Sentences with phrase «federal corruption convictions»

With two recent federal corruption convictions, each saw an opportunity to grab more.

In that 2012 report, states were ranked by the total federal corruption convictions between the years 1976 through 2010.

At 10:30 a.m., Rep. Tom Suozzi will host a tele - press conference call to announce the introduction of his bipartisan bill, the Close Official Acts Loophole (COAL) Act, in response to the overturning of federal corruption convictions of two ex-state legislative leaders.

The Buffalo News urges prison time for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his «spoiled punk» son, Adam, when they are sentenced on federal corruption convictions.

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.

In neighboring Connecticut, federal corruption convictions reached a record low four years following the adoption of public financing.

While Mr. Blake, a veteran of both Obama campaigns, maintained there would be a strict «firewall» between his work at Hilltop and the State Legislature, the appearance of a conflict of interest, coupled with a pair of federal corruption convictions predicated on outside income, proved too great to overcome.

Glenwood Management, the development company at the center of two federal corruption convictions of former Albany leaders, hasn't completely given up its political giving.

A contrite Sheldon Silver in a letter filed in federal court this week apologized as he is scheduled to be sentenced next month in his federal corruption conviction.

The federal corruption conviction of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former fixer and longtime top aide, Joe Percoco, further yoked the two - term governor to a broken culture in Albany that he has long tried to campaign against, marking a nadir in Cuomo's governorship and only the start of a political headache that is likely to intensify.

Niou won a six - way race in September 2016 for the Democratic nomination for the seat Silver was forced to relinquish in 2015 due to his federal corruption conviction.

Judge Valerie Caproni sentenced Silver to 12 years in prison on his federal corruption conviction.

Former state Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam saw their federal corruption convictions overturned by a federal appeals court panel Tuesday.

Walsh wanted to get rid of current Sheriff Vincent DeMarco, a registered Conservative who supplied the evidence that led to the federal corruption conviction of Walsh, a former corrections lieutenant.

In the Kaminsky - McGrath race, for example, the Communications Workers of America PAC, which endorsed Kaminsky, gave $ 109,600 to Nassau Democrats on April 12, while the state Trial Lawyers Association's PAC, which has backed a GOP - led Senate, gave more than $ 100,000 to the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee in the months after Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) vacated his seat due to a federal corruption conviction.

Former New York state Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam saw their federal corruption convictions overturned by a federal appeals court panel Tuesday.

Such contracts to politically connected companies have been at the center of both the federal corruption conviction of former state Sen. Dean Skelos and a federal investigation into Mangano's chief deputy, Rob Walker.

Sini noted the federal corruption conviction of former Police Chief of Department James Burke, before he took over as police commissioner.

Silver is said to have had a vice-like grip on his seat, and only released his hold when the courts forced him to leave upon a federal corruption conviction.

Former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam saw their federal corruption convictions overturned by a federal appeals court panel Tuesday.

After the federal corruption convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos were thrown out, the question now is - what's next?

Dwight Evans, a Pennsylvania Democrat, will take over the Philadelphia - based seat vacated by Chaka Fattah, who resigned in June following a federal corruption conviction.

Also at 10 a.m., arguments in the ongoing effort by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's attorneys to overturn his federal corruption conviction will be heard, federal courthouse, Foley Square, Room 1703, Manhattan.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is scheduled to be sentenced today for his federal corruption conviction.

NEW YORK — Real estate giant Glenwood Management was fined $ 200,000 by a state ethics commission for its role in the federal corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once two of New York's most powerful politicians.

Monserrate - who was expelled from the State Senate in 2010 for attacking his girlfriend - bared his expenses to get out of paying filing fees for his hoped - for appeal of his 2012 federal corruption conviction.

A U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned the federal corruption conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, much as it did in July for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Prosecutors considering the de Blasio case faced an additional hurdle after the U.S. Supreme Court decided last year to vacate parts of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's federal corruption conviction.

ALBANY — Glenwood Management, the development company at the center of two federal corruption convictions of former Albany leaders, hasn't completely given up its political giving.

Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos will receive a nearly $ 96 thousand dollar a year pension despite his federal corruption conviction that forced him from office last year.

He noted the fallout from the federal corruption convictions last month of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), and said lawmakers up for re-election in November may find it hard to avoid adopting new ethics laws.

Meanwhile, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is due to be sentenced May 3rd on a federal corruption conviction, where he illegally gained $ 4 million in outside income by monetizing the power of his office.

Cuomo, the de-facto head of the state Democratic Party, is still refusing to commit to helping Senate Democrats win the critical special election on April 19 to fill the seat that was vacated upon the federal corruption conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau).

Supporters of Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim — who made a stunning political comeback in 2015 after a federal corruption conviction and seven - year prison term — are pushing him to run for governor.

Cuomo and the Legislature are under tremendous pressure to curb practices that led to the federal corruption convictions of Silver and Skelos.

Silver's non-government income was at the source of his federal corruption conviction.