Sentences with phrase «corruption charges leveled»
A federal judge has refused former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's bid to dismiss the corruption charges leveled against him.
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Lawyers representing six of the defendants have spent the past several weeks in a new letter - writing campaign to a federal judge seeking dismissal of the bid - rigging corruption charges leveled against individuals involved in several major upstate economic development programs, including the mega-construction project at Tesla's Riverbend site in South Buffalo.
It was learnt that various issues affecting the region, including corruption charges levelled against ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, and the halted Nigerian Maritime University in Okerenkoko, Warri South - West Local Government Area of Delta State, are to be considered at the meeting in Abuja today.
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Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was convicted on multiple felony - level corruption charges in 2015.
Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins said NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton should resign amid an ongoing corruption probe at the department, charging that there is a double standard in which high ranking brass are punished less severely than lower level cops and sergeants for the same behavior.
«Themed as a traveling sideshow, 15 state - level elected officials (including 4 Senate Democrats, 4 Senate Republicans, 6 Assembly Democrats, and 1 State Comptroller) who have been convicted on corruption - related charges in the past decade will be presented as life - sized cartoonish caricatures,» the press release states.
The escalating friction within the Electoral Commission (EC) has taken another turn with the deputy Chairperson of the commission in charge of Corporate Services, Georgina Opoku Amankwah, refuting accusations of corruption levelled against her by the EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei.
In the last three years, the Long Island Nine has become the not - so - solid seven with the conviction of ex-GOP Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos on federal corruption charges and the election loss of freshman Sen. Michael Venditto after federal charges were leveled against his father, former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, who is now on trial.
It's also worth noting that legendary levels of dubious activity cross partisan lines there: After the Republican Party lost the majority in the state Senate in 2008, Democrats spent the first few months of their abbreviated stint in power basking in new information about how Republicans spent the legislature's money on items like a special van for the man who was then their majority leader, Joe Bruno, who went on to be sentenced to two years in prison on federal corruption charges.
On ethics, the governor made no direct mention of the scandals that led to the arrest and conviction of both leaders of the legislature on corruption charges, though he did say 2015 was a «tough, ugly» year on many levels.
resignation from the House yesterday after pleading guilty to corruption charges is just the latest in a series of scandals — some large, some small — currently dogging high - level elected officials.
Federal prosecutors Thursday leveled public - corruption charges against eight individuals including Cuomo's former right - hand man, Joe Percoco, stemming from what was described as «two overlapping criminal schemes.»
His words, «This is exactly the same thing I'm talking about, a minister like Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, he believes and he levels charges of corruption against people from the previous regimes, notably the (former) president and first lady without evidence.