Sentences with phrase «guilty on the corruption charges»
Federal prosecutors sent indicted state politician Sheldon Silver a letter laying out his likely sentence if he pleaded guilty on all corruption charges — but he never responded, they revealed...
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Federal prosecutors sent indicted state politician Sheldon Silver a letter laying out his likely sentence if he pleaded guilty on all corruption charges — but he never responded, they revealed in court Friday.
One former Democratic majority leader, Malcolm Smith, was found guilty on corruption charges and another, John Sampson, will go on trial soon.
Not exact matches
A former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was found guilty on three counts of federal corruption charges related to a bribery and bid rigging scheme.
The guilty verdict on felony corruption charges triggered his removal from office.
Democrat Lew Fidler just sent out a press release congratulating David Storobin on his victory in the special election for the 27th Senate District seat that has been vacant since Carl Kruger plead guilty to corruption charges.
A jury today found ex-Queens Councilman Dan Halloran guilty on all five counts of the corruption charges he faced stemming in part from his role in a bribery scheme to sell the GOP line in the 2013 NYC mayoral primary.
Sheldon Silver, the former powerful Democratic speaker of the state Assembly, was found guilty of federal corruption charges less than a year after his first conviction on the same charges was thrown out.
The first public meeting of the state's new ethics commission came on the day that another State Senator pleaded guilty to felony corruption charges.
The second of the state legislature's two former leaders has now been convicted on multiple corruption charges after a jury lost no time in finding former Senate Leader Dean Skelos and son Adam guilty on all eight counts.
The former Lower East Side assemblyman is undergoing a second trial after the first guilty verdict on corruption charges was nullified by an appeals court.
One of three LPCiminelli executives indicted on corruption charges related to the Buffalo Billion program pleaded guilty to felony charges Friday.
NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters)- U.S. Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, a leading foreign policy voice in Congress, entered a not guilty plea on corruption charges during a federal court appearance on Thursday and was released without bail.
The New York Young Republicans» take on Kruger's guilty plea to federal corruption charges appears below.
Since the news broke that Mauro Zonzini had plead guilty to corruption charges and signed a cooperation agreement and that John Gallagher had been arrested and indicted on corruption charges, the floodgates have started to open.
What: A guilty plea by Howe was unsealed when Preet Bharara announced a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan on public corruption charges against nine people in September 2016.
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on numerous corruption charges in late November.
After 39 years in office, however, Silver fell far and fast following a conviction on corruption charges in 2015, when a jury found him guilty of colluding with both a physician and real estate interests to rake in millions from referral fees to his law firm in return for political favors.
When Assemblymember Gabriela Rosa pled guilty to corruption charges on Fri., Jun. 27th, it sent shockwaves through the Northern Manhattan community.
-- SILVER IS GUILTY AGAIN — Wall Street Journal's Corinne Ramey: «Sheldon Silver, former longtime speaker of New York's Assembly and once one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, was convicted Friday of all counts after his retrial on public - corruption charges.
Gov. David Paterson just sent out a release announcing (for the second time) that there will indeed be a special election on Sept. 15 to replace Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio (D - Richmond Hill), who resigned in June after pleading guilty to corruption charges.
Former Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr. did himself no favors when he sought to withdraw his guilty plea on corruption charges.
Bruno, a Rensselaer County Republican, was acquitted last year of theft of honest services charges — his second corruption trial after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling tossed the previous charge the former lawmaker was found guilty on.
Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was found not guilty of federal corruption charges on Friday.
The informant reported to be in the center of the Rockland County / New York City corruption fiasco currently rocking the political universe recently pled guilty to charges pertaining to a default on a loan of over $ 100 million to Citigroup.
The blistering attack on de Blasio's integrity came less than two weeks after former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco was found guilty of corruption charges — and ahead of the corruption trial involving Cuomo's signature «Buffalo Billion» economic - development program.
Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam were found guilty on all charges in their corruption case.
Silver, who was indicted on a host of federal fraud charges in February, appeared in Manhattan Federal Court Tuesday to plea not guilty to all charges, including additional criminal charges related to his corruption case.
The second of the New York State legislature's two former leaders has now been convicted on multiple corruption charges, after a jury wasted no time finding former Senate Leader Dean Skelos and son Adam guilty on all eight counts Friday.
A jury found Silver guilty on all seven charges against him in a federal corruption trial that lasted five - weeks.
FILE — Dean Skelos, and his son Adam Skelos, leave Manhattan Federal Court after being found guilty on all counts of corruption charges in New York, Dec. 11, 2015.
Singh also pleaded guilty to bribing Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, who are scheduled to be tried on federal corruption charges.
A jury found Silver, 71, once the powerful Assembly speaker, guilty on seven corruption charges in December.
Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York State, was found guilty on Monday of federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the special election — held on the same day as the closely watched New York presidential primary — to fill the seat left vacant by Silver, who represented Lower Manhattan for 35 years before he was found guilty of corruption charges related to two separate bribery schemes.
Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim leaves U.S. District Court in New Haven in 2003, after he was found guilty on 16 of 21 federal corruption charges.
Badeh, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Iyalikam Nigeria Limited on a 10 - count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption to the tune of N3.97 billion, had on March 7, 2016 pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Minutes after pleading not guilty to sweeping corruption charges, the once - powerful politician barely dodged another embarrassing fall from grace when he slipped on a mound of ice and barely avoided landing on his butt.
Former Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver has been found guilty in his second trial on federal corruption charges.
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Hoping to quell upset on the right, Flanagan tapped his former rival to serve as his No. 2, replacing ex-Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous, who was forced to resign his seat after being found guilty on a felony corruption charge.
Ad No. 1 resurrected Denenberg's 2005 guilty plea on petition fraud charges, saying he would «fit right in» with the culture of corruption in Albany.
US Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey entered a not guilty plea on corruption charges during a federal court appearance and was released without bail.
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York, was found guilty on seven federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.
Silver, who was found guilty by a federal jury in November on corruption charges, was originally slated for an April 13 sentencing.
The former head of the Enfield Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization focused on revitalizing the Thompsonville section of town, pleaded guilty Friday to a federal corruption charge in U.S. District Court in New Haven.
That's when he resigned after being found guilty on 16 charges of federal corruption.
Dean Skelos and his son Adam were found guilty on all charges in their corruption case.
Some 19 months after the infamous Bridgegate scandalbroke, onetime Chris Christie ally David Wildstein pleaded guilty to corruption charges connected to the closure of lanes on the George Washington Bridge, probably just the first criminal charge in the federal probe of the incident.
The first public meeting of the state's new ethics commission came on the day that another state senator pleaded guilty to felony corruption charges.