Sentences with phrase «corruption by federal prosecutors»

Silver, 70, has been accused of five counts of bribery and corruption by federal prosecutors.

Three incumbent state senators on the ballot — Democrats Malcolm Smith of Queens and John Sampson of Brooklyn as well as Binghamton's Tom Libous, the deputy Republican leader — have been accused of corruption by federal prosecutors.

Not exact matches

The guilty verdict in the case of Joe Percoco was coupled with not guilty results for two prominent upstate developers who had also been accused of corruption and bribery by federal prosecutors.

Melvin Lowe, a former top political aide to the indicted Sen. John Sampson whose job was nebulous — at best — is being eyed by federal prosecutors as part of a mushrooming corruption probe.

The corruption conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday was overturned by a federal appeals court, dealing yet another blow to the prosecutors who had sought to crack down on Albany's unseemly way of doing business.

Today's sweeping indictments by federal and state prosecutors resoundingly confirm that the state's use of non-profits and SUNY to award billions in state economic development contracts has created huge and systemic opportunities for corruption.

Close to $ 2 Billion in public funds in play Today's sweeping indictments by federal and state prosecutors resoundingly confirm that the state's use of non-profits and SUNY to award billions in state economic development contracts has created huge and systemic opportunities for corruption.

Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto «traded their office for money,» a federal prosecutor said Tuesday in the 10 - week - old corruption trial's closing arguments while Mangano's defense attorney countered that the government's star witness «desecrated the oath» by lying repeatedly on the stand.

Meanwhile, the former top legislative leaders in the Senate and Assembly are being retried by federal prosecutors after their corruption convictions were overturned.

A federal judge handed indicted Albany politician Dean Skelos a pile of legal defeats Tuesday, tossing out his motion to dismiss two of his corruption charges and ruling that prosecutors can use all the evidence they scored by wiretapping his cellphone, new court papers state.

Mangano and Walker have both been identified in Newsday stories as being under scrutiny in an unrelated corruption probe by federal prosecutors on Long Island stemming from charges against restaurateur Harendra Singh, who was a major campaign contributor to Mangano and others on the Island.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo deferred on Wednesday to prosecutors who have indicating they will continue to pursue a corruption conviction of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver when asked after his conviction was tossed by a federal appeals court.

If you're looking for a guide to the upcoming federal corruption trial of former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco and businessmen Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, look no further than the jury questionnaire recently agreed to by prosecutors and the defense.

A politically connected lawyer says the Manhattan US Attorney should now go by «Ayatollah Preet Bharara» after the prosecutor's underlings on Thursday persuaded a federal judge to move ahead with indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith's corruption trial in January — rejecting a bid to delay it to accommodate his wife's problem pregnancy.

But the corruption scheme outlined by federal prosecutors has strained the entire nanotechnology program, threatening to knock economic progress off course in places like Utica, where growth was never certain in the best of times.

The session began with a closed door meeting by Senate Republicans, the first time that the majority party members met together since the publication of a New York Times report that says federal prosecutors are investigating Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and his son, for possible corruption.

Nearly a year ago, crusading federal prosecutor Preet Bharara mocked Albany's culture of corruption, heaping extra scorn on the deals hatched in secrecy by three men in a room.

New York will end an agreement with New Jersey allowing companies to trade emission credits in order to meet pollution standards, a decision that follows accusations by federal prosecutors that the credits were part of a corruption scheme involving a Competitive Power Ventures power plant in New Jersey.

Nine former associates of Governor Cuomo, including a former top aide, have been charged by federal prosecutors with corruption including bribery and bid rigging in connection with the procurement of contracts for some of the Governor's largest economic development projects, including the Buffalo Billion.

While testifying at the unrelated corruption trial of former State Sen. Dean Skelos, Walker confirmed he is being investigated by federal prosecutors for what he called «campaign contributions, that contractors received work because of that.»

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to be questioned Friday by federal prosecutors in connection with a corruption investigation into fundraising on his behalf, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Prosecutors at the federal corruption trial of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Thursday displayed an email sent by the witness to a friend.

The practice has also been highlighted by federal prosecutors in several high - profile political corruption trials.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco, of Syracuse, says the atmosphere of corruption and on going criminal investigations by federal prosecutors is making it harder tied together in a huge end of session agreement, that has earned the nickname «the big ugly.»

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He said the former federal prosecutor who took on Albany corruption and was fired in 2017 by President Trump, could likely get the GOP, Reform and Independence party lines.

Among the other guests was local Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who is running to win the state Senate seat vacated by Republican Dean Skelos, who was convicted in a corruption scam.

That was before he and several other Cuomo administration figures and private businessmen were accused of corruption by federal and state prosecutors.

The former federal prosecutor, who ran on a platform of cleaning up Albany, has claimed the Long Island state once held by the former majority leader convicted of corruption.

Ciminelli, caught up in a public corruption probe by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, is one of nine defendants charged in a criminal complaint brought by federal prosecutors.

The Manganos - Venditto case is the latest to go to trial as the result of recent investigations into political corruption on Long Island by Eastern District federal prosecutors, the FBI and IRS.

Former senate majority leader Dean Skelos violated his oath of office in an attempt to enrich his son by «strong - arming» companies that relied on the Long Island Republican's support in Albany, a federal prosecutor said during closing remarks in the senator's corruption trial on Tuesday afternoon.

The Manganos - Venditto case is the latest to go to trial as the result of recent investigations into political corruption on Long Island by Eastern District federal prosecutors.

The majority of the corruption cases brought against state lawmakers have been initiated by federal prosecutors, largely due to the federal theft of honest services statute.