Sentences with phrase «powerful official in the state»

Asked for comment, Cuomo's campaign spokesman Austin Shafran responded with a photograph of DeFrancisco swearing in Pedro Espada Jr., once the third-most powerful official in the state, who was imprisoned after being convicted of stealing from a nonprofit.

Sheldon Silver is one of the three most powerful officials in state government, along with the governor and Senate majority leader.

As the most powerful official in the state by far, he can apply significant pressure on the IDC to partner with Democrats or dissolve altogether.

Not exact matches

«The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 spawned thousands of powerful crime gangs — collectively known as the Russian mafia — and some of these groups, officials warn, are establishing bases among emigre communities in the United States, particularly in South Brooklyn.»

«Christendom» not only did not decline from this time, but with its famous doctrine of cuius regio, eius religio, its underlying logic received powerful, official sanction, and it has continued on in the fragmented territorial or «state churches» of the emergent European nation - states.

How powerful must the meat industry be to cause three state governors and a federal official to rearrange their schedules just to participate in this dog and pony show?

Mel Miller, 78, was once one of Albany's most powerful elected officials — a member of the storied «three men in a room» who made all the state's big decisions behind closed doors.

The news is significant, not only as it temporarily exonerates Silver — once one of the state's most powerful elected officials — though he can be retried, and the acting U.S. attorney has indicated he will, in fact, seek to take another legal crack at the former Manhattan Democratic lawmaker.

Now, the conference again has near - unilateral power to replace Schneiderman, whose alleged abuse of women was exposed in an explosive report published in The New Yorker in which four women alleged that the state's most powerful law enforcement official had slapped, choked and spit on them.

He became immersed in the political life of New York's sleepy capital city, acting more like a small - state governor than one of the most powerful elected officials in the nation.

But he still oversees the state's $ 184.5 billion public pension system (the third - largest in the nation) and has teamed up with Mr. Schneiderman to take down corrupt elected officials and powerful nonprofit heads.

Silver, 73, the state's most powerful Democrat, was convicted in 2015 of accepting $ 4 million in kickbacks and bribes while speaker making him one of the three most powerful officials in Albany.

The father and son are accused of using Dean Skelos» influence as one of the three most powerful elected officials in the state — alongside the Assembly speaker and governor — to pressure companies into giving Adam jobs for which he either wasn't qualified or just didn't do.

The names are mostly unknown to the almost 20 million residents in New York who will have no say over who one of the most powerful elected officials in the state will be.

Mr. Heastie becomes one of the three most powerful elected officials in the state at a particularly precarious time.

The verdict capped a dramatic fall from grace for the 71 - year - old Silver, one of the state's most powerful officials during his 21 years in the Speaker's chair and nearly four decades in the Assembly.

The coastal contingency plan is a potentially powerful chit for New York officials to use in bargaining with Indian Point over its closure, since the federal Clean Water Act gives states control over water quality issues.

Dean Skelos became New York state's most powerful Republican official when he was elected in January as majority leader.

And the business leaders, organizing as the Committee to Save New York, have found a surprising ally: one of the most powerful union officials in the state.

Mr. Sachs also runs a consulting firm, Sachs Associates, whose clients include some of the most powerful health care interests in New York, and he frequently dealt with state officials on their behalf.

The Buffalo solar panel factory, which received about $ 750 million in state subsidies, as well as a state - funded nanotechnology hub in Syracuse, are at the center of last year's sweeping probe by then - U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office, which ensnared nine men — including two who had been powerful state officials — whose trials may overshadow the 2018 legislative session in Albany, set to begin in January.

Perhaps the most politically powerful conversion was made by Attorney General Ken Salazar, the most visible Latino elected official in the state, who reversed his long - time opposition to vouchers.

Inviting your elected officials to visit your magnet school is a powerful way to inform them about the theme - based programs that are offered in their district, and to show them how important federal, state, and local support is for these programs.

Few official bodies in California, and perhaps none in Los Angeles, will openly discuss the need for charter school oversight for fear of the powerful California Charter Schools Association lobby (Gubernatorial candidate and California State Treasurer John Chiang is a rare exception).

Opposition from superintendents, school boards and teachers» unions is a very powerful thing in what is — with the exception of Gov. Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, who are Republicans — a one - party state when it comes to officials who are elected statewide.

Opting one's children out of the SBAC test not only protects those students from the negative aspects of the testing program but it sends a powerful message to the state's elected and appointed officials that parents will not stand idly by as the SBAC testing scam is used to undermine public education in Connecticut.

These two statements alone would constitute a powerful marker that could help restrain future officials, but federal legislators would also need to strengthen the firewalls around curriculum and instruction by adding language that explicitly prohibits federal involvement in setting state standards.

Something remarkable is unfolding on the Web and in state - controlled media in China as citizens aggressively challenge officials over the collapse of so many schools in the powerful earthquake that shook the mountains of Sichuan province.