Sentences with phrase «of crooked pols»
When it comes to ethics, the long parade of crooked pols underscores just how much more needs to be done.
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Bharara noted that in the short time he has held his post (he departed Sen. Chuck Schumer's office in the spring of 2009) his office has busted a laundry list of crooked state pols, including: Vincent Leibell, Hiram Monserrate, Efrain Gonzalez, Brian McLaughlin, and Tony Seminario.
The Democratic pols who got campaign cash from crooked financier Hassan Nemazee — including President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — are being asked to return the dirty money so it can be forfeited to the feds.
It could be pack - up time for two allegedly crooked pols — indicted state Sens. John Sampson, of Brooklyn, and Malcolm Smith, of Queens, who both face stiff Democratic primary challenges, new Board of Election filings show.
He's clearly Bharara, who initiated the successful prosecutions of Silver and Skelos as well as of former Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith (D - Queens), former Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous (R - Binghamton) and a long roster of other crooked pols.
A nephew of crooked ex-state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was arrested Thursday for grabbing a Daily News reporter's phone, throwing it across the street and grabbing her wrist following the disgraced pol's sentencing alongside his son.
And who in the service of that ambition tried to bribe his way to a shot at Gracie Mansion,» said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office brought bribery and fraud charges against the alleged crooked pols.
It could be pack - up time for two allegedly crooked pols — indicted state Sens. John Sampson, of Brooklyn, and Malcolm Smith, of Queens, who both face stiff Democratic primary challenges,...
US Attorney Preet Bharara has been targeting the retirement pay of legislators he's convicted, rightly calling it a «galling injustice» that crooked pols continue to collect cushy pensions until «their dying day.»