Sentences with phrase «indictment on corruption»

Ms. Guardiola also told the Observer that she worked as Mr. Silver's representative to the Hispanic community for 12 years, and said she was the «last of the employees» serving in his office after his indictment on corruption charges last year.

Lawyers for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver are again pressing a federal judge to toss out an indictment on corruption charges due to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's public comments about the case.

«If you come here, we will make a path for you for one of the best lives you can have for you and your children,» said Sen. Malcolm Smith, a former IDC member facing indictment on corruption charges.

Seminerio tendered his resignation to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) Monday, fueling speculation that he has reached or is close to reaching a plea deal with federal prosecutors relating to his indictment on corruption charges.

A newly unsealed motion by the defense attorney for Republican Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano alleges his indictment on corruption charges was possibly part of a complicated plot involving former President Bill Clinton to tip the state Senate into Democratic hands.

Sen. Malcolm Smith didn't let his indictment on corruption charges prevent him from marching in a Queens Memorial Day parade.

Departing County Executive Edward Mangano is under federal indictment on corruption charges in dealings with a vendor.

A federal indictment on corruption charges is expected on Wednesday for former Cuomo aide (left) Joseph Percoco.

Huntley, who is under indictment on corruption charges, lost the Sept. 13 primary to NYC Councilman James Sanders.

Venditto's father is under indictment on corruption charges.

The superintendent's suspension almost certainly guarantees more turmoil in the top ranks of the district, which has been shaken in recent months by racial politics, investigations of mismanagement, and indictments on corruption...

Not exact matches

Louisville wasn't named explicitly or charged in the FBI's sweeping investigation on wide - spread corruption within college basketball, but it's easy to identify the Cardinals as «University - 6» in the indictment from the Department of Justice.

FBI indictment in college basketball corruption scandal features new details on Kansas, NC State

So it's no wonder he blocked efforts to remove Skelos from power after his indictment on federal corruption charges.»

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.

More broadly, Democratic Assemblyman Sheldon Silver is under indictment for corruption charges and will be arraigned on a superseding indictment on Tuesday.

A federal grand jury in Manhattan Tuesday returned a 14 - count indictment of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and seven others on corruption charges in two wide - ranging bribery schemes to rig bids and wield influence on upstate development projects.

«And now, further, the news about the five - count federal indictment on federal corruption charges against Silver will be an enormous distraction and prevent him from credibly leading the Assembly, especially as the budget process kicks into overdrive in this high stakes year for New York's economy and our citizens.»

The federal corruption charges center on a relationship involving Mangano, Venditto and a person identified only as a co-conspirator in the 13 - count indictment, but whom sources identified as Long Island restaurateur Harendra Singh.

Greenberg says New Yorkers don't seem to be that interested in the process, they just want to see an end result, a crack down on rampant corruption that's led to multiple arrests, indictments, and imprisonments of state lawmakers in recent years.

Oyster Bay is undertaking a series of changes in response to last month's indictments of former town officials, employees and a contractor on corruption charges, Supervisor Joseph Saladino announced.

But with voters focused on the issue of public corruption, after indictments of key officials including County Executive Edward Mangano, the candidates have said less than usual about the central issue in past campaigns: How to cut high county property taxes.

The email evidence is considered key to the State Attorney General's case against the former Erie County Democratic chairman, and it was used to help obtain a 2016 indictment against Pigeon and others on corruption charges.

ALBANY — The U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District on Thursday unveiled a 13 - count indictment against Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, his wife Linda and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto on federal corruption charges.

The two men were sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday following their indictment for corruption by a panel headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

The Manhattan Democrat resigned from his powerful position after a federal indictment for corruption last month made it impossible for him to carry on.

He was picked as Majority Leader Joseph Bruno's deputy in 1995 and eventually succeeded the Brunswick Republican in 2008 when Bruno stepped down in the face of an FBI investigation that resulted in his own indictment on bribery and corruption charges.

Defrancisco expects lawmakers will meet again to discuss whether Skelos should keep his leadership role in light of an indictment this week on federal corruption charges.

The investigation into Skelos comes on the heels of the indictment of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is facing an assortment of corruption charges.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Christopher McPartland, the chief of investigations and head of the government - corruption bureau of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office on Long Island, also was charged in the four - count indictment that includes conspiracy to tamper with witnesses and obstruct an official proceeding.

Nassau County Republicans who are on the ballot this Election Day are calling on County Executive Ed Mangano and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto to immediately resign following their indictments on federal corruption charges.

It was revealed on Wednesday that a New York State Court administrative insider said that top state officials had been briefed by the feds on pending federal corruption indictments that would include employees of New York's Office of Court Administration (a / ka / «OCA»).

Eric Schneiderman is a hyper partisan who completely dropped the ball on Albany corruption for years and the first real prosecution he's involved in, is a stretch of an indictment that would possibly impact the Senate Majority (where he used to serve) and just as Cuomo is looking at national politics possibly opening up the Governor's mansion.

At 3 p.m., former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is due in court on the three - count federal corruption indictment handed up last week, 40 Foley Square, Manhattan.

That preceded indictments of former Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) on federal corruption charges in 2015.

Nevertheless, the Skelos investigation remains a cloud over a state Capitol that has seen its share of corruption arrests, most recently with the indictment of now former Speaker Sheldon Silver of the Assembly on fraud and extortion charges.

The trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, in Federal District Court in Manhattan on an eight - count indictment that includes bribery and extortion charges is scheduled to begin today — just as the unrelated corruption case against Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the State Assembly, enters its third week.

While some political corruption cases are not announced until indictments are unsealed, in the case of Mr. Skelos and of Mr. Silver, Mr. Bharara chose to bring criminal complaints to court on his own first before turning the case over to a grand jury.

The federal corruption charges center on a relationship involving Mangano, Venditto and a person identified only as a co-conspirator in the 13 - count indictment, but whom sources have identified as Harendra Singh.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to pull the plug on his corruption - fighting Moreland Commission will have repercussions far beyond Thursday's indictment of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, insiders said.

The survey suggests that the arrest and indictment of eight of his top aides and donors on corruption charges this fall has had little impact on his popularity.

Coming on the heels of former Assembly Sheldon Silver's indictment, Skelos» legal troubles have prompted a fresh round of journalistic hand - wringing over Albany's supposed «corruption tax.»

As expected former state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's attorneys have filed an appeal of his January 2009 indictment on federal corruption charges, arguing in part that the theft of honest services statute under which he was convicted has been invalidated by the US Supreme Court.

LPCiminelli was run by Louis P. Ciminelli until his indictment on federal corruption charges in 2016 for allegedly rigging state construction bids.

In addition to recording conversations with his colleagues in a federal corruption investigation into members of the New York State Assembly, Nelson Castro had a key requirement to avoid prosecution on a past perjury indictment: Tell the truth.

«The pattern by now is pretty familiar,» Mr. Schneiderman told reporters on the steps of Tweed Courthouse, alluding to the hasty statements and reform proposals that followed the indictment of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges earlier this year, and the subsequent arrest of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on misconduct allegations.

Gov. Cuomo raised eyebrows last week among even some close to him when he appeared at an event on Long Island with lame - duck Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, a Republican who is under indictment on federal corruption charges.

The latest arrest comes weeks after the indictments of a slew of other state and city officials on corruption charges, including State Sen. Malcolm Smith, ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro and City Councilman Daniel Halloran.

For their part state Democrats hope to make DeLay the poster boy for political corruption, highlighting his indictment by a Texas grand jury on state money laundering charges, plus several scandals involving political associates and former staffers.