Sentences with phrase «disgraced ex-assembly»

A former community liaison for disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is stage - managing the campaign of the Democrat running to succeed him — a candidate that Mr. Silver's allies selected to fill his old Lower Manhattan seat at a meeting of party insiders in February.

Manhattan federal judge Valeri Caproni on Wednesday pushed back the start date for the disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker's 12 - year prison sentence, according to court records.

Manhattan Federal Judge Valerie Caproni on Wednesday pushed back the start date for the disgraced ex-Assembly speaker's 12 - year sentence — giving him until Aug. 31 to enjoy his freedom.

The state ethics agency Wednesday slapped $ 270,000 in fines on two firms that figured prominently in the corruption trials of disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

While the lawman only drew 8,000 followers after successfully prosecuting disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and countless other crooked New York politicians, it was his bust of Zarrab that sent his totals soaring to 220,000 late Wednesday.

LOWER MANHATTAN — In a bid for leniency, Sheldon Silver said he «failed the people of New York,» while his wife of nearly 50 years revealed his battle with cancer, both in letters to the federal judge that will soon determine the disgraced ex-assembly speaker's prison time.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Prosecutors want disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to spend at least 14 years in prison — more than any jail term given to other convicted New York state legislators — for his conviction on corruption charges, according to papers filed in federal court Wednesday.

The disgraced ex-assembly speaker apologized to a federal judge for his action before his sentencing.

The top aide to disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver still has a job and will rake in $ 20,827 in taxpayer - funded pay over the next six weeks.

Lower East Side district leader Alice Cancel — the Democratic candidate for disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's seat — defended her nomination by a group of insiders close to the fallen pol, and attacked her Working Families Party opponent as a transplant and an interloper.

MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — The sentencing of disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been pushed to May as a court battle to reveal sealed evidence that was kept out of his trial continues.

In another special election Tuesday, Democrat Alice Cancel held off a strong challenge from Working Families Party candidate Yuh - Line Niou to win the seat vacated by disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The top aide to disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver still has a job and will make over the next six weeks.

A former top aide to disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is out of her $ 180,000 - a-year taxpayer funded job.

A former community liaison for disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is stage - managing the campaign of the Democrat running to succeed him, Alice Cancel, who Silver's allies selected to fill his old Lower Manhattan seat at a meeting of party insiders in February.

Bill Collins, a former top aide to disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is back at the state Capitol as a lobbyist.

State ethics watchdog JCOPE slapped $ 270,000 in fines on two firms that figured prominently in the corruption trials of disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is facing a mountain of «very damning» evidence that could make the federal corruption case against him a slam dunk and put him behind bars...

Disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption Tuesday by a judge who said she hoped the idea of «living out his golden years in an orange jumpsuit» would keep other politicians on the «straight and narrow.»

ALBANY — It doesn't have the clout it once had, but disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's former seat can still draw a crowd.

Molo's odd strategy seemed to affix to Taub a halo of such brightness that some of the glow would spill over to his client, the disgraced ex-Assembly speaker Silver.

The current Comptroller was handpicked to fill the vacancy by disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver over the objections of every editorial board in the state.»