Sentences with phrase «disgraced pols»
Rivals seem determined to frame the disgraced pols» campaigns as a bid for the forgiveness of women.
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And unlike other disgraced pols, he's not the well - liked, schmoozy sort, well - suited to lobbying.
Disgraced pols Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver will not get their corruption convictions overturned and should be sent straight to prison as they go through the appeal process, prosecutors with Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said Monday.
Cruz had harsh words for Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo, Rep. Charles Rangel and disgraced pols Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner in his soliloquy about all that is wrong with New York.
A nephew of crooked ex-state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was arrested Thursday for grabbing a Daily News reporter's phone, throwing it across the street and grabbing her wrist following the disgraced pol's sentencing alongside his son.
Following his conviction on bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges in December, federal prosecutors asked a Judge Kimba Wood to fine the disgraced pol $ 500,000.
Lawyers for fallen former state Sen. John Sampson have filed papers to appeal the disgraced pol's corruption conviction.
The Democratic county committee that picked Ms. Cancel in February was heavily stocked with Mr. Silver's old political allies, and Ms. Cancel praised «the wonderful things» the disgraced pol did during his four decades representing the district.
A nephew of Dean Skelos, Basil «Billy» Skelos, was arrested for grabbing a Daily News reporter's phone, throwing it across the street and grabbing her wrist following the disgraced pol's sentencing alongside his son.
The disgraced pol from Albany, Sheldon Silver, asked Friday if the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to let the Supreme Court weigh in before the Manhattan U.S. Attorney retries his case.
In April, Alice Cancel, a former Silver aide, won a special election to temporarily fill the disgraced pol's seat following his corruption conviction.
This time a Manhattan judge has yanked a confidentiality caption that was shielding the disgraced pol's divorce case with his soon - to - be ex-wife, Hillary...
Not exact matches
The lawyer for a Russian woman charged with blackmailing former Gov. Eliot Spitzer said that the disgraced former pol wielded «political influence» at the outset of the drama and should have been arrested.
Fed - up Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said yesterday he demanded that disgraced Brooklyn pol Vito Lopez resign during a tense face - to - face meeting several days ago.
One group called «New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany,» which supports charter schools and is funded by Walmart heirs, has spent $ 800,000 bombarding the Lower Hudson Valley with ads attacking Mayer for working with various disgraced Democratic pols.
A lawyer for the ex-fiance of disgraced Queens pol Hiram Monserrate demanded her client be given a special prosecutor Thursday in her ongoing domestic violence case involving a new boyfriend...
The reference Skelos is odd coming Cuomo's office, given that the governor infamously called the now - disgraced GOP pol and Democratic then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver his «amigos» during his 2015 State of the State address.
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.
This is not the first time Faso has defended himself against allegations by Heaney's campaign that he is a «disgraced pay - to - play pol.»
Disgraced former Rep. Michael Grimm got eight months in prison and a dressing - down Friday from a Brooklyn judge short on sympathy for the tough - guy pol's plea to evade jail.
QUEENS — A disgraced former pol is trying to get back into politics in the neighborhood's district leader race, touting his accomplishments without mentioning his 2009 conviction for assault.
TV comedian Samantha Bee has turned on New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman with a vengeance — retracting her past praise in a profane rant against the disgraced former pol.