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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued his first public comments since his former top aide and other former associates were indicted on corruption charges just before Thanksgiving.

Should Skelos resign, he would follow Sheldon Silver's decision to step down as speaker of the Assembly following his own arrest on corruption charges just months ago.

Even by Albany standards, it was a new low: its two longtime legislative leaders convicted on corruption charges just days apart late last year.

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.

Not exact matches

Speaking to Reuters just ahead of his release Saturday, Alwaleed said that there were no charges against him following his arrest as part of a nationwide crackdown on corruption last November.

An upstate - downstate divide is just one of several rifts within the conference that have emerged since Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest on federal corruption charges last week touched off a furious round of discussions — both public and private — about whether the Manhattan Democrat is too damaged to continue in his leadership role.

Democrat Lew Fidler just sent out a press release congratulating David Storobin on his victory in the special election for the 27th Senate District seat that has been vacant since Carl Kruger plead guilty to corruption charges.

Rob Walker, who served as chief deputy to former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, has been indicted on federal charges of obstructing justice and lying to FBI agents just weeks before the scheduled start of his former boss» corruption trial.

The tensions come just weeks before several former Cuomo associates, including former key economic development officials, go on trial on federal corruption charges for alleged offenses including bribery and bid - rigging.

But just as the date was being determined, Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted on corruption charges.

Gov. David Paterson just sent out a release announcing (for the second time) that there will indeed be a special election on Sept. 15 to replace Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio (D - Richmond Hill), who resigned in June after pleading guilty to corruption charges.

The arrest of New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver on federal corruption charges earlier this year, and his subsequent resignation as speaker, sent shock waves through Albany — and apparently U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was just getting started.

A charity with ties to disgraced Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver sent out an SOS Thursday — just hours after the powerhouse politician was arrested on 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 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.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno will pocket just over $ 55,000 of the $ 2.42 million he's set to be reimbursed by the state after his acquittal last spring on federal corruption charges, according to his attorneys.

NEW YORK CITY — Sheldon Silver is out as speaker of the Assembly just days after his arrest on federal corruption charges in an alleged bribery and kickback scheme.

Some 19 months after the infamous Bridgegate scandalbroke, onetime Chris Christie ally David Wildstein pleaded guilty to corruption charges connected to the closure of lanes on the George Washington Bridge, probably just the first criminal charge in the federal probe of the incident.

«If the charges prove to be true, this is just the latest example of why cracking down on public corruption will continue to be a top priority when I'm Attorney General,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

A source close to Flanagan (R - Suffolk) said the deal would involve Cuomo agreeing to do «little if anything» to help Senate Democrats, now just one vote shy of a majority, win the upcoming April 19 special election to replace former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau), who was ousted in December after being convicted on corruption charges.

Today's guilty verdict echoed a separate jury's decision just two weeks ago to convict another former state leader, Sheldon Silver, on political corruption charges.

Just days after one of his closest friends and former aides Joe Percoco was arrested on corruption charges, Governor Andrew Cuomo once again was looking at transform the former Farley Post Office on Manhattan's West Side to a first - class rail facility.

ALBANY — Just weeks after both leaders of the Legislature were convicted of federal corruption charges, lawmakers returned to the Capitol Wednesday still split on whether to enact tougher ethics rules.

Mr. Skelos, after all, became the leader of the Senate Republicans after an investigation enveloped Joseph L. Bruno, the former president of the State Senate, who left office in 2008 just months before being indicted on federal corruption charges.

One of the alleged real - life Goodfellas was just arrested on charges murder, arson, robbery, extortion and corruption.