Sentences with phrase «disgraced senator»
It's why he's defended the RCMP before the Arar inquiry, accused war criminals, and most recently, disgraced senator Mike Duffy.
http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/
To which the disgraced senator reportedly replied: «No one can understand the suffering I've experienced.»
«Disgraced senator.
As Counsel to the State Senate Democrats, Shelley was the architect of an unprecedented legal effort to expel disgraced Senator Hiram Monserrate from office after he was convicted of domestic violence.
«Instead of distancing themselves from Bob Menendez after his indictment on bribery charges, his Democrat colleagues have stood behind him, even accepting tainted campaign cash from the disgraced Senator,» Bob Salera, the deputy communications director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), told the Washington Free Beacon.
It remains unclear why the State Senate deleted the web archives of the disgraced Senators.
Not exact matches
Disgraced former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards, reviled for his costy coifs on the campaign trail, now places his strands in the hands of the pros at Supercuts.
A top women's rights right group and domestic violence victims came out firing Thursday against disgraced former state Senator Hiram Monserrate, calling on voters to reject the girlfriend - beating, ex-con's comeback...
The sorry saga of disgraced former state senator Pedro Espada continues with the latest episode posted on the State of Politics blog today.
On Friday, disgraced ex-state Senator Pedro Espada was given 5 years in prison for embezzling funds from the Soundview Health Center he founded 30 years ago.
Democrats are looking to capture seats they previously held in the Hudson Valley and retain the seat of State Senator Todd Kaminsky — who defeated a Republican in a special election in April to replace disgraced former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — and to possibly capitalize on other GOP scandals in Nassau County.
«We applaud Dan Padernacht's decision to withdraw from the Democratic primary against disgraced State Senator Pedro Espada.
New York Post: «The ex-fiancee of disgraced politician Hiram Monserrate claims the Queens district attorney is only prosecuting her for a Samurai sword attack on her current beau because she refused to testify against the former state Senator when he attacked her nearly a decade ago.»
The disgraced former boss of the Bronx Republican Party copped a plea to federal corruption charges on Tuesday, saying he accepted a $ 15,000 bribe to let a Democratic state senator...
Disgraced former state senator and current Bridgeport city councilor Ernie Newton appeared before the state Supreme Court Wednesday, where he argued that his latest conviction, for campaign finance fraud, should be reversed because the judge at this trial...
The disgraced former state senator lost his bid to get his corruption conviction tossed Thursday, while court filings reveal that he's deeply in the red.
Guy Velella finally emerged yesterday from the Bronx house where he's been holed up — as Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said the disgraced former state senator should go back to...
«Disgraced former state Senator Pedro Espada Jr. is back in New York State, after he reportedly stepped over the line in the minimum security prison where he had been residing in Pennsylvania.
It is a Disgrace that Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway has Taken 50 Years and Cost us $ 5B Dollars WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW By Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz You should know that the Official Groundbreaking to mark the -LSB-...]
«It is a disgrace that Senator Duane is playing this mind game with his colleagues and with the public,» Diaz says.
Taking the stand in Manhattan federal court to testify against his longtime friend and son Adam, D'Amato said he met with the disgraced state senator after learning Adam had gotten a job at Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers.
Despite being thrown behind bars in May, the disgraced former state senator from Brooklyn has only paid a $ 300 processing fee and $ 25 toward the fine, according to newly filed court documents.
Carl Kruger / Pedro Espada — Disgraced state Senator Carl Kruger resigned from office and tearfully pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges, while his «amigo» former state Senator Pedro Espada lost his bid to keep his Soundview Healthcare Network in the state's Medicaid program.
Carl Kruger, the once - powerful New York State senator from Brooklyn who resigned his office in disgrace and pleaded guilty to corruption charges in December, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday by a federal judge in Manhattan.
The race to succeed the disgraced Sen. Skelos pitted upstate senators against downstate ones.
In District 21, where Council Member Julissa Ferreras - Copeland is stepping down at the end of her current term, two Democrats are facing off in the primary: Assemblymember Francisco Moya and Hiram Monserrate, a disgraced former state Senator and Council member who is attempting a comeback after a checkered recent past that includes separate criminal convictions on fraud and assault charges.
A reformer who won the lion's share of labor endorsements in the race, including that of the Working Families Party, Torres was supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who ousted disgraced and jailed incumbent Pedro Espada, Jr. in 2010, as well as by the Bronx's most popular elected official, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (who has broken with his father on social issues like LGBT rights and marriage equality).
Adams, 52, a Democratic state senator who is running for Brooklyn borough president this fall, was recorded on a wire worn by disgraced state Sen. Shirley Huntley as part of a federal investigation into political corruption, according to records unsealed Wednesday.
LeFrak City, a 20 - building, 4,605 - unit complex that houses about 25,000 people, is a key battleground in the council race between Assemblyman Francisco Moya and Monserrate, a disgraced former state senator.
«I haven't seen this mailer, but I'm just telling you, if you're going to run for governor, tell me what you're going to do, and trying to attack Ralph Northam, a VMI graduate and Army doctor, who served our troops who had been injured and was a doctor for them, who has been a great state senator, a great lieutenant governor, and for Enron Ed to come in here and do these divisive ads against Ralph Northam is a disgrace.»
Saraki, who was represented at the event by Senator Ben Bruce, said: «What happened was a disgrace.
Three years after disgraced Bronx Senator Pedro Espada was sentenced to prison and ordered to forfeit $ 368,088, including $ 118,531 to the IRS, he's coughed up about $ 15,150.
The American Federation for Children, a front group for the voucher movement overseen by disgraced former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, has publicly bragged of spending massive amounts of campaign cash to elect sympathetic and sycophantic state senators.