Sentences with phrase «corruption cases against state»

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

«For years we have been relying on federal prosecutors to bring the lion's share of corruption cases against state officials,» Kaminsky said.

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.

An Albany County Court judge Monday turned down a motion to dismiss a corruption case against State Sen. Robert Ortt, R - North Tonawanda, on a claim that he was improperly denied a chance to speak before an Albany County grand jury on March 23.

Not exact matches

Federal prosecutors rested their corruption case against Joe Percoco today, but first displayed a series of emails intended to show the power the former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo wielded at the highest levels of state governments.

* State prosecutors pursing bribery and corruption charges against G. Steven Pigeon saw their case improve today when a judge reversed an earlier decision to suppress email evidence that they believe incriminates the once - powerful political operative

Allegations of plagiarism from nearly three decades ago are once again dogging a central figure in the federal government's corruption case against Alain Kaloyeros, the physics professor credited with creating the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors yesterday slapped the disgraced former state Senate majority leader with yet another round of charges in the growing corruption case against him.

Grandeau says despite the rampant corruption, all of the cases against lawmakers in recent years have stemmed from federal prosecutions, not state ethics authorities.

(U.S. attorney Preet Bharara told The Buffalo News that he has seen evidence of corruption across New York state, and his current probes could lead to cases to against upstate lawmakers.

The Leaderships of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress are demanding for the resignation of the Minister of State, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, for alleged involved in the handling of the case of corruption against the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Dr. Angela Uwakwem.

Environmental groups and advocates are cheering the decision by state environmental officials to deny permits for the Millennium Pipeline to connect to a Hudson Valley power plant that is playing a supporting role in the corruption case against former gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco.

NLC is not happy with the refusal of Ehanire to remove Uwakwem as the Chief Medical Director of the FMC, Owerri in spite of allegations of corruption and a pending case against her in the State High Court, Owerri, Imo State.

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.

The trial coincides with separate corruption case against one of the state's top Democrats, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The email evidence is considered key to the State Attorney General's case against the former Erie County Democratic chairman, and it was used to help obtain a 2016 indictment against Pigeon and others on corruption charges.

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.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

Prosecutors made their closing arguments Monday in the public corruption case against Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker with extremely close ties to the real estate industry.

Back in January, at a press conference detailing charges against Democratic State Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver, the crusading United States Attorney teased reporters with those words, an unmissable hint that more big corruption cases were in his pipeline.

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.

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.

ALBANY — Three felony corruption counts against state Sen. Robert Ortt were dropped by an Albany judge Tuesday just three months after the case was brought against the Republican senator from North Tonawanda by Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman.

Buffalo trial attorney Terry Connors spoke with WBFO live Friday morning to provide insight into the corruption case against New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the legal process ahead.

«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 state capitol is bracing for a parade of corruption trials this year that began Monday with jury selection in the case against former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco.

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

Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.

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.

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.

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.

The million - dollar corruption case lodged against Brooklyn state Sen. Carl Kruger did more than depict him as the personification of sleaze.

Lynch last week dismissed the indictment in the corruption case that state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman brought against state Sen. Rob Ortt, a North Tonawanda Republican who was elected to the seat Maziarz gave up when he decided against a re-election bid in 2014.

Grandeau says that, despite the rampant corruption, all of the cases against lawmakers in recent years have stemmed from federal prosecutions, not state ethics authorities.

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.

A trial will begin Oct. 30 in New York City in the federal corruption case against two former top state officials and six other men, including two executives from Fayetteville - based Cor Development Co..

On less controversial matters, Schneiderman said his partnership with state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has borne fruit in dozens of corruption cases against public officials.

The case against Mr. Skelos and his son grew out of a broader inquiry into political corruption by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, that has already changed the face of the state capital.