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The trial will also test what remains of federal corruption law after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened it last year.
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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.
Protesters call on state Sen. Kemp Hannon to step down Community groups rallied outside state Sen. Kemp Hannon's law firm in Uniondale on Dec. 2, 2015, and called for him to step down after recently uncovered facts came to light during Sen. Dean Skelos» federal corruption trial.
ALBANY — Prosecutors and legal experts shook their heads last year after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed federal corruption laws.
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.
«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.
Todd Howe, the key government witness in the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, has been arrested after it was revealed on the witness stand Thursday he may have broken the law after entering a plea agreement with the federal government.
Cox also accused the governor of trying to send a message to Vance at at time when the Republicans have formally called on the prosecutor to investigate the Cuomo administration for corruption after it was revealed in a federal trial that Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, continued to use his government office after leaving the state payroll to run Cuomo's 2014 re-eelction campaign, which would violate state law.