Sentences with phrase «mayor on corruption»

He has criticized the mayor on corruption and public safety.

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Kwame Kilpatrick, who was mayor from 2002 until 2008, was convicted this week of two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery for a scheme to collect kickbacks on city contracts for himself and associates.

Perceptive Conservatives know this move toward openness will have to be legitimately addressed and this wave of political trouble can't be turned back with endless and groundless claims that their tormenter - in - chief Tom Mulcair could have ended Quebec corruption by blowing the whistle on the mayor of Laval 17 years ago.

Ricardo Morales, a former top New York City official, sued Mayor Bill de Blasio for more than $ 5 million, saying he was illegally fired for blowing the whistle on alleged City Hall corruption and refusing to help restaurateur Harendra Singh, who admitted to bribing the mayor.

Speaking at a press conference outside the office of the CFB Malliotakis referenced the recent testimony of Jona Rechnitz in the federal corruption trial of Norman Seabrook on his political contributions to de Blasio and, according to Rechnitz, the mayor's responsiveness to his requests in exchange for those contributions.

The mayor, who returned to office in 2015 after a seven - year stint in prison on corruption charges, has raised more than $ 600,000 for his gubernatorial effort.

«It is my humble honor to stand here today as a candidate for governor, as a mayor of the largest city but also as an imperfect human being,» said Ganim, who spent seven years in prison on federal corruption charges.

In Queens, state Sen. Malcolm Smith, about to face retrial on corruption charges for allegedly trying to rig the New York City mayor's race, was soundly defeated by former City Councilman Leroy Comrie.

The corruption busting prosecutor is also reportedly probing how the city eased a deed restriction on a Lower East Side AIDS center to allow the owner — tied to a consulting firm close to the mayor — to convert it into luxury condominiums.

The mayor said that if lawmakers don't act on reforms, they'll lose a shot at redemption after a year in which leaders in both houses of the Legislature have been arrested on federal corruption charges.

The charges come just days after state Sen. Malcolm Smith was charged in a wide - ranging corruption scam that alleges he tried to bribe his way on to the Republican ballot for mayor.

The cooperation with investigators of Rechnitz, a central figure in one of the half - dozen continuing federal corruption investigations focused on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's fund - raising, could have wide - ranging consequences for the mayor.

Prosecutors want to present evidence of Smith's alleged payoffs at his upcoming corruption trial, where he's accused of trying to bribe city Republican leaders to get on the GOP line for mayor last year.

A large part of his media strategy was issuing statements lambasting the much - criticized mayor's actions, on issues such as the corruption probe into de Blasio and his perpetual lateness.

Finch lost the Democratic mayoral primary last week to Joe Ganim, a former Bridgeport mayor convicted on multiple corruption charges.

Last September, Finch became the first incumbent mayor in Bridgeport history to lose a mayoral primary and his loss came at the hands of Ganim, a former mayor who spent seven years in federal prison on corruption charges.

[63] The most notable of these convictions included those of Democratic Hudson County Executive Robert C. Janiszewski in 2002 on bribery charges, [64] Republican Essex County Executive James W. Treffinger in 2003 on corruption charges, [65] former Democratic New Jersey Senate President John A. Lynch Jr., in 2006 on charges of mail fraud and tax evasion, [66] State Senator and former Newark Democratic mayor Sharpe James in 2008 on fraud charges, [67] and Democratic State Senator Wayne R. Bryant in 2008 on charges of bribery, mail fraud, and wire fraud.

«Cause I can't stand corruption and this city is so dirty from that mayor on down and this guy that I just looked at right now in the courtroom, he's a sleazebag and the mayor's a sleazebag for giving him money and that's what we're dealing with right now.»

Ganim served as mayor from 1991 to 2003 before he was convicted on 16 counts of corruption.

Jona Rechnitz, 33, a wealthy Brooklyn real estate developer who pleaded guilty in March to charges of corruption, testified at the bribery trial of Norman Seabrook, the former president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, on Thursday that he «was giving money to the mayor of New York in exchange for favors.»

But White Plains federal Judge Kenneth Karas said such evidence would confuse the jury because, if true, it's a «completely different scheme» than for what Smith will be on trial beginning Jan. 5 when he faces corruption charges for allegedly trying to buy his way onto the Republican line for mayor last year.

Ganim was mayor of Bridgeport for about 12 years before he was convicted on federal corruption charges, including racketeering and extortion.

Then - council member Dan Halloran and NYS Senator Malcolm Smith had been arrested the day before on a variety of corruption charges and then - Council Speaker Christine Quinn was regarded as the front runner in the race for mayor.

State residents awoke Thursday to the almost incredible news that Joe Ganim, the former Bridgeport mayor who spent seven years in prison on federal corruption and racketeering charges, defeated incumbent Bill Finch in the city Democratic mayoral primary...

The mayor's $ 2 million legal tab adds to at least $ 11.6 million in public funds spent on lawyers who represented several underlings in the corruption probes, which ended in March with no charges filed — but harsh criticism of the mayor's fundraising practices.

Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum to be sentenced on corruption conviction, Canadian Press

Former mayor of Montreal ordered to stand trial on fraud and corruption charges, Canadian Press