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The jury in the political corruption case against Dean G. Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, and his son began its deliberations on Thursday, after a nearly four - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

The jury in the political corruption case against Dean Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, and his son, Adam, began its deliberations yesterday, after a nearly four - week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

Not exact matches

Glenwood has been embroiled in the federal criminal corruption cases against former Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Glenwood Management, the real estate development firm at the center of the federal corruption cases against former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is the state's most generous political donor and a robust utilizer of the LLC loophole.

His company was a key player in an alleged kickback scheme involving former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, as well as a figure in a corruption case against former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

He was the chief investigator in the prosecution of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges and an investigator in the corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam.

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

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.

A judge has refused to throw out charges or evidence in the corruption case brought against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam.

Federal prosecutors, bent on telling a story of public corruption, used cherry - picked evidence, untrustworthy witnesses and innuendo to build a case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, lawyers for the men said in closing arguments yesterday.

The founder of the struggling environmental services company at the heart of the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, testified at their trial yesterday that days after Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, the senator provided valuable business intelligence that the company felt would be helpful.

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

The case — along with corruption charges against another of Albany's most powerful politicians, State Senate Leader Dean Skelos, has rocked Albany this year.

Bharara won convictions in federal corruption cases against New York's two most powerful legislative leaders: former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a supposed smoking gun.

He won convictions in public corruption cases against New York State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and State Senator Dean Skelos, and also brought insider trading charges against Bernie Madoff.

Glenwood's giving largely dried up in 2015, when it was drawn into the federal corruption cases brought against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

ALBANY — Federal prosecutors in the corruption case against state Senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, on Thursday filed a 164 - page letter detailing the application for a wiretap against the two defendants.

After a court hearing Friday, Dean Skelos spoke about the case publicly for the first time, calling the charges — a key piece of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption — a «prosecution that should never have been brought» and predicting the jury «will find my son and myself innocent.»