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Newly elected Senate leader John Flanagan, on his second day on the job after the resignation of former leader Dean Skelos, said the GOP is open to the governor's additions.

Flanagan was elected majority leader earlier in the month when former leader Dean Skelos resigned after being arrested on federal corruption charges.

Flanagan was elected Senate majority leader in May when former leader Dean Skelos resigned due to his arrest on federal corruption charges.

Flanagan took control of the Senate majority this spring after former Leader Dean Skelos was forced to resign the leadership post due to federal corruption charges.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco is Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and was involved in the leadership battle in the Senate when former leader Dean Skelos resigned as Majority Leader after being arrested on federal corruption charges.

As lawmakers awaited the bills to be printed, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who's been on the job for only a short time, after former leader Dean Skelos resigned over the corruption charges, seems relieved to have it all behind him.

Not exact matches

Justin Dean, a former Mars Hill staff member who apologized for distributing the Resurgence list of 90,000 church leaders, now admits he had no authority to do so.

As former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, gear up for sentencing in their respective public corruption convictions today, the elder Skelos has hired noted appeals lawyer Alexandra Shapiro to help him argue his way out of prison.

But state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos intervened and brokered a deal that resulted in the candidacy — and eventual victory — of Rep. Bob Turner, who had run against former Rep. Anthony Weiner in the district in 2010.

Former legislative leaders Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver will be retried later this year, while former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros and western New York - area developers will be on trial in the sFormer legislative leaders Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver will be retried later this year, while former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros and western New York - area developers will be on trial in the sformer SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros and western New York - area developers will be on trial in the spring.

Suffolk County is also home to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who is seeking a full term at the top post after succeeding the scandal - scarred former Sen. Dean Skelos as GOP leader last sLeader John Flanagan, who is seeking a full term at the top post after succeeding the scandal - scarred former Sen. Dean Skelos as GOP leader last sleader last spring.

At 9:30 a.m., an hour before former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is sentenced for corrupting his office, government watchdog groups will weigh in on the heightened need for ethics reform before the end of the legislative session, Foley Square, intersection of Lafayette, Worth, and Centre streets, Manhattan.

An independent expenditure committee backed by the United Federation of Teachers is making a last - minute push for Democrat Todd Kaminsky in the special election to replace Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Former Bronx Councilman Oliver Koppell, who is reportedly mulling a primary challenge to IDC Leader Jeff Klein this fall, issued a statement this morning blaming Klein for the refusal of his power - sharing partner, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos, to allow a bill establishing NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's tax - the - rich - for - pre-K plan to the floor for a vote.

Republican former Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam are due in court this morning to be sentenced following their December convictions on corruption charges.

NYC real estate developer and mega-donor Leonard Litwin, who made an art of exploiting the so - called LLC loophole and whose company, Glenwood Management, played a big role in the corruption scandal involving former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, has died at the age of 102.

A key labor union for the New York Police Department on Wednesday threw its support to Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath in the race to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

A special election being held next could add Chris McGrath, but he is locked in a tight race with Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky for the district formerly led by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

In the Senate, Democrat Todd Kaminsky appears poised to replaced Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, makign the GOP technically a minority party when it comes to enrollment.

Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, the Democratic candidate for the seat of former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, accused his GOP opponent, Chris McGrath, of «cozying up» to a pro-Common Core group that funded a $ 1.2 million ad buy in advance of the April 19 special election.

In recent weeks, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has slowly built support among New York Republicans, rolling out endorsements from the party's top state - level official (Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos) along with a wide array of current and former electeds, operatives and county GOP leaders.

«With the recent election of Todd Kaminsky replacing former Republican Leader Dean Skelos and today's poll, it is clear that the people of New York are demanding real change,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

A Siena College poll released on Saturday showed Kaminsky, a freshman assemblyman, trailing Republican Chris McGrath by 8 percentage points in the 9th Senate district special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in a Nassau County seat.

The race for the seat was kicked off after former Majority Leader Dean Skelos in December was ousted from his seat after he was convicted on corruption charges.

As he did in the wake of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's sentencing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a brief statement in response to the five year sentence handed down by a federal judge in the corruption case of ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The corruption conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday was overturned by a federal appeals court, dealing yet another blow to the prosecutors who had sought to crack down on Albany's unseemly way of doing business.

His campaign has focused heavily on ethics and anti-corruption measures, a theme that he hopes resonates with voters after the ouster of disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was convicted on corruption charges in December.

McGrath, an attorney and first - time candidate for public office, faces Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky in a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by disgraced Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The federal government refused to grant immunity to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who has threatened to take the Fifth Amendment if called to testify at the political corruption trial of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Wednesday congratulated Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, the likely winner of a special election in Nassau County to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Kaminsky, elected to fill the chair held by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, won a special election and won a full term in a presidential election year.

Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday became the latest disgraced ex-lawmaker to have their conviction tossed by a federal appeals panel.

Barring a successful legal challenge from Republicans, Democrat Todd Kaminsky is likely to be seated as the next senator from the 9th district, replacing scandal - scarred Dean Skelos, the former majority leader.

Flanagan assumed the majority leader's post last year following the arrest of former Sen. Dean Skelos on corruption charges.

The push from Senate Republicans comes after Democrats successfully flipped the district on Long Island once held by former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was ousted in December following his conviction on corruption charges.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos does not at all like the tone Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking with the Legislature these days, saying Cuomo is «heading in the direction» of former Gov. Eliot «Steamroller» Spitzer, whose tough approach with state lawmakers proved largely unsuccessful (even before the prostutition scandal that pushed him from office).

Democratic hopeful Todd Kaminsky, meanwhile, opened up his sharpest criticism yet of McGrath, linking him to disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the Republican who both men want to replace in the Nassau County district in an April 19 special election.

Democratic state Senate candidate Todd Kaminsky is reporting having $ 296,132 in cash on hand for the final push in the special election to replace Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in a Nassau County district.

The commercial then switches tone, knocking McGrath, a first - time candidate, as «an insider from the Skelos machine» — referring to Republican former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who stepped down in December following his conviction on corruption charges.

Like so many others, he is waiting to see the outcome of the April 19 special election for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» Long Island seat, which could indicate which way the wind is blowing in terms of the GOP's effort to retain the majority.

The powerful labor union 1199 SEIU endorsed Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath on Friday in the crucial special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in Nassau County.

One mailer links Sen. Carl Marcellino to disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Oyster Bay town Supervisor John Venditto, who faces corruption charges.

Kaminsky won the seat vacated by former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted on federal corruption, in a special election last April, defeating McGrath.

The U.S. attorney was also asked if he believes that the corruption problem in Albany is getting better as a result of all the cases he has brought in recent years — including the successful prosecution of two men who were once among the state's most powerful political players, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Anthony Bonomo, described by one insider as «just one of those guys everyone in state government knows,» is believed by many to be cooperating with U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's case against former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam.

Senate Republicans have been reluctant to support increases, with former Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos famously calling the last minimum wage increase passed in 2013 a «job killer.»

The move comes as another mayor Cuomo has differed with, New York City's Bill de Blasio, has decided to return contributions from Glenwood Management, the real - estate firm that has played a role in multiple corruption cases and donated heavily to the convicted former leaders of the Senate and Assembly, Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver.

Jack Martins, for initially defending former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the wake of the federal corruption charges that eventually forced him from office.

Cuomo said he wants to include major reforms in his State of the State agenda after federal juries lost no time finding former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos and his son guilty of multiple corruption charges late in 2015.

This spring, former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos face retrial on corruption charges, after their initial convictions were thrown out on appeal.