections yesterday to fill two state legislative seats left vacant by the federal corruption convictions of their former occupants — ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (lower Manhattan) and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (Nassau County, Long Island).

The result of the police investigation was eight prosecutions and seven convictions of former care workers.

During some of these high profile prosecutions — which included convictions of former New Jersey Senate President John Lynch and Cory Booker's predecessor as Newark's mayor, Sharpe James — Christie also proved adept at holding blustery press conferences.

The Silver case was brought by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office won convictions of former state Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos of Long Island and his son, Adam.

Mr. Bharara, 48, had a somewhat more equivocal greeting for the city that has provided him fodder for some of his highest - profile triumphs, including, most recently, the convictions of the former speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, and the majority leader of the State Senate, Dean G. Skelos.

``... The convictions of former Speaker Silver and former Majority Leader Skelos should be a wake - up call for the Legislature and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms.»

Bharara also did not mention Governor Andrew Cuomo, the last of the three men in a room left standing since the convictions of former leaders Silver and Skelos.

Bharara also did not mention Cuomo, the last of the three men in a room left standing since the convictions of former leaders Silver and Skelos, although he recently issued a statement saying he had not found any evidence of criminality in a probe related to Cuomo's office.

In a news release, Governor Andrew Cuomo seemed to respond directly to US Attorney Bharara stating, «The convictions of former Speaker Silver and former Majority Leader Skelos should be a wakeup call for the Legislature and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms.»

ALBANY — The corruption convictions of former state Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos and his son Adam B. Skelos were overturned by a federal appellate court on Tuesday in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that retooled the definition of an «official act» as it relates to public corruption.

In a dizzying year that saw the public corruption convictions of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Skelos at the hands of Bharara's office, what better candidate to run in Skelos» old district than a former prosecutor with a record of fighting corruption like Kaminsky?

Promises of change were heard far and wide after the corruption convictions of former legislative leaders.