Sentences with phrase «federal corruption charges back»
A reader could not help but noting the irony of this statement from state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs in response to former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's conviction on federal corruption charges back in May 2010:
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Then again, the ValleyCats» stadium is named after former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, who was welcomed back to throw out the first pitch for the home opener three weeks ago — which was six weeks after his reindictment on federal corruption charges.
In November 2015, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted of 7 felony counts of federal corruption charges in a kick - back scheme where he gave $ 500,000 in state lump sum tax dollars to a physician who would refer patients to the Speaker's law firm where he would get referral fees.
Silver's 2015 conviction on corruption charges was overturned last month by a federal appeals court, which remanded the case back to a lower court for retrial.
Lawyers for Sheldon Silver were back in federal court Thursday, arguing to dismiss all of the federal corruption charges against the former Assembly speaker.
Silver, who has represented the Lower East Side and Downtown for decades, is not resigning from his post, but plans to step back from his speaker responsibilities temporarily, instead delegating them to a group of senior members in the wake of federal corruption charges.
Despite serving prison time on federal corruption charges and getting booted from office, former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate is trying to get back into politics.
Getting to 32, therefore, would require wooing back Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who has conferenced with the GOP since taking office in 2013, and counting on the votes of Democrats John Sampson of Brooklyn and Malcolm Smith of Queens, both of whom are facing federal corruption charges.
Manhattan federal prosecutors have asked a judge to schedule a retrial of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Spring on corruption charges for the spring of 2018, a request that could lead to three back - to - back - to - back Albany corruption trials next year.
Shulman shot back by seeking to tie Martins to disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the Nassau County Republican who was convicted on federal corruption charges.