Sentences with phrase «federal corruption charges too»
Earlier this year, the Democratic Speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, gave up his leadership position after being brought up on federal corruption charges too.
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An upstate - downstate divide is just one of several rifts within the conference that have emerged since Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest on federal corruption charges last week touched off a furious round of discussions — both public and private — about whether the Manhattan Democrat is too damaged to continue in his leadership role.
He has given cash to Republicans, too, including former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, who is still fighting his conviction on federal corruption charges.
He's charged that Cuomo badly fumbled his handling of an anti corruption commission, - the panel is now under federal investigation, - and that the governor was too hasty in passing what Astorino says is flawed gun control legislation.
Libous can not ascend to Skelos» majority leader post, as he might normally do, due to the fact that he, too, is fighting a federal corruption charge.