Sentences with phrase «federal corruption cases»

The National Republican Campaign Committee already has sought to link Rhodes to the ongoing federal corruption cases against former Cuomo aides and associates, including long - time confidante Joseph Percoco.

While former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate leader Dean Skelos were convicted in federal corruption cases, any correspondence they may have had with those seeking official favors in exchange for gifts and payments weren't obtainable by the press or average citizens under current FOIL rules.

The following table ranks each state based on total convictions and convictions per 10,000 residents of public officials in federal corruption cases between 1976 and 2010.

Cuomo formed the commission six months ago under the Moreland Act, which allows investigations of the executive branch, after the latest spate of federal corruption cases, all involving lawmakers.

Glenwood's giving largely dried up in 2015, when it was drawn into the federal corruption cases brought against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Last week, two former New York State Assembly Democrats were sentenced in federal corruption cases.

But the mayor appears to have benefited from a high burden of proof for federal corruption cases — made higher by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision — and from the legal advice of his campaign attorney, who structured the Senate contributions to conform to the letter, if not the spirit, of state fundraising laws.

Bharara won convictions in federal corruption cases against New York's two most powerful legislative leaders: former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

One source familiar with Hoyt's plans questioned the timing of his decision given the ongoing federal corruption cases involving Cuomo's upstate development projects and the #metoomovement stemming from sexual harassment cases that have plagued those in the political, entertainment and media arenas.

«All the issues we've seen this year have been around the LLC loophole,» said Squadron, referring to federal corruption cases involving Skelos, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the real estate interests that supported both men.

The bill comes after officials, including Republican County Executive Edward Mangano, who were arrested in federal corruption cases, tapped their campaign funds to pay for their defense, as is allowed by law.

The use of LLC's by a real estate company Glenwood Management, and it's billionaire CEO Leonard Litwin, has factored in to high profile federal corruption cases against the two former leaders of the legislature.

Glenwood Management, the real estate development firm at the center of the federal corruption cases against former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is the state's most generous political donor and a robust utilizer of the LLC loophole.

At this time, federal corruption cases against Silver and Skelos were beginning to take shape.

A trial will begin Oct. 30 in New York City in the federal corruption case against two Percoco, Alain Kaloyeros, the former head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and five other men, including two executives from Fayetteville - based Cor Development Co..

Leibell had asked for leniency in his federal corruption case, suggesting that he instead join some sort of nation - building effort in the Middle East.

A former top adviser for Governor Andrew Cuomo, three executives from LPCiminelli and three other people have been indicted in their federal corruption case.

It is the bond at the heart of the federal corruption case against Edward and Linda Mangano and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, one the Manganos have consistently said was just a friendship, with nothing improper.

It's up to lawmakers to pick their leader, Cuomo said, echoing similar statements he made earlier this year when former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested in an unrelated federal corruption case.

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center for Public Policy, has long been skeptical of the state's SolarCity arrangement, which is now one of the focuses of the federal corruption case.

Former New York state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. (far left with son Pedro) was hit yesterday with two new charges - of making false statements - in his federal corruption case.

E.J. McMahon, with the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center, has long been skeptical of the state's Solar City arrangement, which is now one of the focuses of the federal corruption case.

Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a Uniondale law firm that employed state Sen. Dean Skelos, who resigned as majority leader this year after he was charged in a federal corruption case, also received three outside counsel contracts within the range just below the approval threshold: for $ 24,000, $ 24,900 and $ 25,000.

Lopez was forced from the legislature after the scandal, and Silver lost his seat when he was accused in an unrelated federal corruption case, which is being retried this year.

This is not the only federal corruption case in which Venditto seems to have gotten little or no payday for town operations that allegedly made others an ill - gotten fortune.

Singh, taking the stand for the first time as the government's star witness in its federal corruption case against Mangano, retraced the arc of his life and career to the jury in the Central Islip courtroom.

The $ 7,500 per month, filtered through a secret account from a lobbyist who pleaded guilty and is the chief witness in a massive federal corruption case, helped keep «Herb,» Joseph Percoco — Cuomo's in - house confidante, enforcer and successful 2010 campaign manager — up to date with the mortgage of his $ 800,000 South Salem, N.Y. home, federal investigators say.

Martins noted that he had instantly called for Republican County Executive Edward Mangano to resign last year upon Mangano being charged in a federal corruption case, yet Curran still has not.

In court papers filed Monday in the federal corruption case against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara said he wants to enter into evidence «expressions of concern, surprise and fear shared among the lobbyists and representatives of» real estate developer Glenwood Management.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Former New York Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son have pleaded not guilty in a federal corruption case.

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...

Singas has focused on Nassau's procurement system since last spring, when former State Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) and his son, Adam, were charged in a federal corruption case that related in part to the influencing of a Nassau County contract.

Nassau's contracting system came under scrutiny last May after then - State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) was charged in a federal corruption case that included influencing the award of a county contract to a company that hired his son, Adam.

A Shelton developer, James Botti, was sentenced to six years in prison in the federal corruption case, but Lauretti was never charged in the case.

NEW YORK - Former state Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son were convicted Friday on all charges stemming from a federal corruption case.

Aiello and Gerardi could testify as soon as Friday in their own defense, but their attorneys said they want to know first see if the judge will allow them to be asked questions about the upcoming «Buffalo Billion» federal corruption case, in which both men are also charged.

A Buffalo attorney is shedding some light on the federal corruption case against New York's top Republican.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sought to distance himself from many of the nine people charged in a federal corruption case last month, saying they weren't part of his inner circle and he didn't know the details of their business relationships.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo probably wanted to tout the three years of on - time budgets, but the garish federal corruption case in the city that's infected the Senate coalition in Albany will likely have to be deal with as well.

The founder of the struggling environmental services company at the heart of the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, testified at their trial yesterday that days after Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, the senator provided valuable business intelligence that the company felt would be helpful.

In court papers filed yesterday in the federal corruption case against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, US Attorney Preet Bharara said he wants to enter into evidence «expressions of concern, surprise and fear shared among the lobbyists and representatives of» real estate developer Glenwood Management.

Closing arguments continue in the federal corruption case of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, in Manhattan.

Berke is a white - collar lawyer who once represented former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik in a federal corruption case in which he was convicted.

A version of this article appears in print on March 12, 2011, on Page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: In a Series of Phone Calls, an Ear Into a Federal Corruption Case.

Mr. Silver, who stepped down as speaker in 2015 after being charged in a federal corruption case, declined to comment.

But as Mr. Cuomo lays out his agenda this month in a whirlwind of policy announcements, he has avoided any mention of a federal corruption case that rocked his administration last year even as he was touting the economic - development initiative at the heart of the case.

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

The former rainmaker was convicted last month on seven counts in a federal corruption case tied to the Taub referrals and kickbacks from a real estate developer.

In the Manhattan federal corruption case, Howe has admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from developers and from rigged bids on state contracts linked to the upstate Buffalo Billion economic - revitalization plan — at the same time he was working as a consultant to the taxpayer - funded program.

An ongoing federal corruption case that ensnared several members of the governor's inner circle — including his longtime adviser and surrogate brother Joe Percoco — is headed for trial later this year.