Sentences with phrase «former state senate»

On February 2, at the recommendation of former State Senate President Tom Lee, the Florida Constitutional Revision Commission's (CRC) Local Government Committee unanimously voted to reject Proposition 95.

Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for California governor, is running a radio ad encouraging people to see it, and Don Perata, the Democratic former state Senate leader who's running for Oakland mayor, spoke briefly at an invitation - only screening in Oakland on Wednesday night.

«This is a bill that was ghostwritten by the CTA,» says Gloria Romero, former State Senate Majority Leader (and now head of California Democrats for Education Reform).

But former State Senate Leader Gloria Romero, now director of California Democrats for School Reform, thinks the message was implicit.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

Former State Senate President John McKay — who created the law — agrees.

Kris Thompson shows up to former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno sentencing at the Federal Court House in Albany.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno talks to the press outside the Federal Court House after his sentencing in Albany, NY on May 6, 2010.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno enters the Federal Court House for his sentencing in Albany, NY on May 6, 2010.

Dean G. Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, was sentenced to five years in prison for abusing his office.

Former state Senate Minority Leader Richard Tisei (R., Wakefield) has capitalized on the issue.

As a measure of how murky the financial dealings of former State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno were, the jury on his corruption trial says they've reached a verdict on two of the counts so far, but are deadlocked on the other six.

And, Bonventre said that should worry the former state Senate Leader Dean Skelos, who is currently on trial in federal court, also on corruption charges.

The Democrats running include Halloran's former chief of staff, a member of the Vallone political family, a former assemblyman, an urban planner and a former state senate press secretary.

Hammer, dropped: «Former State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was indicted Friday on charges of pocketing at least $ 3 million by steering contracts to select businesses.»

A sprawling federal investigation into a bribery scheme hatched during the 2013 mayoral race led to the successful prosecutions of Malcolm Smith, a former state senate majority leader, and Dan Halloran, a former Republican city councilman.

The probe into Silver's office also turned up incriminating material about former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who also now also faces corruption raps in Manhattan federal court.

In interviews in recent days, eight members of the jury that heard the case against the former state Senate majority leader said they learned a lot about New York's political and governmental structure.

Adam Skelos, 35, and his dad, a former state Senate majority leader, 69, saw their December 2015 convictions for a shakedown scam tossed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in September.

And Bonventre says that should worry the former State Senate Leader, Dean Skelos, who is currently on trial in federal court, also on corruption charges.

As expected, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the superseding indictment of his former state Senate colleague and fellow Democrat, Shirley Huntley for filing fraudulent documents in order to have aides pocket legislative member item money.

Rubain Dorancy, a former State Senate candidate for an overlapping district, and Diane Richardson, a contender for Democratic district leader in the Assembly District, have expressed interest in running, sources say.

Both former Speaker Sheldon Silver and former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos saw their 2015 convictions overturned on appeal.

For Republicans, the name of choice appears to be former state Senate President Ken Bennett, who has said he would consider the race if Renzi vacated the seat.

After Thanksgiving weekend, QP had a chance to meet up with an old friend, a former state Senate staffer from the GOP.

They run out of control,» former State Senate leader Joseph Bruno — once one of the «three men» — said on «Live from the State Capitol» on WGDJ - AM in Albany, according to Time Warner Cable News.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today endorsed Rubain Dorancy over Jesse Hamilton in the contest for Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams» former State Senate seat — in what a source told the Observer is a slight to Mr. Adams.

A lawyer for former state Senate power broker Dean Skelos argued in a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday that he should get no prison time because infertility contracted as a teen left scars that made him too devoted to his adopted son Adam to resist helping him years later.

Rodriguez, joined by City Councilman Robert Jackson and former State Senate and House candidates Mark Levine and Gabriella Rosa, said he would like to see that third congressional district represent «communities of common interest in Northern Manhattan, the West Bronx, and Corona and Jackson Heights, Queens.»

The Skelos case featured allegations that the former state Senate majority leader had pressured Glenwood into giving his son, Adam, a job, while Silver's case detailed how the former Assembly speaker directed Glenwood to real estate tax law firm Goldberg & Iryami — only for the law firm to quietly direct $ 700,000 in referral fees to Silver.

Her tenure was marked by the federal indictment of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Nassau Republican, on extortion charges that involved a contract awarded by Nassau County.

(Side note: longtime tenant and former state senate candidate Dan Padernacht says «Sholem Aleichem» is the correct spelling, although it's apparently debatable.

The presidential primary races could help determine the winner of the heated Long Island contest to replace Dean Skelos, the former state Senate leader who is headed to prison after a corruption conviction.

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.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo calling for a special election to fill former State Senate Leader Dean Skelos district seat and a the future of a seal that was captured in the Hudson and released near Long Island.

Dean G. Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader, and his son, Adam, on Tuesday.

Lawyers for former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam today argued that the federal corruption charges against the pair — which allege that the elder Mr. Skelos obtained posh jobs for the younger from companies with business before the state — really tell a heartwarming tale of a «caring and concerned» father and his «rude,» «volatile» and «immature and emotional» 33 - year - old boy.

The former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is sentenced to 5 years in prison the same time Michael Benedetto met with federal investigators.

Carl Kruger, the former State Senate leader who pleaded guilty to corruption charges, arrived for sentencing on Thursday at federal court in Manhattan.

The presidential primary races could help determine the winner of the heated Long Island contest to replace Dean Skelos, the former state Senate leader who is headed to prison after...

ALBANY — Attorneys for former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno said the federal government's theory behind a superseding indictment of their client is «fatally flawed» and have asked a federal judge to dismiss the charges.

The potential witnesses in the upcoming corruption trial of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver represent the top players in New York politics and real estate, including Gov. Cuomo, indicted former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and real - estate heavyweights Leonard Litwin and Larry Silverstein, court papers reveal.

Among the Brooklyn seats that are currently empty are Adams» former State Senate District 20, Councilwoman Inez Barron's former Assembly District 60, which encompasses Brownsville and East New York; Councilman Rafael Espinal's Assembly District 54, which serves Bushwick and Cypress Hills; and Assembly District 59 where Councilmember Alan Maisel covered parts of Marine Park and Canarsie.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about New York State Senate staff looking to finish the budget and leave town to help campaign for the seat once held by former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, dangerous ice in the Adirondacks that resulted in the death of a 12 - year - old Greenwich boy, and an interesting story about politics and money in Cohoes.

He also said he met with federal investigators from the Albany and Manhattan U.S. Attorney offices on May 12 — the same day former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to five years in prison on federal corruption charges.

Less than two years ago, remember, former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was convicted of federal corruption charges.

A judge sentenced former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to five years in prison Thursday for running a federal shakedown scheme that «caused immeasurable damage.»

Businessman and horse breeder Anthony Bonomo has stepped aside as chairman of the board of the New York Racing Association on Tuesday, less than a week after his company was revealed to have provided an alleged «no - show» job to the son of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

At former state Senate Majority Leader Skelos» sentencing, prosecutor Jason Masimore warned that Skelos's «victims are going to keep paying Dean Skelos under his pension agreement,» that requested that his fine be reflective of that.

Former state Senate leader John Sampson Tuesday became the latest politician to ask for a review of his corruption conviction based on the Supreme Court's decision last week narrowing federal bribery and «honest services fraud» statutes in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.