Sentences with phrase «felon hiram»

Anthony Scaramucci must have some time on his hands — and a soft spot for a convicted felon attempting a political comeback.

Gonzalez declined to comment on whether it was appropriate for parade organizers to award convicted felon Oscar López Rivera the march's first National Freedom Award.

As a felon who was convicted of crimes related to his public office, Ganim can not qualify for public financing under state law if he runs for governor in 2018.

Convicted felon Hiram Monserrate has a real shot at winning back his old City Council seat in Queens, according to Democratic insiders.

Grimm, a convicted felon, deemed injection sites «criminal enablement» and «dangerous» in a lengthy statement that cited nothing to back up his claim.

A repeat felon is facing criminal charges and a civil lawsuit over allegedly ripping off more than 30 local churches and community groups.

AT&T, Corona beer and Coca - Cola announced their withdrawals in separate statements, even as parade officials defended their decision to award convicted felon Oscar López Rivera with the march's first National Freedom Award.

Chirlane McCray's chief - of - staff, Rachel Noerdlinger, is in a longtime relationship with a convicted felon.

Mr. Silver's sentence is not the record for an Albany felon — another assemblyman, William Boyland Jr., got 14 years last year.

He is a convicted felon, plain and simple, and one who has not apologized or repented for his cowardly attacks,» said Jake Lemonda, president of the fire officers union.

After spending weeks defending his decision to march in a parade that planned to honor convicted FALN felon Oscar Lopez Rivera, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday claimed he had...

The pardon would not expunge a felon's record nor would it restore other rights stripped from them, such as the right to serve on a jury.

(For the record, Espada is not a felon).

The state's SAFE ACT, a package of gun - safety regulations signed into law by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in 2013, requires gun owners to «safely store» their firearms if they live in a household with a felon or someone who has been involuntarily committed due to mental health illness.

Diaz was referring to the parade board's decision to give convicted felon Oscar Lopez Rivera its «National Freedom Award» at the June 11 march.

Going for full blown casinos with a convicted felon on the payroll would be interesting for sure.

Lawmaker - turned - lobbyist Nick Spano can keep influencing his former colleagues, despite today's guilty plea on tax evasion and his pending status as a convicted felon.

Michael Grimm: A felon who has admitted to hiring undocumented workers, tax evasion and lying under oath, is running for a congressional seat in New York.

A felon, liar and close ally of Espada — great good government bona fides.

Alphonso David, the governor's counsel, said Mr. Cuomo would issue an executive order requiring the commissioner of the state's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to submit a list of every felon currently on parole, as well as a list of those newly eligible for parole, beginning May 1.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses President Trump allowing the release of California Representative Devin Nunes» memo, a Florida Judge's decision to restore felon's voting rights after time served and the WAMC Locked Box.

(Her Facebook page lists her occupation as «Former Ex-Madam at Former Felon.»)

Justin Vasquez was convicted last month of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced to six years in prison.

Others on the list included former longtime Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, state Sen. Diane Savino (D - Brooklyn / Staten Island), former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Yonkers political operative and convicted felon Anthony Mangone, and the late former state Sen. Guy Velella (D - Bronx), who resigned in disgrace after pleading guilty to bribery charges.

«Ed Cox and the party of Dean Skelos are hitching their wagon to a felon's hearsay testimony about matters that never actually happened,» spokesman Rich Azzopardi said in a statement emailed to the Observer.

The New York Times isn't buying Sheldon Silver's apology, saying the former assemblyman «felon, symbol of all that is rotten in New York State government, is still ducking and weaving, saying much but revealing little, heedless of the shame and opprobrium clinging to him like cat hair on a coat.»

Convicted felon and disgraced former Queens politician Hiram Monserrate lost his comeback bid for a seat on the NYC Council as voters in his working class district couldn't look past his history of corruption and domestic abuse, electing Assemblyman Francisco Moya instead.

The Mitt surrogate, Kevin Madden, looks like an innocent waif; a buttoned - down CPA, The Obama kid - brat, surrogate Stephanie Cutter is the one who alledges that Mitt is a felon for signing the SEC Bain papers in 1999 - 2002.

«How did a felon from Long Island get on stage among a group of former police officers endorsing Donald Trump before the New York primary?»

«Let's be clear, Ali has no plans on taking money advice from someone who consistently fails to pay his own taxes but if he wants to look at connections, let's look at the fact that Murphy was elected only two years ago after taking over a million dollars from convicted felon Dean Skelos to help him join Albany's culture of corruption.

Anyone can say anything, especially a convicted felon spinning a tale, but it's just false and delusional.»

A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions affect people's lives, sentenced a woman in a drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.

The Senate (Republican) wrote only its districts and split Riverdale into three in order to protect its incumbents, including now - convicted felon Guy Velella who represented the northern part of the community.

In a statement, Cuomo spokesman John Kelly called the Wildstein claims «false and delusional» and the words of a «convicted felon.»

(The mayor has vehemently denied these claims, dismissing Rechnitz as «a liar and a felon.»)

Videos released in Manhattan court Friday show just how cozy businessman - turned - felon Jona Rechnitz was with top city officials.

Speaking outside the Young Israel of Avenue K synagogue in Midwood de Blasio repeatedly called that witness a liar and a convicted felon.

Convicted felon Hiram Monserrate is under fire for allegedly failing to properly report campaign expenses in his comeback bid for his old City Council seat in Queens.

«This is a convicted felon who was lying on the witness stand,» Astorino said of Rechnitz's testimony.

Shady Bill de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz once bought a Caribbean hotel stay for the mayor's top fundraising aide, the felon testified Monday.

That means covering the lowest - paid employees at the University of California, offering another view about a convicted felon, and investigating the special interest groups that control Sacramento.

«But then again, they were disenfranchised when a possible felon was representing them for four years.»

Think about the dollars wasted going to a convicted felon and that could be used to protect / help citizens of Ulster County.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mr. Ramos isn't the only convicted felon running in the Dem Primary in the district in question.

«The poll was conducted by the DCCC [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] who would much rather have their candidate run against a convicted felon and a perjurer,» Donovan said.

de Blasio again cast the witness testifying in the trial of Norman Seabrook, Jona Rechnitz, as a «liar» and «convicted felon,» energetically rejecting the assertion that de Blasio committed any crime or legal but wrongful acts in return for Rechnitz» campaign and political contributions.

The state also requires that private gun sales are subject to federal background checks to determine if the buyer is a felon or otherwise prohibited from having a gun.

«While Clarence Norman has no role in Ken's campaign, District Attorney Hynes» campaign manager is a convicted felon who served years in prison for assault and robbery.

As a convicted felon, Ganim is not eligible to obtain public financing and would need to file an appeal in state Superior Court if he is rejected by the elections commission.

De Blasio didn't deny personally seeking a $ 102,000 donation from businessman - felon Jona Rechnitz for a political project, as the disgraced mayoral donor testified in court Friday.