Sentences with phrase «felons on»

She hired a reputable department store to clean her air ducts, and the company sent two convicted felons on the service call.

By conducting criminal background screenings before allowing members to communicate with one another, TRUE significantly reduces the number of felons on its site.

Mr. Cuomo has pushed his own progressive record, including raising the minimum wage and creating a paid family leave program, as he has pressed forward on new liberal initiatives, most notably promising to restore voting rights to former felons on parole by simultaneously granting 35,000 pardons.

The move would be accomplished by pardoning convicted felons on parole, allowing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sidestep the State Legislature.

In the one month since Nixon entered the race, Cuomo has put an end to the IDC, said «the facts have changed» about legal recreational marijuana, announced plans to restore voting rights to felons on parole in New York, killed an offshore natural gas pipeline that had been in the works, and issued an executive order to prevent federal immigration official from state buildings.

On April 18, the governor announced that he intended to restore voting rights to felons on parole, potentially creating 35,000 new voters in the state.

Appealing to his left flank, Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday that he's signed an executive order to give convicted felons on parole the right to vote.

He knew what people said about life for felons on the outside.

The mayor of Bridgeport, Joe Ganim, plans to appeal directly to Democratic voters in Connecticut to gauge whether they are willing to put a convicted felon on the ballot during this summer's primary for governor.

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

And there is no bigger blow to the heart than realizing that your soulmate is no more than a mean pretender, or worse, a convicted felon on the run.

«Felon on the Bench: No one to judge.»

Not exact matches

Convicted felon Martin Shkreli, not exactly known for his discretion or restraint, could find himself in jail (even sooner than currently scheduled) thanks to bizarre comments he made on social media offering $ 5,000 to anyone who brings him snippets of Hillary Clinton's hair during her upcoming book tour.

One would have expected the stock price of the two banks to crater on news that for the first time in U.S. history, two of the largest U.S. banks were now admitted felons.

A retired ICE agent who believes in a hardline stance on immigration policy found himself helping a convicted felon avoid being deported.

Unless this trend is reversed, we shall soon look back with nostalgia on the time when our worst threat was the «Saturday night special» in the hands of the local felon or psychotic.

You can't be taken seriously or have your opinion trusted when you support a CONVICTED felon... you're a blemish on humanity.

I'm willing to give MB a chance to show who he is while he is on this team - granted that he is not confirmed a felon after this case and continued to make millions playing sports

add on the fact that he's probably about to be a convicted (or at least pled - to) felon, and i think i'm happy that that particular trade never went through.

I decided to Google the name of the convicted felon (and registered sex - offender) who served his time and is now back on the youth sports scene in Honolulu.

For example, go through one - by - one the list of all purged voters and investigate whether each was or was not indeed a convicted felon (or had other legitimate reasons for being on the list).

Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

The new directive includes New York in a list of 14 states and the District of Columbia that allow felons to vote in elections after serving their sentence, and bypasses the state Legislature on a measure long - sought by activists.

«Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.»

There's also their 187 cases of generic «Casting Ineligible Vote» by Voters, which includes some felon voting (not caught by voter ID), some non-citizen voting (which is included above), but mostly there isn't information on what type it was.

According to multiple sources, none other than John Haggerty, a convicted felon who stole a million dollars from Michael Bloomberg and is out on appeal pending his request for a retrial.

«Jenna was murdered by a violent felon out on parole,» Grieshaber says.

Freddie Dean Smith, a convicted felon with a lengthy criminal record and former Assistant Superintendent in New Rochelle, was granted an administrative license by NYSED while he was then on probation after a felony conviction for endangering a police officer in Virginia and while awaiting sentencing on two separate sex crimes in South Carolina (he followed women around in stores with his penis hanging out of his pants while he masturbated).

De Blasio told reporters on Sunday that he could not recall whether he had a conversation with real estate developer - turned - felon Jona Rechnitz about making such a donation, and on Monday repeated his claims that Rechnitz was a «felon» and a «liar.»

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has had to calculate and sign off on the pensions for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who are both convicted felons, as well as several other lawmakers convicted of felonies.

But some in the party believe the money is better spent on local candidates, and not — as financial disclosures show — on consultants that include a felon and a state GOP employee.

Statute currently says that any felons who are incarcerated or on parole are prohibited from casting a ballot unless they're pardoned or «restored to the rights of citizenship» by the governor.

One of the dead victims was on probation and forbidden from being inside any establishment which serves alcohol; two of the eight who were shot had served state prison time on weapons or assault charges; five are convicted felons and six had been arrested by Buffalo police since 2008.

«Recycling Ed Cox and Rob Astorino's pathetic lies that hinge on the hearsay testimony of a convicted felon is a feeble attempt by Dean Skelos» heir apparent to distract from the fact that he, unlike Senator Kaminsky, doesn't support comprehensive ethics reform,» Azzopardi said.

Cuomo signed an executive order on Wednesday that will let more convicted felons vote.

Mr. Aiello has been in business for over 20 years building a well - respected and trustworthy company, and his integrity is being compromised based on the words of a felon.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Sweeping clemency action by Governor Andrew Cuomo on December 30 — in which he commuted the sentences of seven felons, pardoned five others, and conditionally pardoned 101 nonviolent youthful offenders — came as welcome news to a longtime gay leader who in recent years has made rehabilitated convicts a key mission -LSB-...]

ICE says it now focuses only on aliens who are gangsters, drug dealers, child predators or violent felons.

Several lawmakers argued enacting the law on Oct. 1 would not give owners of bump stocks in Connecticut enough time to learn about the new law and would turn law abiding citizens into felons.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Seeking to be harsher on convicted felons, putting them in jail instead of drug treatment programs, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis has reintroduced a bill named after a police officer who was killed by a career criminal.

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

Terry McAuliffe in 2016 announced convicted felons would have their voting rights restored, arguing the old system was based on denying people of color the right to vote.

«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.

«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?»

Some people accuse Jeb Bush of rigging Florida 2000 by purging voter rolls of innocent voters on the pretext of them being convicted felons from out - of - state, when in fact they were not.

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 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.»

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.

He called for stiffer penalties and sentences for illegal weapon sale, possession and use; a statewide registry of violent felons; increased penalties for anyone caught with a gun on the ground of a school or on a school bus; and a push to end gang violence.

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.