Long since deposed from
his powerful position as speaker of the New York State Assembly, convicted felon Sheldon Silver was finally disbarred this week by a state appeals court... → Read More: Now Officially Disbarred, Length of Prison Sentence Only Outstanding Question for Convicted Felon Silver
Using Curtis Brown's
powerful position as the agency home to a remarkably deep bench of strong authors and a jaw - dropping catalog of literary estates (from Beckett and Churchill to du Maurier, Faulkner, Milne and Steinbeck), Geller takes his remit on behalf of writers very seriously.
Prosecutors said Silver, who stepped down from
his powerful position as speaker of the Assembly after he was indicted, abused his office to earn nearly $ 4 millon in kickbacks disguised as a legitimate salary.
Diaz Jr.'s friend and frequent collaborator, Carl Heastie, is now in a very
powerful position as Assembly Speaker, Diaz Jr. enjoys a close relationship with the governor, and the current mayor continues to do himself harm.
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty of operating several corrupt schemes in which he essentially monetized
his powerful position as leader of the Assembly to illegally gain over $ 4 million.
Silver was found guilty of operating several corrupt schemes in which he essentially monetized
his powerful position as leader of the Assembly to illegally gain more than $ 4 million dollars.
Dean, 67, and Adam are charged with using the dad's
powerful position as Senate majority leader to pressure companies into giving the son work he wasn't qualified for or didn't perform.
The heart of the case against Silver was that he used
his powerful position as Assembly Speaker to exchange governmental favors for money, adding $ 4 million to his personal wealth.
Silver was found guilty of operating several corrupt schemes in which he essentially monetized
his powerful position as leader of the Assembly to illegally gain over $ 4 million.
Glenwood is also understood to be the company identified as «Developer - 1» in the criminal complaint that caused Sheldon Silver to step down from his once
powerful position as Assembly Speaker.
His representatives are in
a powerful position as the Argentine has little more than 12 months remaining on his current contract.
But we need to fill the void and tell of the real Christ, free from all the baggage of dead religion and historical corruption, in his pure, loving and
powerful position as God.
Not exact matches
(For the record, Agrafioti demurs about the potential automation of those
positions, rightly noting that there is no industry consensus on whether AI can ever truly become
as or more
powerful than the human brain.)
Not so at RFRK, which has increased both its employee retention (in the high - turnover food - service industry, no less) and its rep
as an employer of choice (the firm recently got 350 applications for an admin
position) by making its people feel something very
powerful: that their work matters.
Kirstine Stewart was the first woman to hold the
position of Executive Vice-President of CBC's English services — often called the most
powerful job in Canadian broadcasting — and was the first Managing Director of Twitter Canada, leading Canadian operations
as well
as advertising business and partnerships.
Author information and rich snippets are
powerful pieces of data that can boost your
position on the SERPs
as well.
By the time I graduated high school, I had over 10,000 daily readers and had
positioned myself
as a
powerful voice in the world of competitive gaming.
MaRS Discovery District aims to improve commercial outcomes from Canada's foundation of science and technology innovation to
position Ontario and Canada
as powerful and competitive players in the global knowledge economy.
That said, I despair that every single one of the candidates for the most
powerful position on the planet is evidently willing to seek guidance from the little voices in their heads
as if they were real.
Seeing
as how we don't actually know one another and personal letters don't generate any blog traffic, I've decided to publicly air my grievances against you in a format that
positions you
as the
powerful elite and me
as the scrappy underdog willing to take you on.
She rightly saw the distrust between men and women
as being rooted in the unequal distribution of power between them: «At any given time, the more
powerful side will create an ideology suitable to help maintain its
position and to make this
position more acceptable to the weaker one... It is the function of such an ideology to deny or conceal the existence of a struggle.»
If God is good and
powerful as the theist believes, then he will indeed have a good reason for permitting evil; but why suppose the theist must be in a
position to figure out what it is?
The temptation for young, ambitious, and educated Christians to convert to Islam for social and economic reasons is
powerful,
as Christians have little prospect of obtaining coveted
positions in government and education, regardless of their credentials.
Christians often use your rationalisation
as a convenient fall - back
position when evidence that God is an all -
powerful interventionist is painfully lacking.
Speaking the truth (
as you perceive it) in a soft voice is the most
powerful form of helping people to become more like Christ... and a wonderful
position for the speaker, should he / she need to retract their
position in the future.
In this text, Jeebus» «companion» is Mary Magdalene, and some say the intent was to say they were married, and if not certainly he kissed her a lot, and she was the leader of his followers, (much
as she originally was in the Jerusalem community, before they intentionally turned her into a wh «ore, in order to marginalize her
powerful position).
Absolutely, it does make sense to at least 6 billion people on earth including but not limited to professionals and the elite such
as Doctors, Scientists, Juries, Judges, Magistrates, Politicians, even by the person who holds the highest
position of the most
powerful country of the world.
Hardys, one of the world's most
powerful wine brands1, has cemented its
position as cricket's premier wine brand by teaming up with England cricketer, Stuart Broad.
Bergkamp was executing a
powerful between - the - lines role with Pires and Ljungberg coming in
as «inverted wingers» — both players moving into central areas from wide starting
positions, Pires to create and Ljungberg to score goals.
For me we have 6 main issues 1 The owner 2 The manager 3 playing players out of
position 4 we need a
powerful captain in the back 3 5 we need a
powerful player in the dm role 6 expiring contracts — if a player is not signing your best and it has to be your offer with only 9 months to go, he must be sold and replaced with someone who is
as good, and really wants to play for Arsenal Football, especially if he one of your starting x1
The Belgian is a
powerful weapon who can be deadly when used in an advanced
position,
as he was when United won at Anfield in the Spring last season.
30: King is virtually unplayable at the moment
as now Ndidi brings the
powerful forward down, handing the hosts another free kick in a promising
position...
Silver, 74, has denied wrongdoing and his attorneys said Monday he had not abused his
position as one of three of the most
powerful leaders in state government for more than two decades.
Perry Weitz and Arthur M. Luxenberg of the personal injury firm Weitz & Luxenberg said they did not anticipate that Silver would use his
position as one of the most
powerful individuals in state government to aid his work for the firm.
Former Goldman Sachs executive and commodities trader Gary Cohn has moved into
position as Trump's most
powerful economic policy maker during the early days of the administration, capitalizing on a vacuum created while other top posts sit vacant.
Bill Morris, former General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union (now part of Unite), once said that the most
powerful position he had ever held was not at the TGWU, nor at the TUC, Bank of England, or BBC, but
as chair of Labour's conference arrangements committee.
They charge that Silver used his
powerful position in Albany to gain
as much
as $ 4 million in private - sector legal fees.
The five - count complaint on charges of wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy, and extortion outlines two schemes Mr. Silver used to leverage his official
position as the
powerful Democratic leader of the Assembly to rake in cash, which he presented
as legitimately earned income for representing private clients.
But,
as chairman of the home affairs select committee, he held a
powerful position.
In the scathing 68 - page report, Mr. Lopez — who was stripped of his
powerful committee chairmanship and his
position atop the Brooklyn Democratic Party after sexual harassment allegations first surfaced last year — engaged in such acts
as hanging mistletoe in his district office and forcibly kissing a staffer, shoving his hand «all the way up» the inner thigh of another staffer and more.
With the city's election season over, all eyes are now turned toward the race for who will replace Melissa Mark - Viverito
as Speaker in what is arguably the second most
powerful position in city government behind the Mayor.
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested Thursday on public corruption charges and accused of using his
position as one of the most
powerful men in Albany to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked
as legitimate income.
Both men rose to
powerful positions in the Senate — DeFrancisco
as deputy majority leader, and Lombardi
as chairman of the
powerful Senate Finance Committee.
«Prominent men in
powerful positions are being outed
as sexual harassers, and this is one of them,» says Gerald Benjamin, a political scientist at SUNY - New Paltz.
After his boss's election in 2010, David joined the administration
as its principal adviser on civil rights; after Cuomo's second win, in 2014, David ascended to his current official posting
as Cuomo's chief in - house lawyer — arguably the third most
powerful position in Albany.
Mandelson today also discussed his
position as «the most
powerful gay man in the country» when he was first secretary of state and effectively No 2 in Brown's administration.
Eric Schneiderman's resignation
as New York attorney general following allegations that he physically abused four women set off a scramble for his job — one of the most
powerful positions in the state.
Eric Schneiderman's resignation
as New York attorney general set off quick jockeying on Tuesday for his job — one of the most
powerful positions in the state, and a role that wasn't expected to change hands this year.
The New York Democrat is in line to become Obama's secretary of state, one of the most
powerful positions in his administration where she will serve
as the top U.S. diplomat to the world.
Until recently, Jeff Fitzgerald held one of the most
powerful positions in Wisconsin government,
as speaker of the state Assembly.