Sentences with phrase «former federal lawmaker»

In a statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, the former federal lawmaker stated that it would be difficult for those who criminally amassed wealth to have their way in the primary.

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We're still awaiting a decision from the jury in former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s federal corruption trial, but we do have some (more bad) news to report about the embattled former Bronx Democratic lawmaker.

It's up to lawmakers to pick their leader, Cuomo said, echoing similar statements he made earlier this year when former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested in an unrelated federal corruption case.

With less than two weeks left in the legislative session, some New York lawmakers are pressing for reform of the state's economic development contracting process in light of a scandal that's led to federal corruption charges against several former associates of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Two Queens lawmakers, the former vice chairman of the borough's Republican Party and three co-defendants pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges Tuesday before learning that their next day in court is nearly three months away.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

The former Democratic lawmaker from New York will serve his 21 - month sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts after pleading guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15 - year - old girl.

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.

Federal prosecutors say they will not seek prison time for a New York state senator convicted of lying to the FBI about arranging a high - paying job for his son because the former lawmaker is terminally ill.

Elia told lawmakers that she takes very seriously a letter from the federal education department, which is now headed by former State Education Commissioner John King.

On Thursday, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced former Sen. Shirley Huntley, who is African - American, to a year and a day in prison, and her attorney suggested the lawmaker had seen senators carrying suitcases of cash in the state Capitol.

The previous year, lawmakers headed for the exits despite a session that saw former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver convicted on federal corruption charges (Both have since been overturned on appeal.)

As federal lawmakers continue to try to reach a budget deal, Sheehan and Adirondack Council Executive Director William Janeway traveled to Washington, D.C., where they met with members of the North Country delegation, including Rep. Paul Tonko (D - Amsterdam) and former army secretary and Rep. John McHugh, who now works as a lobbyist.

Her toughest competitor in the March 6 primary is former federal prosecutor Jay Hulings, who's close to Rep. Joaquin CastroJoaquin CastroBlack, Hispanic lawmakers hammer Amazon directors» opposition to diversity rule Texas charter school reinstates teacher who asked students to list positive aspects of slavery NRA criticized for hosting event where guns are banned due to Pence appearance MORE (D - Texas) and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro.

As an example of such thinking, he cited the former leader of the State Senate who instructed his members to deliver their public disclosure forms by hand rather than mailing them so as to avoid any possible federal mail fraud charges — the unspoken assumption being that lawmakers might have lied on those forms.

Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor and prominent freshman lawmaker, has been eyed for the seat since Skelos's arrest in May.

The conviction of Republican former Sen. Tom Libous was reversed by a federal appeals court and ordered a $ 50,000 fine be overturned, the attorney for the late Binghamton lawmaker on Tuesday announced.

Speaking of Astorino, Westchester County lawmakers moved forward with a $ 380,000 settlement of a federal lawsuit by a former staffer who claimed she was fired because of a political feud with him.

U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D - Bayside) has joined the chorus of lawmakers calling for tighter arms control after a gunman in Arizona shot a U.S. congresswoman in the head and killed six others, including a federal judge and the 9 - year - old granddaughter of a former New York Mets manager.

The Governor made Ethics reform his top priority following the latest arrest of yet another powerful state lawmaker, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is currently facing Federal Corruption charges.

[2] After college he worked as an aide to several federal and state lawmakers including former State Assembly members Donald Davidsen and Jim Bacalles, who both represented parts of the district that Palmesano now represents.

Since 2007, Spitzer and then - Comptroller Alan Hevesi resigned in disgrace, former Gov. David Paterson paid a fine to settle an ethics charge, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was convicted of federal corruption charges, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. was accused in corruption charges and several other lawmakers have been charged and investigated in state and federal investigations in an unprecedented string of cases.

Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who has prosecuted Albany lawmakers for ethical abuses, often involving outside income, will take on Republican Christopher McGrath in the April 19 special election.

Cuomo has repeatedly aimed sharp - tongued rhetoric at federal lawmakers since a former aide, Carey Gabay, was struck by a stray bullet in Brooklyn in September and later died.

Prosecutors have cleared the way for an appeals court to throw out former state Sen. Thomas Libous» federal conviction — but will fight to keep the late lawmaker's $ 50,000 fine in place.

The former Democratic lawmaker will serve his 21 - month sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts after pleading guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15 - year - old girl.

The prosecution of Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre), whose own federal corruption trial is ongoing in Manhattan, followed their decision along with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in 2014 to disband a state Moreland Commission that was investigating lawmakers» outside income.

Mr. Rangel's congressional colleagues will be supporting Mr. Rangel at a fund - raiser later this week headlined by Queens Democratic Party Chair Joe Crowley, two other federal lawmakers — Grace Meng and Gregory Meeks — and former Gov. David Paterson, an ex-state senator from Harlem.

It stated that if the federal lawmakers at that time carried out an effective oversight function, funds looted under ex-National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison Madueke, among others would have been checked.

Either way, his description of Kaminsky as an «excellent assemblyman» contradicts the Senate GOP message that the first - term lawmaker and former federal prosecutor hasn't accomplished anything during his time in Albany.

ALBANY — The Buffalo woman who recently told her story of being sexually harassed by Sam Hoyt, a former state lawmaker and top economic adviser to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has filed a federal lawsuit against Hoyt for engaging in a «pattern of committing sexual harassment, assault, discrimination and retaliation» against her.

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.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Former state Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos today were found guilty by a federal jury in Manhattan on eight counts charging the once - powerful lawmaker used his political influence to force businesses to hire the son.

Kaminsky, a Nassau County state assemblyman and former Brooklyn federal prosecutor, co-sponsored the Ethics Reform Act of 2015, which would allow the $ 79,500 base legislative salary to increase to a range of $ 112,500 to $ 174,000 in exchange for a ban on lawmakers» receiving income from outside jobs.

Lawmakers had more trouble getting agreements on ethics reforms, in a year that's seen the two former legislative leaders sentenced to prison and state and federal probes of Governor Cuomo's economic development programs.

Former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Akwa Ibom State, Chief Otu Ita Otoyo, joined by erstwhile federal lawmakers, Senator Aloysius Etok and Hon....

With under two weeks left in the legislative session, some New York lawmakers are pressing for reform of the state's economic development contracting process, in light of a scandal that's led to federal corruption charges against several former associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo.

But while Brooklyn Federal Judge Allyne Ross said Meng took advantage of his prominent status in the community to enrich himself, she showed some mercy to the former lawmaker due to his age, community service record and health, the New York Post?

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a release that the seven - year sentence Gonzalez received means he «will join the growing ranks of former New York State and New York City lawmakers now serving lengthy terms in federal prison.»

Delayed from October due to the lawmaker's cancer treatment, the sentencing fell as former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's federal corruption case was being considered by a jury, and the trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — who worked with Libous to plot the June 2009 coup that derailed the Senate for five weeks — continued.

The labs «provide essential capabilities for university and industrial researchers» and have made important contributions to America's economic and military might, Moniz reminded a room packed with science policy heavyweights, including 15 lab directors, National Cancer Institute chief Harold Varmus, former White House science adviser Neal Lane, and lawmakers and staffers who serve on key committees overseeing federal research agencies.

A conservative state lawmaker and a liberal former director of the Bureau of Land Management argued the merits of a debate that's sweeping the West — whether states should take control of federal lands and would they manage them better.

Western lands takeover: Former BLM chief, state lawmaker clash Debate stems from state and federal tension over control of millions of acres in the West.

With former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver facing federal corruption charges in connection with questionable asbestos litigation, the American Tort Reform Association today urged Albany lawmakers to «promptly kill an insurance litigation bill that would open yet another lucrative line of business for personal injury lawyers at the expense of New York consumers and jobseekers.»

The 17 lawmakers say in the suit that General Services Administration Acting Administrator Timothy Horne has refused to comply with mandatory requests for documents, including unredacted monthly income statements for the hotel, which is in a former post office owned by the federal government.