Sentences with phrase «powerful lawmakers»

Silver — who at the time was one of the most powerful lawmakers in Albany — was found guilty on all seven counts against him that he engaged in two quid - pro-quo schemes in which used his position to benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.

Kerry and the White House have tried to play down the defection by Schumer, one of the most powerful lawmakers in Congress who is in line to be the Senate Democratic leader in 2017.

The Fiscal Code contains language that distributes new state funding for schools through the bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission's (BEFC) funding formula and brings to an end the era of powerful lawmakers cutting backroom deals to dole out new funding to schools.

Former Assemblyman Vito Lopez is being remembered today as a man who died under a cloud, a once powerful lawmaker who ruled the Brooklyn Democratic Party with an iron fist and chaired the influential Assembly Housing Committee, only to see his career come crashing down amid a sexual harassment scandal.

The federal prosecutor behind the convictions of several of New York's most powerful lawmakers made several stops in Albany Monday.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Former state Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos today were found guilty by a federal jury in Manhattan on eight counts charging the once - powerful lawmaker used his political influence to force businesses to hire the son.

THE BRONX — On the same day one of the most powerful lawmakers in the state was convicted of selling his office, Bronx Assemblyman Michael Blake announced he was taking a job with an influential political consulting firm.

That conclusion has infuriated a number of powerful lawmakers.

Together, the cases put New York's political culture on trial and brought about the downfall of the state's two most powerful lawmakers.

Sharkey, a Democrat from Hamden and one of the legislature's most powerful lawmakers, cited a proposal to raise the data - processing tax as an example of short - sighted budgeting decisions that are often made in the final, hectic days of the session.

State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., who has spent the past year boasting of the «millions» of dollars he has brought into his Bronx district as one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, appears to have left the vast majority of that money on the table.

«The Justice Department did not oppose vacating Bruno's conviction but they argued he should face a new trial on allegations he sold his political muscle as one of New York's most powerful lawmakers.»

Democratic Senate candidate Jamaal Bailey's professional life is tied to Speaker Carl Heastie, but he insists he's more than the powerful lawmaker's protege.

Sheldon Silver, former longtime speaker of New York's Assembly and once one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, was convicted of all counts after his retrial on public - corruption charges.

Sheldon Silver, former longtime speaker of New York's Assembly and once one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, was convicted Friday of all counts after his retrial on public - corruption charges.

Lynch was a former top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the Capitol's most powerful lawmakers.

Once again, New York is shaken by allegations that a powerful lawmaker might have used his influence to enrich himself.

A day after federal agents put handcuffs on one of New York's most powerful lawmakers, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Friday denounced Albany's political culture that concentrates power with «the proverbial three men in a room.»

«After the disgrace that befell the two most powerful lawmakers and two of the three most powerful leaders in state government, it was said the venal self - serving culture that had long held sway in Albany would show cracks.

A federal prosecutor responsible for the convictions of some of New York's most powerful lawmakers has agreed to stay on at President - elect Donald Trump's request.

Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich's push to gain more control over the Illinois education bureaucracy is meeting resistance from one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, who has pitched a reform proposal of his own.

«It doesn't seem like there's any movement planned,» says Sen. Floyd McKissick, a Durham Democrat who sits on the state Senate's Rules and Operations Committee, a panel that includes some of the chamber's most powerful lawmakers and sets the agenda for future committee talks.