Sentences with phrase «month on corruption»

Rep. Robert W. Ney's guilty plea last month on corruption charges still hangs over the Ohio campaign of his would - be Republican successor, Joy Padgett, especially because Ney still has not resigned from Congress.

Bharara, the US Attorney for New York's Southern District, convicted former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver earlier this month on corruption charges, and is currently prosecuting the former Senate Leader Dean Skelos, and his son, in an ongoing trial.

The minority conference is eyeing the seat currently held by former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is on trial this month on corruption charges alongside his son Adam.

The latest iteration of ethics reform comes after Manhattan Democrat Sheldon Silver was arrested last month on corruption charges.

Silver was arrested last month on corruption charges, and Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara warned the public to «stay tuned» for more developments.

Current Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will step down late tonight after being arrested last month on corruption charges.

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A Long Island penny stockbroker who served 36 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.

The journalists, Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, published books based on the leaks last month that portrayed the institution as ridden with corruption and mismanagement.

Earlier this month, Emaar Development PJSC struggled to complete its offering as a crackdown on corruption in Saudi Arabia hurt market sentiment and led investors to pull orders, people familiar with that deal said.

In the ongoing corruption scandal embroiling college basketball for months, federal prosecutors in New York added charges on Tuesday against a former Adidas rep, Jim Gatto, which allege payments to families of players at four universities.

February 20 — Jack Warner, the most wanted man of all among powerbrokers snared by US authorities in the $ 200 million FIFAGate corruption scandal, has again managed to thwart extradition by having committal proceedings against him put on hold — for another nine months.

Robert E. Kelly, professor or political science at Pusan National University in South Korea, was interviewed live on the BBC World News this morning to talk about the president of South Korea having been forced out of office last night after a months - long corruption scandal.

The story of continuity also ties to perceptions of impunity — no one in Burundi has thus far been prosecuted for political murder -, to lack of progress on questions of justice and memory, lack of trust in the newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (which interestingly only appeared on the scene months before the election, in December 2014), and perceptions of corruption, abuse of office, the sense of being «used» by those in authority (people speak of being their «bridge» to other objectives).

A Westchester County judge on Tuesday declared a mistrial in the corruption case against Democratic Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith after four jurors needed to excused as the case was expected to continue for another month.

Skelos, who was forced from office in December, is due to be sentenced on corruption charges later this month.

For this reason, he would establish an Office of Special Prosecutor to deal with «the toxic issue of corruption» within the first six months of his administration if he wins this year's election, adding a successful Ghana, can only be built on the basis of good governance, underpinned by efficient and honest public services.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 37 percent approval rating in a poll earlier this month can in part be attributed to the spate of corruption scandals to plague the Capital, former Gov. David Paterson on Monday said.

ALBANY — Good - government advocates are pinning their hopes for passage of substantial ethics and campaign finance reforms on very public examinations of alleged corruption set to take place over the next six months.

These revelations were uncovered by the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption as part of a broad investigation into the spending of campaign funds by state lawmakers that was shut down when Gov. Andrew Cuomo abruptly disbanded the Commission last month.

Nixon went on to critique the governor's record on ethics, saying he closed down a Moreland Act Commission that was actively investigating corruption in state government, and earlier this month saw his former closest aide convicted of bribery.

Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is also awaiting sentencing on public corruption charges, has only $ 246,608 left in his campaign account after spending $ 1.5 million in the past six months.

In the Kaminsky - McGrath race, for example, the Communications Workers of America PAC, which endorsed Kaminsky, gave $ 109,600 to Nassau Democrats on April 12, while the state Trial Lawyers Association's PAC, which has backed a GOP - led Senate, gave more than $ 100,000 to the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee in the months after Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) vacated his seat due to a federal corruption conviction.

A top Senate aide to former majority leader Dean Skelos set up a meeting on fracking with the state Department of Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption trial.

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.

(Nine months later, Mr. Skelos was convicted on unrelated corruption charges.)

His former aide and friend Joe Percoco, meanwhile, went on trial for corruption and was ultimately convicted last month; the same judge that oversaw the Percoco case will preside over another, larger corruption trial relating to the governor's «Buffalo Billion» project this summer.

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.

During his earlier remarks, he referred to last month's conviction of the governor's former top aide on corruption charges.

Earlier this month, Silver's lawyers argued that thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, Silver's case, too, would likely be thrown out — and he should be allowed to stay out of prison on bail while he made his appeals case.

Hawkins is an advocate for campaign finance reform and said the recent trial of Joe Percoco, a former aide to Cuomo and a longtime friend who was convicted on corruption charges earlier this month, displays issues apparent in the state's campaign finance structure.

NEW YORK (AP) For the second time in a month, one of New York State's biggest political figures is going on trial on corruption charges.

But as Karen DeWitt reports, there has been little public discussion about a corruption crisis that has led to the two most powerful men in the legislature both on trial in federal court this month.

Covello's term ended in December — the same month Skelos and his son were convicted on public corruption charges — and he was serving in a holdover capacity.

For the second time in a month, one of New York State's biggest political figures is going on trial on corruption charges.

With a recent poll showing that nearly 90 % of New Yorkers believe that unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government a month before former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are sentenced for public corruption, the governor and legislative leaders have an obligation to New Yorkers to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform.

A federal judge delayed for two months the upcoming corruption trial of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, his wife Linda, and former Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017.

But Cuomo's push — which comes following the arrest of former Speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges last month — could lead to a late budget, something that hasn't been seen in Albany since 2010.

«It is... my prayer that Muslims will use this holy month of Ramadan to pray for Allah to ward off the evils that plague our society and draw us back — corruption, nepotism, ethnicity, unprincipled politics, poverty, ignorance, and disease,» Mr Akufo - Addo said in a statement on Monday June 6.

Silver, who was arrested on corruption charges just months prior to Skelos, had his conviction tossed this summer when a judge determined the jury was given incorrect instructions.

She is writing a book on political corruption, and became involved in the campaign to create a system of public campaign finance several months ago.

Skelos was convicted, along with his son Adam, on multiple corruption charges earlier this month.

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

In January 2009, about six months after he retired from the state Senate, Bruno was indicted on eight counts of corruption.

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..»

«Because we can not conclude that the (instruction) error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, we are obliged to vacate the convictions,» the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, less than three months after reversing former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's separate corruption conviction on the same grounds.

Silver's resignation following his arrest last month on federal corruption charges took effect one minute before midnight on Monday.

Wilson said there is a proposal on the ballot next month that could potentially make bigger changes to prevent corruption.

Although Rowland was convicted and spent 10 months in prison on a non-campaign related federal charge, public anger over political corruption in general pushed state lawmakers to pass major campaign reforms.

A month after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction on corruption charges, Assembly Republicans on Tuesday tried a parliamentary maneuver to weaken Albany's rules that assure absolute control by the Democratic majority party over legislation.

Two veteran Assembly members and an official from the governor's office said they expect a deal will be struck on the popular ethics measure this legislative election year after an unprecedented string of corruption convictions within the last 12 months.