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The position opened when Ira Thomas was indicted on corruption charges and resigned.
The Senate Republicans will try to make it through June with Skelos at the helm, but whether they will continue to back their Long Island leader if he's formally indicted on corruption charges is another matter entirely.
When Sheldon Silver was accused, arrested and indicted on corruption charges, it took Carl Heastie two weeks to become the Speaker after Sheldon Silver had resigned — and everybody was pushing him to wait for a month.
Ortt and former State Senator George Maziarz were recently indicted on corruption charges.
During this time a number of legislators were indicted on corruption charges and advocates began a major push for public financing of campaigns.
But the State Legislature has been thrown into chaos recently, with Sheldon Silver, a Democrat and the former leader of the State Assembly, being indicted on corruption charges.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued his first public comments since his former top aide and other former associates were indicted on corruption charges just before Thanksgiving.
Venditto's father, a prominent Long Island Republican, has been indicted on corruption charges.
Only days after Chartock's predications hit the papers, now - former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver was indicted on corruption charges, That was swiftly followed by similar accusations against now - former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos.
Fattah was indicted on corruption charges, but hasn't discussed his future.
After New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez was indicted on corruption charges Wednesday, Minority Leader Harry Reid's reaction to his colleague's situation wasn't particularly surprising, but it's not because Menendez is a fellow Democrat.
Senator John Flanagan — in three hours from the time that Senator Dean Skelos resigned from his leadership position after being accused, arrested and indicted on corruption charges — has become the new Leader of the New York State Senate.
Menendez was indicted on the corruption charges in April 2015.
While addressing students at Harvard University on Tuesday, Cuomo was asked why five legislative leaders in a row were indicted on corruption charges — including former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who are currently on trial in federal courts.
That was also the day JCOPE released financial disclosure forms filed by Percoco, the former top aide to Cuomo who was among eight people indicted on corruption charges in the federal grand jury investigation.
The former Democrat powerbroker stepped down from his leadership position after being indicted on corruption charges in January.
Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. has managed to hang onto a subcommittee chairmanship despite having twice been indicted on corruption charges.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says in a legislative session in which the leaders of the state Assembly and Senate are both indicted on corruption charges, the need for ethics reform in Albany is shockingly clear.
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.
When a reporter — I think the AP's Mike Gormley — noted the GOP hadn't made a similar call when then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was indicted on corruption charges, Cox replied:
Another sitting state legislator, Sen. Rob Ortt, has been indicted on corruption charges, along with George Maziarz, who held the western New York Senate seat before him.
One of three LPCiminelli executives indicted on corruption charges related to the Buffalo Billion program pleaded guilty to felony charges Friday.
The DSCC supported Gonzalez (although not nearly enough, in his opinion) despite the fact that he was indicted on corruption charges at the time.
Carl Kruger, also of Brooklyn, was indicted on corruption charges.
Not exact matches
And in a turn that is likely to be most significant for his campaign, in 2014 he was indicted for corruption, on charges stemming from his veto of a $ 7.5 million appropriation for a public integrity unit, seen as a bid to pressure a district attorney to step down.
The Tigers are one of four programs with an assistant coach indicted by a federal grand jury on fraud, conspiracy and bribery charges stemming from the FBI's investigation into corruption across college basketball.
It has emerged that National Security operatives are on the heels of John Ajet Nassam, one of the High Court judges indicted in the Anas Aremeyaw Anas judicial bribery and corruption scandal.
Rob Walker, who served as chief deputy to former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, has been indicted on federal charges of obstructing justice and lying to FBI agents just weeks before the scheduled start of his former boss» corruption trial.
In 2010, he was indicted on federal corruption charges.
NEW YORK, NY (05/06/2015)(readMedia)-- As a second of Albany's powerful «three men in a room» has been indicted on federal corruption charges, the need to combat and prevent corruption in Albany could not be clearer.
Following a long FBI probe, Espada was initially indicted in December 2010 on a wide range of corruption charges in which he and his family charged $ 100,000 on Soundview Health Center's corporate American Express card for to pay for:
He replaced 16 - year incumbent Thomas Spota, who stepped down last month after he and his top corruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland, were indicted on federal charges that they were involved in a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 2012.
Corruption scandals may have hurt that prospect, but the truth is Republicans will soon show up on the indicted list.
Saladino was appointed supervisor on Jan. 31 following the resignation of John Venditto, who was among those indicted and was also indicted last year on federal corruption charges, and is running for the seat in the November election.
Cuomo appointed the Moreland Act Commission at the close of a legislative session that saw numerous lawmakers arrested, indicted and jailed for corruption, and with no agreement on any reform measures.
Already indicted on federal corruption charges, City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) announced Wednesday he would not seek a second term in the wake of new allegations that he had affairs with both a former intern and former deputy chief of staff?.
Menendez was indicted in 2015 on corruption charges including bribery, but his Democratic colleagues in the Senate continued taking money from his New Millennium PAC into this past year.
Silver was indicted by a grand jury last week on three counts, after having been arrested in late January and charged with five counts of federal corruption.
Former Massachusetts treasurer Timothy Cahill has been indicted on public corruption charges related to advertisements promoting the state lottery that ran during his unsuccessful campaign for governor in 2010.
In February, sources told The Post that the courthouse was under federal investigation over its alleged ties to Silver, who was forced to give up his role as Assembly speaker after being indicted on federal corruption charges.
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.
Assemblymember Pamela Harris (D - Coney Island - Dyker Heights - Bay Ridge), who was indicted earlier this year on corruption charges, has been keeping a low profile since her legal troubles became public.
On Wednesday, Spota and Christopher McPartland, head of the district attorney's political corruption unit, were indicted on unrelated federal charges involving a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 201On Wednesday, Spota and Christopher McPartland, head of the district attorney's political corruption unit, were indicted on unrelated federal charges involving a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 201on unrelated federal charges involving a cover - up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke's assault of a suspect in 2012.
In January 2009, about six months after he retired from the state Senate, Bruno was indicted on eight counts of corruption.
Following being indicted on federal corruption charges, Sen. Robert Menendez (D - N.J.) says he is confident he will be «vindicated.»
The former president of SUNY Poly Alain Kaloyeros was indicted earlier this year on corruption charges along with several other people associated with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's upstate development projects over an alleged bid - rigging scheme.
The business was registered with the Department of State last November — a month after Monserrate was indicted on separate federal corruption charges — under the name «Papaya Pizza Corp..»
Silver, who stepped down from his longtime position as Assembly speaker in the wake of the corruption case, was indicted on federal fraud and extortion charges in February related to claims that he took more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.
Early bellwethers for 2018 last week included high - profile races in Westchester and Nassau counties that saw voters elect Democratic candidates who promised to stamp out corruption (It didn't hurt that Nassau's county executive had been indicted on federal corruption charges.)