Not exact matches
Dean Skelos is the
latest in a series of
powerful politicians whose convictions unraveled because of a recent Supreme Court decision.
More than 100 years
later, attorneys for another
powerful Manhattan
politician, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, argued that his client's reaping millions of dollars in legal fees from entities with matters before state government was simply business as usual in Albany.
The
latest kidnapping victim (Ekaterina Samsonov) is the daughter of a
powerful politician (Alex Mannette), and soon enough Joe confronts a welter of conspiracies and depravities.
His arrest of one of the country's revolutionary leaders in the
late 1940s resulted in the
politician's conviction and imprisonment, but Emil was too young in those days to understand what it meant to go up against someone so
powerful — and win.