Sentences with phrase «disgraced former leaders»

It is also the day for two special elections to replace the disgraced former leaders of the New York State Legislature, who lost their seats after being convicted on multiple felony corruption charges.

Mr. Lewis said the awarding of such stipends to vice chairmen was standard practice and supported by state law and the State Constitution, offering documentation that showed that Mr. Flanagan had ordered such stipends — first in a 2016 letter — following the lead of Dean G. Skelos, the disgraced former leader of the Senate.

Whether there has been enough time passed for angry American viewers to accept their disgraced former leader was human is another concern, but there can be no question as to the quality of the performances and the success of the film.

Not exact matches

What a remarkable contrast: President Donald Trump was in command at Davos talking about economic growth and prosperity, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., and disgraced former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman...

A key labor union for the New York Police Department on Wednesday threw its support to Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath in the race to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

A special election being held next could add Chris McGrath, but he is locked in a tight race with Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky for the district formerly led by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

A Siena College poll released on Saturday showed Kaminsky, a freshman assemblyman, trailing Republican Chris McGrath by 8 percentage points in the 9th Senate district special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in a Nassau County seat.

His campaign has focused heavily on ethics and anti-corruption measures, a theme that he hopes resonates with voters after the ouster of disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was convicted on corruption charges in December.

McGrath, an attorney and first - time candidate for public office, faces Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky in a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by disgraced Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Wednesday congratulated Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, the likely winner of a special election in Nassau County to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Kaminsky, elected to fill the chair held by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, won a special election and won a full term in a presidential election year.

Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday became the latest disgraced ex-lawmaker to have their conviction tossed by a federal appeals panel.

Democratic hopeful Todd Kaminsky, meanwhile, opened up his sharpest criticism yet of McGrath, linking him to disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the Republican who both men want to replace in the Nassau County district in an April 19 special election.

The powerful labor union 1199 SEIU endorsed Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath on Friday in the crucial special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in Nassau County.

One mailer links Sen. Carl Marcellino to disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Oyster Bay town Supervisor John Venditto, who faces corruption charges.

DeFrancisco's $ 1.3 million campaign balance still trails behind that in the account of disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

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.

Disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son were caught on wiretaps bad - mouthing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's family, plotting to use his gal pal, Sandra Lee, against him and even musing how Skelos and other Republican lawmakers were «smarter» than the governor, new court papers state.

Republican Chris McGrath, who lost his bid in April for the Senate seat held by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is calling for first passage of the amendment, which is mired in legislative gridlock in the Assembly and Senate.

His approach is however not very different from what pertained under former disgraced African leaders.

As disgraced Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said about the IDC: «[Jeff Klein] is going to be co-coalition leader, which means noLeader Dean Skelos said about the IDC: «[Jeff Klein] is going to be co-coalition leader, which means noleader, which means nothing.

The symposium's timeliness wasn't lost on Ravitch or other participants: Two former legislative leaders, Democrat Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and Republican Sen. Dean Skelos, are awaiting sentencing following federal corruption convictions — just the latest in a jailhouse parade of disgraced lawmakers.

Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu says former Zimbabwean President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe did not only «disgrace» his country but the entire leadership of the continent for over staying his presidency.

The Senate picture could become more clear this month with a hotly contetested special election on Long Island to replaced disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Mr Serwotka used his time to make a direct personal attack on former Labour leader Lord Kinnock, who he labelled a «disgrace to Wales», and suggested hostile MPs should be deselected.

Many legislators and advocates disagreed with Cuomo's assessment that the new bill required emergency action, saying that super PACs were not an issue in the major corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and other recently disgraced legislators.

He cites disgraced former State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith who told a government informant, «that's politics in New York.

Disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son were caught on wiretaps bad - mouthing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's family, plotting to use his gal pal, Sandra Lee, against him and...

The verdict on just the second day of deliberations capped an extraordinary two - week period in which two of the state's most powerful leaders at the start of 2015 — Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — were forced from office in disgrace at the hands of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

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.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said he will not be standing in the Newark by - election, sparked by disgraced former Tory minister Patrick Mercer's decision to quit over a cash - for - questions scandal.

Kaminsky won an April special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was ousted after he was found guilty on charges of using his official power to aid his son's business interests.

Kaminsky was first elected in an April special election to fill the unexpired term of disgraced former Sen. Dean Skelos, the ex-majority leader who was ousted following his conviction on coruption charges.

Hell, your cat probably doesn't like being compared to Espada, the disgraced former majority leader of the Senate who brought New York's government to a standstill during the leadership coup of 2009 and was later found guilty of bilking the federal government for the funding of his health clinics.

Kaminsky in April won a special election to replace the disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the chamber, flipping a Long Island Senate seat that had long been in GOP hands and breaking up the Long Island 9 voting bloc of Republican lawmakers.

McGrath is running for a second time for the Long Island Senate seat vacated by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a district won by Kaminsky in an April special election.

A number of Queens Democrats are gearing up to fight a bid by disgraced former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate to run for Democratic district leader.

Chris McGrath, the Republican looking to fill the seat vacated by former Senate GOP Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once did legal work for the disgraced ex-lawmaker's political club and a close ally.

Senate Republicans pushed back against Democratic criticism of disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos filing for his pension.

Disgraced former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos used his political muscle to score «his own no - show job» and rake in nearly $ 200,000 per year, before pulling a similar move on his son's behalf and getting arrested for it, prosecutors said in new court papers.

Disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has filed for retirement and is in line for a taxpayer - funded annual pension of around $ 90,000, according to a Times Union estimate.

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 former Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith surrendered to prison today in rural Pennsylvania after a failed bid to stay out of jail pending appeal of his corruption conviction.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors told appellate judges they should get another shot at showing that former Senate Majority Leader John Sampson embezzled about $ 400,000 from foreclosure sales — but the defense said no charges against the disgraced ex-pol should stand.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics announced earlier this week that Glenwood, one of New York's largest political donors, agreed to pay the fine to settle allegations of lobbying violations that came to light during the trials of the disgraced former political leaders.

Other significant moves included the return of former frontbencher John Healey to the shadow housing brief, and the appointment of disgraced Keith Vaz's sister Valerie as shadow leader of the House of Commons.

Labour leader Ed Miliband knew about the activities of disgraced former spin doctor Damian McBride, according to Dame Tessa Jowell.

Disgraced former state Senate majority leader Malcolm Smith was scheduled to turn himself in last week so he could begin his seven - year jail sentence on corruption charges, but he got his surrender date pushed back more than six weeks by claiming that he must be checked for prostate cancer by his own doctor before prison, court papers show.

Disgraced former state Senate majority leader Malcolm Smith was scheduled to turn himself in last week so he could begin his seven - year jail sentence on corruption charges, but he got...

Since 2007, Spitzer and then - Comptroller Alan Hevesi resigned in disgrace, former Gov. David Paterson paid a fine to settle an ethics charge, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was convicted of federal corruption charges, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. was accused in corruption charges and several other lawmakers have been charged and investigated in state and federal investigations in an unprecedented string of cases.