Sentences with phrase «get federal corruption charges»
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Embattled Brooklyn state Assemblywoman Pamela Harris keeps getting paid as a lawmaker, but has been a no - show at the state Capitol ever since her indictment on federal corruption charges this year.
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In November 2015, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted of 7 felony counts of federal corruption charges in a kick - back scheme where he gave $ 500,000 in state lump sum tax dollars to a physician who would refer patients to the Speaker's law firm where he would get referral fees.
Carl Kruger, who is currently serving time on federal corruption charges, has $ 417,310 on hand in his campaign committee that will be waiting for him when he gets out.
The arrest of New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver on federal corruption charges earlier this year, and his subsequent resignation as speaker, sent shock waves through Albany — and apparently U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was just getting started.
Former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver got a new lawyer on Thursday, but not a delay in his scheduled April 16 retrial on corruption charges in Manhattan federal court.
Joe Percoco, the former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is facing trial on federal corruption charges, «threatened» at least four top state government officials who were considering getting jobs in the private sector, prosecutors claim.
He got dragged into the federal corruption probe when he was caught on a wire offering a bribe to Nelson Castro, a Bronx assemblyman who had agreed to cooperate with the government to get out of a perjury charge.
The move is expected to have little practical effect other than the political theater and also attempt to get Senate Republicans formally on the record when it comes to supporting their leader as he faces federal corruption charges.
Former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver got a new lawyer, but not a delay in his scheduled April 16 retrial on corruption charges in Manhattan federal court.
The other two Democrats, Sens. Shirley Huntley and Carl Kruger, have legal troubles (an AG investigation for her, federal corruption charges for him), and didn't get any monetary love from the mayor, the filings show.
In addition, the former Speaker of the Assembly is in court facing federal corruption charges, and the most recent leader of the Senate, Dean Skelos, goes on trial Nov. 16 in federal court on charges that he monetized his office to get a job and other favors for his own son.
Former State Senate leader Dean Skelos got a split result Thursday in his bid to subpoena damaging information about two key witnesses against him in his upcoming retrial on corruption charges in Manhattan federal court.
But then, he's got bigger troubles: He's awaiting trial on separate corruption charges in Manhattan federal court, where he's charged with illegally using a nonprofit group — one that he had supported with taxpayer contributions as a City Council member — in his political campaigns.
Nixon is on solid ground when she hits Cuomo over corruption, especially with the recent federal conviction of his friend and former aide, Joseph Percoco, on charges of taking bribes to help Cuomo donors get contracts on economic development boondoggles.
Federal officials Monday unsealed corruption charges against four NYPD officers and two businessmen linked to Mayor Bill de Blasio, popping the lid off an explosive scandal in which top cops allegedly got payoffs and prostitutes to provide help ranging from gun licenses and police escorts to closing a Lincoln Tunnel lane.
Despite serving prison time on federal corruption charges and getting booted from office, former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate is trying to get back into politics.
Joe Bruno was about half an hour into a rambling speech at his sentencing hearing when he blurted out that all of the private business deals that got him convicted of federal corruption charges were negotiated by «the lawyers.»
A federal judge rejected ex-state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's third try to get his corruption charges tossed out, sarcastically noting Friday that the allegations in his indictment «do not make Silver look like a Boy Scout.»
Getting to 32, therefore, would require wooing back Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who has conferenced with the GOP since taking office in 2013, and counting on the votes of Democrats John Sampson of Brooklyn and Malcolm Smith of Queens, both of whom are facing federal corruption charges.